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The modern power grid is evolving faster than traditional testing methods can keep pace. This white paper introduces real-time electromagnetic transient (EMT) simulation and…
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Doomed ants send a final scent to save their colony
Ant societies behave like tightly integrated “superorganisms,” where thousands of individuals work together in a way that resembles the coordinated activity of cells in a body. Researchers at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)…
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The silent violence of ableism in architecture
Outdated models of disability still dominate thinking in our built environment. Approaches grounded in old medical and charity models of disability have long reinforced a status quo trapped in hundred-year-old thinking—and it shows.
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Life First Emerged in Surface-Bound Prebiotic Gels, Research Suggests
In a new paper published in the journal ChemSystemsChem, Hiroshima University’s Professor Tony Jia and colleagues outline the ‘prebiotic gel-first’ framework, which considers how the origin of life could have potentially emerged within…
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Fabergé's rare Winter Egg fetches record £22.9 mn at auction
Fabergé’s The Winter Egg, considered one of his most beautiful creations, sold for nearly £23 million ($30 million) at auction Tuesday in London, smashing the sales record for the legendary jeweler of Imperial Russia.
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Neuroscientists Identify Five Major Epochs of Brain Structure over Course of Human Life
Neuroscientists have detected five broad phases of brain structure in the average human life, split up by four pivotal turning points between birth and death when our brains reconfigure. Childhood brain topology runs from birth until a turning…
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Wild chimps consume more alcohol than anyone expected
The first-ever measurements of the ethanol content of fruits available to chimpanzees in their native African habitat show that the animals could easily consume the equivalent of more than two standard alcoholic drinks each day, according to…
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Long-lost Rubens 'masterpiece' sells for almost 3 mn euros
A long-lost painting by 17th-century Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens sold at auction in France on Sunday for almost three million euros—well beyond its asking price.
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Drones have changed warfare. Two new weapons might alter its course again
Like so many conflicts before it, the Russo-Ukraine war has forced both sides to innovate. Since they have been able to gain control of opposition air space, neither side has made wide use of traditional air assets such as fast fighter jets,…
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Scientists discover a hidden brain circuit that rewrites vision
Vision guides an animal’s actions, but new research from MIT shows that the relationship goes both ways. The study, published November 25 in Neuron, reports that behavior and internal conditions directly influence how visual information is…
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