Tag: Research
Google Sidelines Engineer Who Claims Its A.I. Is Sentient
SAN FRANCISCO — Google placed an engineer on paid leave recently after dismissing his claim that its artificial…
You Can Get Covid Again. Here’s What to Know About Reinfection.
If you’re one of the millions of Americans who have already had Covid-19, you may be wondering how…
Report Reveals Sharp Rise in Transgender Young People in the U.S.
The number of young people who identify as transgender has nearly doubled in recent years, according to a…
Small Study on Rectal Cancer Results in Remission in Every Patient
It was a small trial, just 18 rectal cancer patients, every one of whom took the same drug.But…
Coffee Drinking Linked to Lower Mortality Risk, New Study Finds
The average amount of added sugar per cup of sweetened coffee in the study was a little more…
U.S. Retakes Top Spot in Supercomputer Race
The United States has regained a coveted speed crown in computing with a powerful new supercomputer in Tennessee,…
Puberty Starts Earlier Than It Used To. No One Knows Why.
Still, she added, many girls who develop early are not overweight.“Obesity can’t explain all of this,” Dr. Shaw…
The Rich Are Not Who We Think They Are. And Happiness Is Not What We Think It Is, Either.
From this, they built a sample of more than three million data points, orders of magnitude more than…
How Many Close Friends Do You Need in Adulthood?
An ongoing argument my husband and I have — which has become more contentious during the pandemic —…
An Anaconda’s Play Date With Dolphins Took a Strange Turn
But Sonja Wild, a behavioral ecologist at Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Germany, who was not…
Another Firing Among Google’s A.I. Brain Trust, and More Discord
Less than two years after Google dismissed two researchers who criticized the biases built into artificial intelligence systems,…
NASA Sees ‘Otherworldly’ Wreckage on Mars With Ingenuity Helicopter
The object resembles a flying saucer that crashed on Mars.And indeed it is.But it doesn’t belong to aliens.Instead,…