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The Army’s Towed Howitzers Are Going Extinct, After an Astonishing 900 Years

Popular Mechanics - April 2, 2024 - 8:00 am

The drums of war just beat differently now signaling change for artillery units...

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Giant Bubbles May Explain Betelgeuse’s Surprising ‘Spin’

Scientific American - April 2, 2024 - 8:00 am

Giant bubbles erupting across this red supergiant stars surface could solve a lingering astrophysical mystery...

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Eclipse Psychology: How the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse Will Unite People Watching

Scientific American - April 2, 2024 - 7:30 am

How a total solar eclipse creates connection unity and caring among the people watching...

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Earth’s Rotation Is Alarmingly Slowing Down

Popular Mechanics - April 2, 2024 - 7:30 am

Time as we know it faces a profound threat...

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Walking Backward Can Improve Joints, Arthritis and Overall Health

Scientific American - April 2, 2024 - 7:00 am

Experts explain how moving in reverse can take pressure off your knees and improve flexibility...

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Policing Works when It Is Done Right

Scientific American - April 2, 2024 - 7:00 am

The COVID pandemic and the police murder of George Floyd polarized views on policing Rather than abolishing policing or maintaining its status quo we need to make it better and more focused...

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TikTok Is Bringing Its Dedicated STEM Feed To Europe

Slashdot - April 2, 2024 - 6:00 am

As political pressure mounts TikTok says its committed to fostering educational content on its app The company announced on Tuesday that its expanding its dedicated STEM feed across Europe starting in the UK and Ireland after first launching it in the US last year re...

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Trash From the ISS May Have Hit a House In Florida

Slashdot - April 2, 2024 - 3:00 am

A nearly two-pound piece of trash from the International Space Station may have hit a house in Florida Alejandro Otero said it tore through the roof and both floors of his two-story house in Naples Florida reports Ars Technica Otero wasnt home at the time but his son was...

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India Hydropower Output Records Steepest Fall In Nearly Four Decades

Slashdot - April 1, 2024 - 11:33 pm

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters Indias hydroelectricity output fell at the steepest pace in at least 38 years during the year ended March 31 a Reuters analysis of government data showed as erratic rainfall forced further dependence on coal-fired power amid hi...

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Databricks Claims Its Open Source Foundational LLM Outsmarts GPT-3.5

Slashdot - April 1, 2024 - 10:02 pm

Lindsay Clark reports via The Register Analytics platform Databricks has launched an open source foundational large language model hoping enterprises will opt to use its tools to jump on the LLM bandwagon The biz founded around Apache Spark published a slew of benchmarks cla...

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Telegram Challenges Meta With the Launch of New 'Business' Features, Revenue-Sharing

Slashdot - April 1, 2024 - 9:25 pm

Telegram is enhancing its platform for businesses with the introduction of Telegram Business offering specialized features like customizable start pages business hours and chat management tools while also initiating an ad-revenue sharing model for public channels with at leas...

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Discord To Start Showing Ads This Week After History of Shunning Them

Slashdot - April 1, 2024 - 8:40 pm

Starting this week Discord will show ads on the site from video game companies some of which will offer users gifts for carrying out in-game tasks According to the Wall Street Journal Discord said users will be able to turn off the ads in their settings From a report The so...

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Record Heat in Europe, Asia Closes Another Extremely Warm Month For Planet

Slashdot - April 1, 2024 - 8:01 pm

Earth has a long-running fever that shows little signs of easing The planet has set high temperature records in each of the last nine months and March is poised to become the 10th From a report Multiple locations around the world observed unprecedented heat on the months fin...

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Research assessments are still not fit for purpose — here’s how to change things

Nature - April 1, 2024 - 8:00 pm

Nature Published online 02 April 2024 doi101038d41586-024-00899-8A move away from narrow assessment metrics such as high-impact publications is welcome but a lack of planning and consultation mean the...

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Why hand-operated front brakes were set to be the future of motoring

Nature - April 1, 2024 - 8:00 pm

Nature Published online 02 April 2024 doi101038d41586-024-00918-8The complexity of fitting brakes to all four wheels of a car and the simplicity of John Maynard Smiths ecological models in the weekl...

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How can we make PhD training fit for the modern world? Broaden its philosophical foundations

Nature - April 1, 2024 - 8:00 pm

Nature Published online 02 April 2024 doi101038d41586-024-00969-xHow can we make PhD training fit for the modern world Broaden its philosophical foundations...

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Don’t dismiss carbon credits that aim to avoid future emissions

Nature - April 1, 2024 - 8:00 pm

Nature Published online 02 April 2024 doi101038d41586-024-00972-2Dont dismiss carbon credits that aim to avoid future emissions...

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Long COVID still has no cure — so these patients are turning to research

Nature - April 1, 2024 - 8:00 pm

Nature Published online 02 April 2024 doi101038d41586-024-00901-3With key long COVID trials yet to yield results people with the condition are trying to change how clinical trials are done...

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Author Correction: SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibody structures inform therapeutic strategies

Nature - April 1, 2024 - 8:00 pm

Nature Published online 02 April 2024 doi101038s41586-024-07344-wAuthor Correction SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibody structures inform therapeutic strategies...

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‘Mini liver’ will grow in person’s own lymph node in bold new trial

Nature - April 1, 2024 - 8:00 pm

Nature Published online 02 April 2024 doi101038d41586-024-00975-zBiotechnology firm LyGenesis has injected donor cells into a person with liver failure for the first time...

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Is IVF at risk? US scientists fear for the fertility treatment’s future

Nature - April 1, 2024 - 8:00 pm

Nature Published online 02 April 2024 doi101038d41586-024-00830-1An Alabama court ruling that human embryos outside the uterus should be regarded as children has raised concerns among doctors and scient...

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Africa’s postdoc workforce is on the rise — but at what cost?

Nature - April 1, 2024 - 8:00 pm

Nature Published online 02 April 2024 doi101038d41586-024-00980-2Will a growth in postdoctoral positions across Africa cause bottlenecks replicating the career-progression challenges faced by scientist...

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Gut bacteria break down cholesterol — hinting at probiotic treatments

Nature - April 1, 2024 - 8:00 pm

Nature Published online 02 April 2024 doi101038d41586-024-00955-3Species in the human microbiome have enzymes that can metabolize a potentially dangerous lipid...

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Right- or left-handed? Protein in embryo cells might help decide

Nature - April 1, 2024 - 8:00 pm

Nature Published online 02 April 2024 doi101038d41586-024-00977-xGene that codes for structural protein could determine the dominant side of the human brain...

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‘Maybe I was never meant to be in science’: how imposter syndrome seizes scientist mothers

Nature - April 1, 2024 - 8:00 pm

Nature Published online 02 April 2024 doi101038d41586-024-00953-5Brazilian biologist Fernanda Staniscuaski saw career opportunities diminish after returning from parental leave prompting her to take ac...

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A 2023 hurricane caught Mexico off guard: we must work together to prepare better

Nature - April 1, 2024 - 8:00 pm

Nature Published online 02 April 2024 doi101038d41586-024-00904-0Hurricane Otis yields lessons for researchers and policymakers on how to reduce risks in the face of inequality...

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Cosmologist Claudia de Rham on falling for gravity

Nature - April 1, 2024 - 8:00 pm

Nature Published online 02 April 2024 doi101038d41586-024-00903-1The aspiring astronaut turned theoretical physicist talks travelling the accelerating expansion of the Universe thinking beyond three d...

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Allow researchers with caring responsibilities ‘promotion pauses’ to make research more equitable

Nature - April 1, 2024 - 8:00 pm

Nature Published online 02 April 2024 doi101038d41586-024-00971-3Allow researchers with caring responsibilities promotion pauses to make research more equitable...

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Adopt universal standards for study adaptation to boost health, education and social-science research

Nature - April 1, 2024 - 8:00 pm

Nature Published online 02 April 2024 doi101038d41586-024-00970-4Adopt universal standards for study adaptation to boost health education and social-science research...

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Rust Developers at Google Twice as Productive as C++ Teams

Slashdot - April 1, 2024 - 7:20 pm

An anonymous reader shares a report Echoing the past two years of Rust evangelism and CC ennui Google reports that Rust shines in production to the point that its developers are twice as productive using the language compared to C Speaking at the Rust Nation UK Conferenc...

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