The output of AIs is controlled by the interactions of huge networks of nodes or weightsshulz/Getty Images An artificial intelligence model can be made to spout gibberish if a single one of the many billions of numbers that compose it...
Produce has been the source of many foodborne illness outbreaks in the US this yearThe Image Party/Shutterstock Apple sauce containing lead. Onions carrying E. coli. Deli meat spreading listeria. The past year has seen alert after alert from US public...
November 26, 20243 min readWildfire Smoke Linked to Increased Risk of DementiaThe particles that make up wildfire smoke may raise the risk of dementia even more than similar airborne pollutants from other sourcesBy Chelsea Harvey & E&E NewsA firefighter is...
November 26, 20244 min readHow the Return of Salmon to the Klamath River Shows Us What’s Possible in Wildlife ConservationOnce a tragic example of degraded wildlife habitat, the Klamath River’s dam removal demonstrates how people can halt the decline of,...
The severed pig’s head had come from the local abattoir. It would have typically been discarded, but Zvonimir Vrselja, a neuroscientist at Yale School of Medicine, and his colleagues had other ideas. Four hours after this particular animal was decapitated,...
Children in Quebec, Canada, taking part in the Open Sky School programmeNathanael Corre/École à Ciel Ouvert Forest schools, where students spend some of their time learning outside, seem to have no immediate benefits to most children’s mental health, but could...
So I felt that that movement was a little bit repetitive in a way. And it’s also very hard because these stones were a bit heavy. And they called my father, who he’s not seventeen or eighteen years old, to...
Magnet fisher James Kane cradles a shiny, four-pound magnetic disk: a stainless-steel shell housing an alloy of iron, neodymium and boron. He hucks it into a lake in a public park in New York City, then tugs it slowly toward...
Sodium-ion batteries could have advantages over those containing lithiumJuan Roballo/Shutterstock The following is an extract from our climate newsletter Fix the Planet. Find out about our range of newsletters and sign up here. The clean energy revolution depends on batteries,...
Plastic waste in IndonesiaPA Images / Alamy The world currently produces more than 50 million tonnes of “mismanaged” plastic waste each year, and some researchers project this flood of plastic pollution will double by mid-century – but they also say...
