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Is ageing a natural stage of life to be honoured or a biological flaw that humanity should overcome?...
Article URL: https://nautil.us/the-far-side-had-it-all-wrong-cows-really-can-use-sophisticated-tools-1262026/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46681153 Points: 4 # Comments: 0...
Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/lunar-radio-telescope Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46698623 Points: 3 # Comments: 0...
Parents of autistic children are clamoring for a prescription vitamin promoted by federal health officials. But there's little evidence the drug will help. (Image credit: Inna Kot/iStock)...
The frozen areas of our planet act as a historical record of changes in the atmosphere and climate...
Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/string-theory-can-now-describe-a-universe-that-has-dark-energy-20260114/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46690295 Points: 3 # Comments: 0...
"Dark matter can be red hot when it is born, but still have time to cool down before galaxies begin to form."...
Article URL: https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/san-francisco-coyote-alcatraz-21302218.php Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46674433 Points: 20 # Comments: 1...
It may be one of the most iconic sights in the night sky, but astronomers have never seen the Helix Nebula like this before....
"It is exciting to think that Little Red Dots may represent the first direct observational evidence of the birth of the most massive black holes in the universe."...
Even though the Red Planet's atmosphere is thin, wind is still one of Mars' most relentless sculptors....
A UK study found that some pet owners develop prolonged grief disorder after the death of a pet, with symptoms mirroring those seen after human bereavement....
Blue Origin will launch six people to the final frontier on Thursday (Jan. 22), and you can watch the space tourism mission live....
3I/ATLAS is heading away from the sun on an escape trajectory from our solar system....
Article URL: https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/your-brain-on-chatgpt/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46712678 Points: 7 # Comments: 1...
This past week in San Francisco, thousands gathered outside of an aquarium to celebrate one of its residents, an alligator named Claude who died in December....
Ancient shoreline features hint that water on Mars once formed a vast ocean....
Jupiter harbors more oxygen than the sun, a new study finds, giving astronomers a crucial clue about how our solar system's planets formed....
i've been working with healthcare/biobank data and keep thinking about what "data moats" mean now that llms can ingest anything. some a16z piece from 2019 said moats were eroding — now the question se...
AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton warned that rapid advances could upend jobs, power, and humanity itself. JORGE UZON/AFP via Getty Images Geoffrey Hinton said he's very sad that the AI he helped create has ...