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Technology

How this programmer and poet thinks we should tackle racially biased AI

By Tyler Santora

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Technology

5 surprising stats about AI-generated art’s takeover

By Maddi Langweil

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Technology

The first AI started a 70-year debate

By Sarah Sloat

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Technology

This AI program could teach you to be better at chess

By Andrew Paul

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Technology

Why AI could be a big problem for the 2024 presidential election

By Kenneth R. Rosen

Annie Colbert holds up two-headed kitten, photo altered using AI
Science

Fakes, rumors, and scams: PopSci’s fall issue is unreal

By Annie Colbert

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Science

Your ‘healing’ crystals might not even be crystals

By Maddie Stone

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Health

Will we ever be able to trust health advice from an AI?

By Keith Wagstaff

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Science

How the world’s biggest particle accelerator is racing to cook up plasma from after the big bang

By Rahul Rao

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Technology

The logic behind AI chatbots like ChatGPT is surprisingly basic

By Charlotte Hu

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DIY

This gadget from 1930 let people ‘talk’ to the dead—with a magic trick

By Bill Gourgey

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Science

Life after death never looked so beautiful

By Ted Cavanaugh, Sara Kiley Watson

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Science

Museums are filled with fake dinosaur fossils. See what it takes to make those replicas.

By Riley Black, Theo Stroomer

Futuristic doctor performs medical procedure on astronaut in space with robotic arms. Saturn can be seen outside of the spaceship window. Illustrated in blues and pinks.
Health

5 space robots that could heal human bodies—or even grow new ones

By Tatyana Woodall