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People are different, technology is common, which can lead to uniformity. Illustration: Avi Blizovsky via DALEE

Researchers warn: AI chatbots could unify and standardize human thinking

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The researchers note that within human groups and societies, cognitive diversity is an important factor for creativity and problem-solving. However, they argue that this diversity is reduced when billions of people use the same limited number of chatbots.
Skull of a soldier from Napoleon's army, next to a button the size of the soldier. Credit: Michel Signoli, Aix-Marseille Université

DNA from Napoleon's armies identifies pathogens that may explain the high mortality of soldiers on the return journey from Russia in 1812

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Researchers extracted and sequenced DNA from the teeth of thirteen soldiers from a mass grave in Vilnius, Lithuania, on the route of retreat from France to Russia. After removing environmental contaminants, DNA fragments from pathogenic bacteria were identified: not typhus, but
Image caption: A participant uses a neuroprosthesis for inner speech. The text above is the sentence given as a cue, and the text below is what is decoded in real time when she imagines herself saying the sentence. Credit: Emory BrainGate Team

Brain-computer interface can decode inner speech in real time

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Severely paralyzed people will be able to "speak to themselves" and the computer will translate it into the words they wanted to say but couldn't.
The process of gene editing in sperm-derived ESCs to create bipaternal blastocysts.

Chinese scientists engineer a mouse with two male parents

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Researchers in China have created a mouse from two ancestors by editing genes in stem cells. The groundbreaking study could impact our understanding of reproduction and the future of medicine.
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