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“Daddy?” Theo curled against my side in bed. “Where do words go when they die?” I’d orchestrated the bedtime routine flawlessly: bath (taken...
When the biotech company Insilico Medicine used its computer models to propose a promising drug for pulmonary fibrosis, it enthusiastically ...
A company that plans to beam sunlight from space to Earth on demand might unintentionally brighten the night sky for many more people than i...
“Runaway” AI, “rogue” agents, and “autonomous” actors—the current rhetoric would have you believe that AI agents are not only awake and awar...
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There’s a hunt for new sources of hydrogen, and the gas (or at least the right conditions to make it) could be hiding beneath our feet. Hydr...
Each day, an airline transports tens of thousands of passengers on hundreds of flights. Often these are not straightforward point-to-point r...
Sometime in the late 2000s, Pim Sullivan-Tailyour was sitting in the back of a car, headed toward her great-grandmother’s tiny town in the s...
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Pam Wisniewski’s digital adolescence showed her the best and the worst of the internet. At 14, she left an abusive home, where she’d been is...
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AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI regularly publish reports on how people are using products like Claude and ChatGPT, but they only rel...
When the four astronauts on board NASA’s Artemis II swung around the moon earlier this year, they set a new record for the farthest humans h...
The AI industry’s boldest promise right now is that AI will soon improve itself, with almost no need for human oversight. LLMs can already w...
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In the 1990s, Barbara Sherwood Lollar descended into the Kidd Creek mine in northern Ontario, which cuts more than three kilometers into the...
When Xander first met Moxie, she taught him that when he was anxious, he could calm down by exhaling through his lips so that he buzzed like...
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