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Drones and AI Could Locate Land Mines in Ukraine

December 1, 2023 2 min read An AI model could speed up laborious and dangerous demining efforts By Lori Youmshajekian Signage indicates the presence of landmines at the position of.

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U.S. Targets Methane Emissions in New Batch of Rules

CLIMATEWIRE | President Joe Biden pledged to use “all available tools” to rein in methane when he was elected three years ago. Now his promise is coming due. Federal agencies are.

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New Results Reveal How to Build a Nuclear Clock

November 1, 2023 2 min read Nuclear clocks could shatter timekeeping records. Now physicists are learning how to build one By Kenna Hughes-Castleberry From satellite navigation to GPS, the world.

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U.K. Becomes First Country to Approve a CRISPR Disease Treatment

In a world first, the UK medicines regulator has approved a therapy that uses CRISPR gene editing as a treatment for diseases. The decision marks another high point for a.

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Invasive ‘Cocaine Hippos’ Are Being Sterilized in Colombia

Colombia has begun a new campaign sterilizing its invasive hippos, showing signs that it is taking the threat the animals pose to the country’s biodiversity and local communities seriously. The.

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Why Does This Hybrid Monkey Glow Green?

Scientists have just achieved a milestone in stem-cell biology after creating a monkey from two embryos. And proof of the achievement, perhaps unnervingly, showed up in the infant primate’s eerie.

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Electric Vehicles Might Not Yet Have Replaced as Much Car Mileage as Hoped

CLIMATEWIRE | Electric vehicles may one day dominate U.S. roads, but for now, they’re spending a lot of time in the driveway. New research published in the academic journal Joule found that drivers of.

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AI Needs Rules, but Who Will Get to Make Them?

About 150 government and industry leaders from around the world, including Vice President Kamala Harris and billionaire Elon Musk, descended on England this week for the U.K.’s AI Safety Summit..

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What Peace Speech–The Benign Twin of Hate Speech–Says about a Country

Hate speech is one of the most reliable predictors of violence in any community. Researchers have worked for years to develop methods to track its prevalence in conflict-prone areas. It.

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Cannibalistic Dads May Be Contributing to Hellbender Salamander Declines

Male hellbender salamanders usually make doting dads, guarding eggs and shaking them free of silt. But in some troubled populations, they are cannibalizing their entire brood every year, further jeopardizing.

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