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A group of biologists are conducting a bioblitz on Hecate Island, part of the Great Bear Rainforest on the coast of British Columbia. They are primarily focusing on bryophytes, the ancient group of plants that include mosses and liverworts. The researchers, including bryophyte experts Randal Mindell and Dan Tucker, are working on a larger project […]
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Sweden’s 250-year-old Freedom of the Press Act has been recognized by UNESCO as part of the country’s national identity and awarded Memory of the World status. Despite this achievement, Sweden’s press freedom ranking has dropped this year according to Reporters Without Borders. The president of the organization’s Sweden branch, Erik Larsson, says that journalists in […]
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Garret Merriam, an associate professor of philosophy at Sacramento State University, caught 40 out of 96 students cheating on an exam. After finding a previous exam uploaded to websites such as Quizlet, he uploaded a poisoned exam online and waited. When the students turned in their finals, Merriam compared them to the poisoned exam and […]
The Neanderthal flute, discovered in Divje babe cave near Cerkno, is the oldest musical instrument in the world, dating back to 60,000 years ago. Made out of the left thighbone of a young cave bear, the flute has four pierced holes, two of which are entirely preserved, and two partly. It was confirmed through musical […]
Vi Bilägare, a Swedish car magazine, has been given exclusive access to NEVS’s all-electric car, Emily GT. NEVS, which took over the Trollhättan facility after the bankruptcy of Saab Automobile, took only ten months to develop the car. Vi Bilägare reveals that NEVS has developed an electric version of the Saab 9-3 and an all-new […]
SAT, the propositional satisfiability problem, was the first problem to be shown NP-complete, making it the embodiment of theoretical worst-case complexity. However, SAT has emerged as a central problem for efficiently solving computational problems, from hardware and software verification to planning, combinatorial design, and software dependency. Advances in SAT solving technology since a breakthrough around […]
The fact that people have continued to use string templates for producing HTML despite numerous articles claiming that it’s wrong means that they must see real advantages in this method over its alternatives. While some suggest that the ease and scalability of string formatting may be factors, others point out that it’s naturally reusable to […]
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Scientists have discovered a new experimental antibiotic called abaucin that is able to kill a dangerous superbug species, Acinetobacter baumannii, with the help of artificial intelligence (AI). With a lack of new drugs for decades, bacteria have been becoming harder to treat due to their resistance to existing medication, which has resulted in approximately one […]