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An AI tool can screen thousands of journals, and identify ones that violate quality standards.Credit: PaulPaladin/Alamy Researchers have identified more than 1,000 potentially problematic open-access journals using an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that screened around 15,000 titles for signs of dubious publishing practices. The approach, described in Science Advances on 27 August1, could be used to help tackle the rise …

“I’ll be straight up about that. I didn’t want to go play college softball,” said Whitmore, who showed no ill will toward softball while on her way to becoming the 2021 Big West Conference Player of the Year. “There were no opportunities for women in baseball, so I had no choice. But I did it. I wouldn’t take it back; …

A powerful storm kicked up a towering wall of dust that rolled through metro Phoenix on Monday, darkening the sky, blinding drivers, knocking out power and grounding flights at one of the nation’s busiest airports. Bernae Boykin Hitesman was driving her son and daughter, ages 9 and 11, home from school when the storm, known as a haboob, arrived late …

A team using MeerKAT in South Africa spotted a new repeating source of short, sharp radio pulses and, within days, tracked it through an intense outburst that produced hundreds of events across multiple frequency bands. These bursts belong to a class known as fast radio burst (FRB) events, which last only milliseconds and come from far beyond our galaxy, with …

The last sugar beet factory in California is closing after almost 80 years in business.  The Spreckels Sugar Company factory in Brawley in the Imperial Valley has already begun the closure process that will soon lead to the loss of 700 local jobs.  The Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative, which owns and runs the factory, said it could no longer …

After CDC shooting, anger grows as hundreds lose jobs  The Washington Post CDC Gunman Attempted to Enter Campus Days Before the Shooting  Bloomberg.com 750 HHS employees send signed letter to RFK Jr. asking him to stop spreading misinformation  ABC News Hundreds of federal health workers say RFK Jr has put Americans in danger  BBC “Attacked from within”: Health workers rage against RFK Jr.  Axios Source …

More than 750 current and former employees of the US health department have published a letter rebuking Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, saying his “dangerous and deceitful statements” contributed to recent violence at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters. Officials say the man who fired hundreds of rounds at the CDC this month, killing a police …

Facebook Tweet Email Link Hundreds of different goods just got a lot more expensive to import into the United States, now that President Donald Trump’s 50% tariff on steel and aluminum has kicked in. Butter knives, baby strollers, spray deodorants and fire extinguishers, considered “derivative” steel and aluminum products, were previously excluded from the 50% tariff, though they were still …

Health officials in Wyoming are contacting guests from 38 states and seven countries who stayed at a lodge in Grand Teton National Park because they may have been exposed to rabies from a bat colony. National Park Service officials said certain guests who stayed in the park’s famous Jackson Lake Lodge between May 5 and July 27 may be impacted. …

In the past few decades, China has rapidly transitioned from one of the poorest nations on Earth to the global kingpin in robotics production. Between 2022 and 2023, the People’s Republic installed over 276,000 robots throughout various industries, more than every other country on Earth combined. The machines are descending on Beijing this week, flocking from all corners of the world …