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In the Pacific Northwest, from Oregon and Washington and into Canada, El Niño is expected to bring drier-than-normal weather, ...

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When scientists were asked to review papers for a conference without using AI tools, many of them ignored the request and ...

Physicists have long struggled with their goal of making gravity a quantum force. A radical post-quantum approach might solve ...

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An endless stream of distractions, from email notifications to overlapping deadlines, can make focus slip away. Columnist ...

The enigmatic tiger cats of South America now encompass a new species – the tilcayo – bringing the number of known tiger cat ...

Watching a river flow via a virtual-reality headset while listening to classical music seems to quickly bring people's blood ...

Grim warnings of the existential risk posed by AI are all over the news, but there is very little evidence to back them up ...