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Science
What we know, what we are learning, and what the labs are not telling you.
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IBM Cools Two Quantum Systems Together in Breakthrough
For decades, the biggest obstacle in quantum computing was not the logic it was the cold. A quantum chip must be cooled to near absolute zero, just a whisper above minus 273 degrees Celsius, to keep its fragile quantum...
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338Science
AI and consciousness research hype gap
The field of consciousness research is suddenly the center of an artificial intelligence gold rush. Cognitive scientist Abeba Birhane, who leads the AI Accountability Lab at Trinity College Dublin, has spent years...
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339Science
Mapping chronic pain with brain blueprints
For decades, doctors attempting to treat chronic pain with brain stimulation faced a fundamental problem: they knew electricity could help, but they could not see exactly where to send it. A small but revealing study...
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Sun's cosmic journeys may have shaped Earth's climate
The Kepler space telescope was never designed to study our own Sun. Launched in 2009, its mission was to stare at a patch of sky containing more than 150,000 stars, hunting for the telltale dimming that reveals planets...
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341Science
The Brain That Predicts Before It Perceives
A new theoretical framework describes a brain that does not wait for sensory information to arrive before deciding what the world contains. Instead, it anticipates. Instead, it anticipates. It generates predictions...
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342Science
Government contracts can lock in market dominance
A curious paradox sits at the heart of public investment in frontier technology: the same government contracts meant to spark competition often end up extinguishing it. This ceases to be a paradox when one considers the...
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RNA Nanostars Show Why Basic Research Takes Decades
The simplest explanation for a breakthrough is often the wrong one. When mRNA vaccines arrived in record time during the pandemic, it looked like a sudden triumph of funding and urgency. But the real story began decades...
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AI Watermarks Cannot Ensure Scientific Integrity
Detecting AI generated text has long been a game of educated guessing. Statistical detectors flagged suspicious patterns but often mistook human writing for machine output and could be fooled by simple paraphrasing. The...
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345Science
AI data centres in space face scientific pushback
The promise sounds like science fiction: move the massive computer warehouses that power artificial intelligence into orbit, where the sun always shines and no community can object. . SpaceX, the rocket company led by...
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346Science
China expands young scientists fund with age limits
The National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) has announced plans to fund an additional 12,000 projects through its Young Scientists Fund. 1] The expansion brings the total number of supported projects to a...
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Jodrell Bank Telescope Faces Closure Amid Funding Cuts
The instrument that once tracked Sputnik's carrier rocket across the night sky now faces an uncertain future. Britain's largest telescope, the iconic Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank, is on the chopping block....
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AI Decodes Gene Activation Switch in Most Human Genes
Every cell contains the same DNA, yet a skin cell and a heart cell behave completely differently. The difference lies in which genes get switched on and for decades, scientists knew these switches existed but could not...
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