Earlier this year, astronomers alerted the world to a startling possibility:…
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CPSC stresses firework safety with 7-minute montage of mannequin mayhem
The nation is nearing July 4th, so you know what that means: traffic, hot dogs,…
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The Download: Meet RFK Jr’s right-hand man, and inside OpenAI
When Jim OâNeill was nominated to be the second in command at the US Department of Health and Human Services, longevity enthusiasts were excited.
As Robert F. Kennedy Jr.âs new right-hand man, OâNeill is expected to wield authority at…
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This Strange ‘Bubble Wrap’ Can Produce Drinking Water in The Desert : ScienceAlert
A strange black ‘bubble wrap’ could help solve one of the world’s most urgent problems: access to clean drinking water.
As Earth’s atmosphere hoards more water in a warming world, engineers have found a new way to wrest some of it back from…
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Reinforcement learning for nuclear microreactor control
A new machine learning approach models adjusting power output of the Holos-Quad microreactor design by HolosGen LLC. The multi-agent reinforcement learning approach trains… Continue Reading
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Meet Jim O’Neill, the longevity enthusiast who is now RFK Jr.âs right-hand man
âThe healthiest societies in 2030 will most likely be on the sea,â OâNeill told an audience at a Seasteading Institute conference in 2009. In that presentation, he talked up the benefits of a free market for health care, saying that…
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Disturbing Signs of AI Threatening People Spark Concern : ScienceAlert
The world’s most advanced AI models are exhibiting troubling new behaviors â lying, scheming, and even threatening their creators to achieve their goals.
In one particularly jarring example, under threat of being unplugged, Anthropic’s…
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Long-lost Charlie Chaplin film meticulously restored after 100 years
When classic films undergo 4K restorations, the results can divide fans. Look…
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Google’s forgotten iPhone photo editor just got a huge update
Eight years on from its last major redesign, you could be forgiven for thinking…
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This Tiny Quantum Sensor Glows on Its Own to Detect the Nearly Invisible
Scientists at EPFL have created a revolutionary biosensor that doesn’t need a light sourceâit makes its own glow using quantum tunneling. By guiding electrons through a nanostructure of gold and aluminum oxide, the sensor emits light and…
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