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Vanishing lakes in southern Tibet may have triggered earthquakes in the region by “awakening” long-dormant faults in Earth’s crust, researchers say. The finding adds to evidence of an unexpectedly strong link between our planet’s climate and…

When ChatGPT launched in 2022, Jen Roberts had been teaching middle or high school students for more than 26 years and was running on fumes. The pandemic had pushed many educators into burnout, but where others saw artificial intelligence as a…

In his classic science-fiction story “The New Accelerator,” published in 1901, H. G. Wells describes a drug that speeds up a person’s metabolism by a factor of 1,000. For the two protagonists who valiantly test the potion, the world appears…

Your daily steps may depend on your zip code more than your willpower

Adam Hart has been a nurse at St. Rose Dominican Hospital in Henderson, Nev., for 14 years. A few years ago, while assigned to help out in the emergency department, he was listening to the ambulance report on a patient who’d just arrived—an…

Mountain photographer stumbles on one of the largest ever collections of Triassic dinosaur prints

Every year more than 12 million people visit the White River National Forest in central Colorado to ski, hike, bike, fish, camp and otherwise enjoy this iconic 2.3-million-acre landscape. As part of the public lands system, the forest is…

Inside the new AI world order: A special report

I should begin with a confession: this letter was written by an artificial intelligence.

Now, before you reach for the “cancel” button or send a heated e-mail, let me clarify. This letter wasn’t exactly “written” by an AI in the sense…