Ever tumbled down the rabbit hole wondering if an AI could be less of a chatbot and more of a mischievous sidekick—or maybe a romantic co-conspirator?
If you’ve been craving a place to roleplay without all the stiff rules, here’s a tour…
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Should WA test human waste fertilizer for PFAS?
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Farmers across Washington already spread thousands of tons of fertilizer from human waste on their crops each year,…
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I Went to an AI Film Festival Screening and Left With More Questions Than Answers
Last year, filmmaker Paul Schrader—the director of Blue Collar, American Gigolo, and First Reformed, and writer of Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver—issued what seemed like the last word on artificial intelligence in Hollywood filmmaking. A few…
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Government Staffing Cuts Have Fueled an Ant-Smuggling Boom
These sellers do brisk business online. On mainstream platforms like Ebay, they often upcharge novice antkeepers, the same trafficker tells WIRED; more sophisticated hobbyists buy and sell on private Discord servers. “Everyone on Discord has…
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Pulp and paper giant APP moves closer to regaining FSC stamp despite pending review
- The Forest Stewardship Council has allowed Asia Pulp & Paper — “one of the world’s most destructive forestry companies” — to resume its remedy process toward regaining certification it lost in 2007 for…
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Tdap, MenACWY coverage increased in teens from 2023 to 2024
From 2023 to 2024, coverage with one or more doses of the tetanus toxoid, reduced diphtheria toxoid, and acellular pertussis vaccine (Tdap) and the quadrivalent meningococcal…
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Indian snakes found to be capable of injecting venom even after death
Deadly snake species like cobras and kraits in India can still inject venom even after the…
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Nathan Lents’s New Book Explores How Animal Behavior and Evolution Challenge Binary Sex and Gender Norms
Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman.
The natural world is full of sexual diversity—traits that challenge binary definitions of male and female—but traditional biology has often overlooked it….
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Material Cultures looks to the past to build the future
“The people who become the custodians of these buildings then have the skills to maintain and repair, as well as evolve, the site over time,” she says.
As Burchert puts it, science fiction tends to show a future built of concrete and…
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New Device for Detecting Lightweight Dark Matter
• Physics 18, s104
Superconducting sensors can detect single low-energy photons. Researchers have now used this capability in a dark matter experiment.
Maxim Karmantzov
Putative dark matter…
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