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The source material is a guide from WikiProject AI Cleanup, a group of Wikipedia editors who have been hunting AI-generated ...

A sociotechnical lens highlights red-teaming as a particular arrangement of human labor that unavoidably introduces human value judgments into technical systems, and can pose psychological risks for ...

A large U.S. health records study suggests that difficulty seeing blood in urine may put color-blind patients at higher risk.

The ReproSci project retrospectively analyzed the reproducibility of 1006 claims from 400 papers published between 1959 and 2011 in the field of Drosophila immunity. This project attempts to provide a ...

Gemstones like precious opal are beautiful to look at and deceivingly complex. As you look at such gems from different angles ...

A new social-science paper delivers a surprisingly unsettling result: give dozens of expert teams the same data and the same ...

“Iris Green,” a pigment extracted from the petals of blue iris flowers, was popular in the medieval era as an alternative to ...

What's CODE SWITCH? It's the fearless conversations about race that you've been waiting for. Hosted by journalists of color, our podcast tackles the subject of race with empathy and humor. We explore ...

Quantum dots are crystals of a fluorescent semiconductor material with a diameter of as few as 10 to 100 atoms (2-10 nm). They are used as labels for imaging molecules because of their very narrow ...