Understanding the behavior of the molecules and cells that make up our bodies is critical for the advancement of medicine. This has led to a continual push for clear images of what is happening beyond what the eye can see. In a study recently published in Science Advances, researchers from...
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Published on:2024-12-24
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Typo Hazard It sure sounds like some of the industry's smartest leading AI models are gullible suckers. As 404 Media reports, new research from Claude chatbot developer Anthropic reveals that it's incredibly easy to "jailbreak" large language models — or trick them into ignoring their own guardrails. Like, really easy....
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Published on:2024-12-24
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A recent study shines a spotlight on the development of covalent organic frameworks (COFs), particularly imine-linked varieties. Known for their tunable structure and remarkable stability, imine-linked COFs are set to revolutionize industries ranging from gas capture to advanced electronics. By focusing on the design and synthesis of these materials, the...
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Published on:2024-12-24
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Iceland has a long and rich literary tradition. With its 380,000 inhabitants, the country has produced many great writers, and it is said that one in two Icelanders writes books. This literary tradition stretches all the way back to the Middle Ages....
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Published on:2024-12-24
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Your body is one of the most complex natural structures ever. Billions of cells are put together in a specific way with the result being you. If you look closely between the cells you'll find the extracellular matrix, a gel-like environment where cells reside and which helps them to talk...
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Published on:2024-12-24
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An international research team has made a notable discovery of fossil embryos belonging to Ecdysozoa, a diverse group of animals including roundworms, velvet worms, insects, and crabs. These fossils, dated to approximately 535 million years ago, were found in the early Cambrian Kuanchuanpu biota in southern Shaanxi Province, China....
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Published on:2024-12-24
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Spill the Beans Suchir Balaji, the young OpenAI whistleblower whose death was made public earlier this month, was apparently being considered as a witness against his former employer in a major lawsuit, The Associated Press reports. Shortly before his passing, the 26-year old Balaji had sounded the alarm on OpenAI's...
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Published on:2024-12-24
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Day 24 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar...
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Published on:2024-12-24
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The Atlantic - Science
Botanists José Luis Fernández-Alonso, of the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid, and Ernesto Campos, research technician at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama, have named six new tree species based on comparisons made among collections of dried plant specimens from across the Neotropics....
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Published on:2024-12-23
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Pecking Order Donald Trump is starting to sound a little testy about people insinuating that his "First Buddy" Elon Musk is the real one running the show. During an appearance on Sunday at Turning Point USA's AmericaFest conference in Phoenix, the Republican president-elect mocked the idea that he's "ceded the...
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Published on:2024-12-23
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Legacy media has a trust problem, but it’s not too late to solve it....
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Published on:2024-12-23
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The Atlantic - Tech
At the Berlin synchrotron radiation source BESSY II, the largest magnetic anisotropy of a single molecule ever measured experimentally has been determined. The larger this anisotropy is, the better a molecule is suited as a molecular nanomagnet. Such nanomagnets have a wide range of potential applications, for example, in energy-efficient...
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Published on:2024-12-23
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In the first large-scale paired camera trap and autonomous recording survey for large African carnivores, researchers were able to identify individual leopards by their vocalizations with 93% accuracy....
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Published on:2024-12-23
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Putting extra holiday cookies and leftovers in the freezer will not only extend their shelf life -- it could also put a dent in the U.S. household tendency to throw away edible food, a new study suggests....
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Published on:2024-12-23
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Researchers have unveiled a critical mechanism that links cellular stress in the brain to the progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD). The study highlights microglia, the brain's primary immune cells, as central players in both the protective and harmful responses associated with the disease....
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Published on:2024-12-23
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Hospitals that have adopted the Center for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) 'hospital-at-home' program, which serves as an alternative to admission to brick-and-mortar facilities, are concentrated in large, urban, not-for-profit, and academic hospitals, highlighting need for targeted incentives to expand program to smaller, rural, and non-teaching hospitals....
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Published on:2024-12-23
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Bright, twisted light can be produced with technology similar to an Edison light bulb, researchers have shown. The finding adds nuance to fundamental physics while offering a new avenue for robotic vision systems and other applications for light that traces out a helix in space....
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Published on:2024-12-23
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Scientists traced connectivity between neurons to identify how the brain communicates with the spinal cord to control motor function....
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Published on:2024-12-23
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A new study finds gases harmful to human health lingered for weeks following the fire....
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Published on:2024-12-23
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Three years after the Dec. 30, 2021, Marshall Fire destroyed more than 1,000 homes in Boulder County, two new studies offer insight into what happens to air quality and health in the aftermath of urban wildfires....
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Published on:2024-12-23
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A choice was made to include each word in this sentence. Every message, even the most mundane, is crafted with a specific frame in mind that impacts how the message is perceived. The study of framing effects is a multidisciplinary line of research that investigates when, how, and why language...
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Published on:2024-12-23
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When Lene was a child, she took comfort in a strange nighttime routine. While lying in bed just before she fell asleep, her bedroom would begin to warp, and her body would do so along with it. The far wall would stretch away from her head, her legs lengthening to...
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Published on:2024-12-23
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Day 23 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar...
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Published on:2024-12-23
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The Atlantic - Science
In a year filled with headlines documenting the rise of artificial intelligence, one of the many questions that remains unanswered is how the technology will affect the job market. Will it enhance human productivity or make people obsolete? Figures from an exclusive poll of more than 350 ADWEEK readers revealed...
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Published on:2024-12-23
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Day 22 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar...
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Published on:2024-12-22
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The Atlantic - Science
Galactic Burp In 2018, astronomers took the first-ever picture of a black hole, a fascinating and unprecedented glimpse of an event horizon. And as it turns out, the black hole dubbed M87*, some 55 million light-years away, also let out a massive belch of gamma rays while scientists from the...
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Published on:2024-12-21
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This year is projected to be the hottest on record. The latest United Nations estimates indicate that, without radical and immediate action, we are headed toward an increasingly unlivable planet with an increase of up to 3.1 degrees Celsius by the end of the century. Solving the climate crisis requires...
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Published on:2024-12-21
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Day 21 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar...
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Published on:2024-12-21
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The Atlantic - Science
Remember that huge panic around black plastic spatulas? It turns out that the whole thing may have just been a crock of crap. A study published in October contended that kitchenware made of black plastics, and especially utensils like spatulas, contained alarmingly high amounts of toxic flame retardants due to...
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Published on:2024-12-21
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Truth Bob-omb As more and more rich people rush to buy and build bomb shelters, experts suggest they're a bandaid on top of a nuclear blast. As the Associated Press reports, the bunker business was worth $137 million last year and is slated to grow $175 million by the end of...
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Published on:2024-12-21
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Future space travelers will have to get creative to build structures on the surface of Mars. Sending all the necessary construction materials across over 140 million miles of outer space wouldn't just be a gargantuan undertaking, it could be prohibitively expensive as well. Instead, scientists have long proposed to...
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Published on:2024-12-21
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Perhaps more than any profession, writers are infamous for their bad, on the-job habits. In his heyday, screenwriter Paul Schrader would write exclusively at night, often until five or six in the morning. He fueled this with a lot of alcohol, nicotine, and cocaine (the latter, a habit shared by...
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Published on:2024-12-21
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Flavor Discovery The company behind Oreo cookies has, by its own admission, been quietly creating new flavors using machine learning. As the Wall Street Journal reports, Mondelez — the company that manufactures Oreos, Chips Ahoy, Clif Bars and other popular snacks — has developed a new AI tool to discover new...
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Published on:2024-12-21
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Plagued by delays, tied to a rival’s electric platform, yet somehow still being clever and innovative, Ford’s European EV experiment embodies the automaker’s failure to commit to electric cars....
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Published on:2024-12-21
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WIRED Business
Google dominated the last era of search. Now the company and the US Justice Department are battling over how to set a fair playing field for generative AI....
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Published on:2024-12-21
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WIRED Business
Researchers at Caltech have calculated exactly how fast the human brain processes information — and the numbers are hilariously low. As detailed in a new study published in the journal Neuron, the team concluded that the speed of human thought is a measly 10 bits per second. "This is an extremely...
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Published on:2024-12-21
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A study introduces a novel thermodynamic concept called the 'centotectic' and investigates the stability of liquids in extreme conditions -- critical information for determining the habitability of icy moons like Europa....
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Published on:2024-12-21
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