When Profs. Joel Sussman and Israel Silman were asked to mentor Chinese students online during the COVID-19 pandemic, the last thing they expected to come out of the experience was highly innovative research on protein evolution that could change…
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How AI Bots Could Sabotage 2024 Elections around the World
Hate speech, political propaganda and outright lies are hardly new problems online—even if election years such as this one exacerbate them. The use of bots, or automated social media accounts, has made it much easier to spread deliberately…
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Team Assessing SHERLOC Instrument on NASA’s Perseverance Rover
UPDATE, Mar. 5, 2024: Engineers for NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover have made progress addressing the issue affecting the SHERLOC instrument’s Autofocus Context Imager (ACI), but at present the instrument’s Raman spectroscopic capability…
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Cybercrime Security Gap Leaves People Who Aren’t Proficient in English Poorly Protected
February 12, 2024
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Cybercrime Security Gap Leaves People Who Aren’t Proficient in English Poorly Protected
Our research finds that language is often a barrier for people dealing with cybercrime issues and that it’s important to close…
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Cape Cod Faces a Rising ‘Yellow Tide’
This story was co-published with WBUR in Boston. Read its coverage on efforts to improve the Cape’s water pollution, including one innovative town considering “pee-cycling.” The documentary short was supported by the Pulitzer Center.
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Source of Snowball Earth solved
Geologists have solved the source of Snowball Earth, a period when the planet’s environment was an extreme “icehouse”.
A new study by the University of Sydney has applied plate tectonic modelling to understand the cause of the ice-age…
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Tougher AI Policies Could Protect Taylor Swift–And Everyone Else–From Deepfakes
February 8, 2024
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Tougher AI Policies Could Protect Taylor Swift—And Everyone Else—From Deepfakes
In January Taylor Swift became the latest high-profile target of nonconsensual deepfake images. It’s time for regulations that ban this…
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Low Volcanic Carbon Dioxide Emissions Triggered Sturtian ‘Snowball Earth’ Glaciation: Study
The Sturtian ‘Snowball Earth’ glaciation (717 to 661 million years ago) is regarded as the most extreme interval of icehouse climate in Earth’s history. In a new study, geologists from the University of Sydney and the University of…
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Europe’s New AI Rules Could Go Global–Here’s What That Will Mean
As artificial intelligence applications become more advanced, lawmakers worldwide are grappling with the possibility of unintended consequences: not just potential existential danger to humanity but also the more immediate risks of job losses,…
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