The story of human evolution has undergone a distinct feminisation in recent decades. Or, rather, an equalisation: a much-needed rebalancing after 150 years during which, we were told, everything was driven by males strutting, brawling and…
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AI Empowers, Not Replaces, Surgical Educators
How can AI contribute to neurosurgical training? This is what a recent study published in JAMA Surgery hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated how AI can improve brain surgeon training. This…
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mRNA Vaccine Tech Could Transform Medicine and Cure Diseases. RFK, Jr. Just Pulled Its Funding
Why mRNA Vaccines Are So Revolutionary—And What’s at Stake if We Lose Them
Speed and flexibility have made mRNA a blockbuster technology
Lipid nanoparticles, like the one shown in this illustration,…
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Some AI tools don’t understand biology yet
Underwhelming performance
The task in this case is predicting how gene activity might change when genes are altered. When an individual gene is lost or activated, it’s possible that the only messenger RNA that is altered is…
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This Cholera-Related Bacterium Is Melting Sea Stars, Causing a Marine Epidemic
A marine epidemic that has killed over 20 different species of sea stars from Alaska to Mexico — the largest ever documented — has been happening over the past decade. Scientists have long sought the culprit and have finally identified it,…
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Massive eruption at Yellowstone National Park closed visitor area – Deseret News
- Yellowstone scientists now have evidence that explains a massive eruption at Black Diamond Pool last year.
- The Biscuit Basin, where the pool is located, has been closed since July 2024 while a cause was determined.
- The eruption destroyed the…
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Wildfire season is starting weeks earlier in California – a new study shows how climate change is driving the expansion
Fire season is expanding in California, with an earlier start to wildfire activity in most of the state. In parts of the northern mountains, the season is now starting more than 10 weeks earlier than it did in the 1990s, a new study shows.…
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Inside the Biden Administration’s Unpublished Report on AI Safety
At a computer security conference in Arlington, Virginia, last October, a few dozen AI researchers took part in a first-of-its-kind exercise in “red teaming,” or stress-testing a cutting-edge language model and other artificial intelligence…
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In Surveying, Small Wins Bring Big Gains
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Survey data is the real-world basis for any construction project, from the smallest building to a 16-mile-long tunnel snaking beneath the Norwegian Sea.
It is the straightforward effort to determine the positions of points on or...
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NASA Astronaut Barry “Butch” Wilmore Retires
After 25 years at NASA, flying in four different spacecraft, accumulating 464 days in space, astronaut and test pilot Butch Wilmore has retired from NASA.
The Tennessee native earned a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in electrical…
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