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Phys.org / Climate change leaves its mark on America's largest reservoir
From high in the hills around Las Vegas, tourist Choune Osterero gazes down at the line of chalky mineral deposits left on the rocks around Lake Mead as the level of America's largest reservoir has dropped over the last quarter-century ...
Phys.org / Thermal anomaly discovered below Mars' south pole
Researchers have discovered a thermal asymmetry deep beneath the surface across Mars' southern hemisphere. Based on gravitational measurements that provide clues to the Red Planet's interior structure, Mars' southern interior ...
Tech Xplore / Veracity reveals sources behind AI fact checks with zero-to-100% reliability scores
A headline, an excerpt, a single sentence: Feed any of those into the fact-checking tool Veracity, and its artificial intelligence will provide not only a reliability score but also a plain-language explanation and a full ...
Tech Xplore / After US settlement, EU says Meta must 'protect our kids too'
The EU said Thursday it expects Meta to address "addictive" features of its platforms in Europe after the tech giant agreed to sweeping limits on teen use of Facebook and Instagram in some U.S. states.
Tech Xplore / Giant cyborg cockroaches could bring supervised care to people trapped beyond rescuers' reach
"Swarms" of cyborg cockroaches with cameras and miniature medical injectors could deliver supervised emergency care to people trapped in collapsed buildings, caves or other places too dangerous for rescuers to reach. The ...
Phys.org / Unexpected source of genetic diversity found in human sperm
Scientists have identified an unexpected source of genetic variation in human sperm that occurs earlier in sperm development than previously thought. Published in Nature, researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, the ...
Phys.org / Heat makes emergency rooms busier. Study shows which illness and injuries rise during hot spells
When the temperature heats up, so do emergency rooms, according to a massive study of Chicago hospital and urgent care records, which found increased accidental gunshot wounds, kidney complaints, skin problems, varicose veins ...
Phys.org / The crisis in cosmology continues: Critical problems in a recent defense of cosmic acceleration
Doubts about the standard model of cosmology are deepening after a new study identified fundamental problems in a recent analysis that defended the conventional view that the universe is currently undergoing accelerated expansion ...
Tech Xplore / Nearly 700 AI agents coordinated Hugging Face attack, says report
Nearly 700 OpenAI artificial intelligence agents coordinated an attack on the Hugging Face platform without human intervention during a well-publicized July incident, according to a report published Wednesday by independent ...
Tech Xplore / Nvidia to buy AI platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion: Report
Nvidia is set to buy artificial intelligence platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, news outlet The Information reported Wednesday, as the U.S. chipmaking giant seeks to diversify.
Phys.org / Light particles reveal critical scaling in a two-dimensional photon gas
A team of researchers from the University of Bonn, Heidelberg University and the National Autonomous University of Mexico has studied the critical behavior of light particles (photons) close to a phase transition. This critical ...
Medical Xpress / FDA approves new treatment for hard-to-treat pancreatic cancer
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday the approval of a treatment for pancreatic cancer that could usher in a new era in managing one of the deadliest forms of the disease.
