Opinion

Double disaster preparation: Floods and earthquakes

One does not usually think of multiple geological events, such as earthquakes and hurricanes, affecting a single territory. When hurricanes hit land, they turn into tropical depressions, dumping rain rapidly, with areas receiving a year’s worth of rain in a 24-hour period. Subsequently, the de...

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New race to the moon and future of our planet

A new race to the moon is underway. India’s Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft has arrived in lunar orbit, marking New Delhi’s latest attempt at lunar exploration.If successful, the mission will make India only the fourth country in the world to achieve a lunar landing, joining the US, China and R...

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How your smartphone addiction may be causing physical harm

Global mobile phone evolution is beginning to have an important physical impact on the human body. Neck and hand physiology and technical devices such as smartphones become more available with differing and changing features. Regardless of how mobile phones change over time, it seems that the device...

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ChatGPT cannot be a universal tool for serious writing

ChatGPT, artificial intelligence and the implications of self-generating content and analysis raise many fundamental questions about the role of an AI processor. Importantly, ChatGPT models are designed for natural language processing tasks such as text generation and language understanding, but whe...