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Researchers document rice plants trapping and killing fall armyworm caterpillars
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Precision DNA editing targets root cause of severe childhood epilepsy in preclinical study
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UMass Chan scientist Marcus Ruscetti receives 2026 Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Prize
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Consumers willing to pay more for lobster harvested with ropeless technology, UMaine study finds
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Ousiometrics Analysis Says All Human Language Is Biased
A new tool drawing on billions of uses of more than 20,000 words and diverse real-world texts claims to have found that human language is systematically biased, but not against things. It is instead biased toward safety and that has impacted everything from psychology claims to how Large Language Models (LLMs, colloquially called Artificial Intelligence and AI).
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Enrico Stomeo - A Lifelong Passion For Meteor Studies
I was reached this evening by the news of the passing of a dear friend, Enrico Stomeo. Enrico was an architect by profession, but for me he was rather defined by his activity as an amateur astronomer - in fact, if I had to define what a serious amateur astronomer is, I would more or less consciously be describing him.
[Above, a recent picture of Enrico]
The Associazione Astrofili Veneziani
[Above, a recent picture of Enrico]
The Associazione Astrofili Veneziani
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Why Raw Dairy Farms In California Acccelerated The H5N1 Bird Flu Pandemic
Californis is the largest dairy producer in the United States. It is also the most anti-science state, distrustful of the modern world. That is why coastal cities had measles parties until the COVID-19 pandemic happened; they believed the MMR vaccine caused autism in children. They love raw milk because they believed pasteurization eliminates magical nutrition that scientists can't detect.
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Wavelengths Of Light Are Why CO2 Cools The Upper Atmosphere But Warms Earth
There are concerns about projected warming on the Earth’s surface and in the lower atmosphere even while the planet’s upper atmosphere has cooled.
It's not a paradox, it's a pattern and a recent paper described the mechanics of how it works. The short answer is that carbon dioxide (CO2) reacts differently to wavelengths of light. Closer to earth, CO2 traps it but it makes the stratosphere better at radiating, which cools it—but because it becomes colder, the Earth system ends up losing less heat to space overall, strengthening warming below.
It's not a paradox, it's a pattern and a recent paper described the mechanics of how it works. The short answer is that carbon dioxide (CO2) reacts differently to wavelengths of light. Closer to earth, CO2 traps it but it makes the stratosphere better at radiating, which cools it—but because it becomes colder, the Earth system ends up losing less heat to space overall, strengthening warming below.
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Surviving Queues: 1 - At The Airport
Nobody likes to wait in line. Whether you are sitting in your car waiting to reach the toll booths, on a plane waiting to disembark along with the other passengers, or in a queue at the ticket office, you may experience a range of feelings ranging from perplexity (“What am I doing here?”) to impatience (“Why is this not moving forward?”), to annoyance (“What is that idiot in the front chatting about with the operator?”).
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