In the Media - August 2023
Featuring the best of this month's news stories from the perspective of journalists and media around the globe.
Risk of heat-related deaths has ‘increased rapidly’ over past 20 years
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external pageThe Economic Times (India)call_made
external pageSouth Africa Newscall_made
external pageBusiness Standardcall_made
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Note: This story appeared in numerous regional news publications in countries around the world!
Music can trigger cells to release insulin within minutes
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external pageHealth Reportercall_made
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external pagePioneer Newzcall_made
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external pageiHeart Radiocall_made and numerous syndicated radio stations in the U.S.
Diverse forests shut down non-native tree invasions
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India lands spacecraft near the moon's south pole, a first for the world as it joins elite club
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Numerous broadcast, radio, and print publications including...
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First video of Nobel ‘pressure sensors’ in action at Imperial
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Scientists find new technique for predicting record-breaking heat waves
(Interview with ETH Zurich Professor, Erich Fischer) external page“The longer we measure, we should expect to see less and less records because we should have seen almost everything that’s possible. But with climate change, that’s quite different,” said Erich Fischer, a climate scientist at ETH Zurich and lead author of the study. “We see a lot more heat records [than] we should be expecting to see by chance, and these records are broken by larger margins.”call_made
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KCBS-AM (radio) San Francisco and numerous syndicated radio and television broadcasts
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Researchers reveal how Salmonella relatives grow together in the gut
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Harvard Uses Google Cloud to Clone Supercomputer for Medical Research Runs
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Metal mesh harvests drinking water from pollutant-heavy fog
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external pageBerkeley Engineeringcall_made
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external pageThe Weather Networkcall_made
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external pageLaboratory Equipmentcall_made
external pageYanko Designcall_made
external pageWater Quality Products Magazinecall_made
external pageEnvironmental Science & Engineering Magazinecall_made
How climate change drives heatwaves and wildfires in Europe
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The farmers boosting crops with electricity
"...plant ecologist Nina Buchmann – who directs the World Food System Center at ETH Zurich, Switzerland – has little patience for critics. "Sometimes I'm tempted to ask them: Did you eat something today?" she told attendees at an agronomy awards ceremony organised by the investment company Vontobel."
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Researchers are helping robots teach themselves to open dishwashers and doors
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external pageWired Focuscall_made
Study addresses the global need for human-wildlife coexistence
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Carbon-based quantum technology
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external pageInsight EU Monitoringcall_made
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AI bots are so good at mimicking the human brain and vision that CAPTCHAs are useless
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Hackers red-teaming A.I. are ‘breaking stuff left and right,’ but don’t expect quick fixes from DefCon: ‘There are no good guardrails’
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I'm saving a glacier (by putting it in my freezer)
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“Downfall” bug affects years of Intel CPUs, can leak encryption keys and more
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external pageSemiconductor Engineeringcall_made
external pageTech and Science Postcall_made
external pageHack Readcall_made
external pageThe TechStreetcall_made
external pageThe Tech Streetcall_made (second related article)
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external pageRodina News UKcall_made
external pageInformation Security Todaycall_made
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external pageWashington Latestcall_made
external pageMSN via Tech Radarcall_made
external pageBusiness Telegraphcall_made
external pageSecurity Weekcall_made
As well as stories in numerous information security and investment digital and print publications.
Disney creates task force to explore AI and cut costs - sources
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external pageThe Japan News by Yomiuri Shimbuncall_made
external pageSydney News (Australia)call_made
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Syndicated regional news publications across the U.S. and numerous other countries on 6 continents.
Scientists 'remote-controlled' designer human cells implanted in mice using only DC currents
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Synhelion and Cemex Make Further Progress Toward the World's First Fully Concentrated Solar PowerCement Plant
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Treating anemia with gene scissors
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external pageJaun News UKcall_made
Puzzling Quantum Phenomenon: When Electrons Slowly Vanish During Cooling
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Chatbots sometimes make things up. Is AI’s hallucination problem fixable?
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Numerous regional publications and syndicated radio stations in the U.S.
Scientists can now control human DNA with electricity using new tech that ‘sparks genes back to life’
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Six XPrize finalists emerge after testing conservation tech in Central Catchment Nature Reserve
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