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The city of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was shaken by revelations in December 2023 that two local teenage boys shared hundreds of nude images[1] of girls in their community over a private chat on the social chat platform Discord. Witnesses said the photos easily could have been mistaken for real ones, but they were fake. The boys had used an...

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Do artists and scientists see the same thing in the shape of trees? As a scientist[1] who studies branching patterns in living things, I’m starting to think so.

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‘Tableau I’ by Piet Mondrian, 1921. Kunstmuseum Den Haag

Piet Mondrian[2] was an early 20th-century abstract artist and art theorist obsessed with simplicity and essence of...

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AI has made it easier than ever to find information: Ask ChatGPT almost anything, and the system swiftly delivers an answer. But the large language models that power popular tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Anthropic’s Claude were not designed to be accurate or factual. They regularly “hallucinate”[1] and offer up falsehoods as if they...

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Curious Kids[1] is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.[2]. Are animals smart? – Deron It’s a fascinating question that intrigues millions of pet owners, animal lovers, veterinarians and scientists all over the world: Just how smart are
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