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  Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Feb 03, 2023 Humans are less forgiving of robots after multiple mistakes-and the trust is difficult to get back, according to a new University of Michigan study. Similar to human co-workers, robots can make mistakes that violate a human's trust in them. When mistakes happen, humans often see robots as less trustworthy, which ultimately decreases their trust in them. The study examines four strategies that might repair and mitigate the negative impacts of these trust violations. These trust strategies wer ... read more |
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Humanoid robots to take centre stage at UN meet on AIGeneva (AFP) Feb 1, 2023 Eight humanoid robots will be the star attractions when the United Nations hosts its first summit since the start of the pandemic on the benefits of artificial intelligence, it said Wednesday. ... more  
Fossilized 319-million-year-old fish illuminates backboned animals' brain evolutionBirmingham UK (SPX) Feb 03, 2023 A 319-million-year-old fossilised fish, pulled from a coal mine in England more than a century ago, has revealed the oldest example of a well-preserved vertebrate brain. CT-scanning, where X-rays ar ... more  
IBM and NASA collaborate to research impact of climate change with AIYorktown Heights NY (SPX) Feb 03, 2023 IBM (NYSE: IBM) and NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center have announced a collaboration to use IBM's artificial intelligence (AI) technology to discover new insights in NASA's massive trove of Earth ... more  
Business and consumers hamper climate fight: reportParis (AFP) Feb 1, 2023 Corporations and consumers are the main obstacle to the emissions cuts needed to keep global warming to the 1.5-degree Celsius limit, researchers said Wednesday, adding that "positive signs" in other areas are not yet enough to meet climate goals. ... more |
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Proposed 'weather control' bans surge across US states
Indonesia residents run outside as shallow quake hits Magnitude 6.1 offshore quake hits near Indonesian island: USGS Stuck in eternal drought, UAE turns to AI to make it rain Latin American classics get the streaming treatment Santorini seismic activity down but schools stay shuttered: Greece Fishermen, sailing champions clean up trash-covered Rio island CORRECTED: Two jailed for 18 years over tower block collapse in Turkey quake Two jailed for 18 years over tower block collapse in Turkey quake Islanders keen to return to Santorini even as quakes continue |
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ChatGPT: the promises, pitfalls and panicWashington (AFP) Feb 2, 2023 Excitement around ChatGPT - an easy to use AI chatbot that can deliver an essay or computer code upon request and within seconds - has sent schools into panic and turned Big Tech green with envy. ... more  
Earliest evidence found of Neanderthals killing elephants for foodMainz, Germany (SPX) Feb 03, 2023 Analysis of finds from the Neumark-Nord site near Halle provide first indisputable proof of active hunting of elephants by early humans and change our perception of Neanderthal lifeways Some 1 ... more 
The chemistry of mummification - Traces of a global networkMunich, Germany (SPX) Feb 03, 2023 Exactly 100 years ago, the tomb of Tutankhamun was discovered, complete with his world-famous mummy. Since then, researchers have learned a lot about how the ancient Egyptians prepared bodies for mu ... more  
UN aims to forge new way of tracking greenhouse gasesGeneva (AFP) Feb 2, 2023 The United Nations has launched a major effort to try to fill a key gap in the fight against climate change: standardised, real-time tracking of greenhouse gases. ... more |
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Evolution of wheat spikes since the Neolithic revolutionBarcelona, Spain (SPX) Feb 03, 2023 Around 12,000 years ago, the Neolithic revolution radically changed the economy, diet and structure of the first human societies in the Fertile Crescent of the Near East. With the beginning of the c ... more  
Green energy investment tops $1 trillion, matches fossil fuelsParis (AFP) Jan 31, 2023 Investment in cleaner energy is on the verge of overtaking spending on fossil fuels for the first time ever after exceeding $1 trillion last year, a report on Tuesday said. ... more  
Biorefinery uses microbial fuel cell to upcycle resistant plant wasteChicago IL (SPX) Feb 01, 2023 When nature designed lignin - the fibrous, woody material that gives plants their rigid structure - it didn't cut any corners. Incredibly slow to break down, lignin is so sturdy and long lasting tha ... more  
Spain's Menorca gets green light to limit carsBarcelona (AFP) Feb 1, 2023 The regional parliament of Spain's Balearic Islands approved Wednesday a law that allows the holiday island of Menorca to limit the number of cars that can visit. ... more |
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Brazil to sink warship dubbed '30,000-tonne toxic package'Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Feb 2, 2023 Brazil plans to sink a decommissioned aircraft carrier that has been towed around the Atlantic for months with a damaged hull, drawing criticism from environmentalists, who say it is packed with toxic materials. ... more  
Cameroon ex-defence minister given 30 years' jail for graftYaounde (AFP) Feb 2, 2023 A former defence minister in Cameroon has been handed a 30-year jail term for embezzling public funds, his lawyer said on Thursday. ... more  
Myanmar junta prepares for poll, raising fears of more bloodshedBangkok (AFP) Jan 31, 2023 Two years after a coup snuffed out Myanmar's short-lived democratic experiment, the country's military is planning elections that analysts warn could spark further bloodshed as opposition to junta rule rages on. ... more  
Marmot death overshadows Canada Groundhog DayNew York (AFP) Feb 2, 2023 A Canadian woodchuck cast a different type of shadow over "Groundhog Day" Thursday - just hours before he was due to predict spring's arrival, Fred la Marmotte was found dead. ... more 
Brazilian army deploys to protect Indigenous YanomamiRio De Janeiro (AFP) Feb 1, 2023 The Brazilian military launched an operation Wednesday to crack down on illegal gold miners accused of invading the massive Yanomami Indigenous reservation and spreading disease, violating human rights and destroying the environment. ... more |
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 Heijningen, Netherlands (AFP) Jan 30, 2023 
Seventy years after the worst natural disaster to strike the Netherlands, Chiem de Vos, seven at the time, still hears his neighbour's desperate cries of "My children are drowning!" ringing in his ears.
And as the Dutch this week commemorate the great flood of 1953, thoughts are inevitably turning to current-day climate change and how the low-lying country remains vulnerable to rising ocean ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 03, 2023 
"All things are numbers," avowed Pythagoras. Today, 25 centuries later, algebra and mathematics are everywhere in our lives, whether we see them or not. The Cambrian-like explosion of artificial intelligence (AI) brought numbers even closer to us all, since technological evolution allows for parallel processing of a vast amounts of operations.
Progressively, operations between scalars (num ... more |
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 Los Angeles (AFP) Feb 1, 2023 
California has submitted a rival plan for use of the Colorado River, after six other states accused it of refusing to cooperate in the battle over usage of a dwindling major US watercourse.
Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming were given until January 31 to come up with a plan to slash the amount of water they take from the river - or face a solution imposed b ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jan 27, 2023 
Satellite imagery confirms an enormous iceberg, around five times the size of Malta, has finally calved from Antarctica's Brunt Ice Shelf. The new berg, estimated to be around 1550 sq km and around 150 m thick, calved when the crack known as Chasm-1 fully extended northwards severing the west part of the ice shelf.
This crack was first revealed to be extending in early 2012 after having be ... more |
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 Barcelona, Spain (SPX) Feb 03, 2023 
Around 12,000 years ago, the Neolithic revolution radically changed the economy, diet and structure of the first human societies in the Fertile Crescent of the Near East. With the beginning of the cultivation of cereals -such as wheat and barley- and the domestication of animals, the first cities emerged in a new social context marked by a productive economy. Now, a study published in the journa ... more |
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 General Santos, Philippines (AFP) Feb 1, 2023 
A 6.0-magnitude earthquake rocked the southern Philippines on Wednesday, the US Geological Survey said, with local authorities warning of aftershocks and possible damage.
The shallow quake struck at 6:44 pm (1044 GMT), near Monkayo municipality in Davao de Oro province on Mindanao island.
Shallow earthquakes tend to cause more damage than deeper ones, but there were no immediate reports ... more |
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 Nairobi (AFP) Jan 31, 2023 
A Chinese national was killed in Ethiopia's restive Oromia region, Beijing's embassy in Addis Ababa said on Tuesday, ordering its citizens to evacuate from high-risk areas.
Nine Chinese citizens came under attack on Monday evening in Gebre Guracha, some 160 kilometres (100 miles) north of the capital, the embassy said in a statement.
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Feb 03, 2023 
Exactly 100 years ago, the tomb of Tutankhamun was discovered, complete with his world-famous mummy. Since then, researchers have learned a lot about how the ancient Egyptians prepared bodies for mummification. Until now, however, too little was known about how they ultimately made the bodies of the deceased immortal by embalming them. A German-Egyptian team of researchers has now been able to g ... more |
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 Berkeley CA (SPX) Feb 01, 2023 
At a time when climate change is making many areas of the planet hotter and drier, it's sobering to think that deserts are relatively new biomes that have grown considerably over the past 30 million years. Widespread arid regions, like the deserts that today cover much of western North America, began to emerge only within the past 5 to 7 million years.
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 Menlo Park CA (SPX) Feb 01, 2023 
LeoLabs, the leading commercial provider of Space Domain Awareness (SDA) services and low Earth orbit (LEO) mapping, announced the commissioning of the LeoLabs West Australian Space Radar (WASR). This radar site, located in Western Australia, adds critical coverage of the Southern Hemisphere in the Indo-Pacific region.
WASR is the latest addition to LeoLabs network of phased array space ra ... more |
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 Durham UK (SPX) Feb 01, 2023 
Ancient fossils have shed new light on a type of sea worm linking it to the time of an evolutionary explosion that gave rise to modern animal life.
Researchers at Durham University, UK, and Northwest University, Xi'an, China, examined 15 exceptionally preserved fossils of the annelid worm Iotuba chengjiangensis dating from the early Cambrian period 515 million years ago.
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 Paris (AFP) Feb 1, 2023 
Corporations and consumers are the main obstacle to the emissions cuts needed to keep global warming to the 1.5-degree Celsius limit, researchers said Wednesday, adding that "positive signs" in other areas are not yet enough to meet climate goals.
The report by a multidisciplinary team of researchers warned that staying within the 1.5C goal was "not plausible", but that this could change if ... more |
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 Stanford CA (SPX) Jan 31, 2023 
New lithium metal batteries with solid electrolytes are lightweight, inflammable, pack a lot of energy, and can be recharged very quickly, but they have been slow to develop due to mysterious short circuiting and failure. Now, researchers at Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory say they have solved the mystery.
It comes down to stress - mechanical stress to be more ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Feb 1, 2023 
When the damselfly reappeared in France in 2009 after a 133-year absence, it was considered a small miracle.
But the dragonfly's smaller cousin hasn't been seen in four years, sparking fresh fears it may be gone for good - a worrying indicator of the health of the world's precious wetlands in which it breeds.
Damselflies face menaces on multiple fronts. In Asia, the wetlands and jungl ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Feb 3, 2023 
The trial of 47 of Hong Kong's most prominent pro-democracy figures begins on Monday, in the largest prosecution under a national security law that has crushed dissent in the city.
The proceedings are expected to last more than four months, and the defendants face sentences of up to life imprisonment if convicted.
Authorities have accused the 47 of trying to topple Hong Kong's China-appr ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Feb 01, 2023 
One third of premature deaths attributable to higher temperatures in European cities during summer 2015 could have been prevented by increasing urban tree cover to 30%, reveals a modelling study published in The Lancet. The study also found that tree cover reduced urban temperatures by an average of 0.4 degrees during the summer.
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