New Study Shows Risks of Amazon Deforestation. And Rewards of Protection.
Researchers examined the combined effects of tree loss and global warming in an effort to better understand how and when an ecosystem collapse could unfold.
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Hantavirus Outbreaks Are Rare, but They Aren’t Going Away and There’s No Cure
Since the family of rodent-borne infections were identified in the 1950s, they have turned up all over the world.
‘Close to zero impact’: US study casts doubt on effect of phone ban in schools
Researchers say findings are not reason to shy away from restrictions as MPs consider ban in England’s schoolsStrict bans on mobile phones in schools have “close to zero” impact on student learning and show no evidence of improvements in attendance or …
Researchers develop tool to expose GPS signal spoofing in transit networks
The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has developed a portable detector that identifies GPS spoofing in real time, including during motion, to help protect transportation systems. Spoofing involves transmitting counterfeit signals that imitate authe…
Teaching in classes grouped by ability does not hamper progress of less able pupils, study finds
Research on maths teaching in English secondary schools upends decades of debate over mixed-ability educationTeaching pupils in classes grouped by ability improves the results of high-flyers but does not affect the progress of less able children, accor…
The E.P.A.’s Lost Science
The agency’s prestigious research office is being dismantled by the Trump administration, a plan to dam the Bering Strait and more climate news.
The AI criminal mastermind is already hiring on gig platforms
Labor-hire platforms let anyone with a credit card post a task and pay a stranger to complete it. The RentAHuman platform extends that model to AI agents through a Model Context Protocol server, allowing an agent to post gigs directly. Listed tasks inc…
Thinking Global Podcast – T.V. Paul (Part Two)
Professor T.V. Paul speaks in episode two of two on advice for early career researchers, international security, and artificial intelligence in the classroom.
A New Idea to Save the AMOC? Dam the Bering Strait.
Blocking the narrow waterway between Russia and Alaska could help stabilize a vulnerable system of ocean currents, scientists found in a study.
Indirect prompt injection is taking hold in the wild
The open web is slowly but surely filling up with “traps” designed for LLM-powered AI agents. The technique, known as indirect prompt injection (IPI), involves hiding (more or less) covert instructions inside ordinary web pages, waiting for…