Comment: Introducing strong policies to accelerate the rollout of renewables, coupled with a rapid, legally implemented phase-out of fossil fuels, may be our best hope for curbing global warming Katherine…
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Researchers develop method enabling LLMs to answer questions more concisely and accurately
Credit: AI-generated image Large language models (LLMs) are machine-learning models designed to understand and generate human language. State-of-the-art LLMs have demonstrated outstanding potential in open-domain question answering (ODQA), where the…
When Does Election Debunking Work? New Model Provides Insights
Summary: A study using a computational model reveals factors that influence whether debunking efforts about disputed election results will persuade people to change their beliefs. The model shows that debunking…
Physicists show that neutron stars may be shrouded in clouds of axions
An axion cloud around a neutron star. While some axions escape the star’s gravitational pull, many remain bound to the star and over a long period of time form a…
Hubble captures a new view of galaxy M90
This eye-catching image offers us a new view of the spiral galaxy Messier 90 from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker, J This NASA/ESA Hubble…
First results from the Axion Dark-Matter Birefringent Cavity experiment establish a new technique for axion search
Experimental setup at MIT, picture by Swadha Pandey. Our four-mirror detector is housed inside two steel vacuum chambers connected by a pipe. The platform in front of the near vacuum…
NFL coaching stress can damage health, say coaches
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain While the Chargers were warming up in Denver last Sunday, Jim Harbaugh felt his heart racing. He knew that feeling, having experienced it as a player…
AI is supposed to be Hollywood’s next big thing: What’s taking so long?
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Earlier this year, OpenAI and other artificial intelligence companies wooed Hollywood studios with the futuristic promise of AI tools that they said could help make the…
Florida’s anti-vaccine surgeon general takes his disinformation campaign on the road with RFK, Jr., anti-vaxxers, and Nazi-promoting ‘health specialists’
Florida has much going for it, but the state’s public health system doesn’t make the list. The opprobrium is largely due to its head, Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo. He is…
