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They call it stupid hot for a reason: Heat muddles animal brains

As temperatures rise, some creatures pick fights while others struggle to learn.

Marta Zaraska 2 months ago

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Grifters, cynics, and true believers: The family tree of vaccine opponents

A new book looks into the long history of people who have opposed vaccines.

Diana Gitig 2 months ago

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Environmentalists turn out in force to oppose Trump coal ash rollbacks

Trump admin wants to rely on states for coal ash monitoring, enforcement, allow them to bypass national standards.

Arcelia Martin 2 months ago

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Proposed new US funding rules: We can cancel any grant at any time

Peer review now optional, political staff would screen grants for forbidden topics.

John Timmer 2 months ago

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Kenyan court blocks Trump admin from dumping Ebola-exposed Americans there

The US has previously built specialized facilities just for this purpose.

Beth Mole 2 months ago

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Botnet of more than 17 million devices dismantled

The botnet was reportedly tied to a Russia-based residential proxy network.

Dan Goodin 2 months ago

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Analysis of Texas measles outbreak shows just how dangerous virus is

About 1 in 5 cases were hospitalized and most of those developed complications.

Beth Mole 2 months ago

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House of the Dragon S3 trailer revels in dragons, fire, and blood

"The crown is a weight that crushes. You'll do things that spell death for all involved."

Jennifer Ouellette 2 months ago

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Trump FCC warns all broadcasters to follow orders or be punished like ABC

ABC says early renewal for all stations is unprecedented, has no legitimate purpose.

Jon Brodkin 2 months ago

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DOJ sues states that rejected ICE requests for undercover license plates

DOJ keeps accusing ICE monitoring sites of doxing, but evidence remains scarce.

Ashley Belanger 2 months ago

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Startup offers free home cleaning—if it can record it all for robot training

The latest twist in paying humans to wear head cameras for robot training data.

Jeremy Hsu 2 months ago

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After years of stability, F1 reliability can no longer be taken for granted

Until recently, a driver had maybe a six in ten chance of finishing a race.

Jonathan M. Gitlin 2 months ago

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Severed sea cucumber appendages don't seem to die

They seem to reorganize their tissues and then just keep living.

Jacek Krywko 2 months ago

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Rocket Report: A dark day for Blue Origin; Pentagon eyes new launch site

A new crew launched to China's Tiangong space station, and one of the astronauts will stay for a year.

Stephen Clark 2 months ago

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Here's why the failure of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket is so catastrophic

"I hope that it makes it far enough away from the pad that it does not cause pad damage."

Eric Berger 2 months ago

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Here's why the failure of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket is so catastrophic

"I hope that it makes it far enough away from the pad that it does not cause pad damage."

Eric Berger 2 months ago

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These researchers would be in Africa fighting ebola—but Trump cut their funding

US Infectious diseases centers launched during COVID have lost their funding under Trump.

Emily Mullin 2 months ago

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The most spectacular rocket explosion since N1 just happened in Florida

New Glenn was due to play a starring role in NASA's Artemis Program.

Eric Berger 2 months ago

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2027 Audi RS5 first drive: A performance PHEV with split personalities

Audi has developed an entirely new electric torque-vectoring rear differential.

Jonathan M. Gitlin 2 months ago

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LLMs believe false statements even after explicit warnings that they're false

Fine-tuning tests show "bias ... toward confidently representing the claims as true."

Kyle Orland 2 months ago

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Fed up with vibe coders, dev sneaks data-nuking prompt injection into their code

Undisclosed addition in jqwik instructed AI coding agents to delete app output.

Dan Goodin 2 months ago

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US healthcare still stupidly expensive, with pathetic outcomes, study finds

There are strategies to improve healthcare, but US isn't trying them.

Beth Mole 2 months ago

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Researchers develop a new process to get lithium out of rocks

If it scales up, it can help us diversify our sources of a key element.

John Timmer 2 months ago

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FBI says Google engineer used internal search data to win $1.2M on Polymarket

FBI: Googler who knew outcome of bets in advance made $1.2M profit on Polymarket.

Jon Brodkin 2 months ago

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