by Susan Keown | Aug 4, 2023 | ScienceWire
Writing for Wired, K.C. Cole (@kccole314) warns us that, like the nuclear bomb, generative AIs may soon get out of hand — with, perhaps, the same destructive power for our species. “What I’m mainly hearing is echoes,” she writes, “the exact same words and phrases, the...
by Susan Keown | Aug 4, 2023 | ScienceWire
New member Arkadi Mazin recently took a reporting trip to Zuzalu, a “pop-up city” in Montenegro and site of a two-month conference on topics ranging from cryptocurrency to decentralized science to longevity. Mazin writes about his experience for the Lifespan Extension...
by Susan Keown | Jul 7, 2023 | ScienceWire
Part of a special series in GeekWire, a story by Lisa Stiffler (@lisa_stiffler) takes readers to rural communities in Eastern Washington, where new climate technology facilities are opening. The businesses operating the new facilities are developing technologies to...
by Susan Keown | Jul 7, 2023 | ScienceWire
For the Daily Beast, Katie MacBride (@msmacb) speaks to experts in virus transmission and workplace safety about proposed new masking guidelines for health care workers from a CDC advisory panel. The experts strongly believe the proposed guidelines will put workers at...
by Susan Keown | Jul 7, 2023 | ScienceWire
Sean Nealon (@seannealon) profiles Dr. Al Haunold, a pioneering researcher and breeder of hop varieties that are now widely used in the craft beer industry. The profile in The Oregon Stater (page 64), a magazine of Oregon State University, discusses Haunold’s legacy...
by Susan Keown | Jul 7, 2023 | ScienceWire
Earlier this year, Wudan Yan (@wudanyan) published a feature in Popular Mechanics on the noise pollution a cryptocurrency mine is inflicting on a small town in North Carolina. (The Open Notebook ran a behind-the-scenes piece on her story last month.) In her story, she...
