The Commerce Department decision will be a boon for Boeing operators who in past years have bypassed US sanctions on Russia by maintaining planes in Belarus

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Yale research scientist Saúl Domínguez-Guerrero didn’t set out to catch “evolution in the act” when he traveled to the Caribbean with a team of Yale researchers a few years ago. At the time, the team from the lab of evolutionary biologist Martha Muñoz planned to do fieldwork on Caribbean anoles, colorful, tree-dwelling lizards native to warmer regions of the Americas. The team was studying many species of these reptiles as part of a project to determine the role that behavior plays in shaping physiological evolution. Having studied these lizards in the past, they thought they knew what they’d find. But back in New Haven, their data told an unexpected story. “Saúl comes into my office one day and says, ‘Martha, I’m noticing something weird in the temperature readings, and I think there might be something interesting going on here,” recalled Muñoz, an associate professor tenure of ecology and evolutionary biology in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Specifically, Domínguez-Guerrero found that that ability of some lizards to withstand blistering temperatures had increased markedly over just a decade, a sign of physiological adaptation. “I observed these shifts in heat tolerance,” said Domínguez-Guerrero, who has been studying thermal adaptation in animals since...

Criminal behavior is and always has been a vexingly complex problem that cries out for dispassionate and bipartisan policies grounded in data and backed by adequate funding. Right now, this is an area...

Voters are increasingly turning to AI chatbots for information ahead of the midterms, yet many of the most popular ones may give misleading information about candidates and polling site opening times, according to researchers. Some chatbots have even provided lists of candidates to vote for, raising concerns among experts that AI-generated misinformation could influence voters' decisions. "We've been increasingly seeing the role of AI delivering answers to users in a very authoritative, very convincing way, but with meaningful errors as a point of concern," said Tim Chambers, primary researcher at Innovating for the Public Good (IFPG), a nonprofit focused on democracy research. "Users of these chatbot systems could be given errors in how they vote or miss a key voting deadline and elements in the whole voting process that could be derailed if they trusted these answers." An ongoing study by IFPG is testing how seven major chatbots (Google AI Mode and AI Overviews, Anthropic's Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, OpenAI's ChatGPT and Perplexity) respond to authentic voter questions, including projected winners, policy platforms, candidate comparisons, candidate backgrounds, controversies, and voting rules. In data collected in October, 13.9% of chatbot answers to voting-logistics questions were outdated or inaccurate. Errors in...