Global warming is accelerating 5,000 times faster than rice can evolve
Climate change is pushing rice-growing regions into temperatures beyond those at which rice has been cultivated in the past 9,000 years of human history, new...
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Google AI breakthrough means chatbots use six times less memory during conversations without compromising performance
Google engineers have developed a method to compress artificial intelligence (AI) data so that it requires up to six times less working memory to function....
Antarctica could warm 1.4 times faster than the rest of the Southern Hemisphere in the coming decades, study finds
Antarctica could heat up 1.4 times faster than the rest of the Southern Hemisphere over the coming decades, which would lock in extreme sea-level rise...
The appendix evolved at least 32 times across 361 species, so it’s ‘unlikely to be a useless evolutionary accident,’ research finds
Most people know only two things about the appendix: You don’t need it — and if it bursts, you need surgery fast. That basic story...
Rule-breaking black hole found growing at 13 times the cosmic ‘speed limit,’ challenging theories
A surprisingly ravenous black hole from the dawn of the universe is breaking two big rules: It’s not only exceeding the “speed limit” of black...
Canada could remove 5 times its annual carbon emissions by planting trees on edge of boreal forest, study finds
Canada could remove more than five times its annual carbon emissions from the atmosphere by the end of the century by planting trees along the...
Risk of death from pregnancy in the US is 44 times higher than that from abortion, new analysis reveals
A figure commonly cited to compare the risks of pregnancy and abortion in the U.S. could be grossly underestimating the risk of death from pregnancy,...