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OpenAI claims that its new flagship model, GPT-5, marks “a significant step along the path to AGI” – that is, the artificial general intelligence that AI bosses and self-proclaimed experts often claim ...
Type 1 diabetes occurs when the immune system mistakenly destroys beta cells in the pancreas, which produce insulin. For ...
A new study from researchers at the University of Otago in New Zealand suggests that people who deliberately choose a ...
The bone container is a hollowed-out sheep or goat femur intentionally sealed at one end with a birch-bark tar plug. It ...
The internet has rewritten the rules for how we work, how we shop, and even how we fall in love. In the mid-20th century, ...
Chemicals may be turning female birds into males in the wild and the phenomenon might be more common than we think.
Now, researchers at University College London and their collaborators have engineered a new class of indoor solar cell that ...
One afternoon on the coast of Hokkaido, a small rubber duck bobbed in the waves, anchored to a seaside rock. It wasn’t tethered with screws or cement. Instead, it clung there because of a transparent, ...
Because the jet is aimed almost directly toward Earth, its brightness is amplified “by a factor of 30 or more,” said ...
It’s not uncommon for scientists to find the occasional oddity in the middle of the North Pacific. But just North of Hawaii, ...
A team of scientists at King’s College London thinks there might be another way. They’ve found that keratin — the same ...