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AI models will refuse to say whether a person's face looks gay or straight, but they will alter images of faces to fit stereotypes of gay and straight.
If you think about leap years, it may seem like humans have a very odd way of measuring time. Sometimes, timekeepers even have to add extra seconds to clocks.
GeekSpin - 13 hours 26 min agoTonight's sky is gearing up to be one of the most beautiful yet, so get ready to step outside and look up, stargazers. A rare celestial event is bringing the magical aurora borealis much farther south than usual, offering people across up to 22 states a front-row seat to an incredible natural light show. A […] Read the original article here: Northern lights could be visible in 22 states tonight...
A guy who used to protect NFL quarterbacks is now involved with something else entirely: one of math's most basic tools. The Washington Post profiles John Urschel , a former Baltimore Ravens lineman who walked away from the football league in 2017 over concerns about brain injuries and is now a...
Henri Kagan and Kens Soai designed chemical reactions producing only one of the two mirror-image forms of a molecule an important finding for the synthesis of pharmaceuticals and other biological substances.
Flu activity began rising in September, ahead of its typical early-November start, said Dr. Dawn Terashita with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health...
A pioneering software engineer whose code helped get humans onto the moon for the first time has died at 90. Margaret Hamilton, who led the team that wrote the onboard software for NASA's Apollo missions, died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, reports the New York Times . Hired in 1965 as the first...
"Detecting a neutrino is like looking for a needle in a haystack," says Juan Carlos D az V lez, who breaks down why researchers are looking for the cosmic particles under the Antarctic ice.
Competition closes 00:00 GMT 05/11/2026 The post Win a set of smart light panels worth 229.99! appeared first on How It Works .
Dr. Karl Deisseroth tells NBC News' Gadi Schwartz about the moment he found out that he, among other scientists, won the Nobel prize in physiology or medicine for their new brain research tool.
GeekSpin - 1 day 1 hour agoNASA's James Webb Space Telescope is giving astronomers a remarkable look at what happens when young worlds collide. By studying unusual clouds of warm dust around young stars, researchers have found clues that rocky planets may undergo enormous impacts similar to the collision that helped create our own Moon. The findings could offer a rare […] Read the original article here: NASA telescope finds signs of giant worlds smashing together...
Not all vitamin D supplements are created equal, and new research suggests that one popular form may have an unexpected downside. Scientists found that taking vitamin D2 can actually lower the body's levels of vitamin D3, the form naturally produced by sunlight and more effective at boosting overall vitamin D. Previous studies also suggest that vitamin D3 may provide stronger immune protection against viruses and bacteria.
Nature - 1 day 1 hour agoIn the Arab world, lack of training, research and discussion about menopause is hampering care. Three changes can help.
Nature - 1 day 1 hour agoProposed rule would choke off a crucial STEM talent pipeline, policy specialists say...
Nature - 1 day 1 hour agoScientists worry that increasingly capable large language models will beat them to discoveries.
Australian Geographic - 1 day 2 hours agoFor the fourth and final instalment of our sprawling River Stories series, we sent photographer Drew Hopper, along with AG's Editor-in-Chief Karen McGhee, to South Australia's Coorong and into the company of one of its most remarkable characters. The post Notes from the field: Meeting the Carp Whisperer appeared first on Australian Geographic .
Tropical Storm Isaias is set to become the basin's first hurricane of the season, bringing life-threatening rain and storm surge to the Gulf Coast.
Australian Geographic - 1 day 4 hours agoIn June 1788, escaped convict Edward Corbett had been hiding in the bush for nearly three weeks when the earth began to shake. We'll never know exactly why, but the very next day he returned to the Sydney Cove penal settlement and to his ultimate fate in the gallows. The post Edward Corbett: The runaway convict on shaky ground appeared first on Australian Geographic .
Retraction Watch - 1 day 5 hours agoIn what one sleuth called a "systemic failure," a wildlife journal has issued corrections to a handful of papers not for an error in the articles but to include an item that wasn't: ethics statements. The most recent such correction in the European Journal of Wildlife Research (EJWR) was on September 8. According to the … Continue reading Wildlife journal issues corrections for missing ethics statements...
Altering molecular handedness has implications for the origins of life.
A tourist at Masaya Volcano. (INTI OCON/AFP via Getty Images) There doesn't appear to be any immediate danger but this could help scientists predict future eruptions. ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited by humans, never generated by AI. Don't miss a story, subscribe here.
Last Word On Nothing - 1 day 17 hours agoYesterday Francis Halzen received the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for overseeing the experiment that detected an extraordinarily elusive subatomic particle via an ingenious reinterpretation of the concept of “telescope.” A version of this essay about that experiment originally appeared here on November 26, 2013, following the announcement of that discovery. The news this past […] The post Tale of the Tape appeared first on The Last Word On Nothing .
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