AI chatbot shows promise in talking people out of conspiracy theories
The imperturbable bot succeeds where humans usually fail, experiment finds
The imperturbable bot succeeds where humans usually fail, experiment finds
The price of iron ore has dropped to its lowest in nearly two years, a drain on profits for some of the world’s biggest miners.
Edelson, winner of a special election in May for the District 6 seat, is being challenged by self-described ‘controversial businesswoman’ and tarantula-tosser Simonetti.
Eric Berger, Ars Technica
Nearly a decade ago to the day, I stood in the international terminal of Houston's main airport checking my phone. As I waited to board a flight for Moscow, an...
Jessica Wapner, Undark
On a sweltering day in July 2023, a ragtag group of data wonks sat around a table at U Zlatého Tygra, or the Golden Tiger, a historic bar in Prague's Old Town. A mild...
Pandora Dewan, Newsweek
Birthrates in the United States have reached an all-time low. Many fear that the decline could lead to stalling in economic development and labor shortages, with
Deepa Jain, Live Science
The iconic star Betelgeuse, which is part of the constellation Orion, is one of the brightest stars visible from Earth and one of the most observed celestial objects...
Tessa Koumoundouros, Sci Alert
Compared with the gregarious nature of modern humans,
Ethan Siegel, Big Think
One of the biggest puzzles we face about the Universe is that we have no explanation for a great many of the properties that the fundamental objects within it...
Christopher Damman, Conv
Is the adage "calories in, calories out" true? The short answer is yes, but the full story is more...
Smriti Mallapaty, Nature
Under his microscope, Jun Wu could see several tiny spheres, each less than 1 millimetre wide. They looked just like human embryos: a dark cluster of cells...
Mathias Kirk Bonde, Works in Progress
Ten years ago, humanity discovered a way to completely rid the world of malaria. To date this technology has gone unused, sentencing millions of...
Rayleigh Chiang, M.D., M.M.S., RCScience
Much of the world looks in admiration and envy at the
Joel Achenbach, Washington Post
NASA is 66 years old and feeling its age. Brilliant engineers are retiring. Others have fled to higher-paying jobs in the private space industry. The...
This year, about 8 million young people will turn 18 and become eligible to vote. In all, an estimated 41 million members of Gen Z — people under age 27 — will be able to vote in the 2024 presidential election
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- A Grand Island eighth grader was struck and killed by a vehicle on Wednesday night. NITTEC initially reported the closure of South Parkway from Broadway to Love Road due to a crash at 9:08 p.m. Officials at the Erie County Sheriff's Office confirmed to WIVB News 4 that a body was [...]
Widespread flooding is threatened after the Category 2 storm made landfall.
Is Carlos Alcaraz's second-half slump in 2024 a cause for concern?
A special court has convicted 16 individuals in an illegal religious conversion case, sentencing 12 to life imprisonment and four to 10 years. DGP Prashant Kumar praised the decision, emphasizing its societal impact. The case involved a nationwide syndicate luring poor and disabled people into conversion through monetary incentives.
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It’s tempting, especially as an Old Person, to question the relevance—let alone the existence—of the MTV Video Music Awards in a world that has long left the industry that allowed the once-rabble-rousing ceremony to thrive in the rearview mirror.
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Nope, Sabrina Carpenter doesn’t have her boyfriend Barry Keoghan by her side at the VMAs. The 25-year-old singer brought a different important person in her life as her plus one to the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards on Wednesday (September 11) at the UBS Arena in Elmont, New York. Head inside to learn more about [...]
California-Riverside
Thanks to an experiment started before the Great Depression, researchers have pinpointed the genes behind the remarkable adaptability of barley, a key ingredient in beer...
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The earliest humans to settle the Great Lakes region likely returned to a campsite in southwest Michigan for several years in a row, according to a University of Michigan study....
Cornell University
The legacy of microscale robotics at Cornell continues to unfold - and refold and unfold itself again.
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