Australia has banned all DeepSeek artificial intelligence programs from its government computers and mobile devices, citing a heightened security risk from the China-based app. Australia has banned DeepSeek from all…
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Elevating women can bridge India’s green skills shortage
Comment: The government and business can do much more to improve training in sectors such as renewables to include more women and help meet climate goals Vaishali Nigam Sinha is…
A new book explores the evolutionary romance between plants and animals
When the Earth Was GreenRiley BlackSt. Martin’s Press, $29 Imagine being a paleontologist exploring Utah’s Jurassic-aged rocks. Imagine discovering the bones of a 20-meter-long, 20-ton herbivorous dinosaur. Then consider: How…
What the ‘moral distress’ of doctors tells us about eroding trust in health care
I sit on an ethics review committee at the Albany Med Health System in New York state, where doctors and nurses frequently bring us fraught questions. Consider a typical case:…
The Internet Is Overrun With Bots, and That’s a Problem
Nearly half the traffic on the internet is generated by automated entities called bots, and a large portion of them pose threats to consumers and businesses on the web. “[B]ots…
Smart robotic wheelchair offers enhanced autonomy and control
Development Timeline of Smart Wheelchairs. Credit: Xu et al. Recent advances in the fields of human-infrastructure interaction, electronic engineering, robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) have opened new possibilities for the…
US health expert flying ‘absolutely blind’ as federal health data vanishes
Credit: CC0 Public Domain President Donald Trump’s end of diversity, equity and inclusion language in federal agencies has caused U.S. health data to be removed or not be updated. Medical…
African governments opt for gas-run cars over EVs to drive down transport emissions Africans choose gas-run cars over electric vehicles
Countries like Nigeria, Egypt and Tanzania are promoting CNG as a cheaper, cleaner fuel than petrol – but using gas could hold back a green transition When Jimoh Abeeb first…
‘Women are biologically female’: Trump’s executive order will not be so easy to implement, and here’s why
One of President Trump’s first-day executive orders proclaimed that “women are biologically female, and men are biologically male.” It sounds simple, but translating it into action across a vast federal…
Adverse childhood experiences in firstborns associated with poor mental health of siblings
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Children are nearly three-quarters (71%) more likely to develop mental health problems between the ages of 5 and 18, if the firstborn child in their family…
