That approach wouldn’t work for the common cold, because all those hundreds of variants are circulating all the time, says McLean. That’s not to say that people haven’t tried to make a... Read more »

—Greg Linden, a former data scientist at Microsoft, pokes fun at Meta’s beleaguered Reality Labs’ earnings in a post on Bluesky. One more thing How scientists want to make you young again... Read more »

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Gates buys offsets to cancel out his own personal emissions, to the tune of about $9 million a year, he said at the roundtable, but doesn’t expect many of those offsets to... Read more »

That’s a compelling—even comforting—thought for many people. “We’re in an era where other paths to material improvement of human lives and our societies seem to have been exhausted,” Vallor says.  Technology once... Read more »

Step 4: Show them examples of others who have broken out of conspiracy thinking In extreme cases, hearing from or about someone who was deeply radicalized but subsequently broke free can be... Read more »

Accessing all the necessary organs can require moving the whale. Sometimes, if a stranding location is accessible enough, heavy equipment like an excavator can help lift part of the body to assist... Read more »

In the aftermath, many claimed that they received no warning to evacuate, saw no first responders battling the blazes, and had little interaction with official personnel. Most were simply left to fend... Read more »

In 2003, the philosopher Nick Bostrom—famous for his theories on the threat of AI “superintelligence”—posited that humanity may be living inside a simulation. Almost two decades later, the astronomer David Kipping performed... Read more »