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The Download: Chatting with the politician behind the AI Act, and how to…
Dragoș Tudorache is one of the most important players in European AI policy. He is one of the two lead…
A conversation with Dragoș Tudorache, the politician behind the AI Act
But Tudorache’s interest in AI started much earlier, in 2015. He says reading Nick Bostrom’s book…
The Download: our eclipse guide, and what you need to know about bird flu
On April 8, the moon will pass directly between Earth and the sun, creating a total solar eclipse across much…
New bird flu infections: Here’s what you need to know
But the rash of recent infections among livestock is unsettling. Last month, goats in Minnesota tested…
How to safely watch and photograph the total solar eclipse
Before the eclipse begins, take the time to focus the camera exactly where you want the sun and moon to appear…
The Download: Harvard’s geoengineering failure, and extending nuclear…
In March 2017, at a small summit in Washington, DC, two Harvard professors, David Keith and Frank Keutsch, laid…
Why the lifetime of nuclear plants is getting longer
Two main components determine a plant’s lifetime: the reactor pressure vessel and the containment structure,…
The hard lessons of Harvard’s failed geoengineering experiment
The basic concept behind solar geoengineering is that by spraying certain particles high above the planet,…
The Download: fixing space weather-forecasting, and reopening a nuclear…
As the number of satellites in space grows, and as we rely on them for increasing numbers of vital tasks on…
How to reopen a nuclear power plant
Step 2: Line up money and permission Support has poured in for Palisades, with the state of Michigan setting…