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Do AI models produce more original ideas than researchers?
Researchers built an artificial intelligence tool that came up with 4000 novel research ideas in a matter of hours. Credit: Malte Mueller/Getty An ideas generator powered by artificial intelligence (AI) came up with more original research ideas than did 50 scientists working independently, according to a preprint posted on arXiv this month1. The human and…
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NASA convinced an American author we’ll find life on another planet
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Revealing the Invisible: Living Cells Can Be Seen With Infrared Light
A new method developed by NIST uses infrared light to image biomolecules in cells, overcoming previous limitations caused by water absorption. This technique aids in the analysis of proteins and other biomolecules, facilitating progress in biotechnology and medicine. IST’s new infrared microscopy technique allows for the detailed imaging of biomolecules in cells, supporting advancements in…
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Researchers build AI model database to find new alloys for nuclear fusion facilities
This illustration demonstrates how atomic configurations with an equiatomic concentration of niobium (Nb), tantalum (Ta) and vanadium (V) can become disordered. The AI model helps researchers identify potential atomic configurations that can be used as shielding for housing fusion applications components in a nuclear reactor. Credit: Massimiliano Lupo Pasini / ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy…
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Can captive tigers be part of the effort to save wild populations?
Pictured are rescue tigers Nyla (left) and Blanca (right), who came to In-Sync Exotics Wildlife Rescue and Educational Center in Wylie, Texas (2022). Both tigers were confiscated from their previous owners, who supplied animals for circus and fair performances. Credit: Keri Osterman Captive tigers in the United States outnumber those living in the wild. The…
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NASA’s ‘Hidden Figures’ awarded Congressional Gold Medals for pioneering space work
A member of the U.S. Capitol Police carries a Congressional Gold Medal for Katherine Johnson, one of NASA’s “Hidden Figures,” during a ceremony on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images Andrew Harnik/Getty Images A group of Black female scientists and mathematicians known as NASA’s “Hidden Figures” were honored with Congressional Gold Medals on Wednesday,…
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We Just Got a Wake-Up Call From the Time Before Dinosaurs
Scientists have pieced together enough clues to Earth’s past climate to graph the average temperature from 485 million years ago to the present — back to a time long before dinosaurs and even trees, when the land was either barren or hosted mostly moss, millipedes and primitive insects. This new work shows temperatures spent hundreds…
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Earth got even hotter than we thought during past 500 million years
Illustration of pterosaurs over a Cretaceous landscape, in a time when Earth was warmer than today MasPix / Alamy During the past 500 million years – the time when animals and land plants evolved – the average surface temperature of the planet varied more widely and got even hotter than previously thought. The mean global…
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Prehistoric Earth Was Very Hot. That Offers Clues About Future Earth.
At times during the past half-billion years, carbon dioxide warmed our planet more than previously thought, according to a new reconstruction of Earth’s deep past. Over the past 500 million years, our planet has gone from hot to cold to hot again. The oceans have risen and fallen. Ice caps have melted and reformed. It…
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Scientists say there is enough evidence to agree to global action on microplastics
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Science has provided more than sufficient evidence to inform a collective and global approach to tackle the continued spread of plastic pollution, according to a new report. Writing in the journal Science, an international group of experts say the need for worldwide action to tackle all forms of plastic and microplastic…