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Laurence Dutton/Getty Images Scientist Loses Years of Work After Tweaking ChatGPT Settings
A German plant scientist says two years of academic work vanished in an instant after he clicked the wrong setting in ChatGPT.
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MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/GETTY IMAGES How Scientists Use Earthquake Sensors to Track Space Junk Crashing to Earth
Our atmosphere is loaded with space junk, and every once in a while, it comes plummeting down to Earth in a rain of fire.
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AndreyPopov/Getty Images YouTube Is Testing Charging for Speeding Up Videos. Here’s How Much It Costs.
Google and YouTube have been quiet about it, but users have noticed a public experiment underway.
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Finemeit/Twitter This Guy Got So Angry at an AI Art Exhibit That He Ate It
The man argues that his mastication of the AI images was both a form of protest and performance art.
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Ollikainen/Getty Images 6 Ways Freezing Cold Weather Can Turn Your Home Into a Nightmare
From carbon monoxide traps to fire hazards and frozen-pipe disasters, here’s how your house can turn on you during cold weather.
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Bloomberg/Contributor/Getty Images Why These Elephants Sometimes Raid Farms for Their Bananas
Farmers in Gabon have to deal with elephants eating all their crops. But why?
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Matt Cardy/Stringer/Getty Images Researchers Finally Figured Out How Stonehenge Happened. Well, Maybe.
And no, it wasn’t glaciers.
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A Flesh-Eating Screwworm Is Near the U.S. Border. Here’s What That Actually Means.
The screwworm is finally set for a full-scale U.S. invasion, as it has approached so closely to us that the CDC is now saying to stay alert.
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Ullstein bild/Contributor/Getty Images Everything We Know About the Massive Great White Shark Spotted Near Florida
A 14-foot-long, 1,600-pound great white shark named Contender has been detected off Florida’s coast… again.
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Matt Anderson Photography/Getty Images Everything You Need to Know About the ‘Solar Eclipse of the Century,’ Including How to See It
Two total solar eclipses are coming up, with one widely labeled as the “eclipse of the century.”
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Fotograzia/Getty Images Algorithms Are Just Doing What We’ve Been Doing to Each Other for Millennia
The algorithms have never been the problem. The problem was always and will forever be us.
