LLMs have a strong bias against use of African American English
Feedback gets rid of overt biases but leaves subtle racism intact.
Science // Science & Exploration
Climate change feedbacks lead to surge in natural methane emissions
Attempts to cut greenhouse gases made tougher by increased emissions.
Tattoo ink sold on Amazon has high levels of weird and rare bacteria
The recall announcement noted that the germs "present a health concern."
Teenage Maurice Sendak illustrated his teacher’s 1947 pop-sci book
Drawings of Atomics for the Millions "reveal early postwar anxieties about nuclear war."
More bad news for psychedelic drug company: FDA expands probe after rejection
Psychedelic drug company Lykos already slashed staff and overhauled leadership.
500 million-year-old fossil is the earliest branch of the spider’s lineage
A local fossil collector in Morocco found the specimen decades ago.
Peer review is essential for science. Unfortunately, it’s broken.
There's no incentive to fix the system, which was never designed to catch fraud anyway.
Scientists built real-life “stillsuit” to recycle astronaut urine on space walks
Prototype would replace multi-layered adult diapers currently worn on space walks.
Lion brothers in search of mates just set a record for longest-known swim
Brothers Jacob and Tibu braved hungry hippos and crocodiles to make the crossing.
Giant salamander species found in what was thought to be an icy ecosystem
Found after its kind were thought extinct, and where it was thought to be too cold.
Frozen mammoth skin retained its chromosome structure
Features as small as 50 nanometers preserved in a 50,000-year-old sample.
To help with climate change, carbon capture will have to evolve
The technologies are useful tools but have yet to move us away from fossil fuels.
Nearby star cluster houses unusually large black hole
Fast-moving stars imply that there's an intermediate-mass black hole there.
New Antikythera mechanism analysis challenges century-old assumption
Physicists drew on statistical techniques used to analyze gravitational waves.
Could AIs become conscious? Right now, we have no way to tell.
Scientists struggle to define consciousness, AI or otherwise.
