Credit: CC0 Public Domain French President Emmanuel Macron will present a bill on assisted dying to go before parliament in May, he said in an interview published by French media…
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Proliferating ‘news’ sites spew AI-generated fake stories
Hundreds of AI-powered sites are mimicking news outlets. A sensational story about the Israeli prime minister’s “psychiatrist” exploded online, but it was AI-generated, originating on one of hundreds of websites…
Why Space? The Opportunity for Materials Science and Innovation
Professor Manus Hayne from Lancaster University has outlined the opportunities for materials science in Space in a position paper from the Why Space? Working Group. The Wake Shield Facility is…
11,000-year-old stone ornaments indicate early body perforation
Stone personal ornaments found in 11,000-year-old burials provide the earliest evidence of body perforation in South-west Asia. Archaeologists have uncovered 100 earring-like ornaments in 11,000-year-old adult burials at the early…
For people who speak many languages, there’s something special about their native tongue
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new study of people who speak many languages has found that there is something special about how the brain processes their native language. In the…
Heart disease doesn’t have to keep you from donating blood
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain As blood centers and hospitals face critically low levels of blood supplies, many people with heart disease may wonder if they can help by donating. For…
In bitcoin’s shadow, another cryptocurrency, Ether, stages its own rally
The price of Ethereum has risen faster than bitcoin in recent weeks. Bitcoin has captured the limelight in recent weeks as it surged to a new record high, yet another…
US embrace of remote working empties offices, weighs on banks
US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said recently that downtown office districts in many cities are ‘very underpopulated’ The popularity of remote work in the United States has emptied office…
