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OpenAI announced on May 20 that one of its AI models disproved a conjecture posed by Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős in 1946, solving what’s known as the planar unit distance problem.

OpenAI announced on May 20 that one of its AI models disproved a conjecture posed by Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős in 1946, solving what’s known as the planar unit distance problem.

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Digital distractions are vying for people’s focus, but our underlying capacity to pay attention seems to be undiminished.

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nature.com Sleep linked to slower ageing: huge study pinpoints the right amount Ledford, Heidi 8–11 minutes

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Excuse the boring title but I didn’t want to editorialise. Actual headline should be:

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A team led by Takao Mori at Japan’s National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) published this work in Nature (vol. 652, pages 643–649, 2026). The paper introduces TEGNet, a neural network that predicts thermoelectric generator performance with greater than 99% accuracy while using only 0.01% of the compute time of commercial finite-element solvers.

A team led by Takao Mori at Japan’s National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) published this work in Nature (vol. 652, pages 643–649, 2026). The paper introduces TEGNet, a neural network that predicts thermoelectric generator performance with greater than 99% accuracy while using only 0.01% of the compute time of commercial finite-element solvers.

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They do develop tumors, which the paper discusses.

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The result “blows the lid off of this idea” that such beliefs are held by only a fringe population of individuals who are uninformed or ideologically driven, says David Bersoff, head of research at the Edelman Trust Institute. “This is not like a small problematic group.”

Jane Ying Wu, who took her own life, was cleared of wrongdoing by the US National Institutes of Health. Her family alleges that her employer destroyed her career.

When researchers in Uganda set up camera traps to monitor African leopards (*Panthera pardus pardus) and spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) in a national park last year, they had no idea that they would record so much more than just those animals. Several of the traps, placed outside a cave known to host Egyptian fruit bats (Rousettus aegyptiacus*), caught on video a multitude of creatures feasting on the winged mammals. The bats are known carriers of Marburg virus, which can transfer into humans and cause a fatal haemorrhagic fever, so the footage offers real-time insight into how disease can spread.

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This is a long dense article, I would hesitate to post such an article without an accompanying post about it in a science communication context but this is an article about the basic nutrient cycles in soil and the introduction is actually a wonderful thorough description of what the important players are in soil nutrient dynamics in a wholistic inclusive way.

"In 2006, Shinya Yamanaka, a stem-cell biologist then at Kyoto University in Japan, and his colleague discovered that four proteins known as transcription factors — later dubbed Yamanaka factors — could transform an adult cell into an induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell that is capable of taking on new identities."

Physicists have observed “holes” in light, known as optical vortices, moving faster than the light itself. This phenomenon does not break relativity as the vortices carry no mass, energy, or information. The achievement is a result of using electron microscopy to capture the motion of optical vortices in a two-dimensional material called hexagonal boron nitride.

Physicists have observed “holes” in light, known as optical vortices, moving faster than the light itself. This phenomenon does not break relativity as the vortices carry no mass, energy, or information. The achievement is a result of using electron microscopy to capture the motion of optical vortices in a two-dimensional material called hexagonal boron nitride.

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