ChatGPT’s Role in Shaping Identity and Personal Narratives

Summary: Researchers tapped into ChatGPT-4’s capabilities to generate personalized narratives from stream-of-consciousness inputs. In a study, participants found the AI-generated narratives accurate, revealing, and insightful about their own identity. The…

Loneliness Merges Real and Fictional Friends in the Brain

Summary: Researchers discovered that lonely fans of “Game of Thrones” processed their favorite characters similarly to real friends in their brains. By using fMRI scans while participants considered the traits…

New chambers discovered in Ancient Egyptian pyramid of Sahura |

An Egyptian-German archaeological mission has discovered several new chambers in the pyramid of Sahura, located in the Abu Sir Pyramid Field south of Giza. Sahura, meaning “He who is close…

How researchers make sure the LSST Camera is the best it can be

Credit: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Building the world’s largest digital camera ever made for astronomy, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time Camera, is no simple…

What happens to health programs if the federal government shuts down?

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain For the first time since 2019, congressional gridlock is poised to at least temporarily shut down big parts of the federal government—including many health programs. If…

Microsoft-Google peace deal broke down over search on Duo

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A five-year truce between rivals Alphabet Inc. and Microsoft Corp. came crashing down in 2020 when the tech giants found themselves at odds over their competing…

New method reduces carbon emissions from zinc oxide rotary kilns, boosting profits for zinc smelting industry

Schematic of the proposed a multi-objective adaptive optimization model predictive control method. Credit: Ke Wei et al. The zinc smelting industry is facing new challenges in meeting China’s carbon peak…

An intelligent control method reduces carbon emissions in energy-intensive equipment

Structure of the intelligent control method for low-carbon operation. Credit: Tianyou Chai et al. A research team led by Professor Tianyou Chai from Northeastern University, China, has developed an innovative…

NASA’s Perseverance captures dust-filled Martian whirlwind

The whirlwind. See video below. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The lower portion of a Martian dust devil was captured moving along the western rim of Mars’ Jezero Crater by NASA’s Perseverance rover…

Ultrafast quantum simulation of large-scale quantum entanglement

Credit: NINS/IMS A research group led by Professor Kenji Ohmori at the Institute for Molecular Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences are using an artificial crystal of 30,000 atoms aligned…