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New AI approaches to help understand complex biological data
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New AI approaches to help understand complex biological data

Researchers at Cardiff University have presented two studies at the 2026 International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2026) that address fundamental chall...

Environmental, social and governance investor pressure sometimes causes firms to shift pollution to suppliers
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Environmental, social and governance investor pressure sometimes causes firms to shift pollution to suppliers

Investors who evaluate companies using environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria are increasingly expected to act as private regulators, using their i...

New AI model maps the ion binding sites that control how proteins work
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New AI model maps the ion binding sites that control how proteins work

Researchers at Constructor University and Constructor Labs have developed BiteNetI, a deep-learning model that locates the binding sites of 14 biologically impo...

Next-gen sensors: Catching water pollution in real time
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Next-gen sensors: Catching water pollution in real time

Extreme weather events, such as floods, droughts and torrential rains, affect water quality in lakes, rivers and coastal areas. This creates significant challen...

Forest floor to treetops, cameras reveal Congo Basin's hidden wildlife
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Forest floor to treetops, cameras reveal Congo Basin's hidden wildlife

The Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) tropical forests stretch across an extraordinary landscape of rivers, wetlands, savannas and towering trees. But in a f...

Ten-channel photonic interface links neutral-atom qubits in parallel
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Ten-channel photonic interface links neutral-atom qubits in parallel

A research group in Japan has demonstrated a world-record 10-channel multiplexed quantum photonic interface based on an integrated waveguide array, a key techno...

9/11 responders passed effects of trauma to their children, study finds
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9/11 responders passed effects of trauma to their children, study finds

Although it's been 25 years since the World Trade Center collapsed after terrorists flew commercial airplanes into each of the center's two towers, the trauma e...

Geomagnetic superstorm shook GPS accuracy across the US—its timing may have averted agricultural losses
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Geomagnetic superstorm shook GPS accuracy across the US—its timing may have averted agricultural losses

On Nov. 11, 2025, Earth experienced a severe geomagnetic storm triggered by solar flares and coronal mass ejections from an active sunspot region. While this ki...

Largest review finds formal ethics education improves students' moral reasoning
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Largest review finds formal ethics education improves students' moral reasoning

How important is it that kids learn to tell right from wrong? Businessman and former university chancellor David Gonski recently called for ethics classes to be...

Anti-influenza therapies that target the host
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Anti-influenza therapies that target the host

A drug that targets the host rather than the virus could get around the problem of antiviral resistance. Every year, hundreds of thousands of people die of seas...

UK chalks up hottest summer on record for second year running
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UK chalks up hottest summer on record for second year running

Britain experienced its hottest summer on record for the second year in a row, the UK's national weather agency announced Tuesday, after weeks of successive hea...

Experiment sees surprising result in search for dark matter
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Experiment sees surprising result in search for dark matter

For the better part of a century, people have been trying to understand dark matter. This invisible substance makes up roughly 85% of the mass in the universe b...

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