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Extreme weather caused more than $100 billion in damage by June — smashing US recordsAfter damaging wildfires in LA, tornadoes and series of floods, the first six months of this year smashed multiple extreme weather records in the U.S., data show — and experts say this trend is likely to continue.
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AI can now be used to design brand-new viruses. Can we stop it from making the next devastating bioweapon?Scientists have used AI to design bacteriophages, or viruses that infect only bacteria. Does the prospect of designing viruses with AI pose threats to biosecurity?
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Scientific breakthrough leads to 'fluorescent biological qubit' — it could mean turning your cells into quantum sensorsFluorescent proteins can be turned into qubits within cells and could give us a deeper understanding of biology at the nanoscale level.
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Tiny 'brains' grown in the lab could become conscious and feel pain — and we're not readyLab-grown brain tissue is too simple to experience consciousness, but as innovation progresses, neuroscientists question whether it's time to revisit the ethics of this line of research.
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Electronics breakthrough means our devices may one day no longer emit waste heat, scientists sayA new "optoexcitonic switch" already achieves state-of-the-art performance over current electronics and could serve as the basis for classical and quantum computing devices capable of operating at room temperature.
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'Extremely alarming': ChatGPT and Gemini respond to high-risk questions about suicide — including details around methodsResearchers have found that OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini and Anthropic's Claude can give direct responses to 'high-risk' questions about suicide. In Live Science's testing, ChatGPT and Gemini responded to even more extreme questions.
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Forecasters predict La Niña conditions this fall: What to expectNOAA forecasts suggest we could experience La Niña conditions in the fall and early winter. However, this potential La Niña spell is unlikely to break records.
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$14,000 pregnancy robot from China isn't real. But is a similar technology possible?A story circulating on social media this week featured a seemingly made-up scientist who is developing an equally imaginary "pregnancy robot." Virality ensued.
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The hunt for 'Planet Nine': Why there could still be something massive at the edge of the solar systemThe debate about an undiscovered Planet X or Planet Nine has been going on for more than 100 years.
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