The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded $10.5 million for Ideas Lab projects to assess and address research capacity needs, increase access to research facilities and build human capital at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs……
Schools and an NGO in the Eastern Cape have argued in court that providing scholar transport must be prioritised. In reply, the Eastern Cape Department of Transport said it could no longer afford this service in its current form and was revising its policy, which might exclude more learners…
Edmonton police should pay up to $30,000 in damages to compensate a trans woman repeatedly misgendered during a 911 call, a lawyer for the Alberta Human Rights Tribunal says. The tribunal heard closing arguments Thursday in the case of Marni Panas, a trans advocate who called 911 asking police to check on her friend in…
Now that AI can unravel the secrets inside a charred, brittle, ancient scroll buried under lava over 2,000 years ago, imagine what it can reveal in your unstructured data–and how that can reshape your work, thoughts, and actions. Unstructured data has been integral to human society for over 50,000 years…
OpenAI’s o1-preview model scored impressively on benchmarks of human intelligence and coding skills, but it also knowingly supplies incorrect answers some of the time, the company found…
Astronaut Nicole Stott says folks who are cynical over seeing a billionaire complete the first-ever civilian spacewalk need to cool their jets … because it’s actually to everyone’s benefit. Nicole, who did her own spacewalk in 2009 at the……
Candace Bond-Theriault If LGBTQIA+ communities are not centered in the fight for justice, our communities will never be free. The post Abortion Took Center Stage at the Debate, but Queering Reproductive Justice Must Be the Goal appeared first on The Nation…
A sheep farm in North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany produces the first textile made from the wool of gay rams, making a bold fashion statement for the LGBTQIA+ community…
When former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris took the debate stage Tuesday, they briefly touched on reproductive rights, health insurance access and drug prices. Left unmentioned, however, was another divisive, though less high-profile public health issue: The fate of menthol cigarettes. The Biden administration’s Food and Drug Administration formally proposed a...