For the artist Antti Laitinen, his childhood playground among the trees and streams of central Finland has become an experiment in how the world can survive. He only has to look at the lichen sprinkled around the region’s landscape. Yes, that colorful symbiotic mishmash of fungus and algae may offer hope for our future. It…
Shorouk Express The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has raised concern that the elevated level of avian influenza poses a greater risk of human exposure. On Monday (24 November), the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) reported that highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 viruses have been detected in wild birds across 26 European…
Shorouk Express The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Fungus-coated bats are spreading deadly disease in Washington state’s San Juan Island National Historical Park, according to…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei believes today’s AI models hallucinate, or make things up and present them as if they’re true, at a lower rate than humans do, he said during a press briefing at Anthropic’s first developer event, Code with Claude, in San Francisco on Thursday. Amodei said all this in the midst of a…
