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This May 26, 2023, photo provided by the Jennifer Schuh shows a Mastodon Tooth in the sand at an Aptos, Calif., beach. A Northern California woman taking a Memorial Day weekend stroll on the beach has discovered a mastodon tooth that’s at least 5,000 years old. Schuh found the foot-long (.30-meter) tooth sticking out of the sand on Friday at the mouth of Aptos Creek on Rio Del Mar State Beach, located off Monterey Bay in Santa Cruz County.

Woman walking on California beach finds ancient mastodon tooth

Newly discovered stone tools drag dawn of Greek archaeology back by a quarter-million years

Italy bets on quietest of places to host world-leading telescope

Researchers said on Thursday they sequenced and analyzed the genomes of 233 primate species, comprising nearly half of those alive today. Image for Representation.

What makes us human? Primate genome study offers some clues

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To understand AI hallucinations, we need to understand Large Language Models (LLMs), the underlying technology that powers AI bots such as ChatGPT.

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Scientists have expanded the search for technologically advanced extraterrestrial civilizations by monitoring a star-dense region toward the core of our galaxy.

Scientists, led by Indian, expand search for signs of intelligent alien life

China’s President Xi Jinping arrives to attend the APEC Economic Leaders Meeting during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, APEC summit, Nov. 19, 2022, in Bangkok, Thailand. China’s ruling Communist Party is calling for beefed-up national security measures, highlighting the risks posed by advances in artificial intelligence.

China warns of artificial intelligence risks, calls for beefed-up national security measures

In this image taken from video broadcast by SpaceX, crew members wave after the SpaceX Dragon capsule splashed down into the Gulf of Mexico, just off the Florida Panhandle on May 30, 2023. The private flight carrying two Saudi astronauts and other passengers returned to Earth after a nine-day trip to the International Space Station.

Private flight with 2 Saudi astronauts returns from space station with Gulf of Mexico splashdown

An artist’s concept of the TOI 4603b, a gas giant exoplanet that orbits an F-type star. Its mass is 12.89 Jupiters and it takes 7.2 days to complete one orbit of its star. Photo: exoplanets.nasa.gov

Indian scientists discover new exoplanet with mass 13 times that of Jupiter

A team member from Interstellar Lab of Merritt Island, Florida, prepares Daikon Radish sprouts during NASA’s Deep Space Food Challenge Phase 2 prize announcement on May 19, 2023. Teams from all over the world showcased some of their food production technologies at the event held in Brooklyn, New York, U.S., in this handout image.

NASA looks to spice up astronaut menu with deep space food production

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ChatGPT and other generative AI could foster science denial, misunderstanding

Gale Sinatra,Barbara K. Hofer

A study of the slow-moving, star-forming gas in the same galaxy found to host an FRB has been published in The Astrophysical Journal.

Astronomers detect a mysterious signal and its source galaxy with a single telescope

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For the past 40 years, a devastating fungal disease has been ravaging frog populations around the world.

The world’s worst animal disease is killing frogs worldwide. A testing breakthrough could help save them

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Neuralink is a neurotechnology company co-founded by Musk along with a team of scientists and engineers in 2016 to build direct communication channels between the brain and computers.

Key facts about Neuralink, Musk's cyborg gamble

Stephen Hawking was born on the 300th anniversary of Galileo’s death. He has come to be thought of as the greatest mind in physics since Albert Einstein.

Stephen Hawking’s last collaborator on physicist’s final theory

A bird’s eye view of Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) Hanford laboratory’s laser and vacuum equipment area (LVEA) which houses the pre-stabilized laser, beam splitter, input test masses, and other equipment near Hanford, Washington is shown in this June 26, 2014 photo released by Caltech/MIT/LIGO Laboratory on February 8, 2016. The twin detectors, a system of two identical detectors constructed to detect incredibly tiny vibrations from passing gravitational waves, are located in Livingston, Louisiana, and Hanford, Washington. Scientists said on February 11, 2016 they have for the first time detected gravitational waves, ripples in space and time hypothesized by physicist Albert Einstein a century ago, in a landmark discovery that opens a new window for studying the cosmos.

Gravitational wave detector LIGO is back online after 3 years of upgrades

About 10% of people appear to suffer long COVID after an omicron infection, a lower estimate than earlier in the pandemic.

US study finds 1 in 10 get long COVID after omicron, starts identifying key symptoms

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Thursday, May 25, 2023, announced its forecast for the 2023 hurricane season.

How busy will Atlantic hurricane season be? Depends on who wins unusual battle of climatic titans

Even though multivitamin pills have not been shown to prevent ailments like heart disease or cancer and experts say it’s better to get nutrients from food. Image for Representation.

Taking a daily multivitamin appears to boost brains of adults over 60, but more study is needed