Science

Researchers say today’s AI platforms often default to common biases and stereotypes when prompted to generate images of people, including athletes.

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When migration is in the news, it is often cast in negative terms, but it has many benefits for host countries, from economic growth to critical support for systems like Social Security that support aging populations. That’s according to a…

Mars’s Coloe Fossae reveals a landscape shaped by ancient ice ages, with deep valleys, cratered terrain, and frozen debris flows preserved from a time when the planet’s climate dramatically shifted.

Astronomers are just beginning to scratch the surface of the complex, and sometimes violent, relationships between planets and their parent stars.

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Beneath the waters off Papua New Guinea lies an extraordinary deep-sea environment where scorching hydrothermal vents and cool methane seeps coexist side by side — a pairing never before seen. This unusual chemistry fuels a vibrant oasis teeming with mussels,…

Rerouted shipping during Red Sea conflicts accidentally created a massive real-world experiment, letting scientists study how new low-sulfur marine fuels affect cloud formation. The sudden surge of ships around the Cape of Good Hope revealed that cleaner fuels dramatically weaken…

A research team from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) and the Center for Demographic Studies (CED) investigated the impact of the conflict in Gaza on mortality. They estimate that 78,318 people were killed in Gaza between October…

Scientists discovered that lowered brain energy signaling in the hippocampus can lead to both depression- and anxiety-like behaviors in mice. Stress reduced ATP, a molecule important for cell energy and communication. Altering a protein called connexin 43, which helps release…