If you have used Google lately and been lucky – or unlucky – enough to encounter an answer to your query rather than a bunch of links, you have been subjected to something called AI Overviews[1]. This is a new core feature that Google has been rolling out, a move widely anticipated since the company’s experiments with its LaMDA[2]...
Scientists and Indigenous leaders team up to conserve seals and an ancestral way of life at Yakutat, Alaska
Five hundred years ago, in a mountain-rimmed ocean fjord in southeast Alaska, Tlingit hunters armed with bone-tipped harpoons eased their canoes through chunks of floating ice, stalking seals near Sít Tlein (Hubbard) glacier. They must have glanced nervously up at the glacier’s looming, fractured face, aware that cascades of ice could thunder...
Scientists call the region of space influenced by the Sun the heliosphere – but without an interstellar probe, they don’t know much about its shape
The Sun warms the Earth, making it habitable for people and animals. But that’s not all it does, and it affects a much larger area of space. The heliosphere[1], the area of space influenced by the Sun, is over a hundred times larger[2] than the distance from the Sun to the Earth.
The Sun is a star that constantly emits a steady...
AI plus gene editing promises to shift biotech into high gear
During her chemistry Nobel Prize lecture[1] in 2018, Frances Arnold said, “Today we can for all practical purposes read, write and edit any sequence of DNA, but we cannot compose it.” That isn’t true anymore.
Since then, science and technology have progressed so much that artificial intelligence has learned to compose DNA, and with...
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