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How a super El Niño could trigger global famine

8 days ago theconversation.com environment

Alaska’s near-record landslide tsunami sent a wave 1,580 feet up the fjord walls

13 days ago theconversation.com geology

Greenhouse gas emissions from rice paddies have nearly doubled globally since the 1960s, but reduced use of chemical fertilizers, managing irrigation and reducing tillage could cut emissions by about 10%

6 days ago theconversation.com environment

Study finds most researchers witness problematic authorship practices

14 days ago theconversation.com

Hollow-Earth myths and Nazi UFOs on TikTok are bringing white supremacism into the mainstream

22 days ago theconversation.com tiktok

Physicists have measured ‘negative time’ in the lab

25 days ago theconversation.com physics

How AI can lead to false arrests and wrongful convictions

16 days ago theconversation.com ai

Clinical trials that are actually marketing ploys targeting doctors – how seeding trials put profit over patients

21 days ago theconversation.com

People who are blind from birth never develop schizophrenia

24 days ago theconversation.com

From medieval plague ships to hantavirus: How outbreaks at sea helped to shape the international public health system

12 days ago theconversation.com health

Privacy Advocate Accuses US Government of Investing in AI-Powered Mass Surveillance

36 days ago theconversation.com government investing privacy

Iran’s AI memes are reaching people who don’t follow the news – and winning the propaganda war

39 days ago theconversation.com ai iran

53 Nations Gather To Plan a Fossil Fuel Phaseout

35 days ago theconversation.com earth

Using an in-home HEPA purifier for one month spurs a small but significant improvement in brain function in adults age 40 and older

36 days ago theconversation.com brain neuroscience

In the face of rampant AI, is ‘data poisoning’ a new form of civil disobedience?

37 days ago theconversation.com ai

The race to mine critical minerals for AI and clean energy is creating ‘sacrifice zones’ that harm water and health of world’s poor

28 days ago theconversation.com ai

You probably wouldn't notice if an AI chatbot slipped ads into its responses

33 days ago theconversation.com ai

The Victorian sex abuse scandal that shocked Britain and changed the law

38 days ago theconversation.com

Chernobyl and Fukushima show how radioactive materials move in the environment

36 days ago theconversation.com

All 5 units of life's genetic code were just discovered in an asteroid sample

43 days ago theconversation.com genetics

A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth

57 days ago theconversation.com earth spacex

AI's fluency in other languages hides a Western worldview that can mislead users

55 days ago theconversation.com ai

Iran targeted Amazon data centers

56 days ago theconversation.com amazon iran

Older Americans who vote live longer than those who don’t, according to a study combining longitudinal health data with verified voting records; the effect on mortality was not affected by voting by mail or by party affiliation

31 days ago theconversation.com

Strongest evidence yet that vaping likely causes cancer. The evidence shows nicotine-based vapes are likely to cause oral and lung cancer.

58 days ago theconversation.com cancer

Beavers can turn streams into carbon stores, creating wetlands that that store eight times more organic carbon than nearby forest soils.

2 months ago theconversation.com environment

Scientists may be overestimating the amount of microplastics in the environment due to accidental contamination from lab gloves, which release stearate salts that are structurally similar to polyethylene and difficult to distinguish from plastics using standard vibrational spectroscopy

2 months ago theconversation.com environment release

In its hunt for critical minerals, the US is misconstruing what is and is not America’s

2 months ago theconversation.com

Proof-of-concept quantum battery shows femtosecond charging and charges faster as its size increases

2 months ago theconversation.com physics

The world’s great fish migrations are collapsing, according to study of more than 15,000 species of freshwater fish, with 325 species recommended for listing under global conservation rules