Scorpions can pose a deadly threat to children – we’re identifying the global hotspots

At least 1.2 million scorpion stings are recorded each year – and around 3,000 people, mainly children, die from them.

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Semiconductor Engineering

When Cleaning Chips Isn’t Clean Enough

Because permeation and plasma-induced degradation are continuous rather than episodic, their effects accumulate gradually.
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"Everyone Should Prepare": Climate Scientists Warn of the Next El Niño

Severe Weather Europe reported that the brand-new ECMWF seasonal forecast predicts a rapid La Niña collapse in spring, ...

Crane Harbor Acquisition Corp.: Xanadu and Mitsubishi Chemical Make Breakthrough Quantum Algorithms for Next-Generation Semiconductor Manufacturing

Xanadu (Xanadu Quantum Technologies Inc.), a world leader in photonic quantum computing, in partnership with Mitsubishi Chemical, a major Japanese chemical ...
Climate Compass on MSNOpinion

The silent failure of America's aging dams

America's dams are currently averaging 64 years old, and most of us don't give them a second thought until something goes ...

Probability underlies much of the modern world – an engineering professor explains how it actually works

Probability underpins AI, cryptography and statistics. However, as the philosopher Bertrand Russell said, “Probability is the ...

8 Skiers Are Dead in Sierra Nevada Avalanche

A final missing skier was also presumed dead, the authorities said. Six survivors were rescued. The avalanche is the ...
Scientific American

This mathematician proved a brilliant theorem to justify his social awkwardness

George Pólya’s random walk theorem absolved him of being a lurker and revealed how the laws of chance interact with physical ...