Supreme Court blocks Alabama from executing inmate with method lower court found cruel and unusual

The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked Alabama from executing a man using nitrogen hypoxia, a relatively new method of carrying out the death penalty that experts say causes “air hunger” and that a ...
The Washington Post

3 simple ways to reduce your body’s exposure to plastic chemicals

When it comes to plastic-related particles and chemicals, people often feel helpless and overwhelmed. Plastic contamination feels so pervasive, inevitable and frustrating, especially since the ...
NBC Los Angeles

LAUSD board approves effort to minimize student screen time

The Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education on Tuesday approved a resolution to develop a policy to minimize screen time for district-issued devices for students. The item, which ...
RAPS

EMA proposes new method to reduce animal drug testing

Following the trend of other regulators, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) is taking steps to reduce the need for animal testing. The agency has issued a draft qualification opinion for a new ...
Ars Technica

Google’s TurboQuant AI-compression algorithm can reduce LLM memory usage by 6x

Even if you don’t know much about the inner workings of generative AI models, you probably know they need a lot of memory. Hence, it is currently almost impossible to buy a measly stick of RAM without ...
The New York Times

How to Reduce Your Exposure to Pesticides

Scientists still don’t fully understand the health risks of the chemicals. Here’s how they recommend protecting yourself. By Allyson Chiu When Melissa Furlong, an environmental health researcher at ...
E!

Struggling With Enlarged Pores? This Is How a Dermatologist Suggests “Shrinking” Them

Can you shrink pores? A derm busts this myth once and for all—and tells us what skincare will actually improve the appearance of pores. While we've established that you can't shrink pores, Dr. Foad ...
Psychology Today

The Engineering Method That Helps Reduce Cognitive Overload

Every month, Molly has to write a large report that takes around five hours. Every month, she dreads it. Recently, she learned a technique that has helped her no longer feel like the task hangs over ...
Harvard Business Review

AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It

Right now, many companies are worried about how to get more employees to use AI. After all, the promise of AI reducing the burden of some work—drafting routine documents, summarizing information, and ...
Time

7 Ways to Reduce Fatigue Naturally

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Wired

Research Reveals the Optimal Way to Optimize

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...
Morningstar

These 4 Strategies Can Reduce Your RMDs

Margaret Giles: Hi, I’m Margaret Giles from Morningstar. Many baby boomers will be coming into retirement with most of their assets in tax-deferred accounts, which require withdrawals called required ...