Largest review finds formal ethics education improves students' moral reasoning

Largest review finds formal ethics education improves students' moral reasoning

How important is it that kids learn to tell right from wrong? Businessman and former university chancellor David Gonski recently called for ethics classes to be rolled out in all Australian schools to boost social cohesi…

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Anti-influenza therapies that target the host

Anti-influenza therapies that target the host

A drug that targets the host rather than the virus could get around the problem of antiviral resistance. Every year, hundreds of thousands of people die of seasonal influenza caused by infection with influenza A and B vi…

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Researchers catch sharks off NY's Hamptons, attach trackers to toothy predators

Researchers catch sharks off NY's Hamptons, attach trackers to toothy predators

Researchers are catching a wide range of sharks off New York’s Hamptons and outfitting them with small trackers as they seek to understand more about one of the world’s few confirmed great white shark nurseries. The Asso…

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Chapel Hill Team Lands $35 Million to Build World's Largest Rare Disease AI Database

Chapel Hill Team Lands $35 Million to Build World's Largest Rare Disease AI Database

UNC School of Medicine and Emory University will build the world's largest rare disease AI dataset with a $35 million federal award announced this week.

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Experiment sees surprising result in search for dark matter

Experiment sees surprising result in search for dark matter

For the better part of a century, people have been trying to understand dark matter. This invisible substance makes up roughly 85% of the mass in the universe but has never been directly detected. Determining exactly wha…

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Synthesis Health to establish operations in Marshall University’s IDEA District

Synthesis Health to establish operations in Marshall University’s IDEA District

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Synthesis Health, a medical imaging technology company specializing in artificial intelligence-enabled radiology workflow, will establish operations in Marshall University’s IDEA District as part of a…

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What a smart firewall does and why it matters on home Wi-Fi

What a smart firewall does and why it matters on home Wi-Fi

Router firewalls and software firewalls serve different roles in protecting your home Wi-Fi from unwanted traffic and suspicious connections.

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For a century, journalists have had a voluntary ethics code. Editors are giving it an AI-era reboot

For a century, journalists have had a voluntary ethics code. Editors are giving it an AI-era reboot

Walk into a corner of a newsroom somewhere and you can often find it affixed to a bulletin board, perhaps peeking out from behind the coffee pot: the Society of Professional Journalists's Code of Ethics. It's less than a…

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Brookhaven National Lab to lead $14.2M artificial intelligence project to better manage electric grid

The project research building an artificial intelligence grid foundation model to develop ways to explore how new electric loads can be managed by the electric grid.

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In the 1930s a handful of cane toads were released on Australian sugar farms to eat a beetle they turned out to be unable to reach, and from roughly 100 animals they have since bred into well over 200 million, spreading west across the continent faster each year.In the 1930s a handful of cane toads were released on Australian sugar farms to eat a beetle they turned out to be unable to reach, and from roughly 100 animals they have since bred into well over 200 million, spreading west across the continent faster each year.

In the 1930s a handful of cane toads were released on Australian sugar farms to eat a beetle they turned out to be unable to reach, and from roughly 100 animals they have since bred into well over 200 million, spreading west across the continent faster each year.In the 1930s a handful of cane toads were released on Australian sugar farms to eat a beetle they turned out to be unable to reach, and from roughly 100 animals they have since bred into well over 200 million, spreading west across the continent faster each year.

A failed pest-control experiment in 1930s Queensland released an amphibian that became far more destructive than the beetle it was meant to kill, and continues its relentless march across Australia today. The post In the…

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