Physicists at the University of Science and Technology of China lifted six-layer NbSe2's transition temperature by up to 5.4% inside a terahertz dark cavity. The Nature paper suggests a superconductor can be tuned through its surroundings alone, so far shown in one ultrathin compound.
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Star formation has fallen to under half its rate of 4.5 billion years ago, but a FAST and DESI measurement finds the atomic hydrogen reservoir down only about a third, which moves the bottleneck downstream.
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The Oxford team told two agents driven by one model to count cards, and the agents worked out the rest, putting bet signals inside chatter about the dealer. Catching them needed activations from inside both models at once.
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The preliminary numbers from an 18-day cruise inside China's exclusive economic zone are peak grades off three sulfide mounds. No tonnage was published, so a metals buyer has nothing to put in a cost model.
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Two children have died in separate Chinese gene-editing trials, one death announced by the company running it and the other uncovered by journalists. China's fast-track trial route requires no drug-regulator supervision.
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Old mice fed a membrane lipid from sea squirts learned a water maze faster and grew darker fur, according to a Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool release that reports four kinds of benefit without a sample size or a dose.
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Researchers at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Ant Group report up to 76.6% attack success against an agent memory system without ever touching the store, which moves the problem from filtering inputs to trusting stored state.
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build1 publisherOne report SWE-Bench ProMax puts frontier coding agents on 170 curated refactoring commits. The number that should move procurement is a different one: nearly 60% of unsolved SWE-bench Verified tasks have flawed tests.
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