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Yellowstone’s standing dead trees pose growing wildfire danger

Output maps of the distance accumulation calculation from the point and line vulnerability criteria. (a) Distance to roads, (b) Distance to trails, (c) Distance to water, (d) Distance to buildings. Credit: Di Yang et al. Standing dead trees in Yellowstone National Park are growing wildfire hazards, especially near park infrastructure. A new study published in […]

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Broadcast police communications may pose privacy risks, especially to Black men

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Police radio transmissions contain personally identifiable information that could pose privacy risks for members of the public, especially Black males, according to a new study by researchers at Penn State and the University of Chicago. “This study provides a window into police activity as events unfold,” said Shomir Wilson, associate professor […]

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AI could pose pandemic-scale biosecurity risks. Here’s how to make it safer

Artificial-intelligence models are able to translate an experimental method into code that runs a liquid-handling robot.Credit: Getty Since July, researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico have been assessing how the artificial intelligence (AI) model GPT-4o can assist humans with tasks in biological research. In the evaluations — which are being conducted to […]