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But for the majority of Americans who accept that human-caused warming is happening, other social and psychological factors, like shifting baseline syndrome, may be blunting their concern.

The issue has also sparked discussion of a phenomenon known as Kessler syndrome. Kessler syndrome is a hypothetical scenario proposed by NASA scientist Donald J. Kessler in 1978, predicting what ...

All of this debris floating around in space could lead to a theoretical scenario known as the Kessler Syndrome ... non-operational satellites and other human-made objects that continue to hurtle ...

The event Reddy referred to is a hypothetical phenomenon called Kessler Syndrome. Named for American astrophysicist Donald Kessler and based on his 1978 academic paper, Kessler Syndrome — as the ...

Prof Geoffrey Hinton says the technology is developing faster than he expected and needs government regulation Artificial intelligence could wipe out the human race within the next decade ...

But all of that is outweighed by the plastic, concrete and other material that humans have produced in the last century alone in the form of everything from roads and skyscrapers to cars ...

While one would be hard-pressed to find virtually any similarities between ants and humans, the two species seem to share an unusual ability despite their seemingly unbridgeable differences—they ...

Elija Perrier receives funding from the Australian government. A new artificial intelligence (AI) model has just achieved human-level results on a test designed to measure “general intelligence”.

Teleoperated robots at scale, even if years away, could mean a seismic shift in how we think about labor and automation. This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on ...