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Black Forest Labs’ Kontext AI models can edit pics as well as generate them
Black Forest Labs, the AI startup whose models once powered the image generation features of X's Grok chatbot, has released a ...
Scientists Are Creeping Closer to Colorized Black Hole Images
Black holes are infamous for being invisible. But thanks to a new technique from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) team, ...
Early Earth chemistry: Triplet RNA building blocks and freeze-thaw cycles enable self-replication in water
Chemists at UCL and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology have demonstrated how RNA (ribonucleic acid) might have ...
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Why H.G. Wells’ “The Time Machine” Is a Timely Warning to the World
In his first published work of fiction, the British writer and futurist Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) shot to literary ...
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A single gene may control corn snake's skin pattern diversity
The study, published in Genome Biology, opens new perspectives ... red blotches outlined in black on an orange background, and a ventral black-and-white checker. Yet, different morphs can exhibit ...
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One gene defines the many patterns of snake skin
The study, published in Genome Biology, opens new perspectives ... red blotches outlined in black on an orange background, and a ventral black-and-white checker. Yet, different morphs can exhibit ...
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There’s no scientific basis for race—it's a made-up label
From left to right: a black woman and a white man, both American ... What did they believe their background to be? The students had then submitted saliva samples for genetic testing.
Tampa Bay Times1mon
A Black history class was held under a tree at a Florida university
“I did not get taught a lot of Black history from school,” the marine biology student at Florida ... a predominantly Black Florida town after a white woman, Fannie Taylor, lied about a Black ...
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The biological truth: Trump’s gender directives ignore science
In the scientific study of human biology, there is no political ideology. Biologists research embryonic development, hormones and sexual maturation to provide scientific evidence that can inform ...
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Birds have developed complex brains independently from mammals
Distribution of the different neuron types in the chick brain (black background) Distribution of the different neuron types in the chick brain (white background) Distribution of the different ...
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Lights on surfboards and wetsuits could deter shark attacks
“As long as the lighting stopped the silhouette from looking black, it seemed to work.” The team has now developed a prototype lighting array to be used as a great white shark deterrent.
The Harvard Crimson9mon
‘Impeccable’: Higher Education Experts Say Garber’s Academic Record May Spare Him From Scrutiny
‘Even-Handed, Balanced, Unflappable’ With his expertise in medicine, Garber brings a long-missing academic background back ... One is white, one is Black,” he added. Chan added that, given ...