Sperm whale clicks contain vowel-like patterns similar to human speech

The sound is sharp, spare and strange, a burst of clicks cutting through seawater. For years, researchers treated those sperm ...
Education Week

How a School’s Language Lab Teaches Non-Phonics Reading Skills

What are we missing?” A nationwide gap in phonics instruction galvanized the science of reading movement. But as the movement ...
Archives of Disease in Childhood

Outcomes from a structured conflict management programme implemented at three paediatric healthcare sites: a mixed-methods evaluation

Objective Evaluation of the Medical Mediation Foundation’s Conflict Management Programme (CMP)—a structured process for ...
The Oberlin Review

Nearly Two-Thirds of Oberlin Grades A’s, Data Shows

In higher education, grades are notably rising across the board. Higher GPAs have been attributed to a broad range of factors ...
CNET

AI Data Centers: What to Know About Their Water and Energy Use

OpenAI's Sam Altman says AI's water concerns are "totally fake." The truth about AI's impact on natural resources is more complicated. Macy is a writer on the AI Team. She covers how AI is changing ...
Ars Technica

Senators count the shady ways data centers pass energy costs on to Americans

Senators launched a probe Tuesday demanding that tech companies explain exactly how they plan to prevent data center projects from increasing electricity bills in communities where prices are already ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Quantifying Language Disparities: A Distance-Based Predictive Model Using Linguistic Tree Structures ()

Understanding the historical evolution and divergence of languages requires a quantitative framework for measuring their relationships. Traditional linguistic classifications provide hierarchical ...
ConsumerAffairs

What is a ‘data center’ and how much electricity does it use?

Dominion Energy says its upcoming $11-a-month rate hike is driven by grid upgrades and inflation — not Virginia’s rapidly growing data-center industry. Critics note that Virginia hosts one of the ...
The New York Times

On the Labor and Delivery Floor, a Reporter Sees a Solution

C-sections can be lifesaving, but sometimes the procedure can be overused. Data helped show how a hospital decreased its rates of the operation in healthy first-time mothers. By Sarah Kliff Times ...
InfoQ

Meta Open Sources OpenZL: a Universal Compression Framework for Structured Data

A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architect. Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with ...
Los Angeles Times

California cracks down on water theft but spares data centers from disclosing how much they use

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have tracked data centers’ growing water footprint in California. He ...
C&EN

HitScreen: A Sequence-Based Drug Virtual Screening Approach Using Data Augmentation and Protein Language Models

College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, P. R. China College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, P. R ...