His district offers Cyber Week, an optional week during the summer for teachers to explore innovative teaching practices. This past summer, Cyber Week’s topic was AI. Additionally, the district has low stakes, monthly, hour-long meetings where teachers can explore generative...
Cranberry + orange: a dynamic duo! This duo has made delicious muffins, crisp, and cranberry sauce, and now a new cranberry + orange favorite joins the Minimalist Baker family: scones! These EASY, 1-bowl scones are fluffy, citrusy, lightly sweetened, generously studded...
The two Proba-3 spacecraft will work together to create an artificial solar eclipseESA The European Space Agency (ESA) is aiming to create an artificial eclipse in space with its upcoming Proba-3 mission, which will help study the sun and demonstrate...
Factory aerosols can transform the clouds aboveGetty Images/iStockphoto Plumes of pollution from large factories can trigger snowfall and leave holes in clouds that stretch over large areas, satellite images have revealed. It has long been known that tiny particles of...
Attention Is Discovery, visual artist Anna Von Mertens’s thoughtful new exploration of astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt, describes and illuminates Leavitt’s decades-long study of stars, including the groundbreaking system she developed for measuring vast distances within our universe simply by looking...
Astronomy and particle physics are no longer seen as vital by the US establishment, so funding has fallen. But our work creates a sense of wonder, and wonder matters, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein Source link...
The shadow of a laser beam appears as a horizontal line against the blue backgroundAbrahao et al. (2024) Light normally makes other objects cast shadows – but with a little help from a ruby, a beam of laser light can...
Readers rated AI-mimicry of Shakespeare’s poems above the author’s real worksNorth Wind Picture Archives / Alamy Most readers can’t distinguish classic works by poets such as William Shakespeare and Emily Dickinson from imitations generated by artificial intelligence. And when asked...
This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network.BAKU, Azerbaijan—During 2024, the hottest year on record, snowpack in the Himalaya Mountains has plummeted to unprecedented lows, the Arctic has become a net carbon emitter, and once...
November 14, 20243 min readGenerative AI Is Poised to Worsen the E-Waste CrisisGenerative AI could saddle the planet with heaps more hazardous waste By Saima S. IqbalA server room in a data center. Every time generative artificial intelligence drafts an...
