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July 13, 2022

Artificial Intelligence Google Engineer Claims AI Chatbot Is Sentient: Why That Matters Is it possible for an artificial intelligence to be sentient? By Leonardo De Cosmo

Medicine Newly Recognized Dementia Called LATE May Hit 40 Percent of Older People The pathological buildup of a protein known as TDP-43 can lead to an Alzheimer's-like disorder By Diana Kwon

Genetics Genomic Sequencing Is Critical to Our Understanding of COVID With infections still surging, the United States needs to invest in this technology to prepare for the next variants  By Abraar Karan,Benjamin Pinsky,Ingrid Katz,Sikhulile Moyo

Astronomy NASA Triumphantly Unveils Full Set of Webb's First Images Breathtaking pictures that include the deepest-ever infrared view of ancient galaxies offer a preview of the spectacular science in store for the most powerful space observatory in history By Lee Billings

Vaccines Omicron's Nasty New Variants and Better Boosters to Battle Them: COVID, Quickly, Episode 34 On this episode of the COVID, Quickly podcast, we talk about the increase in new Omicron subvariants. Should fall vaccine boosters contain standard Omicron or some of those new subvariants instead? By Tanya Lewis,Josh Fischman,Tulika Bose | 07:04

Public Health When Heat Waves Meet Air Pollution, Death Risks Rise Substantially Rising temperatures and more frequent wildfires are taking a grim toll on human health By Andres Picon,E&E News

Astronomy See the Oldest View of Our Known Universe, Just Revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope Decades of work, $10 billion in spending and nearly 14 billion years of cosmic history have brought us to this moment: the first science from the largest and most powerful observatory ever built. By Lee Billings,Jeffery DelViscio,Jason Drakeford,Tulika Bose,Sunya Bhutta,Henry DaCosta

Biotech Cilia Are Minuscule Wonders, and Scientists Are Finally Figuring Out How to Mimic Them A new cilia-covered chip could revolutionize portable medical diagnosis By Saugat Bolakhe

Particle Physics Poem: 'On Visible Light' Science in meter and verse By Donna Kane

FROM THE STORE Technology vs. Truth: Deception in the Digital Age In the digital age, information, both true and false, spreads faster than ever. The same technology that provides access to data across the globe can abet the warping of truth and normalization of lies. In this eBook, we examine the intersection of truth, untruth and technology, including how social media manipulates behavior, technologies such as deepfakes that spread misinformation, the bias inherent in algorithms and more.

FROM THE ARCHIVE Will Machines Ever Become Conscious? AI may equal human intelligence without matching the true nature of our experiences By Christof Koch | December 2019

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