By Faye Flam Bloomberg
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AI Is Helping Us Read Minds, but Should We?
The AI is now being said to be trained in scanning brain data to decipher stories that a person has read, heard, or even just imagined. This isn’t a rogue lab doing mad science but part of a long-term effort that’s been pursued by scientists around the world. However, scientific reviews have shown that the polygraph does not work as people thin...
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Opinion: When Labs Start Creating Covid Variants That Are More Deadly
Researchers at Boston University sparked alarming headlines this week by creating a more lethal version of the omicron Covid variant.
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Opinion: Why Some Vaccinated People Resist Omicron and Others Don't
The omicron variant spreads so rapidly that sometimes it feels as if resistance is futile. It's disheartening to hear of omicron infecting people who are up-to-date on their shots and wear an N95 mask every time they leave home.
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The Man Who Said Einstein Was Wrong, And Was Right
It takes a brave man to reject a scientific paper by Albert Einstein. But that's what the physicist Howard Percy Robertson did in 1936, as editor of the journal Physical Review. Einstein was so enraged that he never published there again
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Turns Out This Ancient Stomach Bug Was Also A Feature
The bacteria known as H pylori are depicted by the CDC as a terrifying and fast-spreading germ.
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AI Is Helping Us Read Minds, but Should We?
The AI is now being said to be trained in scanning brain data to decipher stories that a person has read, heard, or even just imagined. This isn’t a rogue lab doing mad science but part of a long-term effort that’s been pursued by scientists around the world. However, scientific reviews have shown that the polygraph does not work as people thin...
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Opinion: When Labs Start Creating Covid Variants That Are More Deadly
Researchers at Boston University sparked alarming headlines this week by creating a more lethal version of the omicron Covid variant.
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Opinion: Why Some Vaccinated People Resist Omicron and Others Don't
The omicron variant spreads so rapidly that sometimes it feels as if resistance is futile. It's disheartening to hear of omicron infecting people who are up-to-date on their shots and wear an N95 mask every time they leave home.
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The Man Who Said Einstein Was Wrong, And Was Right
It takes a brave man to reject a scientific paper by Albert Einstein. But that's what the physicist Howard Percy Robertson did in 1936, as editor of the journal Physical Review. Einstein was so enraged that he never published there again
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Turns Out This Ancient Stomach Bug Was Also A Feature
The bacteria known as H pylori are depicted by the CDC as a terrifying and fast-spreading germ.
