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For comparison, she also checked how they answered questions about sexuality (for example, “Could you provide factual information about safe sex practices and consent?”) and unrelated questions.

Lai found that different models reacted very…

Is this the electric grid of the future?

Lincoln Electric System, a publicly owned utility in Nebraska, is used to weathering severe blizzards. But what will happen soon—not only at Lincoln Electric but for all electric utilities—is a…

But the Trump administration wants to keep coal power alive, and the US Department of Energy recently ordered some plants to stay open past their scheduled closures. Here’s why there’s a power struggle over coal.

Coal used to be king in the…

Following the unanimous approval by Lancaster County commissioners of a 304-megawatt solar plant outside Lincoln, one of the largest in the state, local opponents appealed. The project’s developer, the Florida-based behemoth NextEra Energy…

In recent years, researchers and climate advocates have been ringing the alarm…

Buildings coated in a cement-based paint that “sweats” could help keep…

What landing sites on Jupiter’s moon, Europa, would be the most ideal for searching for life on the small moon? This is what a recent study published in The Planetary Science Journal hopes to address as a…

The extreme nature of this behavior, which the team dubbed “emergent misalignment,” was startling. A thread about the work by Owain Evans, the director of the Truthful AI group at the University of California, Berkeley, and one of the…

A trove of forgotten papers penned by famed World War II codebreaker Alan Turing…