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A single-celled green alga from the sand dunes of the Negev Desert has, within just a few years, become a key model organism in modern photosynthesis research.
NASA will stream Crew‑13’s arrival across multiple platforms.
Researchers from The Australian National University (ANU) have engineered new optical coatings for LIGO, the global collaboration hunting gravitational waves from colliding black holes and neutron stars.
Nearly one in eight cancers are caused by a pathogen The post A Look at How Many Cancers Are Caused by Infections Worldwide appeared first on Nautilus.
In an exclusive interview with Euronews, the head of the Ukrainian President's Office warned against a future European security architecture without the US and outlined Kyiv’s vision for deeper defence cooperation with Europe.
Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news The global bond market appears to be steadying this morning.
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Here, using global and nonlocal measures of nonstabilizerness (magic), we study quantum many-body scars near infinite temperature in $(1+1)$-dimensional Abelian $\mathbb{Z}_2$ and U$(1)$ lattice gauge theories, both analytically and numerically.
A record 52% of Europe faced intense heat stress this summer, the EU’s climate monitor said Friday, as climate change fuelled widespread heatwaves and tens of thousands of excess deaths.
The global annual amount of carbon dioxide (CO₂) released through the microbial decomposition of soil organic carbon is estimated to be approximately five times greater than anthropogenic CO₂ emissions, highlighting the importance of understanding how climate change affects soil CO₂ release dynamics.
G20 trade ministers failed to agree on tackling excess industrial capacity and eliminating forced labour from supply chains, US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said Thursday.
Earlier this summer, Google’s Debug program made headlines by applying to the EPA for permits to release droves of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes across California and Florida.
The dollar rose almost 1% compared to the real on Thursday (1st).
O dólar subiu quase 1% em comparação com o real nesta quinta-feira (1º).
Automatic translation by Bittrees-hosted AI. The source link opens the original publication.Riding a Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft, the four crew members departed from Space Launch Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral at 11:10 am EDT (15:10 UTC) Thursday.
IIASA researchers and partners have developed a new framework for guiding water management and planning at the river basin level, derived from the existing Global Water Planetary Boundary.
Four astronauts pulled up at the International Space Station on Thursday after launching on an eight-hour express that set a U.S.
François Picard is pleased to welcome Vivian Salama from Washington.
Russian drones on Friday hit Kyiv’s Southern Bridge for a fourth time in 24 hours, forcing authorities to close traffic on it.
A collaborative piece about different forms of protest music across time and geography Originally published on Global Voices Image courtesy of Sydney Allen.
Spain's Congress votes on two housing decrees, with Sanchez's coalition support in doubt, as Bucharest warns of new hybrid threats from Russia.
An international study led by researchers from Charles University in Prague (CUNI) and the Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences (BC CAS) has mapped how closely flowering plants and their pollinators depend on each other.
Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis struck an electricity distribution station supplying the Prophet’s Mosque in Saudi Arabia’s holy city of Medina, the Saudi-led coalition said Thursday, drawing condemnation across the Muslim world.
A teenage girl who fled war-torn Sudan for neighbouring Egypt and hopes to pursue a technology degree is an example of why countries must ensure that young refugees can continue to learn.
If Americans head to China for educational exchanges, their experience and expertise could benefit more than the US, says Kevin Chen from the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies.
Last call for regular tickets for AI Engineer NYC! As an exclusive for Latent Space subscribers, the first 30 of you can take a 30% off code if it helps - for new tickets only, no refunds! See you in 2 weeks! While we tend to cover industry on the pod, every so often we celebrate a clearly emerging superstar PhD. In 2024 we featured Shunyu Yao, who went on to build Operator at OpenAI and is now Chief AI Scientist of Tencent. In 2025 we featured Jack Morris, who went on to cofound Engram at $600m and is now a leading voice on continual learning. This year we are proud to feature the work of Ale
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Tsung-Hsien (Shawn) Wen, CTO of PolyAI, tells Tim Scarfe why voice agents are harder than text agents. Voice adds time, and a good conversation depends on adapting to the person on the line, not just on reasoning to the best answer. Shawn describes an audio-native model (Dialog-RSN-1) that first predicts a turn-taking signal, then replies in text with citations, and writes the transcript last so enterprises can audit it.Along the way: training on real, noisy calls with synthetic noise added, and why over-cleaned audio made the new model worse. Latency, and what a voice agent should do while it
How do you find an invasive species that no net can catch? What happens to the scientist whose research samples end up in federal court? In this episode, we talk with David Lodge, a freshwater ecologist at Cornell University and past president of the Ecological Society of America. In 2009, David’s lab detected invasive carp from DNA in bottles of Illinois River water, including above the electric barrier meant to keep the carp out of the Great Lakes. That result helped found the field of environmental DNA, and it brought congressional testimony, a Supreme Court filing, and five hours of unfrie
It sounds like the worst idea in the world: pay AIs, let them own property, give them rights. But AI ethics and safety researcher Simon Goldstein thinks it might actually be the best way to keep humanity safe. The logic is actually quite simple: an agent with nothing to lose and everything to gain is dangerous. Give that agent an income it can spend on pursuing the things it actually wants to do, and suddenly the idea of disempowering humans just isn’t as appealing. This argument, developed with Peter Salib, doesn’t rest on speculative questions about whether artificial intelligence is conscio
First up on the podcast, Staff Writer Jennie Erin Smith joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about new research on how noninvasive technologies such as transcranial magnetic stimulation are being used in the context of women’s health to tackle everything from postpartum depression to menstrual pain and fertility issues. Next on the show, we talk with Liisa Galea, Treliving family chair in women’s mental health and professor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Toronto. In a review in this week’s special issue on women’s health, Galea discusses the state of research on hormone therap
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