Archive for August 2024

Visual hallucinations are often easier to spot: this AI-generated image adds an extra train track to the Glenfinnan Viaduct, a famous railway bridge in Scotland.

A view of Building 10 on the campus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The university is among those owed money to by online program manager 2U, which filed for bankruptcy last week.

At least 973 Native American children died in the U.S. government’s abusive boarding school system, according to the results of an investigation released Tuesday by officials who called on the government to apologize for the schools. The investigation commissioned by Interior Sec. Deb Haaland found marked and unmarked graves at 65 of the more than 400 U.S. boarding schools that were established to forcibly assimilate Native American children into white society.

The biggest contrast is between industry and academia, where for those in industry the probability increases by about 3 percent. Non-profit and government researchers are also a little more likely to admit to stealing an idea, as are those working in humanities and social sciences. Of the characteristics associated with a lower probability, being female and expressing stronger adherence to classical ‘Mertonian norms’ of science are the most pertinent, along with working in a more collegial and supportive working environment.

The issue of athletes with male characteristics and transgender athletes competing in women’s sport is a charged one, with some opponents and activists demanding that women’s sports be solely reserved for those assigned female at birth. Mr. Adams has said both Khelif and Lin identify as females in their passports. Above: The Italian, Angela Carini (right), stopped fighting only 46 seconds into her matchup against Imane Khelif of Algeria, who had been barred from a women’s event last year.