Emmanuel Guillerm's model attributes 1.5C of the Dead Sea's 2.8C deep-water warming from 1979 to 2019 to the lake's own falling level. Saltier brine cools itself less as it evaporates, so the same loop may help explain ancient salt beds that formed without an exceptionally hot climate.
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Researchers from eight countries reviewed hundreds of studies and found vertebrates use insects as medicine, shelter and bait as well as food. Their Nature Reviews Biodiversity paper says studies of insect decline rarely count anything beyond lost food.
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A Binghamton team scored each candidate word by how much uncertainty it was expected to remove and reported solving 99 percent of simulated Wordle puzzles. The university did not say how many games it simulated.
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By pulling DNA out of annually layered mud, a team rebuilt 1,000 years of plants, animals, bacteria and fungi at the lake proposed as the Anthropocene's marker, confirming decades of earlier work and adding cattle the older methods never saw.
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A Scientific Reports workflow reports a held-out AUC of 0.91 against 0.81 for PCA and 0.75 for mRMR on the UMMC benchmark. The authors call the findings preliminary and externally unvalidated.
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