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Ancient Central Americans built a massive fish-trapping system
Starting around 4,000 years ago, an elaborate fish-trapping system nourished expanding human populations in lowland Central America, a new study finds. The discovery of this massive construction project indicates that aquatic foods at…
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Standing at work can be detrimental to blood pressure
A Finnish study found that prolonged standing at work had a negative impact on the research participants’ 24-hour blood pressure. In contrast, spending more time sitting at work was associated with better blood pressure. The study suggests that…
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Scientists identify a long-sought by-product of some drinking water treatments
Roughly one-third of Americans could be exposed to a long-sought, newly identified breakdown product of some chlorine-based water treatments.
Although the toxicity of the by-product, an electrically charged molecule, is yet to be…
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French Startup turns Greenhouse Gas Into Sustainable Fuel
As transportation sectors like shipping and aviation remain difficult to decarbonize, a French startup claims to have developed a promising solution to reduce carbon emissions in these industries. Aerleum, founded in 2023, says its technology can…
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Planetary Scientists Create Geological Map of Moon’s Oriental Basin
Researchers at the Planetary Science Institute have compiled a 1:200,000-scale geological map of the lunar Orientale basin, focusing on identifying the most widespread and accessible occurrences of impact melt deposits from the basin-forming…
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Here’s why turning to AI to train future AIs may be a bad idea
ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot and other AI tools whip up impressive sentences and paragraphs from as little as a simple line of text prompt. To generate those words, the underlying large language models were trained on reams of text written…
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Climate change has amped up hurricane wind speeds by 29 kph on average
As if hurricanes needed any more kick.
Human-caused climate change is boosting the intensity of Atlantic hurricanes by a whole category on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, which rates hurricanes based on their peak…
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Rare formations of cave pearls found in the Ain Joweizeh spring system
Archaeologists from the Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have uncovered formations of cave pearls during a study of the Ain Joweizeh spring system near Jerusalem.
Ain Joweizeh is a rock-cut subterranean spring that…
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Kempner AI cluster named one of world’s fastest ‘green’ supercomputers — Harvard Gazette
Researchers at Harvard now have access to one of the fastest and greenest supercomputers in the world.
Built to support cutting-edge research at the Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence, and Harvard…
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