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Imitation dark matter axions have arrived. They could reveal the real thing

Tech billionaires’ vision of an AI-dominated future is flawed — and dangerous

An old drug may find new use as a speedy treatment for venomous snakebites. The drug, called unithiol, has long been used as a therapy for heavy metal poisoning. Research in mice suggests the drug could block damaging proteins that are found in the venom of many vipers. A recent Phase I clinical trial explored…

Three U.S tick species may cause a mysterious red meat allergy

People in the United States are in the midst of an ongoing opioid epidemic and a wave of mental health problems. So funding and staff cuts to a federal agency that supports mental health care, suicide prevention, and addiction treatment, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, or SAMHSA, has worried people who work…

Conversational AI chatbots are making climate misinformation sound more credible, making it harder to distinguish falsehoods from real science. In response, climate experts are using some of the same tools to detect fake information online. But when it comes to classifying false or misleading climate claims, general-purpose large language models, or LLMs­ — such as…