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AI Web Browser Assistants Raise Serious Privacy Concerns
Popular generative AI web browser assistants are collecting and sharing sensitive user data, such as medical records and social security...

Is Writing with AI at Work Undermining Your Credibility?
With over 75% of professionals using AI in their daily work, writing and editing messages with tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot or...

The Trump Administration’s Multi-Front Assault on Federal Research Funding
In the first few months of the second Trump administration, the federal government has rapidly dismantled its longstanding support for...

Plants Seek Friendly Environments Rather Than Adapt
As jewelflowers spread into California from the desert Southwest over the past couple of million years, they settled in places...

Early Visions of Mars: Meet the 19th-Century Astronomer Who Used Science Fiction to Imagine the Red Planet
Living in today’s age of ambitious robotic exploration of Mars, with an eventual human mission to the red planet likely...
One Single Rule Helps Explain Life from Ocean Depths to Open Savannas
A new study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution has found a simple rule that seems to govern how life is organised...

AI Meets the Conditions for Having Free Will – We Need to Give It a Moral Compass
AI is advancing at such speed that speculative moral questions, once the province of science fiction, are suddenly real and...