The Pollution Being Churned Out by AI Data Centers Is So Severe That It’s Almost Incomprehensible

Materials in a quantum state come with exotic properties that bend the laws of physics and offer huge potential to scientists – but they’re usually also incredibly delicate, and require ultra-low temperatures to exist and function. That presents a problem when it comes to making the most of these materials and their characteristics: they need…

Back to Article List Spread across a large swath of sky, the Coma Star Cluster is visible this evening for several hours after sunset, gorgeous in any optics The Coma Star Cluster is a lovely grouping of bright stars near to (but not containing) the yellowish Gamma Comae Berenices. Credit: Giuseppe Donatiello (Flickr, CC0) Looking…

Zamrznuti tonovi/Shutterstock Scientists at the Ames Laboratory have developed an AI workflow to help discover rare-earth-free magnets (something AI has already demonstrated it can excel at). The pipeline uses AI models trained on real world physics and the behavior of electrons rather than just existing data to…

Economy Tokyo also looks to send more young scholars overseas Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi attends a Council for Science, Technology and Innovation meeting July 10. © Kyodo TOKYO — Japan will award larger research fellowship grants as part of a government target set Friday to produce 20,000 Ph.D degree holders yearly by fiscal 2030.

Neuroscientists study the brain and its various complex capabilities, from memory and learning to human behavior and consciousness. Neuroscientists generally need PhDs to do their work, which often is in a hospital or university setting. But neuroscience is an interdisciplinary field that may require knowledge of artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, and obviously anatomy—it all depends on…

Across the world, entire species of frogs and toads are being wiped out by a relentless fungal infection, commonly known as the chytrid fungus. For most amphibians, the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis is a death sentence. It’s caused more global species extinction events than any other infectious disease. And yet somehow, high in the Pyrenees, a…