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July 27, 2023

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Climate Science Is Catching Up to Climate Change With Predictions That Could Improve Proactive Response

In Africa, climate change impacts are experienced as extreme events like drought and floods. It has now been possible to predict and monitor these climatic events, providing early warning of their impacts on agriculture to support humanitarian and ...

The Missing Americans: Unprecedented US Mortality Far Exceeds Other Wealthy Nations

A new study found that more than one million US deaths per year -- including many young and working-age adults -- could be avoided if the US had mortality rates similar to its peer nations. In 2021, 1.1 million deaths would have been averted in the ...

The Good Advice That Could Lift People out of Poverty

Researchers have found that providing access to advice about housing, debt and benefits within food banks could help lift people out of poverty. The initiative meant that people forced to use a food bank were also able to access advice on a range of issues -- from housing and debt to ...

GPT Detectors Can Be Biased Against Non-Native English Writers

Researchers show that computer programs commonly used to determine if a text was written by artificial intelligence tend to falsely label articles written by non-native language speakers as AI-generated. The researchers caution against the use of such AI text detectors for their unreliability, ...
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Robot Preachers Get Less Respect, Fewer Donations

As artificial intelligence expands across more professions, robot preachers and AI programs offer new means of sharing religious beliefs, but they may undermine credibility and reduce donations for ...

Robots and Rights: Confucianism Offers Alternative

As robots assume more roles in the world, a new analysis reviewed research on robot rights, concluding that granting rights to robots is a bad idea. Instead, the article looks to Confucianism to ...

Butterflies on the Decline

Research shows that the numbers of butterflies in meadows and pastures of Europe are in a continuous decline. Grassland butterflies will soon play an even greater role in EU nature conservation ...

Better Than Humans: Artificial Intelligence in Intensive Care Units

With the help of extensive data from intensive care units of various hospitals, an artificial intelligence was developed that provides suggestions for the treatment of people who require intensive ...

Nature Is Changing as Land Abandonment Increases

Abandoned lands could be both an opportunity and a threat for biodiversity; a recent article highlights why abandoned lands are critical in the assessment of global restoration and conservation ...

The Science of Attraction: Why Do We Fall for Certain People?

We're attracted to people who like the same things as us -- politics, music, books. But why? And could it mean we're judging those who aren't like us too ...

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Excess Death Gap Widens Between U.S. and Europe, Study Finds

一项新的分析显示,compared to similarly high-income European countries, the United States continues to have substantially higher death rates at all but the oldest ages, resulting in more ...

什么年代hould We Call Evolution Driven by Genetic Engineering? Genetic Welding, Says Researcher

With CRISPR-Cas9 technology, humans can now rapidly change the evolutionary course of animals or plants by inserting genes that can easily spread through entire populations. An evolutionary ...

Study Highlights Complicated Relationship Between AI and Law Enforcement

A recent study that examined the relationship between artificial intelligence (AI) and law enforcement underscores both the need for law enforcement agencies to be involved in the development of ...

Going Beyond English Is Critical for Conservation

Research in languages other than English is critically important for biodiversity conservation and is shockingly under-utilized internationally, according to an international research ...

Americans' IQ Scores Are Lower in Three Domains, Higher in One

IQ scores have substantially increased from 1932 through the 20th century, with differences ranging from three to five IQ points per decade, according to a phenomenon known as the 'Flynn ...

Global Maternal Strep B Vaccination Program Could Save Millions and Prevent Thousands of Deaths Worldwide

A global maternal immunization program for group B Streptococcus -- strep B -- would save millions in healthcare costs by reducing death and disability, but without tiered pricing, equitable access ...

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Fighting Intolerance With Physics

In a world experiencing growing inequality and intolerance, tools borrowed from science and mathematics could be the key to understanding and preventing prejudice. Experts apply evolutionary game ...

Swan Populations Grow 30 Times Faster in Nature Reserves

Populations of whooper swans grow 30 times faster inside nature reserves, new research ...

What If California Didn't Close Down During the Pandemic?

Using a novel economic-epidemiological model, researchers examine the health and economic impacts that could have occurred if California took a 'business-as-usual' approach to the COVID-19 ...

Researchers Find Rate of Fatal Opioid Poisonings Among Children More Than Doubled Over 13-Year Span

Researchers found opioids were responsible for more than half of all fatal poisonings in children ages 5 and younger, more than double the proportion of fatal poisonings caused by opioids in 2005. ...

Grassroots Data Vital for Reducing Deadly Bird-Window Strikes

Much of the progress made in understanding the scope of bird deaths from building and window collisions has come as the result of citizen science, according to a newly published study. But the study ...

Understanding What Makes Senior Towns in Iowa 'Smart'

Researchers are looking to small towns in Iowa to understand how some support aging in place better than others. Their findings could help communities plan for the future and preserve a high quality ...

Artificial Intelligence Shows Potential for Solving Global Challenges

A study has investigated the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to address societal mega-trends and analyzed its proposed solutions in dealing with these global challenges. Artificial ...

Voluntary UK Initiatives to Phase out Toxic Lead Shot for Pheasant Hunting Have Had Little Impact

Three years into a five-year pledge to completely phase out lead shot in UK game hunting, a study finds that 94% of pheasants on sale for human consumption were killed using ...

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