Axios

More than 80 Nobel Prize winners from a variety of scientific fields endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president, lauding her commitment to technology and research.

Why it matters: Scientific advancements and climate change responses would be undermined by former President Trump, the scientists warned during the final days of the razor-thin campaign.

New technologies are providing unprecedented capabilities for combating deforestation around the globe, particularly in tropical forests.

Why it matters: The technologies, which are made possible by advances in Earth observing satellites and artificial intelligence techniques, are in the spotlight as global biodiversity treaty talks take place in Cali, Colombia.

Google DeepMind is open-sourcing its tool for identifying AI-generated text, and detailed a real-world evaluation of it in a paper published on Wednesday.

Why it matters: AI-generated text is fueling plagiarism, copyright violations and misinformation, prompting calls for a way to determine whether material was created by a human or an algorithm.