China makes first ChatGPT arrest – for manufacturing fake news.
Vice‘s Motherboard covers what is probably the first-ever AI-related arrest, by Chinese officials who accuse a man of using the software to mass-produce fake news: […]
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Science Art: The Engineer’s Sketch-Book, 1508 & 1509.
Two machines, or parts of machines. These are a “Four-Plunger Valve” and “A starter valve” from The engineer’s sketch-book of mechanical movements, devices, appliances, contrivances […]
An octopus will say its name in stripes.
Ars Technica gets a first glimpse at the language of cephalopods, with the discovery that each octopus (which can change the pattern of its skin […]
Voyager 2 gets a slight reprieve – until 2026, at least.
NPR reports on NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory finding a way to keep the plucky space probe going in the outer limits of the solar system […]
Science Art: Implantatet placeras under huden bakom örat…, 2008.
This image, by Wikimedia Commons user Seslami~commonswiki, shows an implantable electronic device that allows some people to hear, or to hear better. What we’re seeing […]
Engineering bacteria to take on cancer.
Eric Topol, on Ground Truths, does a dive into the history of our understanding of what bacteria has to do with cancer – from the […]
Science Art: Skull of Trinocromerum willistoni, Dorothea Franzen,1944.
This is the head of a plesiosaur from Kansas, back in the day when Kansas was an inland sea. Or a picture from back in […]
Volcanic bacteria can eat CO2. Lots of it, and fast.
The Guardian introduces us to a new group of cyanobacteria that live in volcanic hot springs in Italy and America’s Rocky Mountains and that feast […]
Brain-reading electrodes in a free-ranging octopus.
Ars Technica reports on an underwater electronic neurological breakthrough. A group of researchers from Naples, Okinawa, and further afield who have used implanted recording electrodes […]
Australia’s first sauropod skull.
Scientific Frontline reports on a Diamantinasaurus skeleton that’s chalked up a few Australian firsts after being discovered in Queensland: Lead researcher and paleontologist Dr Stephen […]
Science Art: From Four Roses des Vents, by Vincenzo Coronelli.
This is one of four compass roses created by Vincenzo Coronelli, a 17th-century cartographer. I found them all on Wikimedia Commons, which got them from […]
A Long Covid hypothesis: acids and bases.
Frontiers In Immunology has published a hypothesis – which is basically a call for more research – put out by two Long Covid sufferers who […]
Dragon discovered: A new gecko species found on Australian island
The Guardian reveals Phyllurus fimbriatus, a charismatic, 15cm (6-inch) reptile otherwise known as the the Scawfell Island leaf-tailed gecko, which has never before been scientifically […]
Here’s a Mars habitat, ready for a year’s occupancy.
PhysOrg reports on NASA’s Mars Dune Alpha, a 3D-printed home for researchers ready to spend a year simulating a mission on Mars: The facility, created […]
The last leg of the longest butterfly migration has been mapped at last.
Science News brings tidings from Central Africa, where painted lady butterflies born in Europe spend their winters in the longest migration of any butterfly: Pinpointing […]