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Revealed: how the UK tech secretary Peter Kyle uses ChatGPT for policy advice
Peter Kyle, the UK’s secretary of state for science, innovation and technology, has said he uses ChatGPT to understand difficult…
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Ancient humans lived in an ‘uninhabitable’ climate 25,000 years ago
The Maquan river, the upper section of the Yarlung Tsangpo river, which flows through the Tibetan Plateau TAO Images Limited/Alamy…
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Is this the most glorious retraction notice a journal has ever made?
Feedback is New Scientist’s popular sideways look at the latest science and technology news. You can submit items you believe…
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Content moderation offers little actual safety on Big Social Media
Since Meta announced an end to third-party fact-checking, claiming it was freeing itself from “societal and political pressure to moderate…
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California isn’t clearing forests fast enough to tame wildfires
Firefighters light a controlled burn to destroy vegetation between homes and a fire in Big Bar, California ZUMA Press, Inc./Alamy…
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Hera asteroid mission takes stunning images of Mars’s moon Deimos
Mars appears light blue in this near-infrared image taken by the Hera spacecraft. Its moon Deimos is the dark mark…
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Are we really doomed? An entertaining guide to humanity’s extinction
The future of Earth looks bleak, but we have the capacity to change course Shutterstock/Liu zishan The Decline and Fall…
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Quartz crystals on Mars could preserve signs of ancient life
The surface of Mars, photographed by NASA’s Perseverance rover NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU Pure quartz crystals have been spotted on Mars for the…
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Saturn gains 128 moons, giving it more than the other planets combined
Saturn now has a total of 274 moons NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute A further 128 moons have been discovered orbiting Saturn,…
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Doubts cast over D-Wave’s claim of quantum computer supremacy
D-Wave’s Advantage2 quantum computer chip Kent Kallberg/D-Wave Quantum computing firm D-Wave says its devices can solve problems that would be…
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