Science and Technolgy blog
Social media platforms have struggled to accurately detect hate speech, especially given the different definitions and contexts of harmful content. A new study in Computer Speech & Language introduces a machine learning model that improves detection by training on multiple…
Geoenvironmental scientist Hiroto Nagai used publicly available climate data from the North and South poles to compose an ominous-sounding chamber music piece.
Four “potentially hazardous” space rocks, which are between 100 and 580 feet across, will all make their closest approaches to Earth within less than 12 hours of one another on Thursday (Oct. 24). Two of them were only discovered earlier…
U.S. health officials are investigating a multi-state outbreak of bacterial infections that has been linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders.
One person is dead and 48 others across 10 states have been sickened in an E. coli O157:H7 outbreak that appears to be linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders and the slivered onions used on the burgers, according to the Centers…
A study conducted in Austria found that individuals who were exposed to blue spaces (such as coasts, rivers, and lakes) during childhood tend to feel more connected to nature as adults. This stronger connection to nature, in turn, is linked…
Drones with lasers revealed hidden urban centers that may have aided trade and travel through mountainous regions during medieval times.
Polar bears have been exposed to more viruses, bacteria and parasites in recent decades, a new study shows, possibly acquiring the germs in their diet.
A fiery meteor shot across the sky above the Great Lakes on Monday (Oct. 21) just after sunset, stunning witnesses from Michigan to New York, Kentucky and North Carolina.
Intelsat 39 being launched from French Guiana aboard an Ariane 5 rocket in 2019.
