The underwater eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano last year generated a supercharged storm — and the most intense lighting event on record.
Why it matters: Observations of the eruption-induced storm could help efforts to one day monitor the hazards from volcanoes using real-time lightning data, according to the researchers who led the study.
The catastrophic implosion of a submersible near the wreckage of the Titanic is a sobering moment for another extreme and risky tourism industry: private human spaceflight.
Why it matters: It's not a matter of if, but when a deadly accident will rock the commercial human spaceflight industry, experts say.
Social scientists are testing whether the AI systems that power ChatGPT and other text and image generating tools can be used to better understand the behaviors, beliefs and values of humans themselves.
Why it matters: Chatbots are being used to mimic the output of people — from cover letters to marketing copy to computer code. Some social scientists are now exploring whether they can offer new inroads to key questions about human behavior and help them reduce the time and cost of experiments.
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