Astronomers Detect ‘Waterworld With a Boiling Ocean’ in Deep Space

Significant discovery, made by James Webb telescope, provokes disagreement over conditions on planet’s surface

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Should an Emoji Count As Confirmation of a Contract?

Lawyers contend whether thumbs-up emoji can be confirmation of receipt or pass as signature.

Mexico Argues Glyphosate In GM Corn Is Unsafe For Human Consumption

Mexico is waiting for the United States to provide evidence that shows imported genetically modified corn is safe for human consumption.

Microscopic Plastics Could Raise Risk of Stroke and Heart Attack, Study Says

Scientists link tiny particles in blood vessels with substantially higher risk of death

Company That Plans To Bring Back the Mammoth Takes a Key Step

Making elephant stem cells required an elaborate process, lots of failures.

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Is America Running Out of Electrical Power?

The nation’s power grid appears to be reaching critical levels due to emerging technologies.

Researchers Jailbreak AI Chatbots With ASCII Art

ArtPrompt bypassed safety measures in ChatGPT, Gemini, Clause, and Llama2.

Voyager 1, First Craft in Interstellar Space, May Have Gone Dark

When Voyager 1 launched in 1977, scientists hoped it could do what it was built to do and take up-close images of Jupiter and Saturn. It did that – and much more.

Millions of Research Papers at Risk of Disappearing From the Internet

A study identified more than two million articles that did not appear in a major digital archive, despite having an active DOI.

Teachers Are Embracing ChatGPT-Powered Grading

A new tool called Writable, which uses ChatGPT to help grade student writing assignments, is being offered widely to teachers in grades 3-12.

New ‘Water Batteries’ Are Cheaper, Recyclable, And Won’t Explode

Water and electronics don’t usually mix, but as it turns out, batteries could benefit from some H2O.

Rising Temperatures and Heat Shocks Prompt Job Relocations, Study Finds

Climate-change risks are still less influential than labor and taxes for selecting an office location, but heat shocks appear to be prompting subtle labor force relocations.

Ontario nuclear plant to produce material for life-saving cancer treatment

Without domestic supply of radioactive isotopes, Ottawa companies have relied on imports to make drug.

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Bald eagle nest found in Toronto for 1st time in recorded history, conservation authority says

Residents warned not seek out or disturb nest as eagles may abandon their eggs

Bumblebees surprise scientists with ‘sophisticated’ social learning

Bees can teach others to master complex tasks, and display a level of social learning traditionally thought exclusive to humans, scientists have found.

World’s earliest forest discovered, scientists say

Scientists have found what they believe to be the world’s earliest known fossilised forest in cliffs on the coast of South West England.

Human-caused climate change fuels hottest February on record, all-time high ocean warming

EU climate agency says temperatures past internationally set threshold for long-term warming.

Robot ships: Huge remote controlled vessels are setting sail

It sounds like science fiction. Ocean-going ships with no-one on board. But this vision of the future is coming - and sooner than you might think.

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Why fat Labradors can blame their genes

A genetic mutation makes some Labradors and flat-coated retrievers constantly hungry while burning fewer calories, say scientists.

BYD’s EV Dream May Be Legacy Automakers’ Nightmare

World’s leading electrified carmaker is also a battery-tech rule breaker.

How Much Energy Will New Semiconductor Factories Burn Through in the US?

Semiconductor factories are coming back to the US, and they’re going to use a lot of energy.

Amazon Pays $650 Million For Nuclear-Powered Data Center

One of the US’s largest nuclear power plants will directly power cloud service provider Amazon Web Services’ new data center.

Screen Time Robs Average Toddler of Hearing 1,000 Words Spoken By Adult a Day, Study Finds

Research into 220 Australian families over two years concludes exposure to television, phone and other screens hinders young children’s language skills

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Starling murmurations fascinate car park crowd

Crowds have been flocking to the roof of a shopping centre car park to watch murmurations of starlings.

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Can the Panama Canal save itself?

The most famous waterway in the Americas is running dry.

Oregon OKs Right-To-Repair Bill That Bans the Blocking of Aftermarket Parts

Governor’s signature would stop software locks from impairing replacement parts.

The Arctic Ocean Could Be ‘Ice-Free’ Within the Decade, Researchers Warn

It’s no longer a remote possibility that might happen at some point,

Goodbye, Anthropocene? Scientists vote against new epoch

Proposed that start of new epoch was 1950, when human impact accelerated

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German patient vaccinated against Covid 217 times

A 62-year-old man from Germany has, against medical advice, been vaccinated 217 times against Covid, doctors report.

Dinosaur-age ’nightmarish’ sea lizard fossil found

Scientists say they have discovered fossils belonging to a “nightmarish” sea lizard species that hunted the oceans 66 million years ago.

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Serbia bird deaths: Suspected poisonings threaten much-loved owls

Bird watchers call Kikinda, in northeast Serbia, the “world capital of long-eared owls”.

How Facebook Contributes to the Demise of Endangered Species

With little enforcement or legal culpability, social media helps wildlife trafficking thrive in plain sight.

Hackers Exploited Windows 0-day for 6 Months After Microsoft Knew of It

Technically, Microsoft doesn’t consider such bugs vulnerabilities. It patched it anyway.

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Carmakers Must Bring Back Physical Buttons, Says Europe

The overuse of touchscreens is an industry-wide problem, with almost every vehicle-maker moving key controls onto central touchscreens…

Setback For Hopes of Life As NASA Says Less Oxygen On Jupiter Moon Than Thought

Research published in Nature Astronomy suggests lower oxygen levels on Europa mean ‘narrower range to support habitability.’

Qualcomm Launches First True ‘App Store’ For AI With 75 Free Models

The pre-optimized AI models are ready for use on Snapdragon and Qualcomm devices.

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America’s Last Morse-Code Station

Maritime Morse code was formally phased out in 1999, but in California, a group of enthusiasts who call themselves the “radio squirrels” keeps the tradition alive.

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New satellite will track elusive methane pollution from oil and gas industry globally

MethaneSAT mission to fill ‘critical data gap’ for identifying potent greenhouse gas emissions, expert says

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Can You Picture Things in Your Mind?

People with aphantasia can’t mentally visualize things. Mental imagery is a spectrum, and we lie outside it, in the dark.

New Ratings for the ‘Greenest’ Car in America Might Surprise You

If you try to imagine a “green” car, an electric vehicle is probably the first thing that comes to mind.

Road-Embedded Sensors to Find Street Parking Tested in Taiwanese City

Banqiao, Yonghe, Zhongye, and Xindian Districts to provide online service using geomagnetic sensors from March.

Star dune: Scientists solve mystery behind Earth’s largest desert sands

The age of one of Earth’s largest and most complex types of sand dune has been calculated for the first time.

NASA Shutters $2B Satellite Refueling Project, Blames Contractor For Delays

It will discontinue the On-orbit Servicing, Assembly and Manufacturing 1 project after nearly a decade of work due to “continued technical, cost, and schedule challenges.”

Microsoft built two datacenters west of Phoenix, with plans for seven more (serving, among other companies, OpenAI).

Worms could potentially steal data and deploy malware.

How AI is Taking Water From the Desert

Microsoft built two datacenters west of Phoenix, with plans for seven more (serving, among other companies, OpenAI).

Jellyfish protein to detect fingerprints in seconds

Scientists have developed a forensics spray using a fluorescent protein found in jellyfish to detect fingerprints in seconds.