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Research shows that methane emissions from the US energy industry are three times greater than the government thinks

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U.S. oil and natural gas wells, pipelines and compressors spew out three times as much of the powerful heat-trapping gas methane as the government thinks, causing $9.3 billion in climate damage annually, a new comprehensive study calculates. But because more than half of these methane emissions come from a small number of oil and gas … Read more

Why are women at greater risk for autoimmune diseases like MS? New study finds clue

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Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. Why women are at greater risk for autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis is a long-standing medical mystery, and a team of researchers at Stanford University may now be one step … Read more

Research shows that AI image generators are trained on explicit photos of children

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Hidden within the base of popular artificial intelligence image generators are thousands of images of child sexual abuse, according to a new report urging companies to take action to address a harmful flaw in the technology they built. Those same images have made it easier for AI systems to produce realistic and explicit images of … Read more

A legal scholar explains that government databases must withdraw information

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In 2004, Hwang Woo-suk was celebrated for his groundbreaking discovery in creating cloned human embryos, and his work was published in the prestigious journal Science. But the discovery was too good to be true; Dr. Hwang had fabricated the data. Science publicly retracted the paper and assembled a team to investigate what went wrong. Withdrawals … Read more

Andre Braugher, actor who played memorable detectives in Homicide and Brooklyn Nine-Nine – obituary

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Braugher as Det Frank Pembleton in Homicide: Life on the Street – NBCU Photo Bank Andre Braugher, who has died aged 61, gained international recognition for playing intense big-city police detectives in the television drama Homicide: Life on the Street and later in the comedy Brooklyn Nine-Nine; was also an award-winning stage actor who played … Read more

Wildfires in California could transform natural metals into cancer-causing compounds

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Wildfires in parts of the US West could transform a benign form of chromium into its cancer-causing counterpart – potentially endangering first responders and surrounding communities, a new study shows. The research, published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications, identified high levels of the dangerous metal hexavalent chromium, or chromium-6, at specific types of combustion … Read more