Children’s Rights Skills and Knowledge Framework
Eurochild member Together released a new resource to help Scotland’s public authorities access training and support on children’s rights and a human rights approach. Public authority workforces play a vital role in delivering services across a wide range of sectors for children, young people and their communities…
Errors in attention adaptively impact spatial working memory, study finds
Humans are known to rapidly adapt their mental processes and behavior based on feedback they receive from the world around them. For instance, some past studies have shown that people progressively adjust their movements while trying to move in specific ways or walk to a specific location…
Ancient face bones offer clues to identity of early humans in Europe
Bone fragments from a cave in northern Spain suggest there were multiple hominin species living in western Europe around a million years ago…
Why ChatGPT still falls short in creativity
Tech evangelists predict the arrival of “superintelligence” any year now, but others doubt AI will ever produce its own Leonardos and Einsteins.Driving the news: In a post on X Tuesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman touted the company’s development of “a new model that is good at creative writing” and showed off its work — a…
The Latest on Bird Flu Research, Infected Cats, and More
No new human cases of avian influenza have been reported, and poultry infections are low so far in March. But infections in cats are continuing, and new research is raising concerns about the virus…
A $250M investment will help this lithium mine get up and running. That’s bad news for these tribes.
Tribes have tried and failed to stop the project in court. A new report says it violates Indigenous rights…U.N. humanitarian affairs chief issues warning about U.S. funding cuts
With crises from Sudan to Gaza, the United Nations is estimating that it will not be able to help some 200 million people in desperate need of humanitarian aid this year…
GRAS no more? Kennedy moves to end self-affirmed food additives
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took aim at a long-criticized food safety loophole on March 10, directing the Food and Drug Administration to explore rulemaking that would end companies’ ability to “self-affirm” ingredients as safe without oversight. The move, part of Kennedy’s “Make America Healthy Again”…