Antarctic: Scientists find nanoplastics in Antarctic soil for the first time, including tyre-wear particles, raising concerns that tiny plastic pollution can travel through the atmosphere to Earth’s most remote places

Nanoplastics found in Antarctic soils for first time, suggesting long-range atmospheric transport Scientists have detected nanoplastics in Antarctic soil for the first time. This provides fresh evidence that tiny plastic particles can travel through the atmosphere and reach some of the most remote places on Earth. But how is it even possible?The study was published […]

Weizenbaum: Computer scientist who created world’s first chatbot in the 1960s spent his whole life warning that AI should never replace humans, and the reason will shock you

Joseph Weizenbaum realized that programs like his Eliza chatbot could “induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people” Joseph Weizenbaum set out to prove that computers could imitate conversation. Instead, his experiment convinced him that people could become emotionally attached to machines far more easily than he had imagined. That discovery changed the course of […]

Hormuz miscalculation? Trump sideswiped by Iran’s closure of Strait

The Trump administration significantly underestimated the possibility that Iran would move to close the Strait of Hormuz in response to US military strikes, leaving Washington scrambling to manage the economic fallout as the conflict disrupts one of the world’s most critical energy routes, according to sources cited by CNN.Officials familiar with internal discussions said the […]