European manufacturers face a two-pronged attack from China that has German industry associations warning of deindustrialization: on the one hand, artificially cheap Chinese goods are flooding Europe and, on the other, Beijing has demonstrated its willingness to abruptly cut off access to critical inputs such as rare earths and semiconductors. Alarm intensified in October when…
Our staff’s favorite books of the year reflected on the role of science in some of society’s most pressing problems, from artificial intelligence to childhood trauma to river restoration. Did we miss your favorite? Let us know at feedback@sciencenews.org. rehabilitation Walter ShoshanaSimon and Schuster | $29.99 In a journalist’s exposé of America’s drug treatment centers,…
The following article originally appeared in Gradient flow and is republished here with the author’s permission. We are experiencing a peculiar moment in the development of AI. On the one hand, the demonstrations are spectacular: agents who reason and plan with apparent ease, models that compose original songs from a text messageand research tools that…
A world leader in export and production of agricultural products is India. Except for basmati rice and fruits, meat, dairy products and processed foods are also included in the country’s export basket. To promote and facilitate such exports in a simple manner, the government has created the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority…
The United States is in the midst of a botulism outbreak linked to a brand of premium infant formula. Dozens of babies have been affected as of November 19. All of the reported cases of crippling bacterial infection occurred between August and November and have been linked to powdered infant formula produced by ByHeart, according…
Math operations and closed-book data retrieval shared paths with memorization, dropping from 66 to 86 percent of performance after editing. The researchers found that arithmetic was particularly fragile. Even when the models generated identical chains of reasoning, they failed in the calculation step after low-curvature components were removed. Figure 3 from the article “From memorization…
Amazon has lowered the price of the AirPods 4 to $69.00 for Black Friday, from $129.00. This is now a new all-time low price for the headphones, beating the previous low price on Amazon by about $10. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner of some of these providers. When you click a link and make…
17 October, 2025 12 min read Share Copy Link Copied As one of the 3 main financial statements, a cash flow statement is an essential tool for understanding a company’s financial health, assessing its liquidity, and confirming how much cash it has on hand. Along with the balance sheet and income statement, this set of…
A decade or so ago, I had my biological age measured. I was in my mid 40s at the time and was fit, slim and a disciplined eater. When the results came back, I was gratified to discover that I was, biologically, quite a bit younger than my age. Around six years, if I remember…
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