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Hospital food has a bad reputation. A chef reimagined it — with a focus on healing

Vancouver hospital pilot project introduced more than 20 new meals aimed at getting patients to eat.

Two Students Uncover Security Bug That Could Let Millions Do Their Laundry For Free

CSC ServiceWorks provides laundry machines to thousands of residential homes and universities, but the company ignored requests to fix a security bug.

Hopes For Sustainable Jet Fuel Not Realistic, Report Finds

IPS report says replacement fuels well off track to replace kerosene within timeframe needed to avert climate disaster.

OpenAI’s Long-Term AI Risk Team Has Disbanded

The entire OpenAI team focused on the existential dangers of AI has either resigned or been absorbed into other research groups.

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Airbus Unveils Half-Plane, Half-Copter In Quest For Speed

There are missions where the quickest possible access to the zone is vital.

UK Police Could Get Ghostbusters-style Backpack Devices To Halt Ebike Getaways

Device in development fires electromagnetic pulse that tricks ebikes and scooters into shutting off.

Quantum internet draws near thanks to entangled memory breakthroughs

Researchers aiming to create a secure quantum version of the internet need a device called a quantum repeater, which doesn’t yet exist - but now two teams say they are well on the way to building one.

Flood of Fake Science Forces Multiple Journal Closures

Fake studies have flooded the publishers of top scientific journals leading to thousands of retractions and millions of dollars in lost revenue.

Collapsing Sheets of Spacetime Could Explain Dark Matter and Why the Universe ‘Hums’

Domain walls, long a divisive topic in physics, may be ideal explanations for some bizarre cosmic quirks.

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Revolutionary Genetics Research Shows RNA May Rule Our Genome

Scientists have recently discovered thousands of active RNA molecules that can control the human body

UK’s puffin protection laws at centre of post Brexit row

The UK recently banned fishing in the North Sea for the bird’s favourite food, the sandeel. But the European Union is demanding the ban be lifted.

Google’s Invisible AI Watermark Will Help Identify Generative Text and Video

Google’s SynthID watermarking tool can already detect AI-generated images and audio, and now it encompasses more media.

Ancient trees reveal last summer hottest in 2,000 years

Clues hidden deep in the trunks of ancient trees have revealed that last summer was the northern hemisphere’s hottest in 2,000 years.

We’re told to ‘eat a rainbow’ of fruit and vegetables.

This isn’t just because it looks nice on the plate. Each colour signifies different nutrients our body needs.

Ordered Back To the Office, Top Tech Talent Left Instead, Study Finds

While the corporate culture and return-to-office policies differ markedly between the three companies, the similar effects of the RTO mandates suggest that the effects are driven by common underlying dynamics.

New $25M facility allows Canada’s ocean scientists, military to share research

Facility for Intelligent Marine Systems opened Monday in Dartmouth.

New version of Chat-GPT can teach maths and flirt

It’s called GPT-4o, and it will be rolled out to all users of ChatGPT, including non-subscribers.

Why writing by hand beats typing for thinking and learning

Handwriting is probably among the most complex motor skills that the brain is capable of,

How the Moon got a makeover

The Moon’s former surface sank to the depths, until volcanism brought it back.

Will Smarter Cars Bring ‘Optimized’ Traffic Lights?

Red, yellow, green … and white?

Webb Telescope Finds a (Hot) Earth-Sized Planet With an Atmosphere

A thick atmosphere has been detected around the planet that’s twice as big as Earth in a solar system about 41 light years away.

Could Atomically Thin Layers Bring A 19x Energy Jump In Battery Capacitors?

Sang-Hoon Bae developed heterostructures with material properties optimal for high-density energy storage, durable ultrafast charging.

The geomagnetic storm is a nightmare for farmers relying on precision agriculture tech

According to a report, the solar activity has disrupted critical GPS systems that guide modern tractors.

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Photographer Sets World Record for Fastest Drone Flight

A photographer and content creator has set the world record for the fastest drone flight after his custom-made aircraft achieved a staggering 298.47 miles per hour (480.2 kilometers per hour).

Is Dark Matter’s Main Rival Theory Dead?

There’s bad news from the Cassini spacecraft and other recent tests.

Father of SQL Says Yes to NoSQL

Sometimes your own invention just isn’t enough anymore.

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Are Small Modular Nuclear Reactors Costly and Unviable?

When evaluated on the basis of cost per unit of power capacity, SMRs will actually be more expensive than large reactors.

Glimmer of hope for mountain chicken frog which was once a national dish

A frog that has been cooked and eaten for decades on the Caribbean island of Dominica is on the verge of becoming extinct, but there is now a frantic push to try to save it.

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The People Who Won’t Give Up Floppy Disks

The last floppy disk was made over a decade ago and doesn’t even have enough capacity to store a modern smart phone picture, so why do some people still love using them?

Could Stem Cells One Day Cure Diabetes?

By fall 2023, three patients had achieved insulin independence by day 180 post-transplant,

NASA’s Plan To Build a Levitating Robot Train on the Moon

NASA’s plan to build a train track on the moon is part of the agency’s Innovative Advanced Concepts program, which aims to develop “science fiction-like” projects for future space exploration.

Did OpenAI, Google and Meta ‘Cut Corners’ to Harvest AI Training Data?

What happened when OpenAI ran out of English-language training data in 2021?

The Earth’s CO2 Levels Are Increasing Faster Than Ever

Hawaii’s Mauna Loa Observatory just captured an ominous sign about the pace of global warming.

Space program captures images of B.C.’s dry riverbeds as drought continues

Images from Canadian mission show narrow waterways reflecting lack of rain, snow