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Meta’s A.I. Assistant Is Fun to Use, but It Can’t Be Trusted

Despite Mark Zuckerberg’s hope for the chatbot to be the smartest, it struggles with facts, numbers and web search.

24/04/2024

How Do We Know What Animals Are Really Feeling?

Animal-welfare science tries to get inside the minds of a huge range of species — in order to help improve their lives.

23/04/2024

Yellowstone’s Wolves: A Debate Over Their Role in the Park’s Ecosystem

New research questions the long-held theory that reintroduction of such a predator caused a trophic cascade, spawning renewal of vegetation and spurring biodiversity.

23/04/2024

Microsoft Makes a New Push Into Smaller A.I. Systems

The company that has invested billions in generative A.I. pioneers like OpenAI says giant systems aren’t necessarily what everyone needs.

23/04/2024

Generative A.I. Arrives in the Gene Editing World of CRISPR

Much as ChatGPT generates poetry, a new A.I. system devises blueprints for microscopic mechanisms that can edit your DNA.

22/04/2024

Earth Day 2024: A Look at 3 Places Adapting Quickly to Fight Climate Change

Paris is becoming a city of bikes. Across China, people are snapping up $5,000 electric cars. On Earth Day, a look at a few bright spots for emission reductions.

22/04/2024

Gene Therapy Allows an 11-Year-Old Boy to Hear for the First Time

The genetic treatment targeted a particular kind of congenital deafness and will soon be tried in children who are younger.

23/01/2024

Curbing Contrails: A Climate Solution in the Skies

Slowing down climate change is going to require big fixes, and many small ones, too. Case in point: contrails, those wispy white lines that trail some airplanes flying high in the sky.

08/08/2023

To Ease Global Warming, the Whitest of Paints

Scientists at Purdue have created a white paint that, when applied, can reduce the surface temperature on a roof and cool the building beneath it.

12/07/2023

Bison Return to Native American Lands, Revitalizing Sacred Rituals

More than a century after a mass bison slaughter, the animals are restoring Great Plains ecosystems and reinvigorating Indigenous customs like the sun dance.

04/07/2023

Climate Education in New Jersey: 7-Year Olds Are Finding Solutions

New Jersey is the first state to require that climate change be taught at all grade levels. The focus is on problem solving, not doom and gloom.

15/06/2023

How South Korean Food Waste Is Turned Into Feed, Fuel or Fertilizer

When wasted food rots in landfills, it pollutes soil and water — and warms the planet. Here’s how one country keeps that from happening.

14/06/2023

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