An archaeological survey has identified three clusters of ancient qanats in the Diyala Province of Iraq. A qanat, also known as a kārīz, is a system for transporting water from…
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5 ways AI has changed the world
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain OpenAI’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT was unleashed onto an unsuspecting public exactly one year ago. It quickly became the fastest-growing app ever, in the hands…
Are we witnessing the death of the password?
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Once considered a near iron-clad weapon of defense against cyber criminals, the password has begun to fall from grace. Effective passwords often require human efforts that…
Doxycycline tied to lower risk for C. difficile in pneumonia patients
For patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), doxycycline is associated with a reduced risk for Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI), according to a study published online Nov. 1 in the American Journal…
Chico State part of effort to create a lighter, better battery
by Ed Booth, Chico Enterprise-Record, Calif. Credit: CC0 Public Domain With the increase in solar panels on houses and plug-in cars patrolling the roads, batteries are going to be ever…
A new possible explanation for the Hubble tension
The image shows the distribution of matter in space – (blue; the yellow dots represent individual galaxies). The Milky Way (green) lies in an area with little matter. The galaxies…
US tees up Congress battle with $3bn Green Climate Fund pledge
Vice-president Kamala Harris pledged $3 billion to the Green Climate Fund at Cop28, which Congressional Republicans will likely try to block The US has promised $3 billion to the Green…
With outburst, Musk puts X’s survival in the balance
Even after Elon Musk gutted the staff by two-thirds, X, formerly Twitter, still has around 2,000 employees, and incurs substantial fixed costs like data servers and real estate. Elon Musk’s…
Disc Around Star Observed in Another Galaxy for the First Time
Astronomers have uncovered evidence of a rotating disc of material circling a massive young star in a nearby galaxy for the first time. This mosaic shows, at its center, a…
Astronomers Find ‘Tilted’ Planets Even in Pristine Solar Systems
Understanding that even planets in pristine solar systems have some orbital tilt puts Earth’s solar system into a larger perspective, researchers say. Scientists have long puzzled over why all planets…
