Sourdough starters reveal a recipe for predicting microbial species survival

People have long said that "bread is life." Now, researchers at Tufts University are using the bubbling mixtures of flour and ...
Wired

The Environmental and Human Rights Costs of China’s Clean Energy Investments Abroad

Chinese companies have pledged hundreds of billions of dollars in clean energy manufacturing investments overseas, but the projects are having significant social, environmental, and human rights ...
U.S. News & World Report

China Issues Draft Rules to Regulate AI With Human-Like Interaction

BEIJING, ‌Dec 27 (Reuters) - China's cyber regulator ‌on Saturday issued draft rules for public comment that would tighten oversight of artificial intelligence services designed to ‍simulate human ...
Medical Xpress

'Three-hit model' involving genes and environment describes possible causes of autism

A new University of California San Diego School of Medicine study offers a unified biological model to explain how genetic predispositions and environmental exposures converge to cause autism spectrum ...
The New York Times

E.P.A. Erases Mention of Humans Causing Climate Change From Some Web Pages

An E.P.A. site listing the causes of climate change no longer includes the main one: human activity. By Lisa Friedman The Environmental Protection Agency has quietly removed the fact that human ...
Phys.org

News on human-environment-interaction

Whether it's to reset our mental health or simply to take time out from the hurly-burly of work and urban life, many of us head for oceans and rivers to enjoy their restorative capacities. When ...
Science Daily

Scientists grow a tiny human “blood factory” that actually works

Researchers have recreated a miniature human bone marrow system that mirrors the real structure found inside our bones. The model includes the full mix of cells and signals needed for blood production ...
TechCrunch

Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs speeds up the world model race with Marble, its first commercial product

World Labs, the startup founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, is launching its first commercial world model product. Marble is now available via freemium and paid tiers that let users turn text prompts, ...
Frontiers

The interaction discrepancy model: a theoretical framework for understanding person-environment interactions

This manuscript introduces the Interaction Discrepancy Model (IDM), a theoretical framework designed to enhance our understanding of person-environment interactions. Traditional models often overlook ...
Hartford Courant

Black bear and human interactions increase in CT. Officials are concerned as winter approaches

The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection is urging residents to be safe and follow proper guidance to reduce the likelihood of conflicts with black bears this fall amid a rise ...
Frontiers

Multimodal perception-driven decision-making for human-robot interaction: a survey

Multimodal perception is essential for enabling robots to understand and interact with complex environments and human users by integrating diverse sensory data, such as vision, language, and tactile ...
Mongabay

It’s time to update the language of human-wildlife interactions (commentary)

Language shapes the way we view our world. In the field of wildlife conservation, even very subtle word choices drive peoples’ perceptions around individual species or situations. These word choices ...