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Fresh data supports shock finding that dark energy is getting weaker
Researchers have found a ring of protein-rich white blood cells called neutrophils around areas where skin has been breached to trap pathogens. This suggests tasks that take humans about a month will be mastered by AI by 2029. Artificial intelligence (AI) systems could outpace human computer programmers on long tasks that take months, researchers said.
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Transient silencing of hypermutation preserves B cell affinity
A comparison of B cells’ expression at 48 and 72 h after anti-DEC-OVA treatment ruled out downregulation of Aicda as the mechanism for this pause in SHM. We also confirmed downregulation of Aicda as the mechanism for this pause in SHM. The localization-based readout for CDK2 activity is determined as theTomato-to-nuclear (C/N) ratio of DHB–tdTomato.
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The vocal representations of parrots and humans in the motor networks
Researchers claim to have identified the first-ever neural circuit in the brain of a parrot for vocal control and speech articulation. The researchers showed that the premotor organisation of the vocal control pathway in the budgerigar was not affected by the presence of an audience. The network is made up of both the human sensorimotor…
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Brain scans reveal clues about why we don’t remember being infants
Researchers at the University of Texas have found that baby scans as a reminder of the first years of life, or how we learnt to walk. They found that greater hippocampal activity when a baby was looking at a new image, the longer they looked at that image when shown again. This result suggests that…
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The universe could collapse because of weak dark energy
Researchers say that the dark energy, the mysterious force that makes galaxies accelerate away from each other, has weakened over the last 4.5 billion years. Researchers said that it is a wild type of dark energy that they need to understand and don’t understand it yet. “We’ll try to find out what this dark energy…
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Why did Israel start a war in Gaza?
Israel will return to war if Hamas doesn’t agree to the new ceasefire terms presented by the Mideast envoy for the Trump administration, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said. According to the Israel-Hamas agreement, the sides were supposed to enter talks regarding the permanent end of the war. The original deal requires Hamas to remove Israeli…
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The two NASA astronauts who returned to Earth after a mission in space were on an unexpectedly long mission
SpaceX Dragon capsule that flew astronauts Jeffrey Williams and Butch Wilmore home from the International Space Station (ISS) had two empty seats for their return. The capsule landed on Florida coast with the astronauts, who’re part of NASA’s private crew programme, in it. They’ve spent more than nine months in ISS before splashing down off…
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Israelis are taking to the streets after strikes on Gaza
Following the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas ended on Tuesday, Israeli Defence Minister Gabi Ashkenazi said that Israel will carry out an offensive in Gaza. “We haven’t decided on what we’ll do, but it’s clear that there’s going to be a large military operation in Gaza,” he added. Earlier, IDF chief Lieutenant General Benny Gantz…
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The judge asked for more answers about deportation flights
The US government on Monday asked a federal judge to dismiss an emergency order that ordered the administration to turn around any aircraft carrying people being removed under Alien Enemies Act. Judge James Boasberg’s order was issued at 7::26 pm on Saturday, however, the court’s written order came at 7:26 pm. Some of the deportees…
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The ads were shown before the home screen loads
Roku has tested a feature that would allow users to pause ads on their Roku OS devices. A spokesperson for the company said, “It’s not permanent but we continue to test…and do whatever we can to ensure that it doesn’t happen.” This comes after several users complained of seeing autoplaying ads on Roku OS devices.…
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How telescopes and satellites can live together
The Vera C Rubin Observatory, one of the world’s largest telescopes, has announced that it will stop using single-use satellites with lifespans of less than 15 years. The announcement came after SpaceX announced its plans to limit the impact of its satellites on observatories. SpaceX has over 7,000 satellites in its constellation, while Starlink has…
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It was easy to fire federal employees
The US government fired around 70 to 100 probationary employees of the Elon Musk-owned Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in February after a meeting with the Tesla CEO’s Department of Government Efficiency, court filings revealed. The employees were hired by the agency for a period of time. Over 24,000 federal employees were affected by the…
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Who is the Judge who wants to put President Trump in jail for deportations?
A judge in Washington DC has ordered the US Justice Department to give a sworn declaration by noon on Tuesday about how planeloads of alleged members of Tren de Aragua gang were deported. Three planes carrying people from Venezuela to El Salvador were sent by the Trump administration despite his order to stop the deportations.…
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After talking to Trump and Putin, the Kremlin said it would stop strikes on the Ukrainian energy sector
The White House said that US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin discussed “the need to stop proliferation of strategic weapons” in a phone call on Monday. Trump and Putin also discussed the Middle East and agreed that it could serve as a place for potential cooperation to prevent future conflicts, the…
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Zelenskyy wants the United States to hit Russia with sanctions if it doesn’t agree to a ceasefire
Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelenskyy on Friday said that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s claim that his troops had cornered Ukrainian soldiers in Kursk was false. “The situation for the Ukrainian forces in Kursk was difficult, but they had accomplished their main objective, which was to divert the Russian troops from Pokrovsk,” Zelenskyy added. The Russian military…
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There is a Digital Coup in the office of Mr. Musk
Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has 10 staff members at the Social Security Administration (SSA), government records reviewed by WIRED revealed. Some of them have been listed as part of a group within Microsoft Teams, which SSAemployees use for internal communication, according to a screenshot shared by WIRED. This comes after DOGE’s claims…
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Musk wanted the government to go down
Billionaire Elon Musk’s government efficiency agency has been shut down amid the ongoing partial government shutdown, as per reports. Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has eliminated jobs of around tens of thousands of government workers. The agency was founded by Musk in 2017 to help the government identify waste, inefficiency and fraud in government…
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The anvils squeezed metals atomically thin
Researchers have made atomically flat metals that are ultrathin and could be used to make electronics. In a video, researchers use an anvil to squeeze copper, which is heated in a furnace, before hammering and squeezing on top of it. The researchers used sapphire, which is very hard, and coated it in molybdenum disulfide which…
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There is a robotic model that reaches into the physical world
Google’s deep-learning arm DeepMind on Wednesday unveiled a new type of robot called Gemini Robotics, which it said will integrate physical actions into its world understanding. “While we’ve made progress in each one of these areas individually in the past with general robotics, we’re bringing [drastically] increasing performance in all three areas with a single…
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More than 1,300 Syrians were killed in 72 hours as a result of acts of revenge
The Syrian government said that it’s investigating the killing of 16 security personnel in Latakia province during an attack on government forces by rebels on Thursday. This comes after the rebels accused government forces of killing civilians during protests in the province. The government said that it’s committed to conducting thorough investigations, and will hold…
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The DOJ still believes that the internet company should be broken up
US Department of Justice’s proposal to end Google’s dominance of search engine rankings will require Google to sell its Chrome Search engine, The New York Times reported. It also requires Google to “notify federal and state officials” before proceeding with investments in AI. The proposal does not call for Google to drop its AI investments.
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One million years before thought, Ancient humans used bone tools
Scientists have uncovered 27 bone artefacts in Tanzania which they said are the oldest known animal-bone tools. The artefacts were found to be up to 20 centimetres long and could have been made as early as 1.15-million-year-old. “We found evidence of deliberate manufacture of bone tools by around one million years earlier than previously thought,”…
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Blue Ghost is the first images of the moon’s surface
NASA has successfully landed its Blue Ghost mission on the Moon. The two-metre-tall spacecraft reached a location known as Mare Crisium, which is the darkest part of the moon. Blue Ghost is the first American mission to successfully land on the Moon and is expected to be in the process of commissioning its science payloads.
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The price of the A36 and A26 will get them 6 years of software updates
Samsung has launched three new Galaxy A-series smartphones in the US, A56, A36 and A26, at prices starting at $499 (around 36,000), $699 (around 52,000) and $780 (around 70,000) respectively. The Galaxy A56 is the most expensive of the three phones and will launch in the US “later this year”. The A56 comes with a…
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Openai says that GPT- 4.5 is not a frontier model
OpenAI has launched GPT-4.5, its newest andlargest AI language model. The model is available as a research Preview for ChatGPT Pro users to start. GPT-4.5 has been trained using OpenAI’s o1 reasoning model, codenamed Strawberry, and it is “the most knowledgeable model yet”. OpenAI said the model is better at recognising patterns and drawing connections.