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  • Scientists measure cellular membrane thickness inside cells for the first time

    Scientists measure cellular membrane thickness inside cells for the first time

    Scientists have long known that cellular membranes vary in thickness, but measuring those differences inside actual cells has been out of reach.

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  • 18 of Earth’s biggest river deltas — including the Nile and Amazon — are sinking faster than global sea levels are rising

    18 of Earth’s biggest river deltas — including the Nile and Amazon — are sinking faster than global sea levels are rising

    Many of the world’s biggest river deltas — including the Nile, Amazon and Ganges — are sinking faster than global sea levels are rising, a new study shows.

    This means subsidence is becoming the main driver of land loss, coastal flooding and…

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  • Robotics software maker Skild AI hits $14B valuation

    Robotics software maker Skild AI hits $14B valuation

    Skild AI, which makes foundation models for robots, seems to have more than tripled its valuation in just seven months.

    The startup has raised a $1.4 billion Series C round that values it at more than $14 billion, Bloomberg reported. The round…

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  • Deny, deny, admit: UK police used Copilot AI “hallucination” when banning football fans

    Deny, deny, admit: UK police used Copilot AI “hallucination” when banning football fans

    But Guildford admitted this week that this explanation was, in fact, bollocks. As he acknowledged in a letter on January 12, “I [recently] became aware that the erroneous result concerning the West Ham v Maccabi Tel Aviv…

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  • Scientists finally uncover why statins cause muscle pain

    Scientists finally uncover why statins cause muscle pain

    Many people who are prescribed statins to lower cholesterol end up stopping the medication because of muscle pain, weakness, or ongoing fatigue. These symptoms are among the most common reasons patients abandon the drugs.

    New research from…

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  • Little red dots as young supermassive black holes in dense ionized cocoons

    Little red dots as young supermassive black holes in dense ionized cocoons

  • Greene, J. E. et al. UNCOVER spectroscopy confirms the surprising ubiquity of active galactic nuclei in red sources at z > 5. Astrophys. J. 964, 39 (2024).

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  • Gemini just got scarily smart for you where Apple’s Siri dream failed

    Gemini just got scarily smart for you where Apple’s Siri dream failed

    Remember the “more personal Siri” ad that Apple pulled? Yeah, the same one where you could just say “which person I met at XYZ cafe two weeks ago” and it answered. And pulled a whole bunch of other futuristic tricks because it was…

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  • ‘Tiniest earthquakes’ could shrink and speed up future smartphones

    ‘Tiniest earthquakes’ could shrink and speed up future smartphones

    In the future, advanced smartphones might be powered by a controlled, microscopic earthquake.

    Researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder, the University of Arizona, and Sandia National Laboratories have developed a surface acoustic…

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  • Major river deltas are sinking faster than sea-level rise, study shows

    A study published in Nature shows that many of the world’s major river deltas are sinking faster than sea levels are rising, potentially affecting hundreds of millions of people in these regions.

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