The world’s first mass-produced ethanol car, the Fiat 147, motored onto Brazilian roads in 1979. The vehicle crowned decades of experimentation in the country with sugar-cane (and later, corn-based and second-generation sugar-cane waste)…
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Recycling Workers Face High Metal Exposure
What risks can metal recycling pose to workers? This is what a recent study published in the International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health hopes to address as a collaborative team of researchers…
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The Air In Hospitals and On Airplanes Is Cleaner Than You Think
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We humans stuff ourselves into tight quarters for various reasons. Sometimes we…
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How a bacterial toxin linked to colon cancer messes with DNA
The microbial toxin colibactin has just the right shape to snuggle up to DNA — but its embrace is unfortunately more cancerous than cozy.
Colibactin is produced by bacteria in the gut and causes mutations implicated in colon…
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Nanotyrannus is still not a teenage T. rex
Let the record show: In 2025, one of paleontology’s oldest debates was settled. A second study in as many months confirms — using an independent and novel analysis — that the the tiny tyrannosaur Nanotyrannus is indeed its own…
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Chatbots spew facts and falsehoods to sway voters
Laundry-listing facts rarely changes hearts and minds – unless a bot is doing the persuading.
Briefly chatting with an AI moved potential voters in three countries toward their less preferred candidate, researchers report December…
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Cracking the code of why, when some choose to ‘self-handicap’ — Harvard Gazette
Partying the night before a big exam. Preparing last-minute for a work presentation. Running a 5K in a 10-pound Halloween costume. All are examples of what psychologists call “self-handicapping” — creating obstacles to success to order to…
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Prompt Engineering for Time Series Analysis
In this article, you will learn practical prompt-engineering patterns that make large language models useful and reliable for time series analysis and forecasting.
Topics we will cover include:
- How to frame temporal context and extract useful…
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Daily coffee may slow biological aging in mental illness
Drinking up to 3-4 cups of coffee a day may help slow the biological aging process in people living with severe mental illness. The research suggests this amount of coffee is linked to longer telomeres, which are indicators of cellular aging, and…
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A volcanic eruption might have helped bring the Black Plague to Europe
A volcanic eruption may have triggered a deadly chain of events that brought the Black Plague to Europe in the 14th century.
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