Researchers made up a fake eye disease to fool AI, it worked — and that's the worrying part

A team of Swedish researchers created an entirely fictional eye condition called bixonimania to test whether AI chatbots ...

Social media influencers who match racial, ethnic identity of their audiences have a bigger—and unhealthy—impact

Food marketers increasingly use people for paid promotions who share the racial and ethnic identities of their target ...
Nieman Journalism Lab

We asked our readers to buy, not donate. Here’s what it taught us about the new math of news.

We needed to test a question public media rarely asks out loud: if we offered these readers something to buy, rather than ...

Good News: Students build largest paper plane ever

A group of engineering students in Italy claimed the Guinness World Record for the largest paper aircraft on earth. It’s made entirely of paper and glue, and flew through air to capture the record.

Creating synthetic life in a lab? SpudCell falls short of the goal, but raises even more useful questions

Nature is beautiful, powerful and essential. But nature is not always gentle. The same biological world that gives rise to ...
Science Daily

Harvard scientists turn a silicon chip into a DNA writing machine

Scientists have created a silicon chip that can write dozens of DNA sequences simultaneously using electricity and ...