Written by Sean Martin
Artificial intelligence (AI) researchers have slammed tech entrepreneur Elon Musk for apparently trying to scaremonger over AI.
Earlier this week, the South African-born billionaire said that authorities need to regulate AI now before it is too late.
Written by Robert Perkins
We may be capable of finding microbes in space—but if we did, could we tell what they were and that they were alive?
Written by Andrew Follett
Tech billionaire Elon Musk called on NASA to build a moon base during a space technology conference Wednesday.
Written by Jamie Condliffe
Demis Hassabis knows a thing or two about artificial intelligence: he founded the London-based AI startup DeepMind, which was purchased by Google for $650 million back in 2014. Since then, his company has wiped the floor with humans at the complex game of Go and begun making steps towards crafting more general AIs.
Written by Carl Brehmer
The two gases that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) identifies as being the instruments by which humanity is destroying of the biosphere are the two gases that give the biosphere life—carbon dioxide (CO2) and water vapor (H2O), i.e., humidity.
Written by Kenneth Richard
The ‘Real Proxy’ Temperature Record Hints Near-Global Cooling Has Begun
As a new scientific paper (Turney et al., 2017) indicates, the Southern Ocean encompasses 14{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} of the Earth’s surface. And according to regional temperature measurements that have apparently not been subjected to warming “corrections” by data adjusters, the Southern Ocean has been cooling in recent decades.
Written by Mike Smith
For a decade, the weathercaster and broadcast meteorology communities have been the subject of a focused campaign to force them to cover global warming in a manner acceptable to the American Meteorological Society, the American Geophysical Union, and other advocacy groups.
How well is their strategy working?
Written by Sam Shead
The House of Lords has launched a public inquiry into advances in the field of artificial intelligence (AI).
The House of Lords said on Wednesday that the new Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence will “consider the economic, ethical, and social implications of advances in artificial intelligence.”
Written by University of Southern California
Managing lifestyle factors such as hearing loss, smoking, hypertension, and depression could prevent one-third of the world’s dementia cases, according to a report by the first Lancet Commission on Dementia Prevention and Care.
Written by Chris White
Comedian Bill Nye “The Science Guy” said Wednesday that the climate change movement can only move forward once the older generation begins to die off.
Written by Tony Heller
The EPA has this graph on their website, showing that the worst US heat waves (by far) occurred during the 1930s.
Written by University of Cambridge
Researchers have found that the formation and breakup of supercontinents over hundreds of millions of years control volcanic carbon emissions.
Written by Tony Heller
The Greenland Ice Sheet is gaining near record amounts of ice this year. Very little melting has occurred this summer, which is about to start winding down.
Written by Princeton University
Dogs’ ability to communicate and interact with humans is one the most astonishing differences between them and their wild cousins, wolves. A new study published today in the journal Science Advances identifies genetic changes that are linked to dogs’ human-directed social behaviors and suggests there is a common underlying genetic basis for hypersocial behavior in both dogs and humans.
Written by Mariella Moon
On July 18, 2017, at around 2 PM Eastern time, Professor Stefano Vitale sent the LISA Pathfinder its final kill commands from the mission’s control center in Germany.
Written by Paul Homewood
Utter drivel from the Daily Mail, and doubtless the rest of the MSM as well:
