Month: September 2024

House Committee on Homeland Security Chair Mark Green (R-Tenn.) subpoenaed Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra late last week for documents on the whereabouts of thousands of migrant children in the United States.   In a letter informing Becerra of the subpoena, Green wrote he previously requested documents in August on the “vetting, screening and […]

Mike Scarcella / Reuters: Apple asks a judge to throw out or narrow an App Store anti-steering injunction, saying rulings in two unrelated cases undermine an order Epic won in its suit  —  Apple (AAPL.O) has asked a U.S. judge to throw out or narrow a decision governing its lucrative App Store, saying … Source […]

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed SB 1047, the bill that many believed would change the landscape of AI development in the state and the country. The veto published on Sunday could give AI companies the ability […]

September 30, 2024 4 min read Why Appalachia Flooded So Severely from Helene’s Remnants Inland flooding from tropical cyclones, even at high altitudes, is a major worry—and one that scientists don’t know enough about By Meghan Bartels Heavy rains from Hurricane Helene caused record flooding and damage on September 28, 2024, in Asheville, N.C. Melissa […]

Smart home gadgets have no limits these days. You can control everything from a garage door to every single light bulb in your house … if you have enough gusto to replace them all. Front doors have had smart accessories added to them over the years—smart door locks, video doorbells, sensors to tell you whether […]

posted on September 30, 2024 Khan Academy’s AI-powered teaching assistant, Khanmigo, is meeting you where you are already working—directly within Canvas!  U.S. Canvas educators now have access to Khanmigo Teacher Tools for free as part of their Canvas subscription. Khanmigo is your planning ally and instructional collaborator that makes prep time faster AND better. No […]

Getty Images Public records systems that courts and governments rely on to manage voter registrations and legal filings have been riddled with vulnerabilities that made it possible for attackers to falsify registration databases and add, delete, or modify official documents. Over the past year, software developer turned security researcher Jason Parker has found and reported […]

Trending Topics That Are Perfect For Your Next eLI Guest Post Creating engaging and meaningful learning experiences for students is no small feat, particularly when there are so many modern tech distractions to contend with. Teachers and Instructional Designers are always looking for innovative ways to connect with K-12 learners and make an impact. So, […]

An exhibition model of IBM’s Q System One quantum computer Misha Friedman/Getty Images Despite all the hype around quantum computers, they are still far too error-prone to be of real use. But recent experiments show that this may not always be the case, boosting the credibility of claims from companies like Google and IBM that […]

A SpaceX capsule sent to bring back two astronauts stranded on the International Space Station (ISS) has docked. The Dragon capsule has two empty seats for Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who were only meant to be on the ISS for eight days, but were forced to remain there because of a fault discovered during […]

The cell is a biochemical factory of immense complexity. As fundamental units of life, cells harvest energy from the environment and use it to synthesize complex molecular machinery, to build replicas of themselves and to move. This is a 4-billion-year-old trick that even today mystifies biologists who struggle to understand the processes and principles at […]

Quantum physicists are familiar with wonky, seemingly nonsensical phenomena: atoms and molecules sometimes act as particles, sometimes as waves; particles can be connected to one another by a “spooky action at a distance,” even over great distances; and quantum objects can detach themselves from their properties like the Cheshire Cat from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland […]

CLIMATEWIRE | Communities across the Southeast are reeling in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, which is likely to make history as one of the country’s most destructive disasters on record. The swath of devastation, which cut hundreds of miles inland from Florida’s Gulf Coast into southern Appalachia, is a stark reminder of the worsening impacts […]

Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse! The red supergiant that marks Orion’s left shoulder may have a tiny, unseen companion. Two independent studies found evidence of a star about the same mass as the sun, orbiting Betelgeuse about once every 2,100 days. “It was very surprising,” says astrophysicist Morgan MacLeod of the Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in […]

There needs to be an independent review of physician and anaesthesia associates (PAs and AAs) in England, the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges says. The group, which brings together leading doctors and surgeons, has been broadly supportive of the rollout of these roles which assist health care teams. But it said given the “increasingly acrimonious […]

September 2022—Anna Louie Sussman Like me, my eggs were flying economy class. They were ensconced in a cryogenic storage flask packed into a metal suitcase next to Paolo, the courier overseeing their passage from a fertility clinic in Bologna, Italy, to the clinic in Madrid, Spain, where I would be undergoing in vitro fertilization. The […]

September 30, 2024 5 min read Combating Misinformation Runs Deeper Than Swatting Away ‘Fake News’ “Fake news”-style misinformation is only a fraction of what deceives voters. Fighting misinformation will require holding political elites and mainstream media accountable By Jennifer Allen & David Rand Americans are increasingly concerned about online misinformation, especially in light of recent […]

PA Media The UK’s last coal plant, Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station near Nottingham, ends operations on Monday The UK is about to stop producing any electricity from burning coal – ending its 142-year reliance on the fossil fuel. The country’s last coal power station, at Ratcliffe-on-Soar, finishes operations on Monday after running since 1967. This marks […]

Rachel Feltman: Happy Monday, listeners! And happy autumn. I hope you’re enjoying some lovely crisp sweater weather wherever you are right now. For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. You’re listening to our weekly science news roundup. But before we get into some of the science stories you might have missed last week, we’ve […]

A PET scan of a mouse receiving radioactive ion beam treatment. The edges of the tumour are marked with a red line and the red shading shows where the highest radiation dose is absorbed. Giulio Lovatti (LMU) A more accurate way to destroy tumours using beams of radioactive particles could help target hard-to-treat cancers that […]

The electrical effects of a thunderstorm are not confined just to high up in the atmosphere. Close to the ground, Earth’s atmosphere hums with intense electric fields that accelerate particles, flinging electrons in ways that force atoms to glow with gamma rays. From atop a mountain in Armenia, scientists have taken a close look at […]

Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff said former President Trump’s vow to protect women “is yet more lies and more gaslighting,” in a Sunday interview on MSNBC’s “Inside with Jen Psaki.” In a discussion about abortion rights, Emhoff said it was “wrong” that his 83-year-old mother “is somehow going to enjoy more rights” than his daughter, and […]

A SpaceX capsule sent to bring back two astronauts stranded on the International Space Station (ISS) has docked. The Dragon capsule, which has two empty seats for Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, docked at 17:30 eastern time (22:30 BST). The pair arrived at the station on Boeing’s new Starliner capsule for an eight-day mission in […]

Wall Street Journal: California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoes AI safety bill SB 1047; source: Newsom vetoed because the bill applies only to large AI models and leaves others unregulated  —  Governor seeks more encompassing rules than the bill opposed by OpenAI, Meta and supported by research scientists Source link Please enable JavaScript to view the […]

The Difficult Task Of Keeping Kids Motivated In An Online Setting Maintaining kids’ motivation in eLearning isn’t a walk in the park. Staring at a screen for multiple hours during the day can be exhausting and boring. So, how do you add some energy to this virtual classroom? First, you have to pinpoint what’s causing […]

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More AI is rapidly evolving, poised to transform the workplace in ways that were thought of as science fiction only a few years ago. For example, Google recently updated its NotebookLM, an AI-powered research assistant and note-taking […]

Instax Mini 90 Camera for $210: Once my favorite Instax, the Mini 90 seems to have been superseded by the Mini Evo. The price isn’t too different, yet the Mini Evo is more capable, especially since the Mini 90 is fully analog. That said, the Mini 90 delivers the highest-quality image of the Mini series […]

Have you ever noticed changes in your eating habits when you are sad, bored or anxious? Many people report eating either more, or less, as a way of helping them to cope when they experience difficult emotions. Although this is a very normal response, it can take the pleasure out of eating, and can become […]

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. It is late at night. You are alone and wandering empty streets in search of your parked car when you hear footsteps creeping up from behind. Your heart pounds, your blood pressure skyrockets. Goose bumps appear on your arms, sweat on your palms. Your stomach […]

Senate Democrats concede there is considerable risk to doing away with the filibuster to codify abortion rights, but also suggest they are likely to try to do so if they get the chance in 2025.  The risk is that once an exception is made for abortion rights, exceptions will be made by a future Republican […]