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David Baker figured out how to build entirely new proteins. Demis Hassabis and John Jumper developed an AI tool to predict protein structures.

A sweaty football player pours his drink right past his mouth. Then the bottle merges with his nose. This bizarre video opened a 2024 Super Bowl ad. The video wasn’t real. The maker of a sports drink created it using…

ChatGPT is a closet racist. If you ask this chatbot what it thinks about Black people, it will use words like “ambitious” and “intelligent.” Other forms of generative artificial intelligence — which almost seem to think for themselves — will…

Scientists are installing multiple temporary seismic monitoring stations to get a better understanding of the sharp increase in earthquakes recorded at Mount Adams.

Researchers will be able to analyze chemical compounds and atoms in greater detail than ever before using the brightest, clearest laser of its kind anywhere in the world

An odd phenomenon called lithospheric dripping might occur wherever mountains form.

Two new studies find climate change amped up sea surface temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico, fueling the hurricanes’ intensity.

Elephant trunks, more sci-fi face-tentacle than ho-hum mammal nose, are getting new scrutiny as researchers explore how the wrinkles grow.

Artificial intelligence is showing up in nearly every aspect of our digital lives. On October 8, two of its trailblazers nabbed the 2024 Nobel Prize in physics. Let’s learn about the Nobel Prize They’re John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton. The…