Scrolling through someone’s posts might offer more than a glimpse into their day—it could offer early signs of deeper struggles. At Iowa State University, researchers are training a deep learning model to detect potential mental health symptoms through the language used on[...]
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AI Discovers Suspected Trigger of Alzheimer’s, And Maybe a Treatment
Alzheimer’s remains one of medicine’s toughest puzzles—but artificial intelligence just helped researchers crack a crucial piece. At UC San Diego, scientists used AI to uncover a hidden role for a gene long linked to the disease. Turns out, it may not just[...]
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Can AI help us talk to dolphins? The race is now on
Talking with animals may no longer be just a childhood dream. A new AI-powered competition—the Coller Dolittle Challenge—is offering up to $500,000 annually, and a $10 million grand prize, to push the boundaries of interspecies communication. This year’s winner? A team decoding[...]
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Watch: World First: US Baby Treated With Personalized CRISPR Gene-Editing
When KJ Muldoon was just days old, his future seemed heartbreakingly uncertain. Diagnosed with a rare and often fatal genetic disorder, his options were limited to a liver transplant or an untested gene-editing treatment. His parents chose the unknown. That decision has[...]
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Democracy Thrives In The Mess
It wasn’t a volcanic eruption or financial collapse that put Iceland in the global spotlight this time—it was a scandal. The resignation of Minister Ásthildur Lóa Þórsdóttir stirred headlines worldwide, but the deeper story isn’t about tabloid drama. It’s about democracy doing[...]
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Listen: Sauna village in central Stockholm celebrating the Finnish experience
In the heart of Stockholm, a pop-up sauna village is bringing a steamy slice of Finnish culture to the public. Part festival, part homage, it’s a three-day celebration sparked by Finland’s comedy trio KAJ—this year’s Eurovision representatives for Sweden. With birch branches[...]
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First Norwegian astronaut in space
Norway has a new kind of explorer. Jannicke Mikkelsen etched her name in history as the first astronaut with only Norwegian citizenship to reach space, commanding the private SpaceX Fram2 mission. The journey wasn’t just orbital; it soared over both the North[...]
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How Finland Is Harvesting Waste Heat From Data Centers
In Finland, a quiet revolution is turning data centers from energy guzzlers into community heaters. Ari Kurvi, a pioneer of this technology, helped transform waste heat from servers into warmth for thousands of homes. Now Microsoft is building the world’s largest heat-recovering[...]
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HOLY COW! HISTORY: A Tale of Two Trains; When Friendship Rode the Rails
Eighty years ago this spring, Europe was finally quiet. Planes no longer dropped bombs, tanks sat stationary, rattling machine guns fell silent. After six bloody years, World War II was at last over on the continent. But peace alone didn’t mean a[...]
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Vaccine developed in Nebraska could signal end to annual flu shot
LINCOLN — A new vaccine strategy developed and tested by a team from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln could signal an end to the annual flu shot routine. The possible breakthrough is laid out in newly published research in Nature Communications. The study,[...]
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Pope Leo XIV asks journalists to use communication as a tool for peace
In his first address to the press, Pope Leo XIV urged journalists to reject the “war of words and images” and embrace communication as a force for peace. Speaking to thousands at the Vatican, Leo praised the courage of reporters covering conflicts[...]
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The misleading accounting behind your ‘recycled’ plastic
A complex accounting method used by plastic producers is under fire for overstating recycled content in products. Mondelez, maker of Triscuits, is using a system called “mass balance” to claim up to 50% of its packaging comes from recycled materials, even though[...]
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Where in the world are babies at the lowest risk of dying?
Measuring which country is safest for newborns isn’t as simple as it seems. Definitions of live births and infant deaths vary, especially regarding extremely premature babies. Using standardized comparisons, Japan, Sweden, and Finland consistently have the world’s lowest infant mortality rates. The[...]
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The U.S. and China announce a deal to cut tariffs, temporarily easing trade war
The U.S. and China have agreed to sharply reduce tariffs after high-level trade talks in Switzerland, easing tensions that had disrupted global markets. U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods will drop from 145% to 30% for 90 days, while China will cut its[...]
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Intelligence on Earth Evolved Independently at Least Twice
We’ve long assumed our big, complex brains set us apart—but birds are rewriting that narrative. From ravens planning for the future to chickadees remembering thousands of seed stashes, bird intelligence rivals that of mammals despite their much smaller, structurally different brains. New[...]
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Local Students witness papal announcement
Two Minot students found themselves at the heart of history this week. Jordn Wolsky and Kalen Hill, both University of Mary students studying abroad in Rome, stood in St. Peter’s Square as white smoke signaled the election of Pope Leo XIV—the first[...]