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SCIENCE

The Creepy Calculus of Measuring Death Risk

People are generally bad at assessing probabilities. That’s why we have irrational fears and why we overestimate our odds of…

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SCIENCE

Measuring Gluons and Quarks at the Brookhaven Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, the Nation’s Only Particle Collider

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, this is Rachel Feltman. Today we’re taking you on another one of our…

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BUSINESS

We’re measuring AI all wrong—and missing what matters most

There’s a peculiar irony in how we evaluate artificial intelligence: We’ve created systems to mimic and enhance human capabilities, yet…

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SCIENCE

The blue whale: the world’s most versatile measuring stick?

Feedback is New Scientist’s popular sideways look at the latest science and technology news. You can submit items you believe…

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