Melting isn’t an option because carbon dioxide easily dissolves into water. Traditionally, scientists have used mechanical extraction methods, grinding up samples of individual layers of ice...
But there’s now a problem: the Turing test has almost been passed—it arguably already has been. The latest generation of large language models, systems that generate...
The seas already act as a powerful buffer against the worst dangers of climate change, drawing down about a quarter of human-driven carbon dioxide emissions and...
The world is making big changes as it tries to move on from the COVID-19 pandemic. One of them is the closure of the NHS COVID-19...
Can a person’s food choices contribute to type 2 diabetes? A new study has linked poor diet to 14 million cases of type 2 diabetes globally....
There was reason to worry. In 2016, after Peter Thiel, one of Altman’s mentors, expressed interest in possibly getting age-defeating blood transfusions, he was mocked in...
The COVID-19 vaccines may have led to millions of fatalities worldwide, a group of researchers from Israel and Australia claimed in a new report. The report,...
DNA breaks apart with time, so the older it is, the smaller the pieces become—until there’s nothing left to detect. And the shorter the fragments are,...
This year, the avian flu outbreak has killed around 50 million birds in the United States, setting a record for the deadliest flare-up in the country’s...
A large number of children are at risk amid the growing measles threat worldwide. Last year, a record high of nearly 40 million children missed their...
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