In high-tech labs, workers are generating data to train A.I. algorithms to design better medicine, faster. But the transformation is just getting underway.

The just-before or the just-after tell a story; whether of becoming, or of letting go. For over 12 years, Mary Jo Hoffman has been taking a daily image of a gathered natural object (usually plants, sometimes dead birds and in one case, a live toad). Click on "details" at the bottom right of each object for, well, details. Hoffman on technique: "I spend a lot of time waiting for the sun to go behind a cloud so I can get softer lighting."

In high-tech labs, workers are generating data to train A.I. algorithms to design better medicine, faster. But the transformation is just getting underway.

For years, mycologists and hobbyists alike have been using DNA sequencing on foraged fungi.

Elon Musk’s Starlink has connected an isolated tribe to the outside world — and divided it from within.

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Residents have been covering their trees in mesh to protect them from the emerging broods, and the effect is pretty eerie.

A new program, backed by Cornell Tech, M.I.T. and U.C.L.A., helps prepare lower-income, Latina and Black female computing majors for artificial intelligence careers.

OpenAI may be changing how the world interacts with language. But inside headquarters, there is a homage to the written word: a library.

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The unusual sight of aurora borealis was visible around the world.

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Our columnist spent the past month hanging out with 18 A.I. companions. They critiqued his clothes, chatted among themselves and hinted at a very different future.

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