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Chemists Chase ‘Clean’ Ammonia to Replace Shipping Fuel

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President Biden’s climate law is funding “green ammonia” projects in hopes of using the chemical to more cleanly power the grid, fuel cargo ships and make fertilizer

The Strongest Solar Storm in 20 Years Did Little Damage, but Worse Space Weather Is Coming

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Years of careful planning helped safeguard against last weekend’s severe space weather, but we still don’t know how we’d cope with a monster event

A Cubic Millimeter of a Human Brain Has Been Mapped in Spectacular Detail

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Google scientists have modeled all 150 million connections of a fragment of the human brain at nanoscale resolution

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What Is Pasteurization, and How Does It Keep Milk Safe?

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The pasteurization process was invented in the 1860s and continues to keep people safe from a range of foodborne illnesses

Hurricanes Caused Lost Income among at Least Half of Local Residents

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Nearly half of residents lost income after a hurricane, a new study shows. Most were low-paid hourly workers in storefront shops

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There Is Too Much Trash in Space

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Debris from spacecraft threatens the burgeoning space economy. We need a global agreement to keep space clean

Slow Response to Bird Flu in Cows Worries Scientists

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The H5N1 virus is a long way from becoming adapted to humans, but limited testing and tracking mean we could miss danger signs

Proposed Plastics Law Could Slash Wasteful Packaging

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A law proposed in New York State seeks to reduce plastic packaging, ban certain plastic chemicals and mandate that producers of packaged consumer goods fund the recycling or disposal of what they sell

How Does ChatGPT ‘Think’? Psychology and Neuroscience Crack Open AI Large Language Models

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Researchers are striving to reverse-engineer artificial intelligence and scan the “brains” of LLMs to deduce the how any why of that they are doing

This Year’s La Niña Could Worsen Atlantic Hurricane Season

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Earth is shifting into a La Niña period, changing climate patterns all around the globe

AI Tool Predicts Whether Online Health Misinformation Will Cause Real-World Harm

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A new AI-based analytical technique reveals that specific language phrasing in Reddit misinformation posts foretold people rejecting COVID vaccinations

How Can You ‘See’ a Black Hole?

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How do astronomers find the darkest objects in the universe?

What’s Turning Cape Cod’s Water ‘Pea-Soup Green’?

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Cape Cod’s water is turning “pea-soup green”—and after decades of scientific detective work, we know why.

MAY 16, 2024

Egypt’s Famed Pyramids Overlooked a Long-Lost Branch of the Nile

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A former stretch of the Nile River, now buried beneath the Sahara Desert, may help scientists understand how Egyptians built the pyramids and adapted to a drying landscape

Device Decodes ‘Internal Speech’ in the Brain

New tech decodes internal speech

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Technology that enables researchers to interpret brain signals could one day allow people to talk using only their thoughts

Do We Have Enough Bird Flu Vaccines for a Potential Pandemic?

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The U.S. government has a stockpile of H5N1 vaccines, and several companies could make millions more if needed. But scaling up the supply could take time

Why Do We Sing? New Analysis of Folk Songs Finds Similarities around the World

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Across the globe, singing traditions are vast and varied. Their commonalities may help explain how music evolved

Spiderweb Thread Inspires Ultrasmall Microphones

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Sound recording could take a cue from arachnid acoustics

Mental Time Travel Helps Birds Remember Food Stashes

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Eurasian Jays use something similar to humans’ episodic memory to remember where they stored their food

How New Science Fiction Could Help Us Improve AI

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We need to tell a new story about AI, and fiction has that power, humanities scholars say

Does Quantum Physics Rule Out Free Will?

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Everything in the universe may be preordained, according to physics