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What Artificial General Intelligence Could Mean For Our Future
Episode 1004
What happens when AI moves beyond convincing chatbots and custom image generators to something that matches—or outperforms—humans?
Each week, tech com…
1 year ago
Climate Change Has Made Allergy Season Worse. How Do We Cope?
Episode 1003
In many parts of the United States, spring has sprung. There’s nothing quite like those first few beautiful days of spring. They’re delightful—until …
1 year ago
Microdosing Peanut Butter Could Alleviate Some Peanut Allergies
Episode 1002
Over the past two decades, rates of peanut allergies in children have more than tripled. A variety of theories has been proposed to explain this, fro…
1 year ago
The Department Of Health And Human Services Cuts 10,000 Jobs
Episode 1001
The cuts hit multiple agencies, affecting work on HIV, gun violence prevention, vaccines, minority health research, and more.
On April 1, thousands of…
1 year, 1 month ago
Forecasting Cuts Spark Worries About Hurricane Season | Soothing Babies With Music
Episode 1000
Emergency response experts say that funding and staff cuts at the National Weather Service could mean less reliable weather forecast. And, babies lik…
1 year, 1 month ago
Massive Iceberg Breaks Off Antarctica, Revealing Wonders Below
Episode 999
In January, an iceberg the size of Chicago splintered off from the Antarctic Peninsula and drifted away in the Bellingshausen Sea.
As luck would have …
1 year, 1 month ago
TikTok Is Shaping How We Think About ADHD
Episode 998
Mental health information on social media can be both revelatory and misleading. How do clinicians and their patients make sense of it?
TikTok and oth…
1 year, 1 month ago
Engineering Lessons One Year After The Baltimore Bridge Collapse
Episode 997
Engineers take an in-depth look at why the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapsed and how to prevent future tragedies.
In the early morning o…
1 year, 1 month ago
23andMe Bankruptcy | A Coating That Can Slow A Golf Ball’s Roll
Episode 996
The company has genetic data of 15 million people, which could be shared with a future buyer. Here’s how to delete it. Plus, an experimental coating …
1 year, 1 month ago
AI Word Choice | When Dwarf Lemurs Hibernate, Their Chromosomes Do Something Odd
Episode 995
Certain words are overrepresented in text written by AI language models. A study investigates why such patterns develop. Also, the ends of chromosome…
1 year, 1 month ago