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The University of British Columbia is a public research university in Vancouver and Kelowna, Canada, spanning sciences, medicine, and engineering.
Weizmann researchers built an AI decoder that redraws images people saw from brain scans, trained on eight volunteers who each viewed about 9,000 pictures. The uses for patients are still hopes, and one neuroscientist is already warning about consent.
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Mount Sinai reports in Nature that blocking an amygdala-to-hypothalamus pathway in mice kept prior stress from amplifying later threat responses. Trauma-sensitization research now has one circuit to test. So far, every causal test of it has been in mice.
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CHIME, a Canadian radio telescope, detected the faint glow of hydrogen from a universe about 5 billion years old using 94 nights of its own data. Any test of dark energy theories comes later, from years of archived observations still to be analysed.
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Researchers at Otago, UBC and Brown report 673 earwig genes and 2,672 worm genes growing more active as a parasitic worm drives its host toward water. The RNA data give experimenters candidate genes in both species, though the paper stops short of showing which ones make the earwig seek water.
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UBC researchers testing two heat-planning tools in Kelowna found that 20% of the city's analyzed area holds 50.8% of its potential new tree shade. Paired with heat maps sharpened to 10-meter pixels, the rankings reach single blocks, though they rest on surface heat.
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Cormac Toler-Scott went looking for data on how Salish Sea sea spiders respond to warming water, found none, and ended up writing the region's first imaging-and-DNA identification guide along the way.
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A University of British Columbia team showed that three selection functions in Soatok's constant-time-js leak their condition through V8's cache behaviour. He shipped version 0.5.0 and requested a CVE.
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Forty years after a visual survey recorded the ship carvings on a temple wall at Kition Kathari, a scan aimed at the masonry found 23 more, faint enough to be invisible at the wall and spread over as much as three centuries.
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A Nature Water team used more than 2 million rainfall-runoff events to classify more than 80,000 catchments, and found that on 87% of the land area evaluated the same rainfall can deliver very different flow.
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Carriers of the CAG-CCG loss-of-interruption variant start having motor symptoms up to 12.5 years earlier than other Huntington patients. A UBC-led team measured the long expansions in their isolated striatal neurons, and saw no matching signal in blood.
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The first global systematic review of sea-level rise and shorebirds pools 37 studies across 29 species. Its authors say the dikes and roads behind a wetland set how much habitat survives the water.
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A reanalysis of MESSENGER's low-altitude passes finds the planet's weak present-day field enough to explain crustal magnetism over more than 85 percent of the area north of 38 degrees north, a region covering under a fifth of Mercury.
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Instruments nobody could reach in 2020 recorded the Milne Fiord lake losing its freshwater layer within months of the ice shelf breakup, and the annual visits since have found nothing of it coming back.
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By coupling a palladium membrane to a molten hydroxide electrolyte, the Nature paper gets hydrogen out of ammonia already pure and keeps the reaction moving, though the account of it reports neither an operating temperature nor an energy cost.
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Researchers led by the Canadian Museum of Nature scored coil direction in photographs of more than 900 embryos and then found the tether on a CT scan, which points to mechanics rather than a developmental program.
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d-Matrix says stacking compute on a co-designed DRAM die moves bits at roughly a sixth of HBM4's energy cost. It still has not said who fabricates the die.
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Simon Fraser and UBC researchers reran the experiment until they believed it. The mechanism they landed on inverts the sign on the stabilizing term in Arctic erosion budgets.
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A preprint from ServiceNow AI Research and university co-authors reports that a plain web agent with a longer horizon matches or beats AWM, ASI and ReasoningBank, often on fewer tokens.
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A preprint models the glare from proposed satellite data-center constellations. In the worst case the researchers examined, satellites would outnumber naked-eye stars by a factor of 100.
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