A COVID-19 conspiracy theory is the latest in a long line of myths about the pineal gland.

From research to "me-search."

I look at how COVID-19 is driving mental health research

Should a paper on deaths following surgery have been published as a Christmas special?

An argument that conceptual replications are more important than effect sizes

Researchers claim that they can ask questions and receive answers from dreaming participants.

Citizen scientists step up to stop the spread of invasive mosquitoes, giant hornets, kudzu and other exotic species.

Restore biodiversity in your community.

Contribute to research projects that improve human health and protect the environment!

AI knowledge combined with gene-editing precision opens the way to dial-a-protein.

A new study explains the problem of cyberattacks in space and how to help anticipate novel and surprising scenarios.

The research also reveals entirely new forms of communication that blur the distinction between good and bad uses of AI

"Brain-computer interfaces are a groundbreaking technology that can help paralyzed people regain functions they’ve lost."

Can food technology really change society? Yes, just consider the seismic impact of the microwave oven.

Artificial neural networks mimic human brains, but the technology has its roots in physics.

The discovery suggests that any hope AI can be a neutral player in the spread of ideologies could already be lost.

The Royal Observatory Greenwich has announced the winners of the 16th annual Astronomy Photographer of the Year contest.

The post See the Photos that Won the Royal Observatory Greenwich's Astronomy Photographer of the Year Awards appeared first on Sky & Telescope.

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September's partial lunar eclipse will be the first and only time the Moon ducks into Earth's umbral shadow in 2024. The Moon also occults Saturn and hides members of the Pleiades this month.

The post Harvest Moon Takes a Quick Dip in Earth's Shadow for a Partial Lunar Eclipse appeared first on Sky & Telescope.

The aurora may be visible across much of the U.S. tonight in the wake of dual solar blasts.

The post Severe Geomagnetic Storm Triggers Widespread Aurora October 10-11 appeared first on Sky & Telescope.

Travel to the faraway and long ago by riding a quasar's beam.

The post Find a Quasar in the Sky Tonight and Time Travel to the Early Universe appeared first on Sky & Telescope.

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS has delighted observers already, but its morning run was only a warm-up — wait till you see what's coming.

The post Get Ready for Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS — The Best Is Yet to Come! appeared first on Sky & Telescope.

Exotic magnetars make brief, powerful flashes of radio waves — but a new discovery suggests there may be more than one way to make a magnetar.

The post A Radio Burst from a Giant "Dead" Galaxy appeared first on Sky & Telescope.

A proposal to automatically register applicants for California driver's licenses with the Selective Service System for a possible military draft was pulled by its author, Sen. Bob Archuleta (D-Pico Rivera), just before a scheduled hearing today in the state Assembly Transportation Committee. This was the last scheduled meeting of that committee before the deadline for consideration of bills in this year's legislative session, so the bill is effectively dead for the year.

Like similar laws in other states, California SB-1081 faced opposition from a coalition of peace, civil liberties, and immigrant rights organizations, on both policy and fiscal grounds. Pulling the bill before the hearing today was a face-saving way for Sen. Archuleta to avoid a vote by the committee not to advance his bill to the Assembly floor. This was at least the seventh time that similar proposals in California have been rejected, but the Selective Service System and its California state directors keep finding new sponsors to reintroduce them in the state legislature.

Meanwhile, however, an ill-considered proposal to try to automate draft registration introduced at the instigation of the Selective Service System by Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA) remains under consideration as part of the House version of this year's National Defense [sic] Authorization Act (NDAA), along with a proposal to expand draft registration to include young women as well as young men in the Senate version of the NDAA.

There's a chance that both of these proposals for changes to Selective Service registration could be removed during back-room negotiations in the House-Senate conference committee on the NDAA later this year, after the elections. But we've seen this movie before. These bad ideas will be back again next year, regardless of which party wins which federal elections.

Preparation for a military draft, and reliance on the perceived availability of a fallback draft as the basis for planning of endless, unlimited, unpopular wars, won't stop until Congress repeals the Military Selective Service Act and ends draft registration entirely, either through a standalone bill like the Selective Service Repeal Act or through a provision in this or a future year's NDAA.

[First published on Antiwar.com]

Fantasies underlying push for conscription are delusional and dangerous.

Doubling down on their recent war-game exercises and report on the (un)readiness of the U.S. to activate a military draft, Taren Sylvester and Katherine Kuzminski of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) have a new article in War on the Rocks, “Preparing for the Possibility of a Draft Without Panic,” laying out why they think the U.S. needs to prepare for a draft in order to be able to win an all-out war with China over Taiwan.

CNAS and War on the Rocks like to describe themselves as “realists”. But their arguments for stepped-up planning and preparation for a draft are strikingly unrealistic, in at least four respects:

Fewer young Americans are willing to fight the government’s wars.

[Also published on Antiwar.com. Portions of this article were first published by Responsible Statecraft and are reprinted by permission.]

Of men in the U.S. who turned 18 in 2023, fewer than 40% signed up for the draft – down from more than 60% in 2020 before the start of the war in Ukraine.

This eye-popping and previously undisclosed admission, as well as other revelations equally damning to plans to increase readiness to activate a draft, was included in documents released recently by the Selective Service System (SSS) in response to a Freedom Of Information Act request.

Generative Artifial Intelligence [sic] is one of the issues I've been working on with the National Writers Union and other allies.

Travel writers and others may be interested in the presentation I gave on Artificial Intelligence and Real Writers this issue to the Bay Area Travel Writers at our virtual meeting in September:

• Video (1 hour)
• Slides

Additional resources mentioned in my presentation:

• National Writers Union (NWU): Platform and Principles for Policy on Generative AI
• International Federation of Journalists (IFJ): Call to action on 'articifial intelligence'
• International Authors Forum (IAF): Principles for Artificial Intelligence and Authorship

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The web form is a commonly used element in each website. In some cases, the user is allowed to select files with the input data so that the files are attached to the form data. Mostly the default HTML file input interface is used to select and upload files. But if you want to make web form UI more effective, drag and drop file upload feature can be used. The drag-and-drop feature provides an advanced file upload interface on the web page. The user can drag the files from the local drive and drop them into the DOM element. In

The post Create Web Form with Drag and Drop File Upload using JavaScript and PHP appeared first on CodexWorld.

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