Two groups of mechanical engineering students at the University of Missouri are working with the Tigers to incorporate heat transfer technologies into football equipment—keeping feet cool in summer and heads…
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Analysis confirms California’s Salton Sea region to be a rich domestic lithium resource
Credit: Jeremy Snyder/Berkeley Lab On Nov. 28, The U.S. Department of Energy announced results of the most comprehensive analysis to date quantifying the domestic lithium resources in southern California’s Salton…
Guidance on evaluating a privacy protection technique for the AI era
Evaluating any claim to differential protection requires examining every component of the differential privacy pyramid. Its top level contains the most direct measures of privacy guarantees, including epsilon, which is…
Cat Ownership Linked to Increased Schizophrenia Risk
Summary: Researchers systematically reviewed and meta-analyzed research from 1980 to 2023 to investigate the relationship between cat ownership and schizophrenia-related disorders. Out of 1915 studies initially identified, 17 were included…
Toddlers Who Eat Fish Have Lower Developmental Delay Risks
Summary: Introducing fish to toddlers’ diets could reduce their risk of neurodevelopmental delays. The study, involving 142 children, found that eating fish at least once a week was associated with…
Analyzing interactions between radiation and matter for a long-term plutonium storage strategy
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Long-running research between the UK’s National Nuclear Laboratory and The University of Manchester, UK, has probed the complex interplay between the surface features of plutonium dioxide…
Threads countdown teases app’s potential EU launch
Instagram parent company launched Threads in July but EU users have been unable to access the platform. The wait could be over for internet users in the European Union keen…
French AI start-up Mistral AI raises 385 mn euros
Credit: CC0 Public Domain French artificial intelligence start-up Mistral AI announced Sunday it had raised 385 million euros ($414 million), becoming one of Europe’s two AI leaders. Founded in May…
