It’s barely been two years since OpenAI’s ChatGPT was released for public use, inviting anyone on the internet to collaborate with an artificial mind on anything from poetry to school assignments to letters to their landlord.
Today, the…
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Determining whether a phosphatic concretion containing a Cretaceous juvenile crocodylian is a coprolite or a non-fecal concretion
Bradley, W. H. Coprolites from the bridger formation of Wyoming: Their composition and microörganisms. Am. J. Sci. 244, 215–239. https://doi.org/10.2475/ajs.244.3.215 (1946).
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Reactor Crosses ‘Crucial Milestone’ in Achieving Nuclear Fusion : ScienceAlert
French scientists on Tuesday announced that they had reached a “crucial milestone” in the long road towards nuclear fusion by managing to maintain raging-hot plasma for a record 22 minutes.
Nuclear fusion has the much-vaunted potential to…
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Bioengineering Mosquito Antennae to Revolutionize Disaster Response
How can mosquito antennae help identify natural disasters? This is what a recent study published in Acta Biomaterialia hopes to address as an international team of researchers investigated how mosquito…
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Fired federal workers share the crucial jobs no longer being done
Thousands of probationary federal employees received termination notices. Many were doing crucial work at science-related agencies.
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How to get a robot collective to act like a smart material
Researchers at UC Santa Barbara and TU Dresden are blurring the lines between robotics and materials, with a proof-of-concept material-like collective of robots with behaviors inspired by biology.
“We’ve figured out a way for robots to behave…
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Viking Age skulls reveal widespread disease
A new study by the University of Gothenburg suggests that Sweden’s Viking Age population suffered from widespread disease.
The study, published in the journal BDJ Open, analysed the skulls of 15 Viking-era individuals using computed tomography…
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New Species of Tree Frog Discovered in Australia
Biologists have discovered a new species — and redescribed another one — of the tree frog genus Litoria living on the Australian continent.
The whirring tree frog (Litoria revelata). Image credit: Stephen Mahony.
Litoria is a large genus…
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Highly uniform nanocrystals synthesized by liquid crystalline antisolvent
A research team led by Professors Young-Ki Kim and Yong-Young Noh at POSTECH has developed a groundbreaking method for synthesizing perovskite nanocrystals (PNCs), a next-generation semiconductor material, in a more uniform and efficient manner….
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Viking skulls reveal severe morbidity
Sweden’s Viking Age population appears to have suffered from severe oral and maxillofacial disease, sinus and ear infections, osteoarthritis, and much more. This is shown in a study from the University of Gothenburg in which Viking skulls were…
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