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Are period-tracking apps still safe to use in the US post Roe v Wade?
Some period-tracking apps share data with third parties. With the rolling back of Roe v Wade abortion protections in the…
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How AI Facial Recognition is Helping Conserve Pumas
INTRO: This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m Ashleigh Papp. Papp: Mountain lions are now posing for their close ups.…
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AI generates photorealistic 3D scenes and lets you edit them as well
Artificial intelligence that creates realistic three-dimensional images could be run on a laptop and make it faster and easier to…
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75 per cent of the world’s top websites allow bad passwords
An analysis of 120 of the world’s top-ranked English-language websites has found that many of them allow weak passwords, including…
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Can farm and food waste power tomorrow’s airplanes?
A version of this story appeared in Science, Vol 376, Issue 6600.Download PDF It’s a painful truth for people who…
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Prescribed Burns Are More Dangerous Because of Climate Change
CLIMATEWIRE | The head of the Forest Service says in a new report that climate change is making prescribed fire…
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Largest known bacteria in the world are visible to the naked eye
By Carissa Wong Thiomargarita magnifica is large enough to see without a microscope Tomas Tyml The world’s largest known bacteria…
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Climate Change Is Turning More of Central Asia into Desert
As global temperatures rise, desert climates have spread north by up to 100 kilometres in parts of Central Asia since…
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Modern city dwellers have lost about half their gut microbes
Deep in the human gut, myriad “good” bacteria and other microbes help us digest our food, as well as keep…
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Seville Launches World’s First Program to Name and Rank Heat Waves
CLIMATEWIRE | Seville, Spain, has officially launched a new pilot program to address deadly heat waves. The program, unveiled yesterday…
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