Your genes play a major role[1] in determining your height, hair and eye color, and skin tone, but they don’t tell the entire story of who you are. Your environment is incredibly important in shaping your personality, your likes and dislikes, and your health. In fact, your diet, social interactions, exposure to pollution, physical activity...
How satellites and AI help fight wildfires today
As wind-driven wildfires spread through the Los Angeles area[1] in January 2025, fire-spotting technology and computer models were helping firefighters understand the rapidly changing environment they were facing.
That technology has evolved over the years, yet some techniques are very similar to those used over 100 years ago[2].
I have spent...
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Why building big AIs costs billions – and how Chinese startup DeepSeek dramatically changed the calculus
State-of-the-art artificial intelligence systems like OpenAI’s ChatGPT[1], Google’s Gemini[2] and Anthropic’s Claude[3] have captured the public imagination by producing fluent text in multiple languages in response to user prompts. Those companies have also captured headlines with the huge sums[4] they’ve invested to build ever more powerful...
Fake papers are contaminating the world’s scientific literature, fueling a corrupt industry and slowing legitimate lifesaving medical research
Over the past decade, furtive commercial entities around the world have industrialized the production, sale and dissemination of bogus scholarly research, undermining the literature that everyone from doctors to engineers rely on to make decisions about human lives.
It is exceedingly difficult[1] to get a handle on exactly how big the problem...