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Using AI makes you dumber, scary new Microsoft study finds | Live Science

Using AI reduces your critical thinking skills, Microsoft study warns

A survey of workers who use AI has revealed the tools could be slowly impairing our critical thinking skills.

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Some fungi can influence the weather ‪—‬ and now we know how they do it

Some types of fungi borrowed a gene from ancient bacteria that gave the ability to make ice and trigger rain.

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1,300-year-old skeletons found in England had grandparents from sub-Saharan Africa, DNA studies reveal

A DNA analysis of two people who lived in Britain in the seventh century reveals they had recent African ancestry.

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Secret of why Greenland sharks live so incredibly long finally revealed

Surprising new research has revealed why the world's longest-living vertebrate, the Greenland shark, has such a lengthy lifespan. The findin

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Siberian cave filled with mammoth, rhino and bear bones is ancient hyena lair

The cave has been untouched for around 42,000 years. It also contained the bones and teeth of hyena pups, suggesting they raised their young

My newest article for LiveScience is about a ton of Pleistocene bones found in a cave in Siberia!

We're talking:

Mammoths

Horses

Wooly Rhinos

Wooly Bison

Brown Bears

Wolves

Yaks

Deer

Gazelles

Rodents

Birds

Fish

Frogs

and of course, cave hyenas! Including baby ones!

All the bones are chewed up too

(Image credit: V. S. Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy)

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‘Gigantic jet’ that shot into space may be the most powerful lightning bolt ever detected.

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Finally we can say that Netflix will work with oda on 6 more seasons on one piece Netflix .. great news tho

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Andrew Ostrovsky | LiveScience