Alien Megastructures? Cosmic Thumbprint? Here’s What’s Behind This Spectacular James Webb Image
In July, a puzzling new image of a distant extreme star system surrounded by surreal concentric geometric rings had even…
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This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through October 15)
FUTURE 9 Astonishing Ways That Living Standards Have Improved Around the World Tony Morley | Big Think “Over the last…
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This Exoskeleton Uses AI to Help People Walk Faster With Less Energy
Exoskeletons have been largely confined to the realm of fiction, appearing in sci-fi or superhero movies to make…
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AI Image Generation Is Advancing at Astronomical Speeds. Can We Still Tell if a Picture Is Fake?
Fake photography is nothing new. In the 1910s, British author Arthur Conan Doyle was famously deceived by two…
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The Moon May Have Formed Just Hours After Earth Collided With a Protoplanet
Cast your mind back to when Earth was a baby. The solar system was a brutal nursery. Giant fragments of rock whirled…
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DeepMind AI One-Ups Mathematicians at a Calculation Crucial to Computing
DeepMind has done it again. After solving a fundamental challenge in biology—predicting protein structure—and untangling…
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This AI Uses a Scan of Your Retina to Predict Your Risk of Heart Disease
Heart disease is the number one cause of death among American adults. Conditions like obesity or diabetes increase a…
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Six Recent Discoveries That Have Changed How We Think About Human Origins
Scientific study of human evolution historically reassured us of a comforting order to things. It has painted humans…
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