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Tuesday, March 11, 2025

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Port: North Dakota's kindergarten vaccination rates are worse than in Texas
Port: North Dakota's kindergarten vaccination rates are worse than in Texas
By Rob Port

Amid declining vaccination rates, Texas is grappling with a major measles outbreak that has taken at least one life. Meanwhile, in North Dakota, our vaccination rates are worse.

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Vaccine skeptic HHS chief RFK Jr. touts measles shot as deadly outbreak ravages Texas
Vaccine skeptic HHS chief RFK Jr. touts measles shot as deadly outbreak ravages Texas

March 3, 2025 • By Ryan King

"Vaccines not only protect individual children from measles, but also contribute to community immunity, protecting those who are unable to be vaccinated due to medical reasons," Kennedy, 71, wrote in a Fox News op-ed.

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Dozens of Earthquakes Noted Around San Andreas in Past 7 Days
Dozens of Earthquakes Noted Around San Andreas in Past 7 Days

March 3, 2025 • By Joe Edwards

Multiple tremors were recorded by the USGS over the past week, including one which struck as the Oscars ceremony was underway.

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Amazon OpenSearch Service vector database capabilities revisited
Amazon OpenSearch Service vector database capabilities revisited

March 3, 2025 • By Jon Handler

As we enter 2025, OpenSearch Service support for OpenSearch 2.17 brings these improvements to the service. In this post, we walk through 2024’s innovations with an eye to how you can adopt new features to lower your cost, reduce your latency, and improve the …

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North American forests are actually burning less, not more
North American forests are actually burning less, not more

March 3, 2025 • By U. Arizona

Tree-ring data reveals a decline in fire activity in many forests. That can contribute to more severe wildfires in the future.

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Trump to make investment announcement as he meets with CEO of Taiwan giant chipmaker TSMC
Trump to make investment announcement as he meets with CEO of Taiwan giant chipmaker TSMC

March 3, 2025 • By DIDI TANG, MICHELLE L. PRICE and CHRIS MEGERIAN

President Donald Trump is due to announce Monday that chip giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. plans to invest $100 billion in the United States...

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DEADLINE ALERT for IAS, MODV, and TIXT: The Law Offices of Frank R. Cruz Reminds Investors of Class Actions on Behalf of Shareholders
DEADLINE ALERT for IAS, MODV, and TIXT: The Law Offices of Frank R. Cruz Reminds Investors of Class Actions on Behalf of Shareholders

March 3, 2025 • By The Law Offices of Frank R. Cruz

LOS ANGELES, March 03, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Law Offices of Frank R. Cruz reminds investors that class action lawsuits have been filed on behalf of shareholders of the following publicly-traded companies.  Investors have until the deadlines listed belo…

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Firefly’s Blue Ghost Lander Is on the Moon. Here’s What to Expect Next
Firefly’s Blue Ghost Lander Is on the Moon. Here’s What to Expect Next

March 3, 2025 • By Passant Rabie

The lander will spend the next two weeks exploring the site of an ancient impact on the Moon.

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Ideal nitrogen fertilizer rates in Corn Belt have been climbing for decades, study shows
Ideal nitrogen fertilizer rates in Corn Belt have been climbing for decades, study shows

March 3, 2025 • By Dave Roepke

The amount of nitrogen fertilizer needed to maximize the profitability of corn production in the Midwest has been increasing by about 1.2% per year for the past three decades, according to new Iowa State University research.

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Google Cloud debuts powerful new AI capabilities for data scientists and doctors
Google Cloud debuts powerful new AI capabilities for data scientists and doctors

March 3, 2025 • By Mike Wheatley

Google Cloud’s artificial intelligence onslaught gained more momentum today, as the company announced a couple of interesting new capabilities today aimed at data scientists and medical professionals. For the former, it announced a new AI agent that promises …

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The Baseball Moves Differently in the Cactus League
The Baseball Moves Differently in the Cactus League

March 3, 2025 • By Michael Rosen

Some answers, more questions.

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Experts and Lawmakers Sound Alarms Over Impacts of NOAA Cuts on Fisheries
Experts and Lawmakers Sound Alarms Over Impacts of NOAA Cuts on Fisheries

March 3, 2025 • By Lisa Held

After several hundred employees were fired from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) last week as part of DOGE’s workforce cuts, reporting has focused on how those cuts might threaten critical weather modeling and systems that help predi…

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In Oscars Speech, Kieran Culkin Confirms The Real Reward In Life Is Building A Family
In Oscars Speech, Kieran Culkin Confirms The Real Reward In Life Is Building A Family

March 3, 2025 • By Jordan Boyd

Despite our increasingly anti-child culture, getting hitched and having kids is one of the most fulfilling things someone can do.

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What to know about TikTok’s uncertain future in the US and the people who want to buy it
What to know about TikTok’s uncertain future in the US and the people who want to buy it

March 3, 2025 • By Lauren Forristal

TikTok, owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, has been at the center of controversy in the U.S. for four years now due to concerns about user data potentially being accessed by the Chinese government. Just this past month, the app experienced a temporary ou…

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Researchers Predict Next Ice Age—With a Catch
Researchers Predict Next Ice Age—With a Catch

March 3, 2025 • By John Johnson

Researchers say they have for the first time cracked the code on how to determine when ice ages come and go—and their formula suggests the next one should arrive in 10,000 years, reports USA Today . But there's a catch: Our warming temperatures make it "very …

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Mark Your Calendar with These Upcoming Journalist Events in March
Mark Your Calendar with These Upcoming Journalist Events in March

March 3, 2025 • By Rocky Parker

Check out the upcoming journalist events in March, covering topics like data journalism, AI prompts and more.

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Searching for Structure and Purpose in Disordered Behavior
Searching for Structure and Purpose in Disordered Behavior

March 3, 2025 • By APS Staff

A new special issue of Perspectives on Psychological Science explores the nature of “noise” in human behavior.

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You thought genAI hallucinations were bad? Things just got so much worse
You thought genAI hallucinations were bad? Things just got so much worse

March 3, 2025 • By Evan Schuman

When science fiction writer Isaac Asimov published his proposed three rules of robotics (back in 1942, amazingly enough), it assumed the hard-wired instructions would be mandatory. But the latest testing of generative AI (genAI) models shows they’re quite wil…

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