What leads rivers to suddenly change course?
An analysis of satellite data could help predict where rivers will change their course and where their rerouted flows will go.
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Study finds marriage is linked to changes in sexism
Marriage is associated with increases in sexist attitudes shortly after marriage, particularly in men’s hostile sexism and women’s hostile and benevolent sexism, according to a study published in Sex Roles. Hostile sexism reflects antagonistic beliefs about women gaining power at…
Can furry pets get H5N1 bird flu and spread it to us?
House cats are getting — and dying of — bird flu. That’s been sparking worries about what risk an ongoing 2024 outbreak of this H5N1 virus poses for furry pets and their owners. Kristen Coleman and Ian Bemis are airborne-viral-disease…
In 2024, bird flu posed big risks — and to far more than birds
News reports of bird flu striking huge flocks of birds — including farmed poultry — have been ongoing for more than two years. Still, “most people have no idea that we are in the middle of a wildlife emergency —…
Evidence of Assyrians’ conquest of Holy Land discovered in Jerusalem
The discovery of a building that the Assyrians likely tore down in the eighth century B.C. reveals the political dynamics of that age in Jerusalem.
Misophonia shares genetic links with depression, anxiety, and PTSD
A recent study published in Frontiers in Neuroscience has shed light on the genetic factors associated with misophonia, a condition in which certain sounds—such as chewing or breathing—provoke intense emotional reactions like anger, anxiety, or disgust. The researchers found that…
Archive.org, a repository storing the entire history of the Internet, has been hacked
Archive.org, possibly one of the only entities to preserve the entire history of the Internet, was recently compromised in a hack that revealed data of roughly 31 million users. A little after 2 PM California time, social media blew up…
Maze of adapters, software patches gets a dedicated GPU working on a Raspberry Pi
Raspberry Pi owners have always been prone to coming up with elaborate, technically-interesting-but-practically-questionable projects, and Pi enthusiast Jeff Geerling has an exciting new submission to that canon: an old AMD Radeon RX 460 GPU, connected to the Raspberry Pi 5’s…
Drug makers can’t make knockoff weight-loss drugs anymore—and they’re mad
Compounding pharmacies are suing the Food and Drug Administration so they can keep making imitation versions of popular—and lucrative—tirzepatide drugs, namely knockoffs of Mounjaro for diabetes and Zepbound for weight loss. Generally, compounding pharmacies make customized formulations of drugs for…
Is China pulling ahead in AI video synthesis? We put Minimax to the test
If 2022 was the year AI image generators went mainstream, 2024 has arguably been the year that AI video synthesis models exploded in capability. These models, while not yet perfect, can generate new videos from text descriptions called prompts, still images,…
