A few weeks ago, while comparing language proficiency in essays written by ChatGPT with that in essays by human authors, I ...

One of history’s dark jokes is that the Roman Empire, for all its vaunted accomplishments, only made a single great ...

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Forecasts and warnings largely worked during the recent flooding catastrophe in Texas. Those systems are expected to degrade as President Donald Trump’s cuts to the National Weather Service, satellite ...

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Treating adult psychopathy is extremely difficult, but there is hope for children with CU traits. Long-term studies have found that around half of them do not progress to psychopathy and instead ...

In Chile's Atacama Desert, a mountain of more than 59,000 tons of clothing can now be seen from space. This so-called garment graveyard comprises fast-fashion discards inherited from the U.S ...

1975, Particle Annihilation: “A positron propagates as a wave toward an electron in the bulk of a crystal (left). When the two particles annihilate each other, the resulting gamma rays carry ...

But the asteroid Psyche, circling the sun between Mars and Jupiter, may have an exposed metal core. Radar reflections indicate this is at least partially so, says Jim Bell, an Arizona State ...