Co-founder and Chief Science Officer at Hugging Face, Thomas Wolf, speaks at the opening ceremony of the Web Summit, in Lisbon, Portugal, November 11, 2024. Pedro Nunes | Reuters Current artificial intelligence models from labs like OpenAI are unlikely to lead to major scientific breakthroughs, a tech co-founder said, pouring cold water on some of the hype around the technology …
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What do you get when you cross a blue jay with a green jay? That’s not the start of a joke, but the subject of a new study that aims to describe a hybrid bird never encountered before in the wild. The bigger question scientists are puzzling over, though, is why does the mystery bird exist? “We think it’s the …
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The mystery bird was observed following a flock of blue jays, making similar calls. But it also produced the clicks… The mystery bird was observed following a flock of blue jays, making similar calls. But it also produced the clicks and rattling vocalizations of a green jay.(Brian Stokes/University of Texas via CNN Newsource) The mystery bird was observed following a …
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What do you get when you cross a blue jay with a green jay? That’s not the start of a joke, but the subject of a new study that aims to describe a hybrid bird never encountered before in the wild. The bigger question scientists are puzzling over, though, is why does the mystery bird exist? “We think it’s the …
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Protein-based quantum bits (qubits) could be the key to accelerating biological research at the smallest of scales, thanks to a new scientific breakthrough. Researchers from the University of Chicago have discovered a way to turn a fluorescent protein into a biological qubit that can be built directly inside a cell, then used as a way to detect magnetic and electrical …
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A Trump administration move to revoke a 16-year-old scientific finding that helped reduce carbon emissions from the transportation sector could have “serious and far-reaching consequences” for Oregonians, state environmental regulators said. The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality submitted formal comments to the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday over its decision to revoke a 2009 endangerment finding. Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek …
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No, I don’t think this machine summary can replace my human summary, now that you ask… No, I don’t think this machine summary can replace my human summary, now that you ask… Credit: AAAS Still, the quantitative survey results among those journalists were pretty one-sided. On the question of whether the ChatGPT summaries “could feasibly blend into the rest of …
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While developing his theory of natural selection, Charles Darwin was horrified by a group of wasps that lay their eggs within the bodies of caterpillars, with the larvae eating their hosts alive from the inside-out. Darwin didn’t judge the wasps. Instead, he was troubled by what they revealed about evolution. They showed natural selection to be an amoral process. Any …
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