Avian flu detected in wastewater from 10 Texas cities(cidrap.umn.edu)

55 points by geox 2 years ago | 27 comments

NASA helps spot wine grape disease from skies above California(jpl.nasa.gov)

92 points by kungfudoi 3 years ago | 18 comments

Is our death from a hydrogen sulfide event inevitable in climate warming? (2005)(psu.edu)

26 points by DrierCycle 11 months ago | 7 comments

Exxon Mobil's 'Advanced' Technique for Recycling Plastic? Burning It(yahoo.com)

12 points by signa11 2 years ago | 0 comments

Radio pulses detected coming from ice in Antarctica(psu.edu)

40 points by geox 1 year ago | 12 comments

Research shows plant-based polymers can disappear within seven months(today.ucsd.edu)

191 points by geox 2 years ago | 111 comments

Carbon capture more costly than switching to renewables, researchers find(techxplore.com)

513 points by Brajeshwar 1 year ago | 403 comments

TechXplore news article on Stanford research finding carbon capture is more costly than switching to renewable energy.

California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops(kqed.org)

362 points by randycupertino 27 days ago | 877 comments

AP article on KQED reporting that California grape growers struggle to find buyers as wine consumption declines and supply exceeds demand.

InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that's stronger than steel(techcrunch.com)

424 points by LorenDB 1 year ago | 399 comments

TechCrunch article reporting that startup InventWood is preparing to mass-produce a densified engineered wood claimed to be stronger than steel.

LLMs use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge(news.mit.edu)

336 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 121 comments

MIT News article on research showing LLMs often retrieve stored facts via simple linear functions, and a technique to probe what a model knows about subjects.

Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy(news.cornell.edu)

411 points by giuliomagnifico 9 months ago | 748 comments

Cornell Chronicle article on research finding that GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy are associated with reductions in Americans' grocery and food purchases.

Police cannot seize property indefinitely after an arrest, federal court rules(reason.com)

773 points by throwup238 2 years ago | 385 comments

Reason article reporting that the D.C. Circuit ruled police cannot hold seized property indefinitely after an arrest, calling it unconstitutional.