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International oversight would reduce risks, but could be "a politically sensitive and contentious matter."
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says the federal government is calling off around $500 million worth of vaccine development projects that use mRNA techno...
New research from a watchdog group reveals ChatGPT can provide harmful advice to teens. The Associated Press reviewed interactions where the chatbot gave detailed plans for drug use, eating disorders, and even suicide notes. The Center for Countering Digital Hate...
When Farrukh Alvi stepped into the world of engineering, he didn’t have a grand plan. His first direction as an [...]The post FAMU-FSU College of Engineering professor named Royal Aeronautical Society Fellow appeared first on Florida State University News.
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New AI agents handle pipeline creation, data science workflows and analytics queries autonomously, potentially reshaping how enterprise data professionals spend their time.
The U.S. has suspended live cattle imports from Mexico due to concerns about the New World Screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite found in southern Mexico. This suspension has severely impacted ranchers like Martín Ibarra Vargas in Sonora, who are already struggling...
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BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Dolphins have long fascinated scientists for their intelligence, empathy, and complex social behaviors. Now, researchers believe they may be on the verge of decoding a more intricate piece of dolphin communication: a system that bears resemblance to human language. In a groundbreaking study, scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic [...]The post Could dolphins be speaking a language? New research hints at word-like communication first appeared on The Optimist Daily: Making Solutions the News.
Defense technology firm Anduril Industries has officially opened a full-scale solid rocket motor manufacturing facility in Mississippi.
6 August 2025 - Denmark-based pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk (CPH:NOVO-B) announced on Tuesday the filing of 14 new lawsuits aimed at safeguarding patients from what it says are unsafe and unappr...
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Too many promising medical discoveries in university labs never make it to the battlefield, bedside, or beyond. To help address this gap, the Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium (MTEC) has launched the MTEC Academic Advisory...
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Technicians have successfully installed two sunshields onto NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s inner segment. Along with the observatory’s Solar Array Sun Shield and Deployable Aperture Cover, the panels (together called the Lower Instrument Sun Shade), will play a critical role in keeping Roman’s instruments cool and stable as the mission explores the infrared universe. [...]
The UC Irvine Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences is proud to share news of a new book co-authored by Professor Georg Striedter, titled Bird Brains and Behavior: A Synthesis, [...]
Global network taps tree rings to study impact of tropical droughtmittankTue, 08/05/2025 - 15:14Global network taps tree rings to study impact of tropical drought Image Tree-ring sampling of a tropical cedar tree in a dry forest in Brazil. A new study that U of A researchers co-authored shows that while droughts appear to have had modest impact on tropical tree growth in the past, that may not be the case for long. Courtesy of Peter Groenendijk Today A new study leveraging 20,000 tree-ring records and nearly 150 scientists' contributions from across the globe shows that, while droughts appear to have had a modest impact on tropical tree growth in the past, that may not be the case for long. The research team calculated that, on average across the tropics, trees grew 2.5 percent less during drought years compared to years with normal or above-average precipitation. Surprisingly, the researchers also found an almost complete recovery in the year following the drought. However, that resilience, they warn, could weaken when droughts occur more frequently and become more intense – particularly within drier, semi-arid regions of the tropics.Few comprehensive studies on tropical tree rings have been published, largely because year-long warm and moist conditions were thought to prevent regular annual ring formation. But scientists have come to understand that some tropical tree species and their rings can chart water availability, explained Valerie Trouet, co-author on the study and professor of dendrochronology at the University of Arizona's Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research."Tropical dendrochronology has long been deemed impossible or at least too complex to use for synthesis science," said Trouet. "In this paper, we use the largest network of tropical tree-ring chronologies yet, to do exactly that, to synthesize the impact of drought on woody tree growth in tropical forests.""Until now, we didn't know to what extent stem growth in tropical forests decreases during droughts," said Pieter Zuidema, lead author on the paper and professor at the Netherland's Wageningen University & Research. "With our new network of tree-ring records, we were able to calculate the effect of droughts on stem growth across the tropics for the first time."Clogging the carbon sinkTropical forests and woodlands are key components of the global carbon cycle, specifically in their role in sequestering CO2 – often for decades. During drought, tree growth usually slows, which reduces the amount of carbon stored. To understand and predict the risks that droughts pose for the long-term capture of carbon in tropical vegetation, the researchers used the largest collection of tropical tree-ring data to date: more than 20,000 tree-ring series from nearly 500 locations in 36 countries. The tree-ring data were collected at 483 locations spread across the tropics – from wet and warm Amazonian forests to dry forests in southern Africa and cooler Asian mountain forests. The researchers determined the driest years since 1930 for all locations, then calculated how much narrower the tree rings were during those years compared to normal years. They also measured the width of tree rings in the two years following a drought. Focusing their analysis on the top 10 percent of driest years, the research team observed stem growth of tropical trees decreased on average by 2.5 percent. For the top 5 percent of extreme years, that global average of growth decreased even further, down to 3.2 percent, explained Flurin Babst, a co-author on the study who helped design and run the analysis and an assistant professor in the U of A School of Natural Resources and the Environment. "An average growth reduction of 3.2 percent under drought may seem small," said Babst. "But given the dominant role that tropical forests and woodlands play in the global carbon cycle, the impacts of intensifying drought on the land carbon sink could be substantial. This is relevant for the many initiatives worldwide that use tropical trees as carbon reservoirs to offset anthropogenic CO2 emissions."In drier, semi-arid tropical regions, the average tree growth slowed down even further, by roughly 10 percent in a quarter of the locations included in the study. "This happened mainly in hot and dry regions, such as in northeastern Brazil and southern Africa," Zuidema said. "The effects of droughts can be more extreme there because trees shed their leaves quickly and the soil retains less moisture. In wetter areas, such as Amazonian forests, the effects were weaker." The researchers warn that stem growth resilience could weaken when droughts occur more frequently and become more intense – something they have witnessed within the past few decades in research locations within the study. "Recent droughts have already caused stronger reductions in stem growth compared to earlier droughts. It gets harder for trees to recover," Zuidema said. "We expect that ongoing climate change will only exacerbate this effect."Reduced tree growth has widely been associated with higher tree mortality, and while this study did not directly quantify tree mortality at the 483 tree-ring locations, the team used existing research to estimate that drought increased the normal tropical tree mortality rate by 0.1 percent. "Again, 0.1 percent is not a huge number," said Babst. "But considering the vast area that tropical forests and woodlands occupy, this increase in tree mortality leads to a notable amount of biomass that dies, decays, and releases CO2 back into the atmosphere. More research is clearly needed to better quantify this feedback."A tropical tree-ring networkThe study is the result of a recently formed network of tropical tree-ring studies, which aims to unite data from tree-ring studies across the tropics to better understand how tropical trees respond to current and future climatic conditions."Hundreds of tree-ring studies have been conducted on tropical trees over the past few decades," said Peter Groenendijk, co-author on the study and an assistant professor at University of Campinas in Brazil. "However, this is the first time those data have been compiled for large-scale analysis. We are trying to understand the past in order to predict the future."Zuidema, Groenendijk, Trouet and Babst are the initial founders of the network and continue to serve as the core members responsible for its overall management. Today, the initiative has grown to include over 170 collaborators, contributing nearly 500 ring-width chronologies from more than 30 countries across all tropical continents, representing over 139 tree species. Story Categories Science & Technology College of Agriculture, Life and Environmental Sciences and Wageningen University News Article Type News Media Contact(s) Rosemary Brandt
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Months after OpenAI was warned about the potential harms ChatGPT can cause its users — particularly those predisposed to mental health struggles — the company has decided to roll out an "optimization" meant to calm the fears of mental health experts who have become increasingly alarmed about the risks its software poses. Yesterday, the company released a sheepish blog post titled "What we’re optimizing ChatGPT for," detailing three changes its making to its chatbot. These include "supporting you when you're struggling," a vaguely worded commitment to "better detect signs of emotional distress" and respond with "grounded honesty," as well as [...]
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Strong government demand helped send Eutelsat’s LEO revenues soaring 84% over the past 12 months, although the French operator expects its legacy geostationary business to continue weighing on profits in the year ahead.The post Eutelsat’s bright LEO outlook clouded by GEO decline appeared first on SpaceNews.
New mega RNA virus may hold the key to mass oyster die-offs UBC ScienceVibrio pectenicida strain FHCF-3 is a causative agent of sea star wasting disease NatureAfter a decade of death, Canadian scientists say they've found the sea star killer CBCB.C. scientists discover new oyster virus, solve mystery of sea star epidemic Times ColonistScientists identify bacterium behind devastating wasting disease in starfish The Guardian
The Coast Guard’s report on the Titan submersible disaster that killed five on the way to the Titanic said Tuesday the implosion was “preventable.”
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Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte on Tuesday signed an executive order freeing up more resources for local law enforcement as they searched a mountainous area for a former US soldier suspected of killing four people at a bar last week. The search for Michael Paul Brown stretched into its fifth day...
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Artificial intelligence is advancing so quickly that some Silicon Valley bigwigs are betting it will lead to what might seem unthinkable at the moment: a world in which people don't carry around smartphones. Instead, they might get their AI-powered know-how from their glasses, or maybe a bracelet. As Tim Higgins...
In this GEN webinar, eight experts discuss collaborative strategies and technological innovations that are shaping the future of malaria drug development. The post Addressing Malaria Resistance with AI, Open Science, and Next-Gen Therapeutics appeared first on GEN - Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News.
It won't be noticeable to the average person, but August 5 will be slightly shorter than the typical 24 hours in a day.
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The Perseids meteor shower will peak on the night of August 12-13, with up to 60 meteors per hour visible, although the view will be slightly obstructed by the full moon on August 9, and the next opportunity to see a meteor shower of this magnitude will be in 2028.
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Afghanistan is seeing its sharpest-ever surge of child malnutrition, the World Food Programme said Monday, adding it needed $539 million to help the country’s most vulnerable families.
Property tycoon Ong Beng Seng pleaded guilty to one charge of abetting the obstruction of justice on Monday in part of a landmark case that led to the jailing of former transport minister S. Iswaran for obtaining valuable items as a public servant last year.
The acceleration of nuclear development is part of the Trump administration’s efforts to focus NASA on human spaceflight. A reactor would be useful for long-term stays on the moon.
The acceleration of nuclear development is part of the Trump administration’s efforts to focus NASA on human spaceflight. A reactor would be useful for long-term stays on the moon.
The company is positioning its existing missile defense portfolio as foundation for homeland shieldThe post Lockheed Martin targets 2028 demo of space-based missile interceptors appeared first on SpaceNews.
Rep. Mike Flood faced a barrage of criticism at a packed town hall in Lincoln, Nebraska, Monday evening as constituents repeatedly confronted him over his support for President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” immigration policy and what they described as threats to democracy.
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After months of providing the same copy-pasted response amid mounting reports of AI-induced psychosis, OpenAI has finally admitted that ChatGPT failed to recognize clear signs of its users struggling with their mental health, including suffering delusions. "We don't always get it right," the AI maker wrote in a new blog post, under a section titled "On healthy use." "There have been instances where our 4o model fell short in recognizing signs of delusion or emotional dependency," it added. "While rare, we're continuing to improve our models and are developing tools to better detect signs of mental or emotional distress so [...]
The move will likely be Duffey's first major move as interim NASA administrator, a position that President Donald Trump named him to in early July
A group of well-known Washington lawyers is opening a law firm focused on challenging President Donald Trump’s executive orders and agency actions as he strives to dramatically reshape the federal government during his second term.
A massive wildfire is churning through Los Padres National Forest in central California, threatening hundreds of homes after injuring at least three people, authorities said.
B.C. scientists discover new virus in farmed Pacific oysters during mass die-off Global News
The empirical research on insider trading demonstrates that insider transactions have significant predictive power for future stock returns as they reveal helpful information that may affect the price of stocks.
5 August 2025 - Innovent Biologics Inc (HKEX:01801), a China-based biopharmaceutical company that develops, manufactures and commercialises medicines for the treatment of oncology, cardiovascular and ...
Making progress on our problems is presently possible, but we'll have to know our limits. As the inquisitive Moon in Sagittarius aligns with careful Chiron, we're equipped to dig into deep issues. Watch out -- impatience could be our enemy when Luna squares driven Mars. The Moon then shifts into practical Capricorn at 1:04 pm EDT, encouraging us to limit our focus to issues that can reasonably be addressed in the moment. Taking the easy wins should raise our confidence to keep pushing forward!
The EUR/USD price analysis shows a growing economic and monetary policy divergence between the US and the Eurozone.
While NASA maintains the lead in human space exploration, other nations have already begun their own projects. Take the China National Space Agency, for example, with their CLEP, or Chinese Lunar Exploration Program. If you have any doubts about the objectives of the program, just check out their logo: a stylized crescent moon with two footprints in the middle.
The coordinated combination of in situ observations, satellites, and high-resolution models will allow us to fill gaps in our knowledge of air-sea interactions.
The phrase "go woke, go broke" is often used by critics of corporate social responsibility. It implies that companies face a binary choice: embrace progressive values or pursue profit.
Nearly half of Plesionectes longicollum was just its head and neck.The post Paleontologists discover ‘unusual’ long-necked plesiosaur in Germany appeared first on Popular Science.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ ex Gina Huynh, who dropped out of his case as ‘Victim-3,’ has written a letter to the judge pushing for his release on bail. CNN’s Elizabeth Wagmeister reports on Huynh’s past comments alleging assault and the details in her letter to the judge.
‘King of the Hill’ and ‘Platonic’ return, and two football series, a sci-fi comedy, and an ‘Outlander’ prequel debut. David Daniel has this week’s streaming guide.
Discover The Home Depot’s scary new Halloween decor collection, including an upgraded Skelly and animated Chucky doll.
Each phase of the moon has its own illumination percentage, rising pattern, and even spiritual symbolism. Astrologers believe that working with the phases of the moon might actually benefit individual growth and manifestation, which is basically just living in alignment with your values and dreams. Interested in learning more about where we are in the [...]The post Current Moon Phase: August 4, 2025 appeared first on VICE.
Scientists reexamine 47-year-old fossil and discover a new Jurassic sea monster ScienceDaily183-million-year-old sea monster species found hiding in German fossil bed Interesting Engineering
Animal populations on small islands are often thought to be unlikely to survive in the long term. Continued exploitation of small islands—such as mining in Raja Ampat, West Papua—poses a serious threat to local wildlife.
Two recent studies by Professor Stefano Profumo at the University of California, Santa Cruz, propose theories that attempt to answer one of the most fundamental open questions in modern physics: What is the particle nature of dark matter?
If you want to get to the moon, you need to spend an enormous amount of resources developing, creating, testing, and deploying a variety of spacecraft and technologies. All you need is money. Lots of money. For decades, the only entities with enough green in checking accounts were large governments or multi-national consortia. But nowadays we have some absurdly wealthy, and absurdly motivated, individuals who have stars in their eyes and designs on space missions of their own.
Six-time Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton highlighted a glitzy and star-studded affair in Berlin at the 2020 Laureus World Sports Awards.
The Krasheninnikov volcano, located less than 150 miles away from the epicenter of Russia’s July 29 earthquake, began erupting on August 3
New research from the University of St Andrews has found that giant free floating planets have the potential to form their own miniature planetary systems without the need for a star.
A collaborative research trial has demonstrated that direct seeding offers a scalable and cost-effective alternative to traditional tubestock planting for ecological rehabilitation on sand mines in southeast Queensland.
After a Russian assault left all three of his fellow soldiers dead and himself wounded, Andriy, stationed near Siversk, Ukraine, thought his life was over. But back at his command bunker, they hatched a plan. Armed with determination, a will to live - and a bike - he was able to escape. CNN’s Nick Paton Walsh reports.
Incorporated into every aspect of everyday life, the neutron is a fundamental particle of nature. Now, a research collaboration led by Los Alamos National Laboratory has improved the precision of free neutron lifetime measurements. The team's results highlight the success of the UCNTau experiment's design and previews the effectiveness of new techniques and approaches that the team is incorporating into the next generation of the experiment.
Researchers found people who are socially rich, with strong social support but whose family had less money, and those who are economically rich, having more money but less social support, take similar levels of risk but activate different parts of their brains.
The show will go on for Stevie Nicks, but first she’s taking some time to heal.
This image from the James Webb Space Telescope revisits one of the most iconic regions of the sky, the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. The result is a detailed view of thousands of distant galaxies, some dating back to the earliest periods of cosmic history.
Miami’s sailing community is “shattered by grief” after a third child died Sunday, six days after a sailboat and barge collision in Biscayne Bay, the Miami Yacht Club said.
Somalia is seeing quiet agricultural revolution centered around camels
Chinese scientists draw on Ukraine war lessons and propose drone upgrades South China Morning Post
Texas House Democrats left the state Sunday to prevent a vote on the Republican effort backed by President Donald Trump to rewrite the state’s congressional map. CNN’s Steve Contorno explains the strategy behind the move.
Although it won’t hit Earth, an asteroid once labeled a “city killer” is now back in the spotlight — this time, because it might hit the moon.
A minke whale died off the New Jersey shore after a collision that nearly tipped over a small boat and threw a person overboard.
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An ex-girlfriend of Sean “Diddy” Combs – who was supposed to testify against him in his criminal case, but mysteriously dropped out days before the trial began – has written a letter to the judge pushing for Combs’ release on bail.
Israel’s prime minister accused Hamas of not wanting a ceasefire deal and requested that the Red Cross bring food and medical care to hostages held in Gaza, after public fury ignited over propaganda videos showing two emaciated Israeli captives.
Today on CNN10: Coy kicks off the new school year with a refresher on some of the summer’s biggest news events. Then, we talk to some teens who attended Pope Leo’s Youth Jubilee in Rome, before uncovering the unexpected origins of the potato plant. Coy also sits down with Olympic swimming legend Katie Ledecky to talk training and determination. All that and more on today’s CNN10!
Loni Anderson, who played a struggling radio station’s empowered receptionist on the hit TV comedy “WKRP in Cincinnati,” died Sunday, just days before her 80th birthday.
A series of shipwrecks off Yemen have killed hundreds of African migrants fleeing conflict and poverty in hopes of reaching the wealthy Gulf Arab countries.
Texas Democrats pushed back on the Republican effort to rewrite the state’s congressional map by leaving the state Sunday, to prevent a quorum needed to advance the measure in the Texas House.
Much remains to be discovered regarding how sensory neurons function within individual tissues, especially internal ones such as the teeth.The post Science: Our tooth nerves also serve as tooth protectors appeared first on Digital Journal.
The Starlink 10-30 mission will add 28 more satellites to SpaceX’s low Earth orbit megaconstellation. Liftoff of the Falcon 9 rocket from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is set for 1:03 a.m. EDT (0503 UTC) on Monday.
Lando Norris made it three wins from his last four races on Sunday with a hard-fought victory in the Hungarian Grand Prix, holding off his teammate Oscar Piastri in a thrilling finale.