The Ig Nobel Prizes are often treated as a joke, but their recipients are often working on surprisingly illuminating scientific fields. Japanese researcher Higashiyama Atsuki, who won his Ig Nobel in 2016 for his work on the effect of viewing objects between…

Communications Earth & Environment - Four out of five emperor penguin colonies in the Bellingshausen Sea, Antarctica experienced breeding failure in spring 2022 due to unprecedented sea ice...

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Nature - We present the complete 62,460,029-base-pair sequence of a human Y chromosome from the HG002 genome (T2T-Y) that corrects multiple errors in GRCh38-Y and adds over 30 million base...

Researchers found low concentrations of so-called forever chemicals in various "eco-friendly" straws, raising doubts about whether they're an appropriate alternative.

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As California legislation nears finish line, Apple suddenly switches sides.

A new research paper laid out ways in which AI developers should try and avoid showing LLMs have been trained on copyrighted material.

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Understanding Automatic Differentiation in 30 lines of Python. In this article, I will try to iteratively build the simplest code to calculate derivatives automatically on scalars.

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The Terraform team has removed a statement from Aug 2021 from our CONTRIBUTING.md, which does not reflect the current status for reviews of community-contributed pull requests. The HashiCorp team actively encourages contributions, and the Terraform core…

On a recent cross-country trip—I (Paul) drove from California to Illinois and back again. On the drive, I saw a sign I had never seen before: In a McDonald’s window it said $1,000 SIGNING BONUS. That was not a thing when I was a teenager doing minimum-wage…

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China bans all aquatic imports from Japan after plant operator begins pumping water into the Pacific Ocean.

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