Credit: CC0 Public Domain Getting to the heart of causality is central to understanding the world around us. What causes one variable—be it a biological species, a voting region, a…
Author: ID
Plans to turn Europe’s biggest coal mine into a leisure lake prove divisive
Transition experts say repurposing Poland’s Bełchatów mine and power plant for renewables not recreation could bring more jobs, revenue and electricity In a cosy cinema room at the Bełchatów coal-fired…
For the 24 million people globally who suffer from schizophrenia, newly approved Cobenfy offers a breakthrough treatment
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration [has] approved a new kind of drug to treat schizophrenia, a breakthrough after 70 years of incremental innovation that appears to avoid side effects that…
Don’t get spooked by all that sugar
Sugar overload is a real danger on Halloween, as piles of candy prove a powerful temptation to both Trick-or-Treaters and the folks handing out the goodies. Too many sweet treats…
ChatGPT will now work as a search engine as OpenAI partners with some news outlets
The OpenAI logo appears on a mobile phone in front of a computer screen with random binary data, March 9, 2023, in Boston. Credit: AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File OpenAI is…
Physician discusses advances in minimally invasive kidney stone surgery
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Most small kidney stones can pass on their own. However, kidney stones that are too large to pass on their own or cause bleeding, kidney damage…
Earth sure looks spooky in these ‘hyperspectral’ images from Europe’s Hera asteroid probe
A strange Earth shines in new imagery captured by a European asteroid mission. The Hera spacecraft, which launched this month to study a binary asteroid system up close. turned its…
AI tools show biases in ranking job applicants’ names according to perceived race and gender
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The future of hiring, it seems, is automated. Applicants can now use artificial intelligence bots to apply to job listings by the thousands. Companies—which have long…
Astronomers predict the orbits of potentially hazardous comets from meteor showers
Illustration of long-period comets and the Oort cloud. Credit: National Astronomical Observatory of Japan Comets have long been seen as omens and portents, and it’s easy to understand why. They…
