Science

OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Teens with new safety guardrails

The AI company is rolling out age-specific protections for 13- to 17-year-olds, as researchers and parents raise growing concerns over teenagers' emotional reliance on chatbots.

Maltese Researcher Gian-Piero Nicosia Becomes Country’s First String Theorist

A major milestone for Maltese science has been reached as Gian-Piero Nicosia has completed his PhD in theoretical physics, becoming Malta’s first string theorist. Nicosia’s academic journey has taken him into some of the deepest questions…

Flood: We’ll pull down houses Senators, ‘big men’ Built on Waterways – Wike

Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has ordered demolition of buildings obstructing designated waterways in Maitama and other flood-prone parts of Abuja. Daily Trust had reported how several mansions in Maitama…

Firefighters push to ‘encircle’ Belgian wildfire

The blaze, charring the vast expanse of boggy peatlands, pine trees and hiking trails, grew over the weekend to half the size of Manhattan, 3,000 hectares

Finches use same rulebook as human babies to pick up language, study finds

International team that includes Israeli cognitive scientist adds Bengalese finches to humpback whales in search for animals that learn using same mathematical principles as we do The post Finches use same rulebook as human babies to pick…

California scientists find two ant baits trigger very different behaviour

The study from the University of California, Riverside, found that two common ant-bait insecticides can cause very different changes in Argentine ant behaviour before the ants die. Thiamethoxam made affected ants unusually active and sent…

Somalia: University of Hargeisa Hosts First International Research Conference

[Horn Diplomat] Hargeisa (Horndiplomat) -- University of Hargeisa has convened its first International Research Conference, bringing together researchers, academics, policymakers and international partners to promote research and…

England’s ancient oak trees dying in extreme hot and dry weather

Woodland Trust says trees struggling in drought stress, with older ‘survivors’ disproportionately affected England’s ancient oak trees are dying in the summer’s extreme heat and dry weather, according to the Woodland Trust, with trees and…

Tanzania: Mwanza Water Project Hits 70pc

[Daily News] Mwanza -- THE construction of a major water infrastructure project involving five storage tanks, transmission pipelines and two pumping stations in Mwanza City has reached 70 per cent completion.

Man Arrested in Connection with Drug Trafficking in St Julian’s

A 31-year-old man from The Gambia, who resides in Gżira, has been arrested in St Julian’s after police allegedly caught him in possession of various drugs prepared for trafficking. The arrest took place during a late-night operation…

The Milky Way swallowed a smaller galaxy about 11.8 billion years ago

The Milky Way, a ⁠large and spiral-shaped galaxy that is home to hundreds of billions of stars including our sun, has taken a long and complicated path to achieve its current dimensions, as illustrated by new research documenting a…

Webb's 'little red dots' puzzled astronomers; this galaxy may hold the answer