Is artificial intelligence just a big ol’ boys club? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. AI learns from the internet – it soaks up EVERYTHING! The good, the bad…and the biases? Douglas Guilbeault and colleagues at Stanford studied how prejudice affects chatbots. The researchers analyzed
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It’s a wonderful life… span? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Around the world, women outlive men. But… is that just a human thing? Enter Johanna Staerk and colleagues at the Max Planck Institute. They studied the lifespans of over FIVE HUNDRED mammals and SIX
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Tissue regeneration isn’t out of earshot! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Rabbits regenerate ear tissue like no other. What’s their evolutionary secret? Ask Weifeng Lin and team at the National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing. They found a gene called Aldehyde1A2 that was active
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Only YOU can prevent … structure fires?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. What factors can help buildings survive wildfires? Maryam Zamanialaei and team at U-C Berkeley sifted for answers. They analyzed CALFIRE data on structures burned during wildfires between twenty-thirteen and twenty-twenty two.
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