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Your Body Ages Faster Because of Extreme Heat

A study reveals that extreme heat accelerates biological aging even more than smoking or drinking.

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Your Body Ages Faster Because of Extreme Heat

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Scientists Say They May Have Just Figured Out the Origin of Life

How did the building blocks of life come together to spawn the first organisms? Scientists just got a major clue. In a new study published in the journal Nature, a team of biologists say they've demonstrated how RNA molecules and amino acids could combine, by purely random interactions, to form proteins ...

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Scientists Say They May Have Just Figured Out the Origin of Life

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Antarctica Is Changing Rapidly. The Consequences Could Be Dire

“Abrupt changes” threaten to send the continent past the point of no return, at which point continued ice-melting would submerge coastal cities around the world.

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Antarctica Is Changing Rapidly. The Consequences Could Be Dire

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Police Arrest Man With Almost Zero Resemblance to Actual Perpetrator Because AI Told Them To

The New York Police Department is one of the most heavily equipped police forces on the planet. With over 48,000 full-time staff and a budget nearing $6 billion, the NYPD's access to immense resources put it closer to the militaries of countries like the Philippines and Iraq than a municipal agency. ...

16 hours ago

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Police Arrest Man With Almost Zero Resemblance to Actual Perpetrator Because AI Told Them To

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Electricity Is Becoming Unbelievably Expensive as the US Power Grid Decays Into Ruin

The US electrical grid is facing a stress test like never before. Thanks to a perfect storm of AI power consumption, crony capitalism, and a president bent on uprooting perfectly good energy infrastructure, the country's already struggling power system is rapidly crumbling as costs balloon into the ...

17 hours ago

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Electricity Is Becoming Unbelievably Expensive as the US Power Grid Decays Into Ruin

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The Government Is Preparing to Take Away Your SSRIs

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the well-heeled crackpot helming our nation's healthcare system, holds all kinds of screwball beliefs about pharmaceuticals — but his bizarre and incoherent opposition to depression-treating selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) is perhaps the most indefensible. Since ...

19 hours ago

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The Government Is Preparing to Take Away Your SSRIs

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First AI Psychosis Case Ends in Murder-Suicide

A man murdered his mother and then killed himself after entering into a mental health crisis tied to ChatGPT, which fueled his delusional, paranoid beliefs. As The Wall Street Journal reported, a 56-year-old man named Stein-Erik Soelberg was a longtime tech industry worker who'd moved in with his ...

21 hours ago

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First AI Psychosis Case Ends in Murder-Suicide

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Taco Bell's Attempt to Replace Drive-Thru Employees With AI Is Not Going Well

Your ears do not deceive you. It's the Taco Bell death knell, tolling for the restaurant chain's shambolic AI-powered drive-thrus. We exaggerate, but only a little. The much-maligned tech experiment, which has been deployed at 500 Taco Bell locations across the country, isn't quite dead yet. But it's ...

21 hours ago

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Taco Bell's Attempt to Replace Drive-Thru Employees With AI Is Not Going Well

WIRED Science

How to See the Total Lunar Eclipse and Blood Moon on September 7

Viewers in Africa, Asia, and Australia will be able to see the blood moon in the sky—but those in the Americas will have to settle for a live feed this time around.

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How to See the Total Lunar Eclipse and Blood Moon on September 7

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Scientists Are Flocking to Bluesky

Academics once loved Twitter—but in the age of X they’ve abandoned it in droves.

1 day ago

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Scientists Are Flocking to Bluesky

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China Is Building a Brain-Computer Interface Industry

A new policy document outlines China’s plan to create an internationally competitive BCI industry within five years, and proposes developing devices for both health and consumer uses.

2 days ago

WIRED Science

China Is Building a Brain-Computer Interface Industry

New York Times Science

Uncovering the Genes That Let Our Ancestors Walk Upright

A new study reveals some of the crucial molecular steps on the path to bipedalism.

2 days ago

New York Times Science

Uncovering the Genes That Let Our Ancestors Walk Upright

New York Times Science

It’s a Night Light. It’s a Plant. It’s a Glowing Succulent.

In a proof of concept, researchers demonstrated that they could bioengineer a couple of hours of light into a common plant.

2 days ago

New York Times Science

It’s a Night Light. It’s a Plant. It’s a Glowing Succulent.

New York Times Science

Like Humans, Every Tree Has Its Own Microbiome, a New Study Has Found

Scientists have found that a single tree can be home to a trillion microbial cells — an invisible ecosystem that is only beginning to be understood.

2 days ago

New York Times Science

Like Humans, Every Tree Has Its Own Microbiome, a New Study Has Found