Stromatolites are rock-like structures formed by bacteria in shallow water lkonya/Shutterstock Microbes from a remote bay in Western Australia seem to connect to each other with tiny tubes, forming a relationship that may reflect an early step in the evolution of complex life. In Shark Bay, or Gathaagudu in the Indigenous Malgana language, microbes form slimy…
The MERN (MongoDB, Express, React, Node.js) stack is a popular JavaScript web development framework. The combination of technologies is well-suited for building scalable, modern web applications, especially those requiring real-time updates and dynamic user interfaces. Amazon Q Developer is a generative AI-powered assistant that improves developer efficiency across the different phases of the software development…
Efforts to gut regulation across the US government using AI are well underway. On Wednesday, the Office of the Chief Information Officer at the Office of Management and Budget hosted a video call to discuss an AI tool being used to cut federal regulations, which the office called SweetREX Deregulation AI. The tool, which is…
Magnetars, which are a kind of neutron star, may be the source of fast radio bursts Science Photo Library/Alamy A strange flash of light from near the beginning of the universe could help astronomers map difficult-to-see gas in between galaxies, like a flashbulb in a dark room. Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are extremely short but…
In 2024, NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance collected an unusual rock sample. The rock, named Sapphire Canyon, features white, leopardlike spots with black borders within a red mudstone and might hold clues about sources of organic molecules within Mars. Here on Earth, in Review of Scientific Instruments, by AIP Publishing, researchers from Jet Propulsion Laboratory and…
Sarah Spooner suffered such severe hyperemesis gravidarum, or extreme pregnancy sickness, that she felt she had no choice but to have an abortion. Source link
OpenAI’s decision to replace 4o with the more straightforward GPT-5 follows a steady drumbeat of news about the potentially harmful effects of extensive chatbot use. Reports of incidents in which ChatGPT sparked psychosis in users have been everywhere for the past few months, and in a blog post last week, OpenAI acknowledged 4o’s failure to…
Wellcome Collection A man gazes at the water level in a well in Morocco as the dunes of the Sahara desert extend to the horizon in the main image shown above, taken by M’hammed Kilito. The stark shot is part of the photographer’s ongoing project entitled Before It’s Gone, which documents the degradation of Morocco’s…
“They’re tweaking my voice or whatever they’re doing, tweaking their own voice to make it sound like me, and people are commenting on it like it is me and it ain’t me,” Washington recently told WIRED, when asked about AI. “I don’t have an Instagram account. I don’t have TikTok. I don’t have any of…
‘Float rocks,’ sand ripples, and vast distances are among the sights to see in the latest high-resolution panorama by the six-wheeled scientist. The imaging team of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover took advantage of clear skies on the Red Planet to capture one of the sharpest panoramas of its mission so far. Visible in the mosaic,…
