Thousands of years ago, ancient Homo sapiens undertook a treacherous journey, crossing hundreds of km of ice over the Bering Strait to the unknown world of the Americas. Now, a new study suggests that these people carried something surprising…
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Robotics Institute Summer Scholars Strengthens Ties With University of Guadalajara
Collaboration Creates Opportunities for Undergraduate Researchers From Mexico
08/21/2025 Aaron Aupperlee
Martial Hebert and Marco Antonio Pérez Cisneros
The Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute Summer Scholars…
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Interview with Haimin Hu: Game-theoretic integration of safety, interaction and learning for human-centered autonomy
In this interview series, we’re meeting some of the AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consortium participants to find out more about their research. In this latest interview, Haimin Hu tells us about his…
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The surprising reason timber plantations explode into megafires
The odds of high-severity wildfire were nearly one-and-a-half times higher on industrial private land than on publicly owned forests, a new study found. Forests managed by timber companies were more likely to exhibit the conditions that megafires…
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Omega Fatty Acids Could Protect against Alzheimer’s Disease in Women
New research demonstrates that associations between various lipids and Alzheimer’s disease — a devastating neurological disease that disproportionately affects women — are more prominent in women and often absent in men.
Wretlind et al….
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Giant Star Laid Bare: Reveals Birthplace of Silicon and Sulfur – Space & Physics | Weizmann Wonder Wander
Massive stars have a layered structure, similar to an onion. The outermost layers predominantly comprise the lightest elements; as the layers move inward, the elements become heavier and heavier until reaching the innermost iron core. This is the…
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Why recycling ‘dead’ batteries could save billions and slash pollution
Increased demand for electric vehicles, portable electronics, and renewable energy storage has resulted in lithium becoming a truly critical mineral. As the world races toward a clean energy future, the recycling of lithium batteries has become…
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See how fractals forever changed math and science
Fifty years ago, “fractal” was born.
In a 1975 book, the Polish-French-American mathematician Benoit B. Mandelbrot coined the term to describe a family of rough, fragmented shapes that fall outside the boundaries of conventional…
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One atom, endless power: Scientists create a shape-shifting catalyst for green chemistry
A research team at the Politecnico di Milano has developed an innovative single-atom catalyst capable of selectively adapting its chemical activity. This is a crucial step forward in sustainable chemistry and the design of more efficient and…
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Researchers glimpse the inner workings of protein language models | MIT News
Within the past few years, models that can predict the structure or function of proteins have been widely used for a variety of biological applications, such as identifying drug targets and designing new therapeutic…
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