The rare Antrodia cinnamomea fungus (also known as Taiwanofungus camphoratus) is only found in Taiwan, and is associated with one particular type of endangered tree. Long used for herbal medicines, the fungus has now been linked to…
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Corn Moon 2025: How to see the final full moon of summer rise during a ‘blood moon’ lunar eclipse
The final full moon of the Northern Hemisphere’s summer will occur on Sunday, Sept. 7, and the best time to see it will be later that day as it rises in the east at dusk.
Although it’s often called the Harvest Moon, September’s full moon is named…
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AI Spots Hidden Signs of Consciousness in Comatose Patients before Doctors Do
August 31, 2025
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AI Spots Hidden Signs of Consciousness in Comatose Patients before Doctors Do
A machine-learning algorithm spotted signs of “covert consciousness” in coma patients—in some cases, days before doctors could do so
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Covid Could Be Quietly Aging Your Arteries by Five Years
COVID-19 may accelerate artery aging by years, particularly in women, raising stroke and heart attack risk. Credit: Shutterstock COVID-19 may be silently accelerating the aging of our arteries, with women facing the sharpest impact.
A…
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Cornell Scientists Unlock the Secret to Age-Defying Weight Control
Scientists discovered how to switch aging fat cells back into calorie-burning mode, hinting at a way to fight weight gain and disease without freezing temperatures. Credit: Stock Scientists at Cornell have uncovered a way to…
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These Newly Discovered Cells Breathe in Two Ways
The team members went through a process of incrementally determining what elements and molecules the bacterial strain could grow on. They already knew it could use oxygen, so they tested other combinations in the lab. When oxygen was absent, RSW1…
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Giant ‘Gullies’ in the Earth Threaten Cities in Africa amid Rapid Urbanization
August 31, 2025
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Huge Cracks in the Earth Are Slicing through Cities, Swallowing Houses and Displacing Thousands of People
Hundreds of thousands of people are at risk of losing homes, businesses—and lives—as giant “gullies” expand…
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What is AI Agent Observability? Top 7 Best Practices for Reliable AI
What is Agent Observability?
Agent observability is the discipline of instrumenting, tracing, evaluating, and monitoring AI agents across their full lifecycle—from planning and tool calls to memory writes and final outputs—so…
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A new research project is the first comprehensive effort to categorize all the ways AI can go wrong, and many of those behaviors resemble human psychiatric disorders.
Scientists have suggested that when artificial intelligence (AI) goes rogue and starts to act in ways counter to its intended purpose, it exhibits behaviors that resemble psychopathologies in humans. That’s why they have created a new taxonomy…
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See the original version of ‘Earthrise,’ taken 59 years ago this week — Space photo of the week
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What it is: The world’s first photo of Earth from the moon
Where it is: Lunar orbit, about 239,000 miles (385,000 kilometers) from Earth
When it was shared: Aug. 23, 2025 (originally taken Aug. 23, 1966)
Humanity’s first look at Earth…
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