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Your phone screen doesn’t have the same color range as the human eye – and AI widens the gap between digital images and the real thing

Your phone screen doesn’t have the same color range as the human eye – and AI widens the gap between digital images and the real thing

A peacock feather in sunlight shifts from blue to green to bronze as you turn it. Photograph it, and this shimmer collapses into one angle, one exposure, one compromise. A digital image is not a record of what your eye sees. The standard color space that most digital images use
Douglas Goodwin, University of California, Los Angeles, California Institute of the Arts
The US Constitution and laws do not protect oil companies from being sued over the harm they cause to the climate

The US Constitution and laws do not protect oil companies from being sued over the harm they cause to the climate

In recent years, at least two dozen local and state governments have sued petroleum companies to recover the billions in costs they have incurred responding to and rebuilding after flooding, storms and wildfires – all of which have been worsened by changes to the climate resulting from burning fossil fuels. Most
Alejandro E. Camacho, University of California, Los Angeles, Robert Glicksman, George Washington University
Fat cells burn energy to make heat – making them the next frontier of weight loss therapies

Fat cells burn energy to make heat – making them the next frontier of weight loss therapies

(LOS ANGELES) Over the past few years, a new class of medications has transformed the treatment of obesity. Drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro work primarily by reducing appetite, helping people eat less and feel full sooner. Their success has demonstrated something important: Body weight is biologically regulated, and targeting
Claudio Villanueva, University of California, Los Angeles