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Futurism

There's Something Bizarre About When GPT-5 Writes in a Literary Style

Amid its many letdowns, OpenAI's latest large language model (LLM), the overhyped and under-delivering GPT-5, appears to be spitting out flowery, mysterious gibberish — and it may not be meant for human eyes.

5 hours ago

Futurism

There's Something Bizarre About When GPT-5 Writes in a Literary Style

Futurism

As Ocean Water Gets Worse, Sharks' Teeth Start to Dissolve

Sharks have been on this planet for more than 400 million years. They're older than trees, the North Star, and even the rings of Saturn. They've seen and been through it all. But the horrifying effects of human driven climate change could be what finally proves too much for these ancient beings. As ...

6 hours ago

Futurism

As Ocean Water Gets Worse, Sharks' Teeth Start to Dissolve

Futurism

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 ...

8 hours ago

Futurism

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

Futurism

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. ...

23 hours ago

Futurism

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

Futurism

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 ...

24 hours ago

Futurism

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

Futurism

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 ...

1 day ago

Futurism

The Government Is Preparing to Take Away Your SSRIs

WIRED Science

Your Body Ages Faster Because of Extreme Heat

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

7 hours ago

WIRED Science

Your Body Ages Faster Because of Extreme Heat

WIRED Science

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.

9 hours ago

WIRED Science

Antarctica Is Changing Rapidly. The Consequences Could Be Dire

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.

1 day ago

WIRED Science

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

WIRED Science

Scientists Are Flocking to Bluesky

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

2 days ago

WIRED Science

Scientists Are Flocking to Bluesky

WIRED Science

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

Singularity HUB

In a First, Scientists Transplant a Modified Pig Lung Into a Person

The lung survived nine days but also whipped up an immune response. It's hoped pig organs could one day ease the donor organ shortage. The post In a First, Scientists Transplant a Modified Pig Lung Into a Person appeared first on SingularityHub.

2 days ago

Singularity HUB

In a First, Scientists Transplant a Modified Pig Lung Into a Person

Science - The Verge

New York Times Science

Eugenia Cheng Says You Don’t Need to Be Good at Math to Enjoy It

In her latest book, Eugenia Cheng, a mathematician, explores the choices we make to determine if two things — numbers, shapes, words and even people — are equal.

11 hours ago

New York Times Science

Eugenia Cheng Says You Don’t Need to Be Good at Math to Enjoy It

National Science Foundation