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Dennis Normile

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Asia Correspondent at Science Magazine

Asia correspondent for Science Magazine.

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  • Did the United States commit ‘ecocide’?

    3 weeks ago | science.org | Dennis Normile

    The harm to human health caused by spraying Agent Orange and other herbicides over southern Vietnam was unintended—but not the damage to the environment. The U.S. military’s effort to denude an estimated 2 million hectares of forest and 200,000 hectares of farmland was designed to deny Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops food and protective cover. At the time, critics of the tactic coined a new term—“ecocide”—to describe the widespread destruction.

  • In Vietnam, the health effects of Agent Orange remain uncertain 50 years later

    3 weeks ago | science.org | Dennis Normile

    1.0x 00:00 16:43 1.0x Audio is AI-generated. Report an issue|Give feedback Nearly 2 decades ago, more than 240 women who had recently given birth in Da Nang, Vietnam, got an unusual request from visiting nurses checking on their newborns: Could we collect a small sample of your breast milk?

  • ‘A huge honor’: China reveals the foreign scientists awarded rare lunar samples

    3 weeks ago | science.org | Dennis Normile

    Five years after its Chang’e-5 mission returned the first samples of soil and rocks from the Moon in nearly 50 years, China has finally begun to share the precious specimens with select groups of researchers outside the country. Seven institutions in six countries will gain access to tiny shares of the lunar material.

  • In Japan, researchers resist ruling party’s push to rein in national science academy

    2 months ago | science.org | Dennis Normile

    Japan’s dominant Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is out to crimp the independence of the Science Council of Japan (SCJ)—the country’s national science academy. With the LDP leading the country’s ruling coalition, Japan’s cabinet on Friday approved a bill that would replace the current Science Council—an independent public entity that manages its own affairs—with a special corporation subject to increased government oversight.

  • Chinese firm’s faster, cheaper AI language model makes a splash

    Jan 15, 2025 | science.org | Dennis Normile

    For one small Chinese startup, the U.S. ban on sales of the most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) computer chips to Chinese entities was a spur to innovation. DeepSeek, launched in May 2023 by a former AI student–turned–hedge fund manager, says it has found a way to match the performance of its U.S. rivals in AI using second-tier graphics processing units—and at a fraction of the cost.

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Dennis Normile
Dennis Normile @dnormile
7 Jul 23

My intro to one of the world's premier supernovae hunters. https://t.co/l4lcWthVeh

Dennis Normile
Dennis Normile @dnormile
16 May 23

Australia's First People's rock art is threatened by industrial development. Our report in Science: https://t.co/6gtqd32hVT

Dennis Normile
Dennis Normile @dnormile
12 May 23

Important paper from @AliceCHughes

Dr. Alice C Hughes
Dr. Alice C Hughes @AliceCHughes

The IPBES report stated overexploitation of species to be 1 of the greatest threats to their survival Yet most #wildlifetrade is legal, & most has no evidence of sustainability We review those intersections & highlight the need for precautionary principles https://t.co/jaGVyBKkah https://t.co/93zO1vSCVR