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Can we rid artificial intelligence of bias?
SAN FRANCISCO — Artificial intelligence built on mountains of potentially biased information has created a real risk of automating discrimination, but is there any way to re-educate the machines? The...
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Blue Origin flies thrill seekers to space, including oldest astronaut
WASHINGTON — After a nearly two year hiatus, Blue Origin flew adventurers to space on Sunday, including a former Air Force pilot who was denied the chance to be the United States' first Black...
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PFAS 'ubiquitous' in water, atmosphere in Great Lakes Basin
A first-of-its-kind study published this week shows that levels of toxic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, are now so ubiquitous in the environment that they have begun building up in the...
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Forever fad: Rubik says his cube 'reminds us why we have hands'
The naysayers said the maddening multicolored cube that Erno Rubik invented 50 years ago would not survive the 1980s.Yet millennials and Generation Z are as nuts about Rubik's Cube as their parents...
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The ‘dead internet theory’ makes eerie claims about an AI-run web.
If you search “shrimp Jesus” on Facebook, you might encounter dozens of images of artificial intelligence (AI) generated crustaceans meshed in various forms with a stereotypical image of Jesus...
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After 180 years, new clues are revealing just how general anesthesia works in...
Over 350 million surgeries are performed globally each year. For most of us, it’s likely at some point in our lives we’ll have to undergo a procedure that needs general anesthesia.Even though it is...
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OpenAI to 'pause' voice linked to Scarlett Johansson
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI on Monday said it was working on temporarily muting a synthetic voice that sounds a lot like that of actress Scarlett Johansson.The artificial intelligence powerhouse said in a...
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In Darwin's footsteps: scientists recreate historic 1830s expedition
Like Charles Darwin did in 1831, a group of scientists and environmentalists last year set sail from the English port of Plymouth, headed for the Galapagos islands off the coast of Ecuador.But what...
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'Wake-Up Call for the world': Millions impacted by extreme floods in Brazil
Experts emphasized the escalating risks of climate-related disasters and their disproportionate impacts on low-income people on Monday following flooding in Brazil that has killed at least 150 people...
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Obesity, smoking and diabetes driving global rise in early deaths
The number of people in poor health worldwide has climbed by almost 50 percent since the turn of the millennium, with many at risk of dying prematurely due to being overweight with high blood pressure...
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Volunteers race to save Mexico's howler monkeys in heat wave
Volunteers are rushing to hoist food and water up into trees in sweltering southern Mexico, but help came too late for the howler monkeys whose lifeless bodies lay still on the ground.Dozens of the...
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OpenAI says AI is 'safe enough' as scandals raise concerns
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman defended his company's AI technology as safe for widespread use, as concerns mount over potential risks and lack of proper safeguards for ChatGPT-style AI systems.Altman's...
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Pentagon says Russia launched space weapon in path of US satellite
Russia has launched a likely space weapon and deployed it in the same orbit as a US government satellite, the Pentagon said."Russia launched a satellite into low Earth orbit that we assess is likely a...
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Study: Epidurals cut risk of severe childbirth complications by 35%
Women who have an epidural during labour face a lower risk of severe complications during childbirth, according to a study.Making epidurals more widely available and providing more information to...
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Microplastics are in human testicles. It’s still not clear how they got there.
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist's weekly newsletter here.No human organ is safe from microplastic contamination, it seems — not even the testicles. Researchers at the...
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Flower or power? Campaigners fear lithium mine could kill rare plant
Delicate pink buds sway in the desert breeze, pregnant with yellow pompoms whose explosion will carpet the dusty corner of Nevada that is the only place on Earth where they exist.Under their roots lie...
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Finland's wizards making food out of thin air
At a factory in Finland, the "farmers of the future" are making a new food protein by feeding a microbe air and electricity, proving that protein can be produced without traditional...
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U.S. reports 2nd human case of bird flu tied to dairy cow outbreak
A second case of bird flu has been found in a human, US health authorities announced Wednesday, less then two months after the first one as an outbreak of the disease circulates widely among dairy...
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NOAA predicts 'extraordinary' Atlantic hurricane season as ocean temperatures...
The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration warned Thursday that it expects "above-normal hurricane activity in the Atlantic basin this year" due to rising ocean temperatures related to...
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Federal forecasters predict the highest number of storms ever for 2024 season
"Federal forecasters predict the highest number of storms ever for 2024 season" was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages...
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