Who invented time? Plus, people who love Chatbots and how whales could save the environment

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April 25, 2023

Conservation Can Putting a Price on a Whale Save the Environment? A single whale can lock up as much carbon as 1,000 trees. By turning them into carbon credits, a new project hopes to save the climate and the whales By Andrew Chapman

Space Exploration Japanese Moon Landing Attempt Falls Short as Spacecraft Goes Silent With an apparent crash, the HAKUTO-R mission from the private space exploration company ispace has joined a long list of failed moon landers By Meghan Bartels

Artificial Intelligence AI Chatbots and the Humans Who Love Them Humans are building meaningful relationships with AI chatbots. What will the consequences be? By Sophie Bushwick,Kelso Harper | 12:24

Planetary Science Jupiter's Hot Youth May Have Melted Its Icy Moons The gas giant planet’s youthful glow could explain major differences between its four largest satellites By Nola Taylor Tillman

Climate Change World's Largest Logjam Stores 3 Million Tons of Carbon Dead trees have accumulated in an Arctic basin for centuries, creating one of the largest “carbon pools” in the world By Daniel Cusick,E&E News

Weather Northern Lights Dance across U.S. because of 'Stealthy' Sun Eruptions A severe geomagnetic storm created auroras that were visible as far south as Arizona in the U.S. By Allison Parshall

Reproduction How To Unravel The Recent Mifespristone Rulings Courts hand down conflicting decisions often. Here’s how this has played out with mifepristone By Naomi Cahn,Sonia Suter,The Conversation US

History Who Invented the Measurement of Time? The first timekeeping devices were probably natural materials lost to the ages, but the ancient Egyptians were the first to leave records of their timekeeping methods By Stephanie Pappas

FROM THE ARCHIVE No One Knows How the Biggest Animals on Earth--Baleen Whales--Find Their Food How do giant filter-feeding whales find their tiny prey? The answer could be key to saving endangered species By Kate Wong | April 2023

WHAT WE'RE READING OpenAI's Hunger for Data is Coming Back to Bite It The company’s AI services may be breaking data protection laws, and there is no resolution in sight. By Melissa Heikkilä | MiT Technology Review | April 19, 2023

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