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From wiping up spills to serving up food, robots are being taught to carry out increasingly complicated household tasks. Many such home-bot trainees are learning through imitation; they are programmed to copy the…

Michel Talagrand says life is frighteningly randomPeter Badge/Typos1/Abel Prize 2024 Michel Talagrand has won the 2024 Abel prize, sometimes called the Nobel prize of mathematics, for his work on probability theory…

Michel Talagrand says life is frighteningly randomPeter Badge/Typos1/Abel Prize 2024 Michel Talagrand has won the 2024 Abel prize, sometimes called the Nobel prize of mathematics, for his work on probability theory…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain New research published in Nature Human Behavior suggests that text nudges encouraging people to get the…

The UK government has unveiled its new definition of extremism, but has raised more questions than it has answered in the process. Extremism is now defined as “the promotion or advancement of an ideology based on violence, hatred…

With gun safety in Court, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania AGs stand for…

Summary diagram of cortical alterations after astrocyte NMDA-receptor knockdown. Credit: Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-45989-3…

For thousands of years, powerful countries have used economic tools as carrots and sticks to get others to do what they want. The Romans, Medicis, French, and British all did it during their respective rules. Today, the United States and…

As COVID took hold in South Africa, daily case numbers grew. But the numbers people were seeing online or on news channels did not tell the full story of the pandemic. Ridhwaan Suliman works as a computational modelling researcher…

Additional figure notes Unemployment among Latinos is lower than before the pandemic: “Pre-pandemic” refers to Dec. 2019–Feb 2020; “worst of pandemic” refers to June–August 2020; “most recent” refers to Sept.–Nov. 2023.…

Cavum clouds, also called hole-punch clouds and fallstreak holes, look so odd that people…

Earlier this year, the UK’s weather and climate service, the Met Office, announced average global temperatures in 2023 were 1.46°C above pre-industrial levels. This made it the hottest year on record, 0.17°C higher than the previous…

Fabrizio Fidati, a 57-year-old amputee, uses the MiniTouch device with his prosthetic to accurately sort cubes of different temperatures. EPFL…

1 IntroductionAgricultural, urban, and industrial water resource management continue to play a significant role in eutrophication within freshwater systems, driven by factors such as population growth and intensification (Lu and Tian,…

For decades we thought the Irish elk’s body size alone explained why it had enormous antlers, but the truth may be more complicated

1. IntroductionA sense of security, as defined by the psychologist Abraham Maslow, is the feeling of being free from fear and anxiety, experiencing confidence, safety, and liberation . Studies in environmental psychology have…

A Michigan State University study is the first to show an association between unusually high pesticide exposure and poor sense of smell among aging farmers.The research examined more than 11,200 farmers over a 20-year…

1. IntroductionThe COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, has had an unparalleled impact on global health systems, economies, and daily life. Despite widespread awareness of the disease and general support for…

Catherine Coleman Flowers: A Disruptor in the Best Sense RMI’s newest board member brings environmental justice issues front and center. Catherine Coleman Flowers has always been an activist. Her parents…

Nicotine Polacrilex Gum 2 mg and 4 mg User's Guide How To Use Nicotine Polacrilex Gum To Help You Quit Smoking. • Not for sale to those under 18 years of age • Proof of age required • Not for sale in vending machines or from…

The robotic arm gripping a seashellXun Zhao An artificial skin is helping a robot to recognise the difference between picking up inanimate objects and living sea creatures such as starfish and shellfish. That sense…

What if I were to tell you disaster philanthropy was only 2% of all philanthropic giving in 2021? Would you be concerned? I was when I first read that statistic. But then I learned that 2% represented $3 billion, one of the highest…

At the start of October 2023, green…

Americans aren’t good at managing their money — and there are signs that the problem is getting worse.Already saddled with record levels of student debt, young adults today, for example, are even more unlikely to monitor their credit…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain China has repeatedly stunned the U.S. intelligence community in the last five years with rapid progress in its space exploration program, landing a rover on the far…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain China has repeatedly stunned the U.S. intelligence community in the last five years with rapid progress in its space exploration program, landing a rover on the far…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain China has repeatedly stunned the U.S. intelligence community in the last five years with rapid progress in…

Download PDF General Philippe Lavigne, French Air Force, is Supreme Allied Commander Transformation. At the dawn of an ever-evolving geopolitical era, the…

Almost nothing Mayor Adams is doing now feels right, and none of it can be taken at face value. Start with the brutal and unprecedented mid-year spending cuts he abruptly announced Thursday — without sharing the underlying numbers needed…

Educational psychology professor Nidia Ruedas-Gracia was a co-author of the paper. Credit: Lindsay Hundley College students' sense of…

Research Questions What initiatives exist to collect and share data relevant to pathogen surveillance for infectious diseases and AMR?What are the challenges these initiatives have encountered in relation to data collection and…

Updated: Added link to Twitter’s blog post on direct video uploads. Around the time that Tim Fullerton of the Department of Interior delivered his webcast to DigitalGov audiences about publishing video content to Facebook, we at…

At the Digital Analytics Program (DAP), some of the most frequently asked questions we get are “how can I get access to the DAP data?” and “what do I do with all this data?” We all know that data is knowledge, and knowledge is power, but…

Transcript NARRATOR: Watching whales in their natural habitat can be a breathtaking experience.  This activity has become increasingly popular, now drawing over 13 million people a year, making it…

By Elizabeth Moore November 2017 In a 1985 column for the New York Times, indigenous author Louise Erdrich asks “f not a shared sense of place, what is it then that currently…