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Harley Katz's team at the University of Chicago ran three years of simulations showing the Milky Way assembling from thousands of smaller galaxies. Published across six papers, the models can now be checked against what Webb actually records.
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A team including University of Chicago neuroscientists recorded source, sink and spiral waves of neural activity, and linked different tasks to distinct patterns. The link is an association, so it shows the waves track what the brain is doing and leaves open whether they help direct it.
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University of Bath-led MEGATRON team published four papers arguing early-universe models must track starlight, gas and new elements together. Their simulations suggest simpler models understate how stellar radiation and chemistry shape the gas around young galaxies.
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Physicists at Stanford, the University of Chicago and SLAC let one superconducting qubit address seven memory cells, at about 1.2% error per access. The tests measured access error, much of it from crosstalk between cells, so the promised cut in wiring per qubit is still a design argument.
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University of Chicago astronomers report that HD 3167 b, a super-Earth with a one-day orbit, has a dayside cooler than bare rock should allow. That makes it the coolest atmosphere case so far for a ten-planet program looking for the temperature at which lava worlds start to keep their atmospheres.
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Four studies by Fan Yang and Yilin Liu, published in Psychological Science, find that whether a creation is kept or destroyed changes what children and adults will do to make it, and that fun only partly makes up the difference.
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In 79 US toddlers surveyed three times, words that parents said their child mostly overheard from adult conversation were recognised at 24 and 30 months but not at 18. Every measure came from the parents.
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The Climate Impact Lab ran a European seasonal temperature outlook through local mortality curves fitted for 24,000 regions, and the authors want health ministries to treat the result as a schedule for moving staff, water and cooling.
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Aquarius IV is one of the faintest Milky Way satellites ever recorded, pulled out of Vera C. Rubin Observatory test data taken before the main survey began. The research note has not been peer reviewed.
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Physicists at the City College of New York drove magnons in CrSBr with microwaves and read the signal out on reflected laser light, a conversion mechanism that still needs large efficiency gains before it can move quantum states.
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The Drexel lab that made the first MXenes in 2011 has grown them by chemical vapor deposition, with Penn and Murata Manufacturing as collaborators, skipping the MAX-phase precursor and the acid bath that has limited their use.
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David Booth told The Daily Upside that neither mutual funds nor ETFs are inherently superior, and the work that made his $1.1 trillion firm a top active ETF manager was a regulatory petition plus a run of fund conversions.
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Two detection chief executives describe their own products as probabilities rather than verdicts. That is the constraint to design around before a score is allowed to fail a student or close an account.
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Over a quarter of Americans eat most of their meals alone, and 52% now say they would rather order their own dish. That shift is why the personalization Domino's, Wonder and DoorDash are building reprices portioning and the cost to serve a party.
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Leaders who have watched values language crowd out the capital-allocation story have met this mechanism already, and the Kellogg model says it runs on what an audience can verify rather than what it cares about.
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Cancer-journal editors are already catching undisclosed LLM use in peer review with commercial software. The unresolved question is what happens to a flagged researcher who says no.
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DANDELION ranks genes by position in trans-regulatory networks rather than distance from a variant. Its asthma shortlist survived CRISPR screens and mouse models. The denominator is missing.
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Bansal and Jiang's new bound on discrepancy barely moves as dimensions pile up. It is the first major progress since 1998 on a question that sits under rounding arguments.
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A Physical Review Letters paper reports that AI plus rare event sampling matched a 50,000-run heat wave study using roughly one-hundredth as many simulations.
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Laura Gagliardi's lab reports UCHI-1 and UCHI-2 for methane/nitrogen separation. The interesting assertion is about the handoff, not the frameworks.
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