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Conservative radio personality Rush Limbaugh has died at age 70

Feb 17, 2021

Rush Limbaugh, the conservative commentator whose fiery rhetoric forged a new landscape for talk radio and inflamed the partisan divide that came to characterize political discourse in the United States,...

Every fifth Dane wants to put immigrants with COVID-19 back in the hospital queue

Feb 17, 2021

17 February 2021Every fifth Dane wants to put immigrants with COVID-19 back in the hospital queueSurvey According to a new survey, up to one in five Danes would prioritise hospital...

AI predicts efficacy of breast cancer treatment directly from tumor architecture

Feb 17, 2021

The researchers focused on developing a tool that could detect tumour morphological features typical for ERBB2-positive breast cancer. Approximately every fifth breast cancer patient has extra copies of the ERBB2...

Decade of reducing self-inflicted deaths in Japan hindered by COVID-19

Feb 17, 2021

“If they have a mental health problem, maybe they still feel some social shame, but now people know they can ask for rest from their employer,” Sakamoto explained. An average...

Wintering bird communities track climate change faster than breeding communities in Europe and North America

Feb 17, 2021

Climate change is driving species’ distribution towards the poles and mountaintops, resulting in changes to bird communities. In fact, a rise in temperature increased the annual rate of change for...

‘A complete bungle’: Texas’ energy pride goes out with cold

Feb 17, 2021

But hours after those assurances, the number of outages in Texas only rose, at one point exceeding 4 million customers. The outages are the widest Texas’ grid has suffered but...

The Texas grid got crushed because its operators didn’t see the need to prepare for cold weather

Feb 17, 2021

When it gets really cold, it can be hard to produce electricity, as customers in Texas and neighboring states are finding out. It is a financial structure for power generation...

Millions endure record cold without power; at least 14 dead

Feb 16, 2021

The worst U.S. power outages were in Texas, affecting more than 4 million homes and businesses. Texas officials requested 60 generators from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and planned to...

Reductions in CFC-11 emissions put ozone recovery back on track

Feb 16, 2021

But in 2018, a team of scientists reported a concerning spike in global emissions of the chemical beginning in 2013. In 2019, a second team reported that a significant portion...

A language learning system that pays attention — more efficiently than ever before

Feb 16, 2021

The importance of key words underlies a popular new tool for natural language processing (NLP) by computers: the attention mechanism. When coded into a broader NLP algorithm, the attention mechanism...