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A One-Shot Remedy for Asthma? New Study in Mice Paves the Way

Imagine trying to breathe through a plastic bag. You struggle. Your heart starts to race. Your head gets dizzy. And all you did was...

Vaccines Have Saved 150 Million Children Over the Last 50 Years

By the time you finish reading this, around 30 children will have been saved thanks to vaccines.1 Over the last 50 years, that adds up...

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Pocket-Sized AI Models Could Unlock a New Era of Computing Will Knight | Wired "When ChatGPT was released in November 2023, it could only be...

This Device Zaps the Spinal Cord to Give Paralyzed People Use of Their Hands Again

Melanie Reid was 52 years old when she hopped onto her horse, fell, and broke her neck. The resulting injury paralyzed her body below...

Dyson Spheres: Astronomers Report Potential Candidates for Alien Megastructures—Here’s What to Make of It

There are three ways to look for evidence of alien technological civilizations. One is to look out for deliberate attempts by them to communicate...

Can ChatGPT Mimic Theory of Mind? Psychology Is Probing AI’s Inner Workings

If you’ve ever vented to ChatGPT about troubles in life, the responses can sound empathetic. The chatbot delivers affirming support, and—when prompted—even gives advice...

Scientists Are Working Towards a Unified Theory of Consciousness

The origin of consciousness has teased the minds of philosophers and scientists for centuries. In the last decade, neuroscientists have begun to piece together...

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through May 18)

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE It’s Time to Believe the AI Hype Steven Levy | Wired "There’s universal agreement in the tech world that AI is the biggest thing since...
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Smelting Steel With Sunlight: New Solar Trap Tech Could Help Decarbonize Industrial Heat

Some of the hardest sectors to decarbonize are industries that require high temperatures like steel smelting and cement production. A new approach uses a...

Scientists Step Toward Quantum Internet With Experiment Under the Streets of Boston

A quantum internet would essentially be unhackable. In the future, sensitive information—financial or national security data, for instance, as opposed to memes and cat...

‘Noise’ in the Machine: Human Differences in Judgment Lead to Problems for AI

Many people understand the concept of bias at some intuitive level. In society, and in artificial intelligence systems, racial and gender biases are well...

Google and Harvard Map a Tiny Piece of the Human Brain With Extreme Precision

Scientists just published the most detailed map of a cubic millimeter of the human brain. Smaller than a grain of rice, the mapped section...

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through May 11)

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE OpenAI Could Unveil Its Google Search Competitor on Monday Jess Weatherbed | The Verge "OpenAI is reportedly gearing up to announce a search product powered...

Global Carbon Capture Capacity Quadruples as the Biggest Plant Yet Revs Up in Iceland

Pulling carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere is likely to be a crucial weapon in the battle against climate change. And now global carbon...

Google DeepMind’s New AlphaFold AI Maps Life’s Molecular Dance in Minutes

Proteins are biological workhorses. They build our bodies and orchestrate the molecular processes in cells that keep them healthy. They also present a wealth of...

Astronomers Discover 27,500 New Asteroids Lurking in Archival Images

There are well over a million asteroids in the solar system. Most don't cross paths with Earth, but some do and there's a risk...

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