New Tinnitus Therapy Can Quiet Torturous Ringing in the Ears (www.scientificamerican.com)
A combination of acoustic and electrical stimulation reduces tinnitus by half
Journalism Is a Public Good and Should Be Publicly Funded (www.scientificamerican.com)
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Online Ads Can Infect Your Device with Spyware (www.scientificamerican.com)
An investigative report reveals that new spyware can slip in unseen through online ads—and there is currently no defense against it. So not only that online ads are intrusive and can infect devices through malware, they can also be used for spying.
The American Climate Corps Wants You | Biden’s new program is expected to hire 20,000 people in its first year for renewable energy projects and ecological restoration (www.scientificamerican.com)
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Controversial Physicist Faces Mounting Accusations of Scientific Misconduct (www.scientificamerican.com)
Allegations of data fabrication have sparked the retraction of multiple papers from Ranga Dias, a researcher who claimed discovery of a room-temperature superconductor
Let Teenagers Sleep (www.scientificamerican.com)
Trump Allies Plan to Gut Climate Research if He Is Reelected (www.scientificamerican.com)
"Wind and solar power pollute the Earth and make life miserable:" DeSantis's Florida Approves Climate-Denial Videos in Schools (www.scientificamerican.com)
The Theory That Men Evolved to Hunt and Women Evolved to Gather Is Wrong (www.scientificamerican.com)
64,000 Pregnancies Caused by Rape Have Occurred in States with a Total Abortion Ban, New Study Estimates (www.scientificamerican.com)
Researchers calculated the number of pregnancies resulting from rape in states where abortion was banned throughout pregnancy after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision...
Extreme Heat Is Deadlier Than Hurricanes, Floods and Tornadoes Combined (www.scientificamerican.com)
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What AI Can Do for Climate Change, and What Climate Change Can Do for AI (www.scientificamerican.com)
To tackle the climate crisis, artificial intelligence is becoming more open and democratic
Organized crime is mining sand from rivers and coasts to feed demand worldwide, ruining ecosystems and communities (www.scientificamerican.com)
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PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' Found in Freshwater Fish, Yet Most States Don't Warn Residents (www.scientificamerican.com)
Staggering amounts of toxic “forever chemicals” have been found in freshwater fish, but there is no federal guidance on what is a safe amount to eat...
AI Is Becoming a Band-Aid over Bad, Broken Tech Industry Design Choices (www.scientificamerican.com)
After decades of messy, thoughtless design choices, corporations are using artificial intelligence to sell basic usability back to consumers
We Need Smart Intellectual Property Laws for Artificial Intelligence (www.scientificamerican.com)
“One-size-fits-all” regulation will sideline medical and research benefits promised by the advent of artificial intelligence
YSK hands, feet and the upper part of your face are the most effective vectors of heat relief, while draping a cold towel around your neck can actually stop you from cooling down. (www.scientificamerican.com)
From the podcast: "Our bodies have a kind of emergency temperature relief valve. That valve is a special type of blood vessel: they’re called arteriovenous anastomoses. Most arteries and veins connect through a bed of very thin capillaries that bring nutrients and oxygen to cells. AVAs, though, are different. They are direct...
America’s Hottest City Is Having a Surge of Deaths | Skyrocketing temperatures are colliding with a lack of planning in Phoenix that is contributing to a rise in heat-related deaths (www.scientificamerican.com)
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The Summer of 2023 Was the Hottest in 2,000 Years (www.scientificamerican.com)
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Orcas Just Sank Another Yacht (www.scientificamerican.com)
Flimsy Antiabortion Studies Cited in Case to Ban Mifepristone Are Retracted (www.scientificamerican.com)
Outside experts found that two studies cited in a federal case on medication abortion had serious design problems and that their authors had undisclosed conflicts of interest...
Climate Deniers Shift Tactics to 'Inactivism' (www.scientificamerican.com)
73 Pre-Incan Mummies, Some with 'False Heads,' Unearthed in Peru (www.scientificamerican.com)
Burials holding mummies with false heads have been discovered from the Wari Empire in Peru. Archaeologists in Peru have unearthed the burials of at least 73 people dating to around 1,000 years ago, a few hundred years before the Inca took over parts of western South America. ...
Earth Just Had the Hottest 12-Month Span in Recorded History (www.scientificamerican.com)
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A Record Number of Billion-Dollar Disasters Show U.S. Isn't Ready for Climate Change (www.scientificamerican.com)
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