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WorldPingThe Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley School of Law has released a human rights assessment of the use of large language models (LLMs) in the fields of law, journalism and education.
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WorldPingWe've been searching for life on Mars for a long time, but so far we've come up empty. The fundamental problem is a Catch-22 involving two of the key ingredients for life.
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WorldPingTaylor Swift is now the namesake of a genus of plant-feeding insects from Australia that were previously unknown to science.
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WorldPingScholasticide—deliberate attacks on a society's education system in armed conflict—is a war crime that must be publicly condemned and its perpetrators held to account, insists an editorial published by The BMJ.
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WorldPingAI engineers often recognize ethical risks associated with the systems they build, but many lack the authority, incentives and organizational support needed to act on them, according to new research from the University of Manchester.
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WorldPingResearchers at the National Graphene Institute have shown that naturally occurring channels within a common clay mineral can respond to pressure, voltage and pH, offering possibilities for controlling the movement of ions through extremely small, con…
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WorldPingPorous liquids combine permanent nanoscale cavities with fluidity, making them promising for applications like carbon dioxide capture, gas separation and other chemical processes.
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WorldPingFrom the Vredefort Dome in South Africa (the world's oldest and largest known meteorite impact structure) to the volcanic lakes of the Great Rift Valley in Kenya, Africa's landscapes hold some of Earth's oldest stories.
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WorldPingA new study published in Science Advances reveals how Bronze Age communities in Central Europe adapted to changing environmental and social conditions by adopting broomcorn millet, a fast-growing, climate-resilient crop.
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WorldPingThe Lasker Foundation has announced the winners of its 2026 awards for basic medical research, clinical science and public service.
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WorldPingMorocco spent most of the last decade drying out. Between 2019 and 2024, the country recorded six consecutive years of below-average rainfall, the longest on record.
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WorldPingFrom targeted cancer treatments to self-healing materials and microscopic robots, many emerging technologies depend on molecules that can be controlled with light.
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WorldPingAn international team led by researchers from the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil has developed an innovative method to identify stars that have consumed the planets around them.
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WorldPingUsing NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, scientists have discovered a new class of objects behaving unlike any they have seen before.
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WorldPingLove it or hate it, artificial intelligence is likely here to stay. Its ravenous need for computational power has overwhelmed chip manufacturers and power companies alike.
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WorldPingChemists in a new study led by the University of Iowa report they have isolated and described in detail an atypical state of the rare-earth metal terbium, an advance that could expand its use in quantum technologies, including computing and advanced sensors.
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WorldPingCadmium is a naturally occurring, toxic heavy metal found in many soils across Latin America and the Caribbean, where cacao trees are widely cultivated.
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WorldPingResearchers have discovered a system that helps seeds survive when there is too much salt in the soil. The system helps young germinating embryos keep the right balance of sodium and potassium as they begin to grow.
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WorldPingA "forbidden" merger between two black holes may not have been quite as impossible as previously thought. New research that suggests the black holes involved were smaller than first calculated.
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WorldPingThe human body fights staph infections by starving it of essential nutrients. Staph, it turns out, is remarkably good at changing what's on the menu.
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WorldPingUniversity of Missouri researchers are paving the way as artificial intelligence transforms biomedical research.
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WorldPingDrawing on 14 years of data, we examined whether access to broadband internet could improve Americans' use of time and found that a 10% increase in broadband adoption across a community corresponds to a 1.19% reduction in waiting time.
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WorldPingA forest can look intact from the roadside and still have lost much of its capacity to bounce back.
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WorldPingPelicans have resided in St James's Park, London, for 360 years. But the current flock has been a summer sensation because of the first chicks to hatch in the park's history.
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WorldPingIchthyosaurs ruled the oceans for 150 million years during the Mesozoic Era. Their fish-shaped bodies were built for high speeds. In that context, it is normally an advantage to be as light as possible.
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WorldPingA NASA Launch Services (NLS) II contract has been awarded by the agency to Relativity Space Inc., and its Terran R launch service in accordance with the contract’s on-ramp provision.
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WorldPingAs a liquid that is easily stored and transported, ammonia (NH3) is an attractive carrier for hydrogen, which is used in fuel cells, semiconductor manufacturing, chemical processing and other applications.
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WorldPingCaring for others without caring for oneself is associated with lower levels of well-being and may not be sustainable, a new study found.
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WorldPingEuropean Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot paid tribute to Star Trek’s real-world contributions to science and exploration by wearing Captain Pike’s Starfleet badge aboard the International Space Station on the show’s 60th anniversary.
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WorldPingA rare sighting of a bigfin squid near an underwater mountain off California is the first confirmed live observation of the bizarre animal in the northeastern Pacific, researchers say.
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WorldPingThe more we learn about chimpanzees, the more they resemble us – but the further back in time our shared ancestor seems to be.Columnist Michael Marshall explores how both can be true…
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WorldPingA breakthrough on the Navier-Stokes equations could be worth a $1 million prize, but a mathematician has serious questions about how OpenAI got there so fast.
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WorldPingUsing ALMA, astronomers have watched as two stars come together to form a massive stellar binary, finding chaos that indicates they emerged from different backgrounds.
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WorldPingUsing NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, scientists have discovered a new class of objects behaving unlike any they have seen before.
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WorldPingScientists have identified a "climate teleconnection" between the Rocky Mountains and the Tibetan Plateau, where warm spots left a kink in the jet stream that intensifed weather in the western U.S.
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WorldPingHunter-gatherers from the last ice age sucked on betel nuts to soothe their toothaches, a new study reveals.
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WorldPing"When you look up at the night sky, most of those stars have planets."…
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WorldPingThe human brain flushes out waste products while we sleep and now it seems that certain sounds might enhance the process…
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WorldPingUnusually high temperatures over the mountainous region can kick-start a chain of events that ultimately leads to a severe deluge on the US West Coast, scientists say…
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WorldPingStrange, rounded grooves in prehistoric teeth are thought to have been made by regularly sucking whole betel nuts to extract a pain-relieving compound.This marks the earliest known example of probable substance addiction…
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WorldPingResearchers combined 100-plus images of a single black hole into an AI-powered video to chart the activity of a mighty blazar's jet.
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WorldPingWith little in the way of significant discoveries since 2012, there have been mutterings that particle physics is at a dead end.However, new dark matter results suggest an exciting new way to hunt for reality's undiscovered ingredients…
Brief by WorldPing · Original reporting by New Scientist
WorldPingTwisteddoodles on spies through the ages — full report at New Scientist.
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WorldPingTom Gauld on an introduction to basic philosophical astronomy — full report at New Scientist.
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WorldPingWhy do people appear younger and better-looking in a mirror than in a photograph? Are humans the only animals that cry? If so, why?
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WorldPingReaders continue to share stories of how their own dogs respond to aircrafts…
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WorldPingA reader thinks outside the box on ways to mitigate against this slow-forming issue…
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WorldPingLast November, NASA and its European partners launched the Sentinel-6B satellite to improve hurricane forecasts, help protect infrastructure, and benefit commercial industries, including shipping.
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