Archaeologists from the Amazônia Revelada project have discovered a lost colonial settlement dating back to the 18th century. The Amazônia Revelada project is a study of the Amazon region to…
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US infant mortality increased 7% in months following Dobbs, national analysis finds
Credit: CC0 Public Domain U.S. babies died at a higher rate in the months following the Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health decision, and infant mortality was highest…
Using a multilingual dataset to enhance hateful video detection on YouTube and Bilibili
Credit: Zero Crossing Rate of English YouTube videos. Y-axis: Zero Crossing Indicator, X-axis: Time(sec.) Social media has revolutionized the way information is shared throughout communities, but it can also be…
Betelgeuse Betelgeuse? Bright star Betelgeuse likely has a ‘Betelbuddy’ stellar companion
Graphical depiction of Betelgeuse and the Betelbuddy. Credit: Lucy Reading-Ikkanda/Simons Foundation One of the brightest stars in the night sky, Betelgeuse, may not be on the brink of exploding as…
To land safely on Mars and the moon, we may need to measure dust
Spacecraft landing on dusty surfaces like of the moon and Mars tend to kick up powdery regolith that blurs the lenses of navigation cameras, reducing visibility and making the already-difficult…
Modi, Macron, Xi and Biden among leaders yet to request COP29 speech
Just over 100 world leaders have said they will speak at the upcoming UN climate summit, about a fifth down on last year’s figure The leaders of the US, China,…
Novel quantum lidar achieves high-sensitivity wind detection
Overview of the quantum erasure HOM (QEHOM) for free-space wind detection. Credit: Prof. Xue’s team A research team has proposed a wind sensing lidar theory based on up-conversion quantum interference…
Science has finally cracked male riflebirds’ flirty secrets
New video of male riflebirds’ extreme wrist flares and feather noises reveals how these show-offs do their dazzle. Males of the four Ptiloris species, a group within the birds of…
