Category: 3. Tech

ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot and other AI tools whip up impressive sentences and paragraphs from as little as a simple line of text prompt. To generate those words, the underlying large language models were trained on reams of text written…

If you want to have a dream where you know you’re dreaming, you might be in luck. A phone app seems to boost users’ odds of having lucid dreams.

Before bed, the app has users listen to a specific sound, such as a series of beeps,…

“Build your enemy a golden bridge to retreat across” is a piece of advice offered by Sun Tzu in his ancient military treatise, The Art of War. It turns out that cancerous growths adopt this strategy in their battle against the immune system….

A well-timed smile could be the ultimate speed-dating hack. Smiles enhanced by artificial intelligence during video chats led to higher romantic attraction, researchers report October 28 in Proceedings of the National Academy of…

Historians working with an artificial intelligence assistant have begun tracking the spread of astronomical thinking across Europe in the early 1500s.

The analysis contributes to challenging the “lone genius” idea of scientific…

Prof. Leslie Leiserowitz first became intrigued by malaria when he was a young boy in South Africa. His father, who scouted the continent in search of wood for the family business, brought back not only tales of elephants and gorillas but also…

To fuel the insatiable energy appetite of artificial intelligence, tech companies are going big on small nuclear reactors. 

Last week, both Google and Amazon announced agreements with companies that are developing small modular…

As artificial intelligence explodes in popularity, two of its pioneers have nabbed the 2024 Nobel Prize in physics.

The prize goes to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable…

Like people, bacteria have their preferences when it comes to relationships. Some are totally independent, while others prefer company. Salmonella and many other kinds of bacteria are of the social type: They can live and even thrive inside a…