Scientists Gave ‘Aggressive’ Fish Psychedelic Drugs. A Breakthrough Came Next

BIOMETRICS

Singapore to roll out biometric, in-car border clearance for all vehicles

Luxembourg launches new 10-year biometric passport

Armenia passes biometric ID law as it moves toward EU visa liberalization

Global ID, Idiap partner to scale finger vein biometrics with machine learning

ICE smart glasses plan points to broader DHS push to make biometrics mobile and routine

Privacy-preserving age assurance has arrived; now, it has to keep its promises

Police drone programs raise questions about use of AI, facial recognition

Scientists Gave ‘Aggressive’ Fish Psychedelic Drugs. A Breakthrough Came Next

Move over, coked-up salmon. Fish dosed with psilocybin, the psychoactive component found in magic mushrooms, showed less aggression […]

Water Lily Genomes Reveal Angiosperm Evolution Innovations

Water lilies, long admired for their delicate beauty and ecological significance, hold a deeper scientific fascination as some […]

‘Nature’ Retracts Paper on the Benefits of ChatGPT in Education

Nature has retracted a paper that claimed AI had a positive impact on student learning. The original paper, […]

A Climate Change Novel That Questions Everything

Jessica Swoboda In God and Sex, Jon Raymond has recontextualized timeless novelistic questions—on faith and love—in an era […]

The Destroyed Remnants of a Lost World Are Falling to Earth, Scientists Discover

A rare class of meteorites called angrites likely come from a strange protoplanet that was catastrophically destroyed in the early solar system, leaving only fragmentary remnants.

Entire Animal Kingdom Communicates at the Same Tempo

Species from fireflies to humans communicate at a shared tempo of 2 hertz. This “universal beat” matches the natural processing speed of animal brains.