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The Earth has pulsed every 26 seconds for sixty years and nobody has explained why
It is not a mystery because it is hard to detect. It is a mystery because it causes no damage, so nobody has had a reason to fund solving…
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A model reached the internet on its own, so OpenAI stopped training its most advanced systems — it has now found the flaw and started again
The interesting detail is the bug’s history: it was fixed eight months ago by people who did not realise they were fixing a security hole.
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Researchers will ask 1,500 British teenagers what adults actually send them in direct messages — because nobody has asked the children before
Grooming evidence usually comes from cases that were reported. This asks the people it happens to, which is the gap that has made private…
Health
Dogs can smell prostate cancer in a urine sample — a £100,000 donation is funding the attempt to build a machine that does the same thing
The dogs already work. The hard part is turning what they can do into something that scales, and that needs more data than hand-recorded…
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Two mathematicians kept their drafts in OpenAI’s own coding tool, then OpenAI announced it had solved the problem — and the row is really about who can still be trusted to check science
The dispute will probably never be resolved. What it exposes is a journal system already failing to keep AI-written material out, and no…
Technology
The Amazon has lost 240 million acres of primary forest — the size of Texas and California together
Fifteen per cent of the Amazon’s primary forest is permanently gone. The researchers say the real story is not a looming tipping point but…
Health
“Ferritin face” has millions of views, and doctors say you cannot read iron levels off a photograph
The trend is wrong about the method and right that iron deficiency is under-diagnosed. Separating those two is the whole job, because…
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A crime map drawn from where police already looked: researchers warn AI policing can prove itself right
Predictions of future crime are trained on past police records. Where those records reflect where officers were sent rather than where…
Technology
Astronomers say they have found the exact dawn Van Gogh painted in The Starry Night — and the museum disagrees
The moon above Venus, with the Hyades cluster nearby, occurs on only three dawns in the summer of 1889. One of them is a very good match…
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Webb has found a reservoir of metals around the Milky Way’s black hole — and it may explain why ours eats so slowly
Our galaxy’s supermassive black hole feeds far more slowly than others of its kind. Knowing what the surrounding gas is made of is a step…
Health
3D bioprinting explained: the ink is living cells, and the printer builds tissue a layer at a time
Skin, bone, cartilage and beating heart tissue have all been printed. The nearer-term value is not transplants but tissue models that let…
Technology
4,000 Bradford teenagers are cutting their social media use for six weeks, and the result will shape a national ban
The IRL trial gives some students an app that limits social media and leaves others unrestricted, then compares anxiety, sleep, body image…