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New Poll Finds That Americans Loathe AI

A new Pew Research Center poll has found that Americans are getting incredibly fed up with artificial intelligence in their daily lives. A whopping 53 percent of just over 5,000 polled US adults think that AI will "worsen people’s ability to think creatively." 50 percent say AI will deteriorate our ...

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New Poll Finds That Americans Loathe AI

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Mysterious Object From Beyond Solar System May Be "Seed" Traveling Galaxy and Creating New Planets, Paper Finds

Astronomers were fascinated after spotting an object from interstellar space hurtling through the solar system earlier this summer. Since then, they've been racking their brains, trying to understand its unusual composition and exact origins. In a yet-to-be-peer-reviewed paper, an international team ...

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Mysterious Object From Beyond Solar System May Be "Seed" Traveling Galaxy and Creating New Planets, Paper Finds

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How Did Hands Evolve? Look to Your Anus, a New Study Suggests.

The evolutionary blueprint for hands was borrowed in part from a much older genetic plan for our nether regions, a new study suggests.

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How Did Hands Evolve? Look to Your Anus, a New Study Suggests.

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ChatGPT Is Blowing Up Marriages as Spouses Use AI to Attack Their Partners

A husband and wife, together nearly 15 years, had reached a breaking point. And in the middle of their latest fight, they received a heartbreaking text. "Our son heard us arguing," the husband told Futurism. "He's 10, and he sent us a message from his phone saying, 'please don't get a divorce.'" What ...

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ChatGPT Is Blowing Up Marriages as Spouses Use AI to Attack Their Partners

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Do Reptiles Have Moods, Too?

Long dismissed as unintelligent, reptiles are emerging as cognitively and emotionally complex animals. A new study involving tortoises suggests that they also possess mood states.

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Do Reptiles Have Moods, Too?

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Two Teens Allegedly Killed by AI Wrote the Same Eerie Phrase in Their Diaries Over and Over

Content warning: this story includes discussion of self-harm and suicide. If you are in crisis, please call, text or chat with the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988, or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741. The families of three teens have filed lawsuits, alleging that AI company ...

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Two Teens Allegedly Killed by AI Wrote the Same Eerie Phrase in Their Diaries Over and Over

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Oldest Dome-Headed Dinosaur Revealed by ‘Shockingly Beautiful’ Fossil

A specimen discovered in Mongolia is the most complete fossil yet found of a pachycephalosaur, a dinosaur believed to be built for head-butting.

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Oldest Dome-Headed Dinosaur Revealed by ‘Shockingly Beautiful’ Fossil

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CEO of DeepMind Points Out the Obvious: OpenAI Is Lying About Having "PhD Level" AI

British AI researcher and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, who received the Nobel prize in chemistry last year, is throwing cold water on the claim that AI has achieved "PhD" level intelligence. During a recent appearance at a summit put on by the "All-In" podcast,

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CEO of DeepMind Points Out the Obvious: OpenAI Is Lying About Having "PhD Level" AI

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New Report Finds That China's Space Program Is Rapidly Outstripping NASA

While the sitting US government strips NASA of its expert leadership and funding, it seems China is more than happy to take up the mantle. A new report from the Commercial Space Federation, a lobbying group fighting for the interests of the privatized space industry, found that China's space program ...

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New Report Finds That China's Space Program Is Rapidly Outstripping NASA

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A Collision With Another Planet Could Have Allowed for Life on Earth

Analysis by researchers at the University of Bern suggests that water and other volatile compounds arrived on Earth from outer space—specifically via a collision with a Mars-sized planet billions of years ago.

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A Collision With Another Planet Could Have Allowed for Life on Earth

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The DOGE Subcommittee Hearing on Weather Modification Was a Nest of Conspiracy Theorizing

A House Oversight Committee hearing produced a flood of bizarre claims about cloud seeding, chemtrails, and solar geoengineering. Proven, human-driven changes to the weather were dismissed.

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The DOGE Subcommittee Hearing on Weather Modification Was a Nest of Conspiracy Theorizing

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This Giant Subterranean Neutrino Detector Is Taking On the Mysteries of Physics

Located in China, Juno is a 17-country collaboration that will try to detect neutrinos and antineutrinos to learn more about their mass.

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This Giant Subterranean Neutrino Detector Is Taking On the Mysteries of Physics

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A Forgotten Cosmic Impact Was Hidden in a Museum’s Glass Shards

Scientists thought that an Australian museum’s collection of tektites came from an 800,000-year-old asteroid strike on Earth. Some of them turned out to be much older.

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A Forgotten Cosmic Impact Was Hidden in a Museum’s Glass Shards

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Building an Octopus Dictionary, One Arm Movement at a Time

Scientists set out to understand all the ways the animals use their eight appendages. It wasn’t easy.

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Building an Octopus Dictionary, One Arm Movement at a Time