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Deterministic responses of biodiversity to climate change through exotic species invasions
Abstract Biodiversity is increasingly threatened by local extinction under global climate change. This may reflect direct effects of climate on poorly adapted native species or increased impacts of exotic species in these conditions, but their relative importance is poorly understood. By examining global occurrence records of 142 plant species found in the Yangtze River Valley,…
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The UK’s $1-billion bet to create technologies that change the world
After a decade building quantum-computing hardware, Jacques Carolan decided he needed a change. “I wanted to work on technologies that were more directly related to human health,” he says. So in 2021, he pivoted to neuroscience with the aim of building optical technologies to understand the brain. Last year, another opportunity turned Carolan’s head. The…
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Why AI might be a game-changer for Africa
To an outside observer, Olubayo Adekanmbi’s career in telecommunications epitomized success. At Airtel and MTN Group, two of the largest such firms in Africa, he applied artificial intelligence (AI) tools to help understand the consumer behaviour of 200 million mobile users in 20 countries, and designed ways of driving their consumption of products. He won…
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Get Tomorrow’s Science And Tech News Today – Introducing The Prototype Newsletter
Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Five years before OpenAI rolled out ChatGPT, Google published a paper called “Attention Is All You Need” that laid out the fundamental transformer architecture underlying today’s AI boom. Five years before Moderna administered its first Covid mRNA vaccine, it dosed its first mRNA vaccine to a…
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“Third state” of existence beyond life and death confirmed by study
In science fiction movies like Frankenstein and Re-Animator, human bodies are revived, existing in a strange state between life and death. While this may seem like pure fantasy, a recent study suggests that a “third state” of existence might actually be present in modern biology. According to the researchers, this third state occurs when the…
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How These 3 Incredible Animals Take ‘Slow Living’ To Another Level
There are some species that have persevered through mass extinctions, climate shifts and the relentless pressures of evolution. Others, with their centuries-long lifespans, have outlasted predators, endured environmental shifts and witnessed more of Earth’s history than humans could ever experience. Such species’ amazingly long lifespans could, interestingly, mean one thing—they probably don’t see time as…
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Scientists discover a mysterious ‘third state’ beyond life and death in new study
Since time immemorial, humanity has always pondered the subject of life and death. While the concept of life beyond death remains a moot point, with no substantial proof, in general life and death are considered antithetical. Death is viewed as the complete cessation of life. However, a new study now suggests that life and death…
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Ultra-precise particle measurement thrills physicists: ‘The standard model is not dead’
Physicists have nailed a fiendishly difficult measurement — the mass of the fundamental particle the W boson. The result, from the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), is in line with the predictions of the standard model, and pours cold water on an anomaly in the W boson mass that surfaced in 2022.…
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Unearthing ‘hidden’ science would help to tackle the world’s biggest problems
Institutional filing cabinets hoard tens of thousands of evaluation studies.Credit: HUM Images/Universal Images Group/Getty On 22 and 23 September, world leaders will meet in New York City at an unusual Summit of the Future. Devised by United Nations secretary-general António Guterres, the meeting aims to bolster global efforts to build a better world. Guterres is…
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Save $79 on Celestron Nature DX 12×56 binoculars at Amazon
Suppose you’ve outgrown your beginner pair of binoculars and want to upgrade to a pair with better optics, wider objectives and stronger magnification. In that case, we think the Celestron Nature DX 12×56 are a perfect fit that won’t break the bank. And the good news is you can pick them up for less than…