
Deadly Bacteria May Be Moving to a Beach Near You
Illnesses from stealthy pathogens known as Vibrio are advancing northward along numerous coasts, potentially ruining your summer vacation
Deadly Bacteria May Be Moving to a Beach Near You
Illnesses from stealthy pathogens known as Vibrio are advancing northward along numerous coasts, potentially ruining your summer vacation
Bariatric Surgery Does Not Resolve Weight Stigma for Everyone
DeepMind’s AlphaGenome Aims to Decode DNA’s ‘Dark Matter’
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New Grok 4 Takes on ‘Humanity’s Last Exam’ as the AI Race Heats Up
Marjorie Taylor Greene Plans Probe into Geoengineering
Your Garbage Has a ‘Wild Afterlife’ on the International Black Market
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Brains Process Speech and Singing Differently
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AI Could Broaden the Applications of Entertaining Drone Shows
ChatGPT Is Changing the Words We Use in Conversation
Words frequently used by ChatGPT, including “delve” and “meticulous,” are getting more common in spoken language, according to an analysis of more than 700,000 hours of videos and podcasts
Researchers Identify Four Autism Subtypes with Distinct Genes and Traits
Autism has at least four subtypes, an analysis of more than 5,000 children’s genes, traits and developmental trajectories has shown
New Grok 4 Takes on ‘Humanity’s Last Exam’ as the AI Race Heats Up
Elon Musk has launched xAI’s Grok 4—calling it the “world’s smartest AI” and claiming it can ace Ph.D.-level exams and outpace rivals such as Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s o3 on tough benchmarks
We’re Light-Years Away from True Artificial Intelligence, Says Murderbot Author Martha Wells
Today’s large language models are hardly related to the kinds of machine intelligence we see in science fiction, according to Martha Wells, author of the Murderbot Diaries series
Each AI Chatbot Has Its Own Distinctive Writing Style—Just as Humans Do
ChatGPT and Gemini AI write in different idioms, linguists find
The Truth about Testosterone
To boost mood and manliness, men are spending lots of money on the hormone testosterone—yet they may see trouble instead of benefits