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Many of today’s AI systems tackle difficult problems by generating intermediate steps in lengthy, chains of words before arriving at an answer— a technique often called chain-of-thought reasoning.
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Want to get to know your neighborhood flora? Try foraging.
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MRI scans indicate that people who go on to develop high amyloid-beta levels, a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease, have thicker cortices in the years before disease than people who never show high A-beta, a new study finds.
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The joy that author Alexis Nikole Nelson injects into this cookbook makes foraging approachable.
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Four ancient footprints are helping scientists step into a T. rex’s shoes.
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Leopardus tilcayo, a pint-sized tiger cat discovered in Bolivia, is the first new living cat species described and named by scientists in over 100 years.
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Daily sea surface temperatures in the region where El Niño develops are more extreme than at any point in recorded history.
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Attention cat lovers: There’s an adorable new addition to the feline family tree.
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Warnings of an El Niño unlike any other are starting to become reality.
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The newly described “fire amoeba” can grow at 63° Celsius (145° Fahrenheit), a temperature that’s fatal to all other known eukaryotes, researchers report.
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The steps were poorly preserved, but still hint at an ambling pace of 1.6 meters per second, roughly equivalent to a quick walking speed for a human.
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The newest “Dragon Hatchling” AI model is testing whether skipping words in intermediate reasoning could cut computational cost.
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Scientists engineered roses that made both a blue pigment and a colorless helper molecule that brought out its shade.
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Flipping through forager Alexis Nikole Nelson’s new book Happy Snacking, Don’t Die!, you can discover edible plants right in your own neighborhood.
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MRI scans show that the thickness of the outermost layer of the brain changes before the onset of the disease, detectable up to seven years prior, researchers reported.
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A thickening cortex preceded known markers of Alzheimer’s disease by up to seven years.
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A T. rex took a New Yorker–paced walk 66 million years ago.
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This development could change poetry forever. Roses are red and now they’re also blue.
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A small, experimental AI system called BDH-CQ (short for Beautiful Dragon Hatchling-Continuous Query) can solve some reasoning puzzles without spelling out its intermediate thinking, researchers report.
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How hot is too hot for complex life? This “fire amoeba” can survive temperatures that would kill most other complex organisms. Scientists are figuring out how it pulls off this extreme feat — and what it reveals about the limits of life.
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