How thoughts influence what the eyes see
A new study by biomedical engineers and neuroscientists shows that the brain’s visual regions play an active role in making […]
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Unlocking the genetic basis of adaptive evolution: study reveals complex chromosomal rearrangements in a stick insect
Scientists report adaptive divergence in cryptic color pattern is underlain by two distinct, complex chromosomal rearrangements, where millions of bases
Stumbling and Overheating, Most Humanoid Robots Fail to Finish Half Marathon in Beijing
Only four of the 21 robots in the race crossed the finish line, highlighting just how far humanoids are from
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An AI Customer Service Chatbot Made Up a Company Policy—and Created a Mess
When an AI model for code-editing company Cursor hallucinated a new rule, users revolted.
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ICE Plans Central Database of Health, Labor, Housing Agency Data to Find Targets
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is planning to bring together data from a wide variety of other U.S. government agencies,
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Sam Altman Admits That Saying “Please” and “Thank You” to ChatGPT Is Wasting Millions of Dollars in Computing Power
If chivalry isn’t already dead, it’s certainly circling the drain. OpenAI CEO and tech billionaire Sam Altman recently admitted that
Meta Says It’s Okay to Feed Copyrighted Books Into Its AI Model Because They Have No “Economic Value”
Meta has been accused of illegally using copyrighted material to train its AI models — and the tech giant’s defense
Behold, a Genuinely Promising Sign of Alien Life
Welcome back to the Abstract! It was a good week for the Fox Mulders among us. We want to believe,
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Scientists probe the mystery of Titan’s missing deltas
New research finds that despite large rivers and seas of liquid methane, Saturn’s moon Titan seems mostly devoid of river
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Lichens can survive almost anything, and some might survive Mars
Whether anything ever lived on Mars is unknown. And the present environment, with harsh temperatures, intense radiation, and a sparse
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