The most recent torrential rains in east-central Mexico, which have left at least 72 dead and dozens more missing, have raised questions again about the government’s ability to alert people to severe weather in time.
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Deadly floods in Mexico another sign of need for improved severe weather warnings
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US court bars NSO Group from installing spyware on WhatsApp
A US judge on Friday granted an injunction barring Israeli spyware maker NSO Group from targeting WhatsApp users but slashed a $168 million damages award at trial to just $4 million.
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FAA allows Boeing to increase 737 Max production nearly two years after door plug flew off plane
The Federal Aviation Administration said Friday it will allow Boeing to produce more 737 Max airplanes by increasing the monthly limit that it imposed after a door plug blew off an Alaska Airlines jet that the company built.
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Oral drug combination extends progression-free survival in advanced ER-positive breast cancer
Patients with estrogen-receptor-positive HER-2-negative advanced breast cancer showed significantly improved progression-free survival when treated with an oral combination regimen that includes giredestrant, a novel, next-generation selective…
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Lab-grown brains with all major cell types support next-generation therapy research
A new 3D human brain tissue platform developed by MIT researchers is the first to integrate all major brain cell types, including neurons, glial cells and the vasculature into a single culture. Grown from individual donors’ induced pluripotent…
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Six layers stacked vertically to reinvent microchips
In the race to make electronics smaller, faster, and more efficient, scientists at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia have achieved a breakthrough that could reshape the future of microchips.
They have…
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Can you actually get high from licking a toad?
In 2022, the U.S. National Park Service posted a blurry photo of a toad, snapped by a night-vision wildlife camera and accompanied by a tongue-in-cheek warning:
As we say with most things you come across in a national park, whether it be a banana…
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AutoCode: A New AI Framework that Lets LLMs Create and Verify Competitive Programming Problems, Mirroring the Workflow of Human Problem Setters
Are your LLM code benchmarks actually rejecting wrong-complexity solutions and interactive-protocol violations, or are they passing under-specified unit tests? A team of researchers from UCSD, NYU, University of Washington,…
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Earth from Space: Chilean glaciers
The changing face of the Chilean glaciers in the Laguna San Rafael National Park is featured in these satellite images from 1987 and 2024.
Located on the Pacific coast of southern Chile, the park covers an area of around 17 000 sq km and…
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What’s Rumbling Beneath the Oldoinyo Lengai Volcano? Scientists Finally Know
Researchers at Mainz University identified volcanic tremors caused by the movement of magma. What really happens inside a volcano? How does it function beneath the surface, and what creates the subtle vibrations, known as tremor, that occur when…
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