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Scientists Find Soil Fungus That Can Freeze Water and It Might Be Key to Engineering the Weather
These are both liquid and frozen water droplets. They are at the same temperature, but the frozen droplets contain an ice nucleator. Credit: Boris Vinatzer. -
Local agricultural transition, crisis and migration in the Southern Andes
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Lombardo, U. et al. Early Holocene crop cultivation and…
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Financial decline linked to faster memory aging in older adults
Worse financial well-being in midlife and older age—and especially declines over time—are associated with lower memory scores and faster cognitive decline, reports a new study at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. The…
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MXene nanoreactor uses CRISPR to double photothermal therapy effectiveness
A nanoplatform built on vanadium MXene nanosheets uses CRISPR/Cas9 to silence the heat shock protein gene that lets cancer cells survive photothermal therapy. With the tumor’s heat shield removed, a near-infrared laser simultaneously heats the…
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Former federal advisers on autism who were let go by RFK Jr. form a new committee
An independent group of experts plans to offer an alternative to the Trump administration’s autism agenda. The group features prominent scientists who used to serve on a federal advisory committee.
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Why the early U.S. COVID-19 death toll may be 155,000 higher
The COVID-19 pandemic’s early death toll was much higher than the official U.S. count, according to a new study that spotlights dramatic disparities in the uncounted deaths.
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Nvidia is quietly building a multibillion-dollar behemoth to rival its chips business
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was years ahead of the market when he pushed the company to start tinkering with building AI-specific chips back in 2010, more than a decade before the current buzz around AI. A similar move in 2020 — doubling down on…
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China tech giant Tencent bets on AI agents
Tencent wants to bring artificial intelligence agents into its WeChat social media app, the Chinese tech firm’s president said on Wednesday, a move that could change how hundreds of millions of users interact with the platform in the Asian nation…
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AI rebuilds molecules from exploding fragments
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and collaborating institutions recently built a generative AI model that can recreate molecular structures from the movement of the molecule’s ions after they are…
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Expect Sonic Booms As SpaceX Prepares To Launch 25 Starlink Satellites From Vandenberg This Week
Residents along California’s Central Coast may hear sonic booms this week as SpaceX prepares for a launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base.
SpaceX is planning to launch 25 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. The…
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