AI Unravelled: The false promise of ChatGPT
The human mind is not, like ChatGPT and its ilk, a lumbering statistical engine for pattern matching. It is a surprisingly efficient and elegant...
Astronomers fret as private satellites photobomb Hubble Telescope
“We’re going to be living with this problem. And astronomy will be impacted,” said Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center...
Sonic boom: Who’s using vocal fry in the ocean? Dolphins and whales
Taking a new approach, Dr. Elemans and colleagues inserted endoscopes into the nasal cavities of trained Atlantic bottlenose dolphins and harbor...
Cancel culture: Truth about the censorship of Roald Dahl
The assumption that there is an urgent debate here, is politically useful to both sides. But what both sides are really arguing about is not whether...
Deep dive Ancient DNA reveals history of hunter-gatherers in Europe
Over the past decade, geneticists have added a new dimension to that history by extracting DNA from teeth and bones. And now, in a pair of studies...
The cashless trail: Where digital payments are colossal in scale
India’s homegrown instant payment system has remade commerce and pulled millions into the formal economy
Fashion forward: With Lagerfeld, clothes were only part of the story
Lagerfeld rather achieved mega-celebrity status by giving dramatic makeovers to two entities: the esteemed but for a time somewhat moribund house of...
Pandemic origins: Shaky discourse around lab-leak hypothesis
If you had been told, back in 2019, that this would be the state of knowledge in 2023, would it not seem weird that there has not been a broad public...
