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Category: Science
Lab-Grown Meat Is on Shelves Now. But There’s a Catch
A store in Singapore is selling lab-grown chicken, but it contains only 3 percent animal cells.
Large Language Models’ Emergent Abilities Are a Mirage
A new study suggests that sudden jumps in LLMs’ abilities are neither surprising nor unpredictable, but are actually the consequence of how we measure ability in AI.
Brace Yourself For the Comeback of Citizen Scientists
From water-testing polluted rivers to measuring radiation levels, ordinary people are taking environmental research into their own hands.
DeepMind Is Helping Soccer Teams Take the Perfect Corner
A soccer AI model created by Google DeepMind makes predictions about where corners will go, and suggests tweaks to make goals more or less likely.
Selective Forgetting Can Help AI Learn Better
Erasing key information during training allows machine learning models to learn new languages faster and more easily.
Leading Lab-Grown Meat Company Upside Foods Just Paused a Major Expansion
Upside Foods is putting plans for its Illinois-based cultivated meat factory on hold and laying off staff to focus on its existing plant.
Climate Finance Is Targeting the Wrong Industries
Roughly half of the world’s emissions currently can’t be reduced, yet green investment continues to avoid the sectors that need the most help—manufacturing, agriculture, and the built environment.
You Can’t Buy Lab-Grown Meat Even If You Wanted To
The only two restaurants in the US to sell cultivated meat have paused sales for now, leaving the industry in a strange limbo.
The Boeing 737 Max Crisis Reignites Arguments Over Infant Safety on Planes
A midair blowout on a Boeing 737 Max 9 showed seatbelts matter, but infants under two still aren’t required to have their own seats. Experts say changing the rules would make flying safer for children—but would result in more deaths.