Vishay Singh

Author Vishay Singh

If you were to meet a velociraptor, you wouldn’t be confronted with the tall, sleek and lizard-skinned beast from the hit Jurassic Park franchise. Instead, you would likely face off against a much smaller, feathery and colorful creature.  Over the last few decades, scientists have learned a lot about what dinosaurs looked like — and that’s changing long-held beliefs. Did Dinosaurs Have Feathers?One of the biggest recent changes, says Paul Barrett, a researcher with the Natural History Mu ...read more

Author Vishay Singh

ChatGPT and similar large language models can produce compelling, humanlike answers to an endless array of questions – from queries about the best Italian restaurant in town to explaining competing theories about the nature of evil.The technology’s uncanny writing ability has surfaced some old questions – until recently relegated to the realm of science fiction – about the possibility of machines becoming conscious, self-aware or sentient.In 2022, a Google engineer declared, after inte ...read more

Author Vishay Singh

Based on research in France’s Mandrin cave, in February 2022 we published a study in the journal Science Advances that pushed back the earliest evidence of the arrival of the first Homo sapiens in Europe to 54,000 years ago – 11 millennia earlier than had been previously established.In the study, we described nine fossil teeth excavated from all the archeological layers in the cave. Eight were determined to be from Neanderthals, but one from one of the middle layers belonged to a paleo ...read more