For thousands of years, wildfires on Alaska’s North Slope were rare. That changed sharply in the 20th century, when warming temperatures dried soils and fueled the spread of shrubs, setting the sta...
For thousands of years, wildfires on Alaska’s North Slope were rare. That changed sharply in the 20th century, when warming temperatures dried soils and fueled the spread of shrubs, setting the stage for intense fires. Peat cores and satellite data reveal that fire activity since the 1950s has reached record levels. The findings suggest the Arctic is entering a new, more dangerous fire era.
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science
wilderness
climate change
arctic
fire
alaska
Earth’s oceans reached their highest heat levels on record in 2025, absorbing vast amounts of excess energy from the atmosphere. This steady buildup has accelerated since the 1990s and is now drivi...
Earth’s oceans reached their highest heat levels on record in 2025, absorbing vast amounts of excess energy from the atmosphere. This steady buildup has accelerated since the 1990s and is now driving stronger storms, heavier rainfall, and rising sea levels. While surface temperatures fluctuate year to year, the ocean’s long-term warming trend shows no sign of slowing.
Subsidies awarded to eight new projects help keep UK on track to decarbonise by 2030Nils Pratley: Labour faces risks on energy despite ‘record’ wind power auctionWill Great Britain’s offshore wind ...
Subsidies awarded to eight new projects help keep UK on track to decarbonise by 2030Nils Pratley: Labour faces risks on energy despite ‘record’ wind power auctionWill Great Britain’s offshore wind subsidy auction mean lower energy bills?Ed Miliband: With this record wind power auction, we’ve proved the rightwing doubters wrongA make-or-break auction for the UK government’s goal to create a clean electricity system by 2030 has awarded subsidy contracts to enough offshore windfarms to power 12m homes.In Great Britain’s most competitive auction for renewable subsidies to date, energy companies vied for contracts that guarantee the price for each unit of clean electricity they generate. Continue reading...
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ed miliband
environment
energy
solar power
business
wind power
energy industry
renewable energy
The new method is designed to focus specifically on pain-related signals, without interfering with normal activity in other parts of the brain. A new preclinical study has identified a gene therapy...
The new method is designed to focus specifically on pain-related signals, without interfering with normal activity in other parts of the brain. A new preclinical study has identified a gene therapy approach that focuses directly on pain-processing regions of the brain while avoiding the addiction risks associated with narcotic drugs. The advance could eventually benefit [...]
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opioids
gene therapy
university of pennsylvania
chronic pain
biotechnology
health
technology
addiction
pain relief
science
When you’re using multiple LLM providers, tracking costs manually becomes impossible fast. We needed visibility into our AI spending and LLM performance. Here’s the monitoring engine...
When you’re using multiple LLM providers, tracking costs manually becomes impossible fast. We needed visibility into our AI spending and LLM performance. Here’s the monitoring engine we built for Rails. https://sinaptia.dev/posts/monitoring-llm-usage-in-rails-with-rubyllm-monitoring
https://github.com/sinaptia/ruby_llm-monitoring
Originally appeared on SINAPTIA.You’ve built an AI-powered feature into your Rails application using LLMs. You’ve built an evaluation set to test different prompts and model combinations, compared ...
Originally appeared on SINAPTIA.You’ve built an AI-powered feature into your Rails application using LLMs. You’ve built an evaluation set to test different prompts and model combinations, compared them, and improved them1 so you could get the best bang for the buck out of your LLM usage. You aimed for the highest accuracy at the lowest possible cost. You deployed it to production. And now?
Unlike most APIs, LLM APIs calls have variable costs. They are usage-based, so the price depends on input and output tokens consumed. So, how do you know how your users are using it? Or, how much will it cost you monthly? Is it what you estimated, and are the usage limits you designed ok? Are they needed at all?
Why monitoring LLM…
A new study reveals that alpha brain waves help the brain decide what belongs to your body. Faster rhythms allow the brain to match sight and touch more precisely, strengthening the feeling that a ...
A new study reveals that alpha brain waves help the brain decide what belongs to your body. Faster rhythms allow the brain to match sight and touch more precisely, strengthening the feeling that a body part is truly yours. Slower rhythms blur that timing, making it harder to separate self from surroundings. The findings could improve prosthetic design and immersive virtual experiences.
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psychology
neuroscience
brain waves
body feeling
brain rhythm
science
Just-forming stars, called protostars, dazzle a cloudy landscape in the Orion Molecular Cloud complex (OMC). These three new images from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope were taken as part of an effor...
Just-forming stars, called protostars, dazzle a cloudy landscape in the Orion Molecular Cloud complex (OMC). These three new images from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope were taken as part of an effort to learn more about the envelopes of gas and dust surrounding the protostars, as well as the outflow cavities where stellar winds and jets […]
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the universe
stars
protostars
hubble space telescope
goddard space flight center
astrophysics division
astrophysics
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