Despite Mark Zuckerberg’s hope for the chatbot to be the smartest, it struggles with facts, numbers and web search.
24/04/2024
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
New research questions the long-held theory that reintroduction of such a predator caused a trophic cascade, spawning renewal of vegetation and spurring biodiversity.
The company that has invested billions in generative A.I. pioneers like OpenAI says giant systems aren’t necessarily what everyone needs.
Much as ChatGPT generates poetry, a new A.I. system devises blueprints for microscopic mechanisms that can edit your DNA.
22/04/2024
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.
The genetic treatment targeted a particular kind of congenital deafness and will soon be tried in children who are younger.
23/01/2024
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
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
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
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
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