DUNE will aim to study the properties of neutrinos in unprecedented detail Read the full article The post US underground neutrino experiment begins cryostat installation appeared first on Physics World .
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(MedPage Today) -- The oral GLP-1 receptor agonist orforglipron (Foundayo) improved sleep-disordered breathing in patients with moderate-to-severe obstructive sleep apnea and overweight or obesity, two phase III trials showed. For the treatment...
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Joe McConnell has been studying ice cores from Greenland, northern Canada, and the Russian Arctic for decades. These cores contain stories about the history of Earth’s climate, including how humans have affected it. Derek Pickell admires a backlit snow pit showing the layers of…
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Print article Share Article Contents Expand menu Close Total emissions edge up as land-use emissions rise Land-use emissions rise in 2026 Fossil emissions fall in most major economies Oil emissions fall as coal emissions slightly increase Land sink in 2025 is highest on record…
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AlphaProof Code agents wrote three million lines of proofs in Lean to verify Signal’s core encryption.
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An artist’s concept depicting a Voyager spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Launched nearly 50 years ago in 1977, NASA’s Voyager 1 on Wednesday, Nov. 18 will have traveled one light-day from Earth, which is more than 16 billion miles (25.9 billion kilometers). Voyager 1 is the…
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The MeerKLASS international collaboration achieves the first direct measurement of the large-scale clustering of cosmic hydrogen in the Universe.
The oldest pair of compact quasars ever observed has been found only 900 million years after the Big Bang. Scientists say there is no theoretical explanation for how the pair of actively feeding black holes grew so massive at such an early time in the history of the Universe. The…
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(MedPage Today) -- A single-use bioengineered liver paired with an extracorporeal blood circuit that replicates key functions of a human liver was shown to be safe among patients with syndromes of liver failure in a small phase I trial. There...
(MedPage Today) -- Testosterone use among females has risen since 2016 and is frequently prescribed without a documented diagnosis of hypoactive sexual desire disorder, the sole evidence-based indication. (Journal of Clinical Endocrinology &...
(MedPage Today) -- The FDA approved the small-molecule inhibitor pimicotinib (Pimjetmi) for selected patients with symptomatic tenosynovial giant cell tumor (TGCT) and high surgical risk. An oral selective inhibitor of colony stimulating factor...
A ballot measure includes billions for biomedical research, but criteria for who gets the money are prompting concerns among some scientists
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Finer resolution gives atmospheric scientists a more accurate picture of storm behaviour Read the full article The post Climate prediction model breaks resolution records and removes ‘popcorn-like’ rain appeared first on Physics World .
Hydrogen could play an important role in cleaner energy systems, but even small leaks can create safety risks. Reliable sensors are therefore essential wherever hydrogen is produced, stored, transported or used. A persistent problem is humidity: water molecules can cover the…
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After over a century of studying introspection in humans and animals, researchers are beginning to explore the phenomenon in unlikely new subjects: large language models. These systems, which are based on mathematical structures called neural networks, excel at cognitive tasks that until recently seemed exclusive to humans. Can they introspect as well? On this episode of The Quanta Podcast, host Samir Patel speaks with staff writer Ben Brubaker about “injecting” thoughts into LLM neural networks — and what researchers are doing to map out AI’s capacity for introspection. This topic was covered in a recent story for Quanta Magazine. Each week on The Quanta Podcast, Quanta Magazine editor-in-c
In the 1970s and ’80s, frogs in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest began dying off. Researchers have proposed various causes, from severe cold snaps to acid rain. Now, scientists believe they have solved this decade-old amphibian “cold case.” The culprit, it seems, may be the highly…
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A recent Mongabay investigation by Elizabeth Claire Alberts and Andrés Alegría reveals that the Clarion-Clipperton Zone of the Pacific Ocean, a swath of deep sea regulated by the International Seabed Authority, has received a surge of claim applications filed with the United…
As neurotechnology aims to restore seamless speech to those who can no longer talk, what’s next for the science, and for the people it promises to help?
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Peru’s anchovy industry, the largest single-species fishery in the world, is being rocked by the ongoing El Niño . It’s not the first time the fishery has been impacted by the natural weather phenomenon — El Niño gets its name from Peruvian fishermen. And it’s a stark reminder of the reverberating economic consequences of El Niño events, which can cost the global economy trillions of dollars . Interested in more news and weather-related science? Email us your question at shortwave@npr.org . Support public media with NPR+ and enjoy perks for over 25 podcasts like this one. This show’s perks include sponsor-free listening. Learn more at plus.npr.org . See pcm.adswizz.com for information about
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Microsoft researchers have discovered “Lazarus,” a backdoor technique that can reprogram dormant neurons in an AI model, causing an otherwise normal AI agent to execute malicious commands when a hidden trigger appears. The threat is especially serious for AI agents with tool or…
Insider Brief Researchers from QuEra Computing , Harvard University and Anthropic used Claude to design quantum circuits that reduce gate counts and qubit requirements across seven of eight computational building blocks. The research reported a 12-fold reduction in Toffoli gates…
The UK government has announced a £189 million quantum deployment package to advance quantum technologies from research to practical application. This includes £35 million for quantum networking testbeds, a £12 million commercialization consortium called the UK Quantum…
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In this episode, Stefano Corazza, head of AI research at Canva, joins us to explore how his team is building custom models and agents around iterative design workflows. We discuss the tradeoffs between training models from scratch and adapting open weights models, and how proprietary design data supports specialization. Stefano explains how Craft separates layout planning from pixel generation and how Brush uses design tools and visual feedback to create and revise compositions. We examine the challenges of evaluating design quality beyond a single generation, including the use of vision language models as judges alongside human evaluation. We also discuss lessons from simplifying agent harn
Source: AGU Advances Permafrost in many of Earth’s northern regions is thawing, a process that unlocks greenhouse gases, threatens infrastructure, and could alter landscapes and ecosystems. The Arctic and sub-Arctic are vast, and gaining a comprehensive picture of permafrost…
Scientists have discovered the best evidence yet to show that West Antarctica's most vulnerable ice streams—including its giant Thwaites Glacier—repeatedly collapsed and retreated far inland during natural warm periods of the last 800,000 years.
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Heat is accumulating in Earth’s systems at an accelerating rate, the U.N.’s weather agency has reported as the COP31 climate change summit begins in Turkey, with 2026 on track to be one of the four warmest years on record. Read more on E360 →
Whether the nitrates in your diet are linked to higher or lower dementia risk may depend on where they come from. A large, 27-year study of Danish adults published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia suggests that people who consume more nitrates from vegetables have a lower risk of…
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The hormone oxytocin changes how the brain learns and retrieves information about where people stand in social hierarchies. A recent study published in PNAS reveals that oxytocin boosts neural activity associated with learning social ranks and improves memory for networks that do…
Preschoolers who struggle with frequent anger and temper outbursts may gradually reshape how their parents treat them, while certain caregiving habits may also feed into a child’s frustration over time. A longitudinal study published in Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent…
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As world leaders met at COP31 in Antalya, the Global Carbon Project revealed the latest trends in global carbon emissions and the ramifications for reaching our global climate goals. The University of Exeter, University of East Anglia and other research institutions released the…
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Critics question baffling genetic data from prolific infectious diseases group
Scientist responds to a retrospective cohort study published in The Lancet Regional Health – Europe* looking at GLP-1 RA discontinuation and cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality in people with type 2 diabetes. Prof Naveed Sattar, Professor of Cardiometabolic…
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Scientists using the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory have located a possible new dwarf planet beyond Neptune. What would you name it?