This specialized golf ball looks and feels smooth, but a close examination under a standard light microscope reveals tiny crystals of absorbent silica and polymers dotting the surface. Credit: Thomas ...

This article is part of The State of Science, a series featuring science stories from public radio stations across the United States. This story, by Emily Jones, was originally published by WABE in ...

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The company has genetic data of 15 million people, which could be shared with a future buyer. Here’s how to delete it.

Certain words are overrepresented in text written by AI language models. A study investigates why such patterns develop.