Architecture’s past holds the key to sustainable future

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Modern “sustainable”‘ innovations in architecture are failing to slow climate change, but revisiting ancient knowledge and techniques found in traditional architecture could offer better solutions. This…

Why Humans Adapt Faster Than AI

Summary: Humans excel at adapting to new situations, while machines often stumble. A new interdisciplinary study reveals that the root lies in how humans and AI approach “generalization,” the process…

Why OpenAI’s solution to AI hallucinations would kill ChatGPT tomorrow

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain OpenAI’s latest research paper diagnoses exactly why ChatGPT and other large language models can make things up—known in the world of artificial intelligence as “hallucination.” It…

Brain Circuits Show Why Friends’ Lies Are Easier to Believe

Summary: Researchers explored how people process deception from friends versus strangers, using brain imaging to study decision-making in gain and loss contexts. Volunteers were more likely to believe lies in…

Simple Hair Test May Spot Mental Health Risks in Kids

Summary: Long-term stress, measured through hair cortisol, may help predict mental health risks in children living with chronic physical illnesses. In a four-year study of 244 children, researchers found that…

Malaysia’s largest island state aims to be region’s ‘green battery’

A Sarawak Energy charging station in Kuching on the island of Borneo. Malaysia’s verdant, river-crossed state of Sarawak is charging ahead with plans to become a regional “green battery,” but…

A tool advancing the capabilities of previous robot hand technology

The MOTIF hand, the robotic hand developed by the researchers. Credit: Zhou et al Growing up, we learn to push just hard enough to move a box and to avoid…

Color-changing strip enables affordable nanoplastic analysis using ordinary microscope

The optical sieve nanoplastic particles fall into holes of the appropriate size in the test strip. The color of the holes changes. The new color provides information about the size…

US electric grids under pressure from energy-hungry data centers are changing strategy

High-voltage transmission lines provide electricity to data centers in Ashburn in Loudon County, Virginia, on Sunday, July 16, 2023. Credit: AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File With the explosive growth of Big…

OpenAI reaches new agreement with Microsoft to change its corporate structure

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain OpenAI has reached a new tentative agreement with Microsoft and said its nonprofit, which technically controls its business, will now be given a $100 billion equity…