The philosophy of deepfakes: Has the camera always lied?
Fake footage is a centuries-old problem that began long before digital technology, according to a Leeds academic.
Social Sciences
Mar 30, 2023
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News tagged with current events
Five years after Parkland, school shootings have only become deadlier and more common, say criminologists
In the aftermath of the Parkland, Florida, high school shooting on Valentine's Day 2018, many Americans hoped that, finally, something would be done to address the problem of gun violence in the nation's schools.
Education
Feb 10, 2023
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Machine learning predicts biodiversity and resilience in the 'coral triangle'
Coral reef conservation is a steppingstone to protect marine biodiversity and life in the ocean as we know it. The health of coral also has huge societal implications: reef ecosystems provide sustenance and livelihoods for ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 9, 2023
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Schoolkids lost third of a year's learning to pandemic: study
School-aged students lost more than a third of a year's worth of learning early on in the pandemic and have still not caught up, posing "a real problem for this generation," researchers warned on Monday.
Social Sciences
Jan 30, 2023
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Did ChatGPT write this article? Faculty look at AI challenges and opportunities
The academic landscape shifted dramatically in November 2022 with the launch of ChatGPT, a chatbot developed by OpenAI. ChatGPT is artificial intelligence software that can write essays, poems, code and perform other tasks ...
Education
Jan 30, 2023
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Climate 'presses' and 'pulses' impact Magellanic penguins—a marine predator—with guidance for conservationists
Climate change will reshape ecosystems worldwide through two types of climate events: short-term, extreme events—like a heat wave—and long-term changes, like a shift in ocean currents. Ecologists call the short-term events ...
Ecology
Jan 9, 2023
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Antarctica's emperor penguins could be extinct by 2100. And other species may follow if we don't act
Greater conservation efforts are needed to protect Antarctic ecosystems, and the populations of up to 97% of land-based Antarctic species could decline by 2100 if we don't change tack, our new research has found.
Environment
Dec 23, 2022
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Tiny satellite tests autonomy in space
In May 2022, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Transporter-5 mission into orbit. The mission contained a collection of micro and nanosatellites from both industry and government, including one from MIT Lincoln Laboratory ...
Space Exploration
Dec 12, 2022
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Visiting nuclear shelters in Prague to see how cities could prepare for nuclear war
With the ongoing Ukraine war, tensions in Europe are on the rise. This is both due to an influx of war related-refugees to Central European cities, and discontent over the related rising cost of energy.
Social Sciences
Nov 15, 2022
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For first time, study identifies top trends in the biological impacts of urbanization
A new research study overseen by Brian Verrelli, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Center for Biological Data Science at Virginia Commonwealth University, could have major implications for research across the university ...
Evolution
Oct 5, 2022
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