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Technology

Trust and safety – the most important tech job you’ve never heard of

Trust and safety teams at tech firms are all too easy to overlook, but the rise of propaganda and online harassment makes them vitally important, says Annalee Newitz

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BFERM2 Bulldozer Spread Coal Mine Waste on Impoundment Dam

Environment

Could coal mining waste provide crucial elements for green tech?

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KPJYBX Illustration of a coronal mass ejection impacting the Earth?s atmosphere. These events, CMEs for short, are powerful releases of solar charged particl

Space

Why we need to bring stellar astrophysics into the real world

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CARDIFF, WALES - FEBRUARY 23: A teacher wearing a face mask teaches a child at Roath Park Primary School on February 23, 2021 in Cardiff, Wales. Children aged three to seven began a phased return to school on Monday. Wales' education minister Kirsty Williams has said more primary school children will be able to return to face-to-face learning from March 15 if coronavirus cases continue to fall. (Photo by Matthew Horwood/Getty Images)

Health

HEPA filters cut covid-19 sick days but we've been slow proving this

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2T17MYG Los Angeles, United States. 12th Oct, 2023. File photo dated October 06, 2019 of Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith attend Paramount Pictures' premiere of Gemini Man in Los Angeles, CA, USA. Jada Pinkett Smith has revealed in a new interview that she and her husband Will Smith have been separated since 2016. Though the actors were living completely separate lives for seven years, they were not ready to publicly confirm the news before, she confessed to NBC. Photo by Lionel Hahn/ABACAPRESS.COM Credit: Abaca Press/Alamy Live News

Society

Don't click on the war

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Field Notes - Graham Lawton

Environment

Why I won't be buying sea-farmed salmon ever again

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Space

How the balloon analogy for an expanding universe is almost perfect

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Technology

We still don't really understand what large language models are

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2MBG96A FILE - Books written in the Quechua Indigenous language sit behind a student during a class on medicinal plants, at a public primary school in Licapa, Peru, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021. About 10 million people speak Quechua, but trying to automatically translate emails and text messages into the most widely spoken Indigenous language family in the Americas was nearly impossible before Google introduced it into its digital translation service Wednesday, May 11, 2022. The internet giant says new artificial intelligence technology is enabling it to vastly expand Google Translate?s repertoire of the

Technology

How artificial intelligence is helping keep Indigenous languages alive

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Mandatory Credit: Photo by Jim West/imageBROKER/Shutterstock (4549809a) Children inspect a caterpillar found in their garden which is tended by children ages 5-11 in a program called Growing Healthy Kids, as part of the Earthworks Urban Garden, which grows food for the Capuchin Soup Kitchen, Detroit, Michigan, USA VARIOUS

Life

When nature gives people the 'ick'

People living in urban environments are often alienated from the great outdoors and therefore find it scary and disgusting. This "biophobia" is on the rise, says Graham Lawton

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Physics

How soap operas can help us understand special relativity

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Health

We need evidence about the risks and benefits of alternative medicines

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Technology

Our priorities are all wrong when it comes to new technologies

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Life

Is it time to do away with species names that honour odious people?

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