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Elon Musk's rocket company has agreed to buy Cursor, which uses AI to automate the process of writing code.
Evidence is mounting that there are distinct subtypes of autism, and now, scientists have found that the condition can vary according to the strength of people's brain connections...
Rep. Sam Liccardo wants to rebuild the Pacifica pier with help from the federal government. But does investing in this kind of infrastructure make sense?...
Retraction Watch - 1 day 15 hours agoOn May 9, a university administrator in Afghanistan threatened in a LinkedIn post to expose what he called a publishing scam by private universities in India. "These institutions contact academicians globally, promising payment for publishing research papers that will boost their national and international rankings," Mohd Asif Shah, dean of the faculty of economics at … Continue reading Economist outs another Indian university's rankings-boosting scheme when they refuse to pay...
Australian Geographic - 1 day 17 hours agoWelcome to Blue Horizons, a monthly dive into ocean news, discoveries and adventures proudly supported by Coral Expeditions, Australia's pioneering cruise line. The post Blue Horizons Vol. 5 appeared first on Australian Geographic .
The fourth person in the U.S., the third California resident, has been infected with the bacterium Rickettsia lanei.
Scientists are scheduled to begin pulling the first buoy off the Oregon coast on Tuesday.
GeekSpin - 2 days 7 hours agoOne of the greatest head-scratching puzzles in human history may have been solved thanks to researchers from Curtin University in Australia. The scientists say they have found answers as to how Stonehenge's Altar Stone arrived at the iconic historic site. Theories surrounding Stonehenge's Altar Stone Stonehenge itself is filled with many mysteries but the Altar […] Read the original article here: Scientists may have solved Stonehenge’s biggest mystery...
A half century ago, a scrappy crew at the University of Massachusetts Amherst erected a wind turbine on Orchard Hill, the highest point on campus. It was a frugal production, cobbled together from the rear axle of a Ford truck, a donated generator and microcontroller, a steam pipe, and various handcrafted steel and fiberglass parts, including its 4.5-meter blades. The team of UMass engineering grad students, faculty advisors, and one precocious undergrad built it to prove that wind energy could...
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The sky was a very dangerous place in the early days of commercial aviation. By flying into storms to learn how they worked, these experts made air travel and weather forecasting much more predictable...
The pandemic has left some evidence that viral infection may play a role in reawakening dormant cancer cells already present in a patient's body before infection.
Retraction Watch - 2 days 12 hours agoTayor & Francis is investigating two papers about the weed killer Roundup following claims the articles were ghostwritten by the company that developed the herbicide. The review comes after an Elsevier journal last year retracted a paper about Roundup linked to court documents that revealed company employees wrote the article but were not named as … Continue reading Publisher investigating two more papers on glyphosate safety over ghostwriting claims...
Last Word On Nothing - 2 days 13 hours agoWe have a VACCINE against CANCER. For 20 years now! The first Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, Gardasil, was approved in June, 2006. Since then, the rate of cervical cancer has dropped by 62 percent in the United States. HPV also causes vulvar, vaginal, anal, and penile, tongue, and throat cancers, and the vaccine protects against […] The post The HPV Vaccine Is 20 Years Old. Let’s Celebrate! With Glitter. appeared first on The Last Word On Nothing .
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