Israel’s Kinneret Lake replenished with desalinated water | The Jerusalem PostJerusalem Post/Environment & Climate ChangeThe initiative, known as the “Reverse Carrier,” mirrors the National Water Carrier inaugurated in 1994, which transported…
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Israel’s Kinneret Lake replenished with desalinated water
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Spider webs and beetles in gold: Amazon’s amber discovery
Spider webs and beetles in gold: Amazon’s amber discovery | The Jerusalem PostJerusalem Post/ScienceAlmost all amber from the past 130 million years was found in the northern hemisphere, so this deposit offers a rare window into southern…
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Fires break out across northern Israel
Fires break out across northern Israel | The Jerusalem PostJerusalem Post/Environment & Climate ChangeThe origin of the fires has not yet been determined and a fire investigator will examine the circumstances of the cases.In a separate incident,…
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Distillation Can Make AI Models Smaller and Cheaper
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.
The Chinese AI company DeepSeek released a chatbot earlier this year called R1, which drew a huge amount of attention. Most of it focused on the fact that a relatively small and…
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Big Tech Dreams of Putting Data Centers in Space
For one thing, the systems he imagines process data relatively slowly compared to those on terra firma. They’d be constantly bombarded by radiation, and “obsolescence would be a problem” because making repairs or upgrades would be…
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Say Hello to the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize Winners
Does alcohol enhance one’s foreign language fluency? Do West African lizards have a preferred pizza topping? And can painting cows with zebra stripes help repel biting flies? These and other unusual research questions were honored tonight in a…
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Israelis reach quantum breakthrough using diamond tech
Israelis reach quantum breakthrough using diamond tech | The Jerusalem PostJerusalem Post/ScienceIsraeli and German scientists announced the development of a method to capture nearly all the light emitted by microscopic defects in diamonds – an…
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RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Panel Votes Down Its Own Proposal to Require Prescriptions for Covid-19 Shots
In another vote, advisers recommended adding language on the shot’s risks to the vaccine’s information sheet, which is already required by law.
The committee’s focus on Covid-19 vaccines reflects Kennedy’s long-held suspicion of them….
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New dinosaur species identified from Welsh museum fossil
New dinosaur species identified from Welsh museum fossil | The Jerusalem PostJerusalem Post/ScienceNewtonsaurus cambrensis is very large, larger than most, if not all, contemporary predators. For a therapod dinosaur from the Triassic era to be so…
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