Explanation: On August 12, the Moon’s shadow reached out to touch our fair planet. Beginning in the Arctic Ocean, it swept along a narrow track that led the dark lunar umbra across parts of Greenland, Iceland, the Atlantic, Portugal, and northern Spain. And for a moment, denizens of Earth who found themselves with clear skies
The number of influenza infections could be reduced by an mRNA vaccine.Credit: Science Photo Library On 5 August, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted approval to Moderna’s mRNA-based flu vaccine, mFLUSIVA, for adults aged 50–64, and accelerated approval for adults aged 65 and older. Moderna say it will be available “in a few
Emma Yates, chief scientific officer at Proteotype Diagnostics, would like to see more funding and support for founders during parental leave. Credit: Wesley Sukdao, Proteotype CEO An estimated 25 million women across the world’s most advanced economies are being denied the opportunity to launch and develop their own businesses, and those who do typically have
The AI company Anthropic says that its Claude models will label AI-generated content with a watermark.Credit: Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto via Getty Anthropic, the firm behind the artificial-intelligence model Claude, has announced that text generated by any models launched on or after 2 August will be invisibly embedded with a watermark that indicates the output was written
Satellite data shows a browning trend across the planet since around the turn of the century. Credit: ezypix/Getty Around 56 million years ago, a sharp rise in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere led to severe global warming that transformed the planet’s surface. A detailed reconstruction of an ancient ecosystem suggests that this transformation included a
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