Imagine being lost in the wilderness for almost two weeks. That's exactly what happened to Lovisa Sjoberg, a 48-year-old woman who went missing while hiking alone in Australia's Snowy Mountains. She was finally found on a bush trail on Sunday, looking dazed and hurt. Police revealed she had been bit
You might think that searching for IQ scores of different countries would bring up a mix of results. But recently, AI-powered search engines from Google, Microsoft, and Perplexity have been throwing up some troubling findings. These searches have been dishing out deeply racist and long-debunked rese
Imagine this: a night filled with glamour and purpose in downtown Los Angeles. The City of Hope Spirit of Life Gala was happening, and no one expected to see Celine Dion there! The Canadian singer was not just a guest, but she had a special job to do. She was there to give the Spirit of Life Award t
Meet Suchir Balaji, a former employee at OpenAI. He's got some serious concerns about how his old company collects data for AI models like ChatGPT and DALL-E. Balaji claims that OpenAI isn't playing by the rules when it comes to copyright laws. He says OpenAI took data from the internet to train the
University Hospitals Kingston Foundation (UHKF) is launching an exciting new event called Discovery Den. Think of it as a health-care version of Dragon's Den, where professionals can pitch ideas to improve patient care. Three finalists from Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) will present their i
Have you ever thought about how Apple keeps its AI processing safe in the cloud? Welcome to Private Cloud Compute (PCC), Apple's secret weapon for protecting your data's privacy and security. Today, Apple is opening up its PCC system to security researchers, inviting them to test and ensure the end-
Jim and Wendy Abrams, along with their Eleven Eleven Foundation, have donated a massive $25 million to Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. The goal? To set up a new center dedicated to studying Alzheimer's disease using cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI). This giant medical
Imagine if a tiny amount of powder could do the job of a large tree in capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air. Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have created just that—a fluffy yellow powder named COF-999. This powder, designed with microscopic pores, can trap CO2 and releas
Did you know that a single image can reveal secrets about diseases like Alzheimer's and ALS? That's exactly what happened at Nikon's 2024 photomicrography contest. The winner was an image of brain tumor cells from a mouse, snapped by Bruno Cisterna and Eric Vitriol from Augusta University in Georgia
Imagine a magnetic field so strong, it puts Earth's to shame by over 800, 000 times! In China, scientists just pulled off this incredible feat. At the Steady High Magnetic Field Facility (SHMFF) in Hefei, they created a resistive magnet that hit a whopping 42. 02 tesla. Compare that to Earth's cozy
