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When Jim O’Neill was nominated to be the second in command at the US Department of Health and Human Services, ...
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In a sandy industrial lot outside Reno, Nevada, rows of battery packs that once propelled electric vehicles are now powering ...
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We know they can suppress appetite, lower blood sugar, and lead to dramatic weight loss. We also know that they ...
Read more The Download: Google DeepMind’s DNA AI, and heatwaves’ impact on the grid
When scientists first sequenced the human genome in 2003, they revealed the full set of DNA instructions that make a ...
Read more Google’s new AI will help researchers understand how our genes work
“We haven’t designed or validated AlphaGenome for personal genome prediction, a known challenge for AI models,” Google said in a ...
Read more The Download: Introducing the Power issue
Introducing: the Power issue Energy is power. Those who can produce it, especially lots of it, get to exert authority ...
Read more Crop signals | MIT Technology Review
Bacteria can be engineered to sense a variety of molecules, such as pollutants or soil nutrients, but usually these signals ...
Read more The Download: The Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s first pictures, and reframing privacy
The first spectacular images taken by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory have been released for the world to peruse: a ...
Read more A Chinese firm has just launched a constantly changing set of AI benchmarks
Development of the benchmark at Hongshan began in 2022, following ChatGPT’s breakout success, as an internal tool for assessing which ...
Read more Is this the electric grid of the future?
Following the unanimous approval by Lancaster County commissioners of a 304-megawatt solar plant outside Lincoln, one of the largest in ...
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