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It has become trivially easy to use artificial intelligence to edit images or generate video to remove unwanted objects or ...

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A flurry of studies has found microplastics in nearly every organ in the human body, from the brain to the testicles. But ...

Replacing some existing vegetable oil crops with camellia oil could boost production while reducing environmental impacts ...

There has been plenty of controversy over GM crops, but if deployed well they could have a positive environmental impact, ...

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Using more training data and computational power is meant to make AIs more reliable, but tests suggest large language models ...

A distant planet should have been consumed when its star expanded to become a red giant, perhaps offering insights into ...