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Yoshua Bengio was also a recipient of the 2018 Turing Award. Andrej Ivanov/AFP via Getty Images Michel Foucault, the late French philosopher and historian, long held the distinction…
Read more A.I. Pioneer Yoshua Bengio Becomes 1st Living Scientist With 1M Google Scholar CitationsIf you’ve always thought echidnas and platypuses were distant cousins who went their separate ways on land and water, think again. A single fossilized arm bone, found in…
Read more Fossil discovery reinvents story of echidna and platypus evolutionHuman-caused climate change boosted a devastating Hurricane Helene’s rainfall by about 10% and intensified its winds by about 11%, scientists said in a new flash study released just…
Read more Climate change boosted Helene’s deadly rain and wind and scientists say same is likely for Milton“Delete That Comment” In late October 2017, a US health official from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) arrived at the Wuhan Institute of Virology…
Read more Secret Warnings About Wuhan Research Predated the PandemicIt was a smell that invoked a memory. Both for Emily Kuchlbauer in North Carolina and Ryan Bomba in Chicago. It was smoke from wildfires, the odor of…
Read more Climate Change Keeps Making Wildfires And Smoke Worse. Scientists Call It The ‘New Abnormal’I do not like carbonated beverages, plain and simple. I won’t drink soda, and you’ll never catch me with a beer. Gin and tonics are a no. Sparkling…
Read more Seltzer Is TortureIn March 2020, Yamagata’s trail went cold. The pathogen, one of the four main groups of flu viruses targeted by seasonal vaccines, had spent the first part of…
Read more A Major Breed of Flu Has Gone MissingPrizes awarded in honor of immigrant leaders in the arts and sciences, including musicians Du Yun and Angélique Kidjo, and scientist Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado NEW YORK, October 18,…
Read more Vilcek Foundation Awards $600,000 in Prizes to Immigrant Scientists and MusiciansAlejandro Sánchez Alvarado, Edward Chouchani, Biyu J. He, and Shixin Liu are honored with the 2023 Vilcek Foundation Prizes in Biomedical Science Press Release – Oct 18, 2022…
Read more Vilcek Foundation Awards $250,000 in Prizes to Leading Immigrant Scientists
