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People who know more about AI art find it less ethical
When people understand the system and process behind AI art, its moral implications become harder to accept


March 6, 2026
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People who know more about AI art find it less ethical
When people understand the system and process behind AI art, its moral implications become harder to accept


Yoga is now a popular form of exercise in the West, and one that doesn’t need much equipment to get started. However, knowing exactly what you need to go to your first yoga class, or even to practice at home, can still feel overwhelming at the…

A class of medications best known for treating diabetes and obesity may also reduce the risk of addiction – and help people who already have one, a new study shows.
Semaglutide (also known as Ozempic), liraglutide, and tirzepatide (Wegovy)…

I remember the first time I saw a satellite. I was a teenager, standing in my mildly light-polluted suburban yard and doing my usual stargazing. The satellite was a faint “star” moving slowly and smoothly across the sky, and as I watched it,…

Weindruch, R. & Walford, R. L. Dietary restriction in mice beginning at 1 year of age: effect on life-span and spontaneous cancer incidence. Science 215, 1415–1418 (1982).
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Michael Pollan explains why AI will never replicate human consciousness
Michael Pollan tells Scientific American why the science of consciousness may ultimately be too subject to our own conscious…

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman.
Over the past three and a half decades, journalist and author Michael Pollan has written about a dozen books, many of which are, in…

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Deep within the frozen ground of Devon Island in Canada’s High Arctic, researchers found the nearly complete skeleton of a rhinoceros, Epiaceratherium itjilik, that lived there around 23 million years ago.
The discovery, made by a team from the