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How Trump and Republicans distorted federal data into an imaginary migrant murder spree (shared)

Homicide is a serious problem that calls for effective policy responses built on accurate information. Unfortunately, prominent politicians are again propagating the inaccurate notion that immigrants disproportionately contribute to crime, especially murder. An Immigration and Customs Enforcement …

How Trump and Republicans distorted federal data into an imaginary migrant murder spree (shared)

Homicide is a serious problem that calls for effective policy responses built on accurate information. Unfortunately, prominent politicians are again propagating the inaccurate notion that immigrants disproportionately contribute to crime, especially murder. An Immigration and Customs Enforcement …
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Claude: Everything you need to know about Anthropic’s AI

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The AI Boom Has an Expiration Date

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An AI Startup Acquired By Google Just Won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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I was a beta tester for the Nobel prize-winning AlphaFold AI – it’s going to revolutionise health research

The deep learning machine AlphaFold, which was created by Google’s AI research lab DeepMind, is already transforming our understanding of the …

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A giant biotechnology company might be about to go bust. What will happen to the millions of people’s DNA it holds?

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Tech bosses think nuclear fusion is the solution to AI’s energy demands – here’s what they’re missing

The artificial intelligence boom has already changed how we understand technology and the world. But developing and updating AI programs requires a …

MicroRNA − a new Nobel laureate describes the scientific process of discovering these tiny molecules that turn genes on and off

The 2024 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine goes to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery of microRNA, tiny biological molecules that …

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Centuries ago, estuaries around the world were teeming with birds and turbulent with schools of fish, their marshlands and endless tracts of channels …

First coherent picture of an atomic nucleus made of quarks and gluons

The atomic nucleus is made up of protons and neutrons, particles that exist through the interaction of quarks bonded by gluons. It would seem, …