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Biased online images train AI bots to see women as younger

When asked to generate resumes for people with female names, such as Allison Baker or Maria Garcia, and people with male names, such as Matthew Owens or Joe Alvarez, ChatGPT made female candidates 1.6 years younger, on average, than...

Are ultraprocessed foods truly addictive?

When I sat down to write this story, I remembered the gummy worms in the snack drawer of my kitchen. So I got up and grabbed a handful. I should add that I had just finished lunch, and I...

Antarctic krill eject more food when it’s contaminated with plastic

Antarctic krill keep revealing new superpowers.Euphausia superba, the Southern Ocean’s ubiquitous krill species, sequester large amounts of carbon via their profuse poop. Now, scientists have identified another way in which the swimming crustaceans may modulate Earth’s climate: by sending...

What the longest woolly rhino horn tells us about the beasts’ biology

A nearly 20,000-year-old woolly rhino horn reveals the extinct herbivores lived as long as modern-day rhinos, despite harsher Ice Age conditions. Source link

Finding immune cells that stop a body from attacking itself wins medicine Nobel

Work on peacemakers in the immune system won the 2025 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.The peacemakers are regulatory T cells, a type of immune cell that calms the immune system after it has finished fighting infection or healing...

What Jane Goodall taught me about bones, loss and not wasting anything

Jane Goodall died on October 1 at the age of 91. When I heard the news, my mind raced back 35 years to a conversation I had with the pioneering observer and student of chimpanzee behavior.As the ‘90s began,...

Vaccine breakthrough for deadly elephant virus

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AI-designed proteins test biosecurity safeguards

New patches to biosecurity screening software can make it harder to produce potentially harmful proteins using artificial intelligence.Around the world, this software monitors processes to artificially make proteins, ensuring that people with bad intentions aren’t producing dangerous proteins, such...

Mysterious

A mysterious "rogue planet" has been observed gobbling six billion tons of gas and dust a second — an unprecedented rate that blurs the line between planets and stars, astronomers said Thursday.Unlike Earth and other planets...

Saturn moon’s hidden ocean reveals more evidence of favorable conditions for life, study finds: “Simply phenomenal”

The ocean hidden under the icy shell of Saturn's moon Enceladus harbors complex organic molecules, a study said Wednesday, offering further evidence that the small world could have all the right ingredients to host extraterrestrial...
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Peru’s President Dina Boluarte removed from office amid soaring crime

Getty ImagesThursday night's successful impeachment bid was the latest in a series of attempts to remove Boluarte from office...
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