Although freely accessible, it is provided in individual files for each year, and is difficult to combine in order to analyze spatial or temporal trends.

Farmworld is an open-ended gridworld environment designed with two goals in mind: high customiz-ability and support for diverse solutions. Maps can be hand-crafted, or randomly generated. RGB images are used, agents'see' exactly what we see: units visibly lose health by damage patterns Agents have partially-observable observations: they do not see the entire map. Reward Agents get an individual reward of 0.1 for each timestep that they are alive. To this end, we augmented DIA YN and called this DIA YN*. We subtract by the batch mean so that on average, the expected agent reward equals only what is provided by the extrinsic environment.

Why Are Some Women Training for Pregnancy Like It's a Marathon? A growing legion of "zero trimester" influencers are convincing followers that healthy pregnancies are a choice--and that raw milk, watching sunsets, and pricey specialized courses can help. Three years ago, Esther Rohr and her husband decided to start thinking about pregnancy. The 26-year-old Oregon-based wedding photographer made small but intentional lifestyle changes--going to bed earlier, drinking more water and less alcohol, dialing in her fitness, loading up on protein, and taking supplements like beef organ capsules and Vitamin D3. They started charging their phones in the kitchen for better sleep and unplugging their Wi-Fi at night, because her research suggested it might affect cellular health. Concerned about their exposure to reproductive toxins, Rohr began the slow, painstaking task of swapping out all their synthetic workout clothes, nonstick pans, and scented personal care products that might contain phthalates or other endocrine-disrupting chemicals. She bought an air purifier and hopes to eventually replace their LED bulbs with incandescents, because she worries they might be affecting her circadian rhythm.

Virtually every aspect of your health can be traced back to your microbiome. But some tests are better than others. Some of the recipes look tasty. I admit it: I'm a sucker for metrics. Fitness trackers that keep tabs on my steps and sleep? A DEXA scan to give me too much information about my body composition?

We asked tech CEOs, journalists, entertainers, students, and more about the promise and peril of artificial intelligence. The future never feels fully certain. But in this time of rapid, intense transformation--political, technological, cultural, scientific--it's as difficult as it ever has been to get a sense of what's around the next corner. Here at WIRED, we're obsessed with what comes next. Our pursuit of the future most often takes the form of vigorously reported stories, in-depth videos, and interviews with the people helping define it.

Grandparents who play with, read to, and look after their grandkids score better on cognitive tests. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. From physical fitness to doing puzzles to going out with friends, there's a laundry list of advice out there to help protect our brains from cognitive decline as we age . Taking care of grandchildren may also help brain health, according to new research from the American Psychological Association published today in the journal . "Many grandparents provide regular care for their grandchildren--care that supports families and society more broadly," Flavia Chereches, a study co-author and Ph.D. candidate at Tilburg University in the Netherlands, said in a statement.

Why biological clocks get our'true age' wrong - and how AI could help Your chronological age can't always tell you the state of your health, which is why biological clocks have been developed to show our risk of developing diseases or dying - but they're not all they are cracked up to be, says columnist Graham Lawton You may be chronologically older than your "true age" When I first started writing about ageing years ago, there was a buzz around something called biological clocks, also known as ageing clocks or "true age" measurements. In principle, these are quite simple: we all have a chronological age, the number of years since birth, but this doesn't necessarily reflect how far we are down the slippery slope from birth to decrepitude. On average, this follows a fairly predictable trajectory, with gradual declines in almost every physical and mental attribute throughout adulthood. When we judge how old somebody is, we are intuitively totting up many of these tell-tale signs we see - the wrinkles and grey hair, or changes in posture, gait, voice, mental acuity and so on. The goal of measuring biological age is to capture this decline in a single metric, evaluated scientifically and expressed in years. The results tell us something we intuitively know: some people age better than others.

OpenAI introduces ChatGPT Health as a dedicated environment for medical conversations, built with input from 260 physicians and enhanced privacy protections.

Why personalized gene editing, genetic resurrections and embryo scoring made our list. Earlier this week, published its annual list of Ten Breakthrough Technologies. As always, it features technologies that made the news last year, and which--for better or worse--stand to make waves in the coming years. They're the technologies you should really be paying attention to. This year's list includes tech that's set to transform the energy industry, artificial intelligence, space travel --and of course biotech and health. Our breakthrough biotechnologies for 2026 involve editing a baby's genes and, separately, resurrecting genes from ancient species.