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Smartphones Do or Don’t Harm Kids! So Which Is It?
The anti-smartphone movement is having a moment. On March 25, Florida governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill banning children under…
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Large Language Models’ Emergent Abilities Are a Mirage
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Two years ago, in a project called the Beyond the…
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Selective Forgetting Can Help AI Learn Better
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. A team of computer scientists has created a nimbler, more…
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Leading Lab-Grown Meat Company Upside Foods Just Paused a Major Expansion
It has been a rocky year for plans for large-scale cultivated meat production. In May 2022, another Californian startup, Eat…
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Climate Finance Is Targeting the Wrong Industries
To achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2030, we have to increase the amount of capital invested in climate tech by…
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You Can’t Buy Lab-Grown Meat Even If You Wanted To
“The restaurant dinners we held at China Chilcano in Washington, DC last summer went extremely well,” wrote Eat Just’s director…
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The Boeing 737 Max Crisis Reignites Arguments Over Infant Safety on Planes
As terrible as that tradeoff is, it’s worth noting that the risk of death on a commercial airliner to anyone,…
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The Real Problem With the Boeing 737 Max
Spirit AeroSystems, the Wichita-based aerospace manufacturer that manufactured the door plug that blew out on the Alaska Airlines flight, declined…
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LK-99 Is Fueling a DIY Superconductivity Race
All that Andrew McCalip wanted for his 34th birthday was a shipment of red phosphorus. It was a tough request—the…
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