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As Arctic Sea Ice Breaks Up, AI Is Starting to Predict Where the Ice Will Go Oct 16, 2023

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Sea ice is changing fast. Are forecasts created by artificial intelligence the best way to keep up with the pace of a warming climate in the far north?

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Scientists Argue Conservation Is under Threat in Indonesia Oct 13, 2023

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Researchers have been banned from working in Indonesia’s tropical rain forests after the government disagreed with their scientific conclusions.

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A Soggy Mission to Sniff Out a Greenhouse Gas 'Bomb' in the High Arctic Oct 11, 2023

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A needlelike tower, hung with sensors, “sniffs” the air above the Arctic Circle for signs of catastrophic thaw in the sodden ground below.

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This Indigenous Community Records the Climate Change That Is Causing Its Town to Erode Away Oct 09, 2023

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In a tiny village north of the Arctic Circle in the Northwest Territories, the Inuvialuit of Tuktoyaktuk have taken climate science into their own hands.

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Journey to the Thawing Edge of Climate Change Oct 06, 2023

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What is a permafrost thaw slump? Just imagine a massive hole with an area the size of more than nine football fields—and growing—where ice-cold ground once stood.

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A Popular Decongestant Doesn't Work. What Does? Oct 04, 2023

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The popular decongestant phenylephrine is not effective, an FDA panel found. Here’s what to use instead.

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The State of Large Language Models Oct 02, 2023

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We present the latest updates on ChatGPT, Bard and other competitors in the artificial intelligence arms race.

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Song of the Stars, Part 3: The Universe in all Senses Sep 29, 2023

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An astronomy festival in Italy opted to make all of its events and workshops multisensory. The organizers wanted to see whether sound, touch and smell can, like sight, transmit the wonders of the cosmos.

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Song of the Stars, Part 2: Seeing in the Dark Sep 27, 2023

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A blind astronomer “sonified” the universe’s most explosive events: gamma-ray bursts. By listening to, rather than looking at, the data, she made a critical discovery and changed the field of astronomy.

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Song of the Stars, Part 1: Transforming Space into Symphonies Sep 25, 2023

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Space is famously silent, but astronomers and musicians are increasingly turning astronomical data into sound as a way to make discoveries and inspire people who are blind or visually impaired.

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