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Claude 3 Opus has stunned AI researchers with its intellect and 'self-awareness' — does this mean it can think for itself?

Anthropic's AI tool has beaten GPT-4 in key metrics and has a few surprises up its sleeve — including pontificating about its existence and realizing when it was being tested.

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Ancient, 30-foot relative of great white shark unearthed in Mexico quarry

"Exceptionally preserved" fossils of an ancient shark that lived alongside the dinosaurs has finally revealed what the predator looked like — and why it may have gone extinct.

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Glow-in-the-dark creatures appeared in Earth's oceans 540 million years ago

Bioluminescence traces back to the Cambrian era — 540 million years ago — and could have been used for communication, courtship and camouflage among the earliest ocean creatures.

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Fake Botox injections have sickened 22, hospitalized 11, CDC warns

The CDC warned doctors about "counterfeit or mishandled" Botox injections that have caused clusters of illness in the U.S.

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Weapons chest found on wreck of 15th-century 'floating castle' sheds light on 'military revolution at sea'

The chest could help archaeologists understand the fire and explosion that sank the vessel.

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4 solar flares simultaneously erupt from the sun in rare 'super' explosion — and Earth could be hit by the fallout

In the early hours of Tuesday (April 23), quadruple solar flares near-simultaneously exploded from across the sun's surface, and there's a good chance that one of these outbursts launched a solar storm toward Earth.

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Dying SpaceX rocket tears blood-red 'hole' in the sky over Texas — again

On April 10, a bright red atmospheric "hole" was spotted in the night sky above Texas shortly after SpaceX launched 23 Starlink satellites into space. It is the latest example of an increasingly common phenomenon caused by the company's dying rockets.

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After months of sending gibberish to NASA, Voyager 1 is finally making sense again

NASA's Voyager 1 probe has resumed sending usable data back to Earth after engineers fixed a computer error that caused the interstellar spacecraft to only transmit gibberish for five months.

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An extra moon may be orbiting Earth — and scientists think they know exactly where it came from

The near-Earth asteroid Kamo'oalewa, which orbits alongside our planet as a 'minimoon,' may have originated from Giordano Bruno crater on the far side of the moon, new research suggests.

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Massive heat wave and a supercell thunderstorm caused deadly, baseball-sized hailstones to rain down on Spain

A giant-hail event that hit Girona in northwest Spain in 2022 was fueled by climate change, with a marine heatwave helping to intensify the storm that killed a small child.

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Scientists create 'toxic AI' that is rewarded for thinking up the worst possible questions we could imagine

Researchers at MIT are using AI to train AI not to give toxic responses, using a new method that replicates human curiosity.

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George Washington's stash of centuries-old cherries found hidden under Mount Vernon floor

Enslaved people picked the cherries around 250 years ago, likely in pre-Revolutionary War times.

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Scientists discover once-in-a-billion-year event — 2 lifeforms merging to create a new cell part

Researchers think a microbe that was engulfed by an algal cell 100 million years ago has since evolved into an integral part of the cell's machinery.

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'We were in disbelief': Antarctica is behaving in a way we've never seen before. Can it recover?

Antarctic sea ice has been disappearing over the last several summers. Now, climate scientists are wondering whether it will ever come back.

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Hundreds of emperor penguin chicks spotted plunging off a 50-foot cliff in 1st-of-its-kind footage

The fledglings are typically reared on floating platforms of sea ice, but an unprecedented decline in the ice extent has driven young onto cliffs.

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'Unprecedented,' 'Gobsmacked', 'Unbelievable': Changes in Antarctica's sea ice could have dramatic impacts, says climate scientist Edward Doddridge

In 1898, the crew of the first scientific expedition to Antarctica became trapped inside sea ice around the southernmost continent. Much of that once thick ice is dwindling, says polar researcher Edward Doddridge.

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Detecting cancer in minutes possible with just a drop of dried blood and new test, study hints

Early tests suggest that a new tool that requires only a single drop of blood could detect three of the deadliest forms of cancer.

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'I nearly fell out of my chair': 1,800-year-old mini portrait of Alexander the Great found in a field in Denmark

The miniature bronze portrait depicts Alexander the Great with his wavy hair and crown of ram horns.

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Google builds an AI model that can predict future weather catastrophes

A new system uses generative AI to predict weather faster and more cheaply than ever — while detecting difficult-to-spot extreme weather events — beating the world's major weather agencies.

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Can faking a smile make you feel happier?

Lab research often gives one answer about whether smiling can make you feel happier, but does that translate to the real world?

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Earth from space: Trio of multicolor lakes look otherworldly in Africa's Great Rift Valley

Three closely grouped lakes in Ethiopia's Great Rift Valley have distinctly different hues thanks to a combination of unique features.

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Scientists may have pinpointed the true origin of the Hope Diamond and other pristine gemstones

Researchers suggest that the famed Golconda diamonds, including the Hope Diamond and Koh-i-noor, may have originated from a volcanic outcrop nearly 200 miles from where they were mined.

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NASA reveals 'glass-smooth lake of cooling lava' on surface of Jupiter's moon Io

The volcanic surface of Jupiter's huge moon Io got a stunning close-up thanks to NASA's Juno mission.

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Space photo of the week: Bizarre 'Helix Galaxy' is unlike any other in the universe. Can you see why?

The Helix Galaxy is a rare "polar ring" galaxy found near the Big Dipper. Its odd shape and history set it apart from every other galaxy we know of.

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Why do cats' claws retract but dogs' claws don't?

Why don't dogs claws retract like felines' do?

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