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The OpenAI boss, Sam Altman, has tried to ease concerns about how much power is used by artificial intelligence models by comparing it to the amount…

One shock could spark social unrest and even food riots in the UK, according to dozens of the country’s top food experts, because chronic issues have…

The extreme heat, high winds, and severe dry conditions that produce towering, fast-moving flames that advance by the acre are not just becoming more common; new…

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. You’re listening to our weekly science news roundup.Let’s start off with a…

Every summer, 1,000 virgin queens descend on the Belgian town of Chimay. During the “wedding flight”, a male attaches to the female. His endophallus (penis equivalent)…

February 21, 20265 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmItaly promised durable Olympic medals. Science had other plans.A small design flaw in the medals for the…

When the European Union launched its green deal in 2019, putting into law the goal of climate neutrality by the middle of the century, it showed…

Donald Trump has signed an executive order protecting production of glyphosate-based herbicides, such as Roundup, which some bodies and studies have linked to cancer and which…

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Donald Trump approved a federal emergency declaration Saturday related to a sewer main break north of Washington DC that threatens to put a stink on the…