• The evolving attitudes of Gen X toward evolution

    As the centennial of the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925 approaches, a new study illustrates that the attitudes of Americans in Generation X toward evolution shifted as they aged.

  • Cuba uses drones to apply sterile insect technique

    Havana, Apr 10 (Prensa Latina) Cuba has released, for the second time in Havana, and this time using a drone, male specimens of the Aedes aegypti mosquitos that were sterilized with ionizing radiation, Granma newspaper reported. The post Cuba uses drones to apply sterile insect technique first appeared on Prensa Latina.

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  • Netflix Used AI Images in New True Crime Documentary

    Netflix using generative AI images in a true crime doc is extremely irresponsible and exactly what archivists are telling documentaries not to do https://t.co/tC3L8tX0qE— Emanuel Maiberg (@emanuelmaiberg) April 18, 2024 Netflix has used what appears to be AI-generated or manipulated images in a recent documentary about a 2010 murder-for-hire plot involving a woman named Jennifer Pan.According to the source, "the images that appear around the 28-minute mark of Netflix's "What Jennifer Did," have...

  • These startups are using traces of DNA to spy on nature for good—and profit

    In 2010, Noah Wilson-Rich was juggling several jobs while earning his PhD in biology at Tufts University: He taught classes at several nearby universities, and one day a week, tended bar at a cafe in the lobby of the Hult International Business School. On one of his shifts, he overheard customers discussing a competition for entrepreneurs. The next day, he entered, pitching a company that would gather insect health data at beehives. “They were like, ‘The bartender won?’ said Wilson-Rich....

  • Netflix Accused of Using AI Photos in True Crime Documentary

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  • Netflix doc accused of using AI to manipulate true crime story

    Producer remained vague about whether AI was used to edit photos.

  • At least 172 people have died using suicide powder X: research

    At least 172 people have taken their own lives using the suicide powder “substance X” since 2015, suicide prevention organisation Stichting 113 and the Amsterdam health board estimate. It is the first time an investigation has been carried out into how widespread use of the powder is, the organisations say. The average age of people who had obtained the powder was 59, although the biggest group, some 38%, was over 70. “The figures show that this is a very diverse

  • True Colors: Jeremy Sochan is putting his stamp on the Spurs and San Antonio

    During a recent tour of Southtown's 1906 Gallery, Spurs forward Jeremy Sochan showed he doesn't just collect San Antonio art, he's willing to get his hands dirty making some. At the invitation of Meechi Ceramics owner Michelle Hernandez, Sochan slid his 6-foot-8 frame behind a potter's wheel, removed his jewelry and began crafting a bowl, attentively listening and following directions as she guided him through the process.

  • Designing a cost-effective X-ray free electron lasers facility

    View of the XLS facility. The total length is 483.6 m. Credit: The European Physical Journal Special Topics (2024). DOI: 10.1140/epjs/s11734-023-01076-0 Many advances in structural science since the 1970s were made

  • Designing a cost-effective X-ray free electron lasers facility

    Many advances in structural science since the 1970s were made by probing materials with synchrotron radiation: that is, high energy X-rays generated through accelerating high-energy electrons. The latest generation of such sources, X-ray free electron lasers (XFEL), are far more powerful than their predecessors but are only accessible to international consortia and a few rich countries because of their high cost.

  • Apple Vision Pro: The internet is amazed by this viral X-ray scan

    Someone did detailed X-Ray scans of Apple Vision Pro (and other headsets), and it's wild to see the inside of one of those things.