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Political science Feb 12, 2025

DeepSeek: How China's embrace of open-source AI caused a geopolitical earthquake

We are in the early days of a seismic shift in the global AI industry. DeepSeek, a previously little-known Chinese artificial intelligence company, has produced a "game changing"" large language model that promises to reshape ...

Earth Sciences Feb 6, 2025

Q&A: What to know about the earthquakes near Santorini

An accumulation of weak to moderate earthquakes has been recorded around the Greek island of Santorini since 24 January. The seismic activity is concentrated in the area between the islands of Santorini and Amorgos, with ...

Other Feb 6, 2025

Turkey's earthquake reconstruction efforts must balance speed with fairness

Two years after the devastating 2023 earthquakes in Turkey that killed about 60,000 people and caused the collapse of 57,000 buildings, the country's recovery remains slow, fragmented, and heavily politicized.

Earth Sciences Jan 20, 2025

Deep beneath California's Sierra Nevada, Earth's lithosphere may be peeling away

The processes that form continental crust from the denser basaltic rocks of the upper mantle may make the lower lithosphere denser than the underlying mantle. One theory holds that the lower lithosphere splits away and sinks ...

Environment Jan 14, 2025

Tsunami alert lifted after magnitude 6.6 earthquake rattles southwestern Japan

A tsunami advisory was issued for part of southwest Japan after a magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck Monday, but the warnings to stay away from coastal areas were later lifted. A few instances of minor damage were reported.

Environment Dec 22, 2024

Large earthquake hits battered Vanuatu

A magnitude-6.1 earthquake rattled buildings on Vanuatu's main island early Sunday but did not appear to have caused major damage, five days after a more powerful quake wreaked havoc and killed 12 people.

Environment Dec 7, 2024

Earthquakes under a volcano near Alaska's largest city raise concerns

An increase in the number of earthquakes under a volcano near Alaska's largest city this year has geologists paying attention.

Earth Sciences Dec 2, 2024

Research offers insights into Permian Basin earthquake hazards

A new collection of published papers offers the most detailed and comprehensive breakdown yet of how water injected into the Permian Basin during oil and gas operations is changing subsurface pressures and causing earthquakes.

Other Nov 16, 2024

Saturday Citations: Cold dark matter takes a hit; a new paradigm for biology; those fracking earthquakes

This week, researchers formulated a new method to calculate the probability of generating intelligent life in the universe. Investigations of a meteorite that originated on Mars revealed that it once interacted with liquid ...

Earth Sciences Nov 12, 2024

World's largest active volcano Mauna Loa showed telltale warning signs before erupting in 2022

Scientists can't know precisely when a volcano is about to erupt, but they can sometimes pick up telltale signs.

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