November 27, 20243 min readScience for True Well-BeingThe latest research is an antidote to toxic quackery and honest confusion about healthBy Andrea Gawrylewski Paul Saladino is an Internet-famous doctor with 2.4 million followers on Instagram. His videos promote so-called animal-based...
Diamonds can store data stably for long periods of timeUniversity of Science and Technology of China The famous marketing slogan about how a diamond is forever may only be a slight exaggeration for a diamond-based system capable of storing information...
November 26, 20244 min readFast Fashion Affects Climate, Exploits Workers and Creates Enormous Textile WasteFast fashion may seem cheap, but it’s taking a costly toll on the planet—and on millions of young peopleBy Paula M. Carbone & The Conversation US...
Rachel Feltman: It’s almost Thanksgiving, and you know what that means: it’s already been “Black Friday” for, like, a week. What used to be a post-turkey American shopping tradition has ballooned into a global phenomenon of November sales. If you’re...
An orca carrying a salmon in its mouth in south-east AlaskaMinden Pictures/Alamy Some of the orcas off North America’s west coast have taken to wearing dead salmon on their heads, resurrecting a curious trend that was first reported in the...
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,...
