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University of Washington researchers put the dust in Mars's north polar surface ice near 3% by mass, down from earlier estimates as high as 25%. Cleaner ice is brighter and should vaporize more slowly, so the figure bears on Mars climate models.
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UW and Meta researchers report 59.4% on BrowseComp-Plus for a model that edits its own context, against 53.4% for Codex-style summarisation. The edited file is thrown away when the task ends, so memory that lasts across tasks is still the builder's job.
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University of Washington researchers say NASA's SWOT satellite can measure water levels on more than 85% of 800,000 km of Asian irrigation canals. The mission was never designed for canals, so the map points to monitoring from hardware already in orbit, with its scores checked against US canal measurements.
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Qustodio says Australian teens were back online at pre-ban levels within months of the under-16 social media ban, largely via false ages and VPNs. Meta's teen limits, New York City's classroom AI ban and any workplace AI rule written for company devices face the same test.
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Georgetown and University of Washington researchers found misleading AI summaries cut recall of a crash video's key details from 83.6% to 44.8%. Knowing the text came from AI did not protect readers who had watched the event themselves.
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A University of Washington team ran roughly 15,000 streams through four clump-free Milky Way analogues for five billion years and got the gaps and kinks usually read as subhalo signals. The host galaxy is now a control.
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Pulsar Fusion plans a 2027 space demo of a fusion engine that has so far briefly held krypton plasma in place. Helicity Space's CEO says space travel will change within a decade, though the only engine test described so far made plasma and reported no fusion.
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A PLOS Climate study subtracts the top producers' emissions through 2024 from two runs of the FaIR model and finds their contribution to global temperature is about the same whether future emissions fall or keep climbing.
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A former Google XR researcher told Gizmodo the stigma on smart glasses traces back to the camera they were built around. Bars and courts are already acting on that, and Meta's answer so far is a small indicator light.
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Priscilla Martinez's team pulled the tooth from a marine deposit at El Morro in northern Chile. Freshwater fish, gavials and palm phytoliths from the same beds carry more of the argument than the tooth does.
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The Allen Institute, the University of Washington and Fred Hutchinson are building models and databases of designed proteins. David Baker told WIRED the field usually sees that something works before it knows why.
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In Stem Cell Reports, a team led by Benjamin Freedman reports that stem-cell-derived kidney organoids, which contain no immune cells and no blood vessels, shed podocytes in high-glucose media, and that blocking MIF or TNF-alpha protected them. The pattern resembles what patient biopsies show.
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A University of Washington and Fred Hutch autopsy programme sequenced tumours from 20 people who died of bladder cancer to reconstruct how the disease spread. Plasmacytoid tumours turned out to limit the genomic damage chemotherapy leaves behind.
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A University of Washington test paired 554 real CVs with race- and gender-associated names against more than 500 job listings, and the models preferred white-associated names 85% of the time and female-associated names about 11%.
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A Science paper measured genome folding and gene activity in the same single cells from postmortem prefrontal cortex, and its authors place chromatin architecture alongside amyloid and tau in the disease's molecular pathology.
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A team in Japan, Finland, Italy and the United States mapped ordered hydration shells above a peptide assembly at subnanometer resolution, and argues that water belongs in the definition of the protein.
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A University of Washington team identified 213 individual coyotes from 842 droppings, giving a city that has run on sighting reports an actual density figure -- a snapshot rather than the trend line that management questions need.
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A study in Earth's Future overlaid American landslide susceptibility with local socioeconomics for the first time. Where the maps are reddest, the households underneath them have the least money to engineer a slope or leave it.
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A Northwestern review of Chicago emergency and urgent care visits above 92.6 degrees Fahrenheit found more than a dozen diagnostic categories rising, in units no heat plan staffs.
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A theoretical paper assumes error-free, near-free language models and still finds that in two of three deployment scenarios, researchers respond by doing more work with less care.
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