Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The fundraising software company Blackbaud agreed Thursday to pay $49.5 million to settle claims brought by the attorneys general of all 50 states related to a…
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A cellulose-based thickener to reduce environmental risks of liquefied stabilized soil
The image shows how liquefied stabilized soil can find use as a backfill material at different locations on a construction site. Credit: Shinya Inazumi from Shibaura Institute of Technology, JapanImage…
Anthropologist discusses why we are so tempted to treat AI as ‘god-like’
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain As artificial intelligence apps such as ChatGPT have proliferated, so have chatbots with a religious bent. People facing a moral or ethical dilemma can submit their…
It’s more than being thirsty
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Water is essential to good health. Every cell, tissue and organ in your body needs water to work properly. Water is essential for maintaining your body…
Researchers find a new quantum ruler to explore exotic matter
Illustration depicts two bilayers (two double layers) of graphene that the NIST team employed in their experiments to investigate some of the exotic properties of moiré quantum material . Inset…
A new qubit platform is created atom by atom
The STM tip (Fe) operates the sensor qubit and romote qubits which creates the new multiple qubit platform. Credit: Institute for Basic Science Researchers at the IBS Center for Quantum…
Green Climate Fund pledges put its ambition at risk
The UN’s flagship climate finance initiative can barely sustain its existing portfolio after a lackluster fundraising conference on Thursday The UN’s flagship climate fund has raised $9.3 billion from rich…
Why are thousands of Kaiser health care workers on strike? 5 questions answered
More than 75,000 Kaiser Permanente health care workers began a three-day strike in Virginia, California, Colorado, Washington state, Oregon and Washington, D.C., on Oct. 4, 2023, after company executives and…
Carbon capture technology can ease India’s energy transition
Nearly two fifths of India’s districts depend on the coal sector and a rapid phasedown would be devastating for millions of people While it pursues renewables, India is right to…
