Weeks before Thanksgiving, some of the cranberries that will be on dinner plates Thursday are floating on a bog in ...

Researchers in the UK have developed a new spray coating for greenhouses that optimises the wavelength of light shining onto the plants, improving their growth and yield. The technology could in the ...

Social network giant Meta and leading artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic are making it easier for U.S. military and intelligence to tap their algorithms.

Artificial intelligence (AI), including its offshoots of deep learning and machine learning, uses computers to perform tasks that typically require human intelligence, such as language generation ...

The viral king penguin chick at Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium is beginning to lose his youthful down, a process that will give him his distinctive and waterproof adult plumage Sarah Kuta Daily ...

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In September, the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, part of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, released “The Digitalist Papers: Artificial Intelligence and Democracy ...

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Most birds with bright yellow or red feathers — think goldfinches and cardinals — use pigments called carotenoids to make those colors. “The reason that a bird’s egg’s yolk is a bright yellow-orange ...