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LEGO-Bench, from the University of Maryland and AWS, scores the best coding agent at 53.4 percent on indoor scenes rebuilt from photos in Blender code. The agents cannot tell when an edit helped, so their revise loop needs a measured score to decide which edits to keep.
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Google researchers' Dream-RSI cut Gemini calls on a Lasso solver task from 550 to 317 by rewriting a Python search policy, with every model frozen. Teams running scored code search can test it as a call-budget saving on their own tasks.
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University of Maryland astronomers using Webb found ammonia on HATS-6 b and early temperatures near 120 C, against the 425 C usually cited. Their leading suspect is reflective cloud, and the planet's chemistry readings depend on that temperature.
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Maryland has committed $52.5 million of a four-year ceiling of up to $100 million for a Discovery District quantum hub. In exchange, DARPA stops evaluating Microsoft's hardware remotely from Redmond and Europe.
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United Therapeutics is sponsoring the first xenotransplant clinical trial. Its first patient got a 10-edit pig kidney at NYU Langone in November. The longest a gene-edited pig kidney has worked in a person is 271 days, against years or decades for a human donor organ.
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String-breaking, the moment a stretched bond between two building blocks of matter snaps and new particles appear, has now been observed on a trapped-ion quantum simulator at Duke. Two other groups saw it on different hardware.
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Tested in pigs, the battery held about 1.8 volts and faded to 1.45 by the third day. Its 3.5 milliampere-hour ceiling is roughly a tenth of what one uninvolved engineer says the technology needs.
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Marc Neveu's group ran the biggest collisions it could devise against simulated icy moons, and the result says a shattered past tells you little about whether a moon holds water under its shell today.
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A University of Maryland group stacked ferroelectric CuInP2S6 on ferromagnetic Fe3GaTe2 and used small voltages to move the magnet between two coercivity states that held after the voltage was switched off, at 292 kelvin.
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Researchers at NASA Goddard and the University of Maryland mapped polar sunlight down to five metres per pixel and found small shadows where five skin-borne bacteria and fungi could sit dormant for days.
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Researchers screened dozens of candidate morphogenic genes crop by crop, then switched the winners on alongside the edit itself, and wild strawberry reached a fully regenerated edited plant more than a month faster.
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Electrons frozen into a lattice inside a tungsten diselenide monolayer turn out to vibrate, and the light used to look at them comes back carrying those vibrations. That makes the ordered phase something an optical bench can measure.
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Einstein Probe's fourth X-ray-flash supernova was too faint to confirm on its own. A wide-field optical survey looking at the same sky made it a data point.
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A Physical Review Letters paper says early-universe plasma shuts off dark photon conversion, voiding cosmological limits from about 10^-15 to 10^-6 eV. Radio-band searches should re-scope.
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A Washington panel says electrotech widens the grid's attack surface while deepening reliance on Chinese components. One state's answer is an AI cybersecurity officer in every agency.
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