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Science
What we know, what we are learning, and what the labs are not telling you.
61Science
AI Oversight Fails When Explanations Hide Intentions
AI Oversight Fails When Explanations Hide Intentions When Watching the Watchers Fails Artificial intelligence systems are taking on more independent roles every day. They browse the web, manage data, and make decisions...
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62Science
Eggshell Particles Aim to Cool Earth by Reflecting Sunlight
Eggshell Particles Aim to Cool Earth by Reflecting Sunlight A chef sprinkling a pinch of anti caking powder into a bag of flour and a physicist launching particles into the stratosphere seem to share nothing in common....
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63Science
Joy Is a Trainable Skill Not a Fixed Trait
Joy Is a Trainable Skill Not a Fixed Trait For decades, the prevailing view in psychology held that each person has a happiness set point a genetic baseline that life events might temporarily lift or lower, but which we...
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64Science
Glass transparency explained by molecular structure
Glass transparency explained by molecular structure Why Light Passes Through Glass Picture a quiet Sunday morning. Sunlight streams through a window, casting soft shadows across the room. A person can see the garden,...
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65Science
Fossil Rewrites Cretaceous Mammal Evolution Story
Fossil Rewrites Cretaceous Mammal Evolution Story A Single Skull Ends Decades of Scientific Guesswork For nearly four decades, paleontologists have been looking at a puzzle with only a few teeth as clues. These teeth,...
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66Science
Honey Bees as Living Monitors of Environmental Health
Honey Bees as Living Monitors of Environmental Health From Pollination to Silent Surveillance For decades, scientists studied honey bees primarily for what they produce and pollinate. The hive was a source of honey,...
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67Science
AI in Police Work Erodes Public Trust
AI in Police Work Erodes Public Trust The same large language models that power conversational chatbots now inform decisions about who police stop, search, and question. Since ChatGPT's public release in November 2022,...
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68Science
Ancient Corals Reveal Modern El Niño Events Are Most Extreme in Millennium
Ancient Corals Reveal Modern El Niño Events Are Most Extreme in Millennium The equatorial Pacific Ocean is warming dramatically. Scientists see the signature of a strong El Niño developing, and the event could prove...
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69Science
Primordial Black Hole Inside Star Could Survive via Dark Matter
Primordial Black Hole Inside Star Could Survive via Dark Matter A black hole weighing as little as a small car would, according to Stephen Hawking's 1974 theory, evaporate almost instantly through Hawking radiation. Yet...
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70Science
AI Finds 73000-Year Path to Alpha Centauri
AI Finds 73000 Year Path to Alpha Centauri The greatest barrier between humanity and another star has never been distance. It has been the assumption that crossing 4.365 light years demands velocities approaching the...
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71Science
Raindrops generate high voltage and corrode metal coatings
Raindrops generate high voltage and corrode metal coatings A single raindrop carries no visible power. It lands softly on a windshield, a roof, a hood. But scientists have discovered something unsettling about these...
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72Science
Raindrops Can Generate 9000 Volts and Damage Car Paint
Raindrops Can Generate 9000 Volts and Damage Car Paint For decades, the car owner's enemy list has been painfully predictable. Bird droppings, tree sap, road salt, and the relentless ultraviolet rays of the sun. People...
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