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education Teacher devises an ingenious way to check if students are using ChatGPT to write essays Ruben Bolling
conceptual art Artist Damien Hirst falsely dated recent sculptures to noteworthy period Natalie Dressed
politics Trump's new excuse for cognitive glitches: artificial intelligence used against him Mark Frauenfelder
montana Montana man pleads guilty in plot to create giant clone hybrid sheep for captive hunting Mark Frauenfelder
soundtracks How a first-time composer's chilling score made "Poor Things" unforgettable Natalie Dressed
ancient history The Blinkerwall, a stone-age wall at bottom of Baltic Sea, could be Europe's oldest megastructure Rob Beschizza
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