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Beach-burrowing beasties may shovel more sand than any other animal on Earth

16 September 2026 at 14:00
At just an inch (2.5 centimeters) long, the sand hoppers skipping across California's Isla Vista Beach at dawn don't exactly look like a force of nature. But a new study reveals that these shrimp-like creatures might be doing more to shape the landscape in which they live than any other animal on Earth.

Beach-burrowing beasties may shovel more sand than any other animal on Earth

16 September 2026 at 14:00
At just an inch (2.5 centimeters) long, the sand hoppers skipping across California's Isla Vista Beach at dawn don't exactly look like a force of nature. But a new study reveals that these shrimp-like creatures might be doing more to shape the landscape in which they live than any other animal on Earth.

The Mediterranean is getting warmer and saltier at an ever-faster paceβ€”even thousands of meters below the surface

16 September 2026 at 14:00
Across its basins and thousands of meters down, the Mediterranean Sea is getting warmer and saltier. Now, a new study finds it is also doing so at an increasingly rapid pace. The speedup is largest in the central and eastern Mediterranean and strongest of all in the Adriatic, where it reaches all the way to the sea floor.

The Mediterranean is getting warmer and saltier at an ever-faster paceβ€”even thousands of meters below the surface

16 September 2026 at 14:00
Across its basins and thousands of meters down, the Mediterranean Sea is getting warmer and saltier. Now, a new study finds it is also doing so at an increasingly rapid pace. The speedup is largest in the central and eastern Mediterranean and strongest of all in the Adriatic, where it reaches all the way to the sea floor.

Tarte au citron et cornichon, petit pain au haricot rouge et margarine : l'IA se met aux fourneaux

16 September 2026 at 12:25
Nouveau palier pour l'IA: remplacer les maitres-queux. A la fin du mois de septembre seront lancΓ©s au Japon trois desserts inΓ©dits et improbables conΓ§us par intelligence artificielle. L'entreprise Γ  l'origine de cette initiative prΓ©voit de lancer davantage de produits dans les prochains mois.

Australia's ancient rainfall patterns more complex than previously believed

16 September 2026 at 12:20
"Sediment and fossil records are a major pillar of our understanding of how the climate worksβ€”but climate scientists have gotten something wrong about Australia's ice age," says Dr. Alex F. Wall, lead author of a new research paper published in Quaternary Science Reviews.

Nine in 10 UK gambling websites breach data privacy law, study finds

16 September 2026 at 12:00
Nearly nine in 10 (86%) UK-licensed online gambling websites are operating in breach of the General Data Protection Regulation, according to new research from the Gambling Research, Education and Treatment (GREAT) Center at Swansea University published in the journal Computers in Human Behavior Reports.

Nine in 10 UK gambling websites breach data privacy law, study finds

16 September 2026 at 12:00
Nearly nine in 10 (86%) UK-licensed online gambling websites are operating in breach of the General Data Protection Regulation, according to new research from the Gambling Research, Education and Treatment (GREAT) Center at Swansea University published in the journal Computers in Human Behavior Reports.

How AI models decide not to answer a question

16 September 2026 at 10:40
Large language models (LLMs), the artificial intelligence (AI) systems supporting the functioning of ChatGPT, Gemini and similar conversational platforms, are often expected to answer queries, generate texts for specific purposes and make decisions without the supervision of human experts. Yet past studies suggest that these models can sometimes mislead users, producing unreliable answers that express high confidence in false or inaccurate statements.

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