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Feb 21, 2024

US-Mexico border: 100 billion gallons of toxic sewage creating a ‘public health crisis’

Posted by in category: health

“South San Diego County is in a total state of emergency related to transboundary pollution, and this is a public health ticking time bomb,” Imperial Beach Mayor Paloma Aguirre told ABC News. “We are living in conditions that nobody in this great nation should be living in.”

The Tijuana River – which has been classified as an impaired water body, according to the U.S. Clean Water Act — flows north for 120 miles from Mexico to California before reaching the Pacific Ocean on the U.S. side of the border in the Imperial Beach, San Ysidro and Coronado coastal areas.

Over the last five years, 100 billion gallons of untreated sewage, industrial waste and urban runoff have been dumped into the Tijuana River, according to the International Boundary and Water Commission.

Feb 21, 2024

World’s first hybrid wind and fuel powered chemical tanker sets sail from Rotterdam

Posted by in categories: chemistry, energy

Owners hope the world’s first “wind-assisted chemical tanker” will help the shipping industry change tack for a greener future.

Feb 21, 2024

12 years after NASA launched its Juno mission to Jupiter, these are its most stunning images of the gas giant

Posted by in category: space travel

Twelve years later, NASA’s Juno spacecraft has zipped past Jupiter’s poles, watched its Great Red Spot churn, and visited its largest moon, Ganymede.

Feb 21, 2024

VideoPrism: A Foundational Visual Encoder for Video Understanding

Posted by in category: futurism

Google announces VideoPrism.

A foundational visual encoder for video understanding.


Join the discussion on this paper page.

Feb 21, 2024

Microsoft’s Copilot Key Reveals the Future of Windows

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A new button on your keyboard is just the beginning of major changes coming to Windows in 2024.

Feb 21, 2024

Science fiction meets reality as researchers develop techniques to overcome obstructed views

Posted by in categories: information science, law enforcement, military

After a recent car crash, John Murray-Bruce wished he could have seen the other car coming. The crash reaffirmed the USF assistant professor of computer science and engineering’s mission to create a technology that could do just that: See around obstacles and ultimately expand one’s line of vision.

Using a single photograph, Murray-Bruce and his doctoral student, Robinson Czajkowski, created an algorithm that computes highly accurate, full-color three-dimensional reconstructions of areas behind obstacles—a concept that can not only help prevent car crashes but help law enforcement experts in hostage situations search-and-rescue and strategic military efforts.

“We’re turning ordinary surfaces into mirrors to reveal regions, objects, and rooms that are outside our line of vision,” Murray-Bruce said. “We live in a 3D world, so obtaining a more complete 3D picture of a scenario can be critical in a number of situations and applications.”

Feb 21, 2024

Foods That Could Increase NAD: Fenugreek Seeds

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Feb 21, 2024

BYD is buying back stock to fuel its dominant global expansion with new EVs

Posted by in categories: sustainability, transportation

The world’s EV leader, BYD (OTC: BYDDY), announced a stock buyback plan as it continues expanding into new markets. BYD is pushing into different segments with new luxury EVs and mid-size electric SUVs.

After selling a record 526,409 all-electric vehicles in the fourth quarter of 2023, BYD topped Tesla to become the best-selling EV maker globally.

The automaker’s success was fueled by its lineup of affordable EVs like the Dolphin, Atto 3 (Yuan Plus in China), and Seal. However, BYD is quickly expanding into new segments.

Feb 21, 2024

Plasma scientists develop computer programs that could reduce the cost of microchips, stimulate manufacturing

Posted by in categories: computing, mobile phones, nuclear energy, transportation

Fashioned from the same element found in sand and covered by intricate patterns, microchips power smartphones, augment appliances and aid the operation of cars and airplanes.

Now, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) are developing computer simulation codes that will outperform current simulation techniques and aid the production of microchips using plasma, the electrically charged state of matter also used in fusion research.

These codes could help increase the efficiency of the manufacturing process and potentially stimulate the renaissance of the chip industry in the United States.

Feb 21, 2024

New computer model of lung tissue could herald safer radiotherapy for cancer

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, computing

An innovative computer model of a human lung is helping scientists simulate, for the first time, how a burst of radiation interacts with the organ on a cell-by-cell level.

This research, carried out at the University of Surrey and GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, could lead to more targeted treatments for and reduce the damage caused by . The research is published in the journal Communications Medicine.

Dr. Roman Bauer, Senior Lecturer at the University of Surrey, said, “Doctors could one day use our model to choose the right length and strength of radiotherapy—tailored to their patient. This is exciting enough—but others could use our technique to study other organs. This could unlock all kinds of medical knowledge and could be great news for and future patients.”