Google’s healthcare AI made up a body part — what happens when doctors don’t notice?

Google’s healthcare AI made up a body part — what happens when doctors don’t notice?
Scenario: A radiologist is looking at your brain scan and flags an abnormality in the basal ganglia. It’s an area ...
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Efforts to Ground Physics in Math Are Opening the Secrets of Time

Efforts to Ground Physics in Math Are Opening the Secrets of Time
Now, three mathematicians have finally provided such a result. Their work not only represents a major advance in Hilbert’s program, ...
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The Grave Long-Term Effects of the Gaza Malnutrition Crisis

The Grave Long-Term Effects of the Gaza Malnutrition Crisis
The moment Merry Fitzpatrick realized that Gaza’s malnutrition crisis had progressed to a newer and deadlier phase was when surgeons ...
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Big Tech Asked for Looser Clean Water Act Permitting. Trump Wants to Give It to Them

Big Tech Asked for Looser Clean Water Act Permitting. Trump Wants to Give It to Them
There are currently more than 50 issued nationwide 404 permits—some of which still require pre-construction notifications—which are renewed once every ...
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The Pandemic Appears to Have Accelerated Brain Aging, Even in People Who Never Got Covid

The Pandemic Appears to Have Accelerated Brain Aging, Even in People Who Never Got Covid
More than five years after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, we are still discovering the after-effects of not only ...
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The Texas Floods Were a Preview of What’s to Come

The Texas Floods Were a Preview of What’s to Come
This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The country watched in horror as ...
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A ‘Grand Unified Theory’ of Math Just Got a Little Bit Closer

A ‘Grand Unified Theory’ of Math Just Got a Little Bit Closer
“We mostly believe that all the conjectures are true, but it’s so exciting to see it actually realized,” said Ana ...
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Starlink’s satellite internet is back online after a massive outage

Starlink’s satellite internet is back online after a massive outage
Starlink users reported they couldn’t connect to SpaceX’s satellite internet service for a few hours on Thursday afternoon before service ...
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The Very Real Case for Brain-Computer Implants

The Very Real Case for Brain-Computer Implants
Lauren Goode: Yeah, I think it’s going to be really good. Michael Calore: Yeah. Lauren Goode: And also that means ...
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A Top NASA Official Is Among Thousands of Staff Leaving the Agency

A Top NASA Official Is Among Thousands of Staff Leaving the Agency
You can add another name to the thousands of employees leaving NASA as the Trump administration primes the space agency ...
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