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Tech giants form AI group focused on ensuring safety
The development of artificial intelligence has come with fears that the risks of the technology will outweigh its benefits. Four US leaders in artificial intelligence (AI) announced Wednesday the formation…
Asian adults in US less likely to survive cardiac arrest despite bystander CPR rate equal to that of white adults
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Despite similar rates of bystander CPR after an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, Asian adults in the U.S. have lower rates of survival than white adults, according to…
Stellar Demolition Derby Generates a Powerful Gamma-Ray Burst
While searching for the origins of a powerful stellar gamma-ray burst (GRB), an international team of astrophysicists may have stumbled upon a new way stars might be destroyed. Astronomers studying…
How to stop obese children from having heart disease in adulthood
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Childhood is a window of opportunity to tackle obesity before the damage it causes is irreversible, according to a scientific statement by experts on heart disease…
Happily Ever After? How Films Portray Facial Surgery Outcomes
Summary: A new study scrutinizes the portrayal of characters with facial disfigurements in films, revealing inherent cultural biases and potential psychological benefits of plastic surgery. Researchers analyzed 48 characters from…
Study offers objective insights to near-miss collisions between drones, airplanes
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Researchers have developed a new way to accurately count and objectively analyze close encounters between drones and airplanes—without depending solely on pilot sightings. In a study…
Was Olympus Mons once a giant volcanic island?
Olympus Mons: a volcanic island in the middle of a vanished Martian ocean. Credit: A.Hildenbrand/Geops/CNRS (produced from MOLA public data) Imagine a volcanic island about the size of France and…
Designing Detectors for DUNE
Newswise — The most abundant, massive particles in the universe may be ones you’ve never even heard of: neutrinos. These particles are all around us—even streaming through us—though they almost…
Research team advances clear vision for eye repair
An injectable biomaterial activated by pulses of low-energy blue light has tremendous potential for on-the-spot repair to the domed outer layer of the eye, a team of University of Ottawa…
