Apple is reportedly offering large, unexpected bonuses to some of its employees, particularly those in its design team, in an effort to stop them from moving to companies like OpenAI. According to a Bloomberg report, the company is…
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Ask Ethan: Does dark energy curve the Universe over time?
Whenever you have a Universe like ours — governed by general relativity and full of different types of energy — there are many different possible outcomes. Your Universe could tear itself apart, driving objects away from one…
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US firm validates safe disposal of radioactive waste with borehole tech
A Washington-based company has successfully validated its borehole technology for safe disposal of high-level radioactive waste from advanced reactor fuel recycling.
Deep Isolation’s analysis confirmed that nuclear waste streams partitioned…
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Dhurandhar 2-Inspired Font Arrives on Instagram Edits: How To Use it Before It Disappears
Instagram has rolled out a new custom font in its Edits photo and video editing app, inspired by the typography used in the film Dhurandhar: The Revenge. The feature is aimed at helping creators give their Reels a cinematic and…
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This dangerous combo in your body could raise death risk by 83%
Researchers from the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) in Brazil, working with University College London (UCL) in the United Kingdom, found that having both excess abdominal fat and reduced muscle mass significantly raises the risk of…
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Small ray of hope for Sri Lanka’s sawfish, now feared ‘functionally extinct’
COLOMBO — The sawfish, a large ray, is easily recognized by its long, flattened snout edged with sharp, tooth-like projections that form a distinctive “saw,” technically known as a rostrum. Despite being one of the ocean’s most…
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Meta Releases TRIBE v2: A Brain Encoding Model That Predicts fMRI Responses Across Video, Audio, and Text Stimuli
Neuroscience has long been a field of divide and conquer. Researchers typically map specific cognitive functions to isolated brain regions—like motion to area V5 or faces to the fusiform gyrus—using models tailored to narrow…
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From simulation to strategy: Climate modeling motivates action at the top
New research by MIT Sloan School of Management finds that global leaders who participate in facilitated engagements using an interactive climate policy simulator, En-ROADS, demonstrated a stronger understanding of climate solutions, felt more…
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Scientists uncovered the nutrients bees were missing — Colonies surged 15-fold
A team of researchers led by the University of Oxford has developed a breakthrough food supplement that could help reverse the alarming decline of honeybees.
Working with Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, the University of Greenwich, and the Technical…
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Study in search of a tropical spring is first to show some birds flip their breeding season in response to climate
In 2014, Felicity Newell joined the Florida Museum of Natural History as a doctoral student, then promptly left the country in search of a tropical spring. It’s a concept she started thinking about while doing biological surveys in Honduras….
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