The next AI safety fight may actually be about DNA
AI company CEOs Sam Altman (OpenAI), Demis Hassabis (Google DeepMind), and Dario Amodei (Anthropic) disagree on a lot, like how ...
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Designer babies. Self-improving AI. Are we ready for either?
How do we know when the world has changed?On June 1, a team of scientists published a preprint scientific paper ...
There’s a new threat to the World Cup. FIFA might not be ready.
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Sávio ...
We don’t know how the Ebola outbreak started. That’s a problem.
In just 10 days over the summer of 1854, 500 people died of cholera in the Soho neighborhood of London. ...
The most hopeful cancer news in years
In a darkened convention hall in Chicago on May 31, a Harvard oncologist named Brian Wolpin stood at a podium ...
The worst kind of cancer suddenly isn’t so scary anymore
In a family of killer diseases, pancreatic cancer has long been one of the scariest. It could grow undetected for ...
Ron Johnson Makes Up A Number, Calls It Science
For six years, Sen Ron Johnson (QAnon-Moscow) has been spewing the craziest anti-vaccine nonsense, especially regarding the COVID vaccine. Usually, ...
Trump’s pick for science director: a Silicon Valley investor with no science background
President Donald Trump‘s nominee for director of the National Science Foundation is Jim O’Neill, a polarizing Silicon Valley tech investor ...
Some deaf children are hearing again because of a new gene therapy
In a lab room, a toddler, deaf from birth, sits while a tone plays. There’s no reaction. His face does ...
How climate science is sneakily getting funded under Trump
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.At the Department ...
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