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Even ChatGPT Says ChatGPT Is Racially Biased
When asked, ChatGPT declared that its training material—the language we humans use every day—was to blame for potential bias in stories it generated
New AI Circuitry That Mimics Human Brains Makes Models Smarter
A new kind of transistor allows AI hardware to remember and process information more like the human brain does
Females Dominate Males in Many Primate Species
Most primate societies have long been assumed to be male-dominated, but a new study shows many have females in charge or feature power sharing
A long, long time ago in a galaxy not so far away
Newly discovered carbon monoxide-runaway gap can help identify habitable exoplanets
Which came first: Black holes or galaxies?
Is Bisexuality Genetic? It's More Complex Than Some Studies Imply
The controversy over a recent paper on human bisexual behavior emphasizes how important it is not to overinterpret genetic studies of sexuality—and how easy it is to do so
Rampant COVID Poses New Challenges in the Fifth Year of the Pandemic
“We’re still in a pandemic,” says a lead COVID official with the World Health Organization
Why Do Dogs Wag Their Tail?
Is your dog’s tail-wagging a side effect of domestication, or did humans select for it?
Jupiter's Supervolcanic Moon Io Dazzles in Photos from NASA's Close Flybys
During close flybys of Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io, NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured stunning “bonus science” about the nightmarish world
How String Theory Solved Math's Monstrous Moonshine Problem
A concept from theoretical physics helped confirm the strange connection between two completely different areas of mathematics
Why Does a Solar Eclipse Move West to East?
Here’s why the path of a solar eclipse travels in the opposite direction of that of the sun
A Dog Breed's Size and Face Shape Might Predict How Long It Lives
Traits such as face shape, size and sex help predict a dog breed’s life span
Neptune-like exoplanets can be cloudy or clear
Where Does Outer Space Begin?
The popular limit of a 100-kilometer altitude for the edge of space should probably be adjusted down to 80 km
Here Are the Best Places to View the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse
Weather predictions and population statistics show the best spots to see the total solar eclipse over North America this April
How to Make Urban Agriculture More Climate-Friendly
The process of growing fruits and vegetables in cities can emit more carbon than conventional farming
A Camera-Wearing Baby Taught an AI to Learn Words
Most machine-learning models rely on mountains of data to replicate human text, but new research suggests the recipe for learning language might be simpler
Gas on the run -- ALMA spots the shadow of a molecular outflow from a quasar when the Universe was less than one billion years old
Forgotten Electrical Engineer's Work Paved the Way for Radar Technology
Sallie Pero Mead made major discoveries about how electromagnetic waves propagate that allowed objects to be detected at a distance