
New Scientist - 9 hours 53 min ago
AI companies are hiring philosophy graduates to help them understand the nature of consciousness, whether it can be replicated and how their systems can be made better and more reliable...

Australian Geographic - 12 hours 14 min ago
Living in our cities, hidden in pockets of bushland and suburban tree canopies is the powerful owl one of Australia's largest predators. The post The secret hunter of the suburbs appeared first on Australian Geographic .

Science Alert - 14 hours 33 min ago
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Nature - 15 hours 53 min ago
Technology companies say that their services can sniff out AI-generated writing, but their tools vary in technique and quality.

Nature - 15 hours 53 min ago
An analysis sets out the history of computing beyond software and Californian entrepreneurs.

Nature - 15 hours 53 min ago
Inappropriate use of cooling breaks in sport is undermining trust in heat-health research.

Newser - 23 hours 13 min ago
The largest digital camera ever built is starting to capture images of unseen corners of the universe. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has officially begun its cosmic survey, meant to capture swaths of the sky in more depth and detail, reports the AP . Perched on a Chilean mountaintop, the telescope...

Popular Science - 1 day 49 min ago
Pixels either control light or analyze it. This one does both. The post Researchers in Switzerland invent a new type of pixel appeared first on Popular Science .

The Atlantic - 1 day 3 hours ago
The chances of getting stuck for hours in a grounded plane are soaring.

Ars Technica - 1 day 4 hours ago
Chemicals from accidents that injured or killed people increased by nearly 50 percent in recent years.

Ars Technica - 1 day 4 hours ago
The heat of the Hadean may have come from impacts as well as the interior.

The Independent - 1 day 20 hours ago
Archaeologists also found four gold pieces placed inside the mouths of some of the deceased, known as the golden tongue'...

GeekSpin - 2 days 2 hours ago
For the closest thing to spending a year on Mars, without leaving Earth, look no further than Houston. NASA has opened recruitment for the Moon and Mars Exploration Analog (MMEA), a yearlong simulated deep space mission at Johnson Space Center, set to begin no earlier than August 2027. The mission will take place inside two habitats, […] Read the original article here: NASA is looking for volunteers to live in a space simulator for a year...

Popular Mechanics - 2 days 2 hours ago
Having considered more than 1,000 cases of unidentified anomalous phenomena, one analyst has formulated a rational process that could reveal your mystery object.

Mother Jones - 2 days 4 hours ago
This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As New York City braces for an extreme heat wave amid the July 4th weekend and World Cup festivities, government officials and local hospitals are ramping up efforts to prevent heat-related illness. Temperatures were expected to reach 100 degrees F on Thursday, with a heat index between […]...

Ars Technica - 2 days 4 hours ago
Disturbances in this critical sense are often linked to problems with brain health.

Los Angeles Times - 2 days 4 hours ago
Hazardous levels of air pollution are expected across central and southern Los Angeles County, northern Orange County, Riverside and San Bernardino counties from 5 p.m. Saturday evening through 3 p.m. Sunday.

Retraction Watch - 2 days 5 hours ago
If your week flew by we know ours did catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at Retraction Watch featured: In case you missed the news, the Hijacked Journal Checker now has more than 450 entries. The Retraction Watch Database has over 65,000 retractions. Our list of COVID-19 retractions … Continue reading Weekend reads: Taylor Swift teaches botany; NEJM retracts key study in Amgen drug; hidden prompts at conference snare AI peer reviews'...