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Illustration of a car surrounded by disembodied eyes, with a beam of binary code connecting a central eye to the vehicle; icons for cloud storage, a personal ID, location tracking, and data charts surround the scene, symbolizing surveillance and data collection from connected vehicles.

Your car is collecting more data about you than you think

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by Cesareo Contreras
Small gray wild cat with dark spots and a thick ringed tail, crouched on a metal beam against a wooden wall with the tip of its tongue showing.

This cat is new to science. What does it take to identify a species?

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by Katya Poltorak
David Ayman Shamma smiling, wearing a gray collared shirt, standing near a window with natural light.

Meet the professor who thinks generic AI models should become obsolete

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by Peter Rubinstein
This illustration photo shows a user interacting with a smartphone app to customize an avatar for a personal artificial intelligence chatbot.

AI chatbots linked to psychological harm, Northeastern study finds

by Jonathan Chadwick - Contributor
A monarch butterfly with wings fully spread rests among glossy green magnolia leaves, its orange and black pattern in sharp focus against the foliage.

The monarch butterfly’s ‘great procession’ is happening overhead

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by Rich McKay

Some rats freeze when anticipating danger. Others make a run for it

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by Katya Poltorak
A stylized graphic of a prompt input field and "Generate" button set against a background of binary code, representing AI text generation.

Are bots changing how people talk? Language in the age of AI

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by Katya Poltorak
A robot hand shown hovering over a delete key on a keyboard.

Can you really turn off an AI? The debate over “kill switches”

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by Tanner Stening
Xufeng Zhang works in a lab, illuminated in pink light.

This Northeastern researcher is making ‘waves’ with magnets

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by Cesareo Contreras
Two people holding crafted data textiles smile while sitting on a couch.

The secret knitting society designing blankets and clothing with data

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by Peter Rubinstein
Folding iPhone shown in two colorways, each displaying the closed exterior screen alongside the unfolded interior display.

What to know about Apple’s first folding phone, the iPhone Duo

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by Cesareo Contreras
Gloved hands stretching a translucent strip of hydrogel until it thins into a delicate strand.

Scientists create a recyclable hydrogel that heals itself

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by Katya Poltorak