More Australians will be dying than being born in 40 years as major report predicts future of lower growth
The country's seventh IGR also outlines how Australia is on the brink of a new and uncertain age of artificial intelligence that will shape the economy and society over the coming four decades. Jim Chalmers, in a speech…
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Chinese memory-maker CXMT claims DRAM production breakthrough
The company on Sunday posted news that it has started mass production of chips made with a fifth-generation process that essentially doubles memory density, meaning it can cut twice the number of dies for memory chips…
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Lanterns episode 6 introduces a character with major comic book ties to Hal Jordan — and it's someone we first met in Ryan Reynolds' disastrous 2011 Green Lantern movie
Lanterns episode 6 has made its debut on HBO Max — and while it didn't answer every big question I had heading into Lanterns ' sixth chapter, it does include a cameo from someone who's an incredibly important part of the…
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One mobile number, two phones: What is iPhone handoff and which carriers support it?
If you use two iPhones, you no longer need to run separate carrier accounts for each of them, thanks to a new iOS 27 feature: iPhone Handoff. Mentioned briefly at WWDC and in more detail during Apple's Surprise and Shine…
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'Epigenetic' editing is here: gene-tagging technique banishes hepatitis B virus
Currently available drugs often fail to eradicate the virus from the body. Gene-editing therapies — which make cuts to the DNA strands — have been explored but for hepatitis B, they can increase cancer risks. Researchers…
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Chemist-aligned retrosynthesis by ensembling diverse inductive bias models
In this work, we analyze the failure modes of current AI models and propose RetroChimera: a frontier retrosynthesis model, built upon two newly developed components with complementary inductive biases, integrated via a…
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How do I change labs gracefully during my PhD?
Our principal investigator (PI), who is also my adviser, is something of a star in their field, so they’re rarely around to provide me with in-depth mentoring. I’ve had to lean heavily on staff scientists and postdocs in…
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China punishes prominent academics exposed by research sleuth
The National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) found violations ranging from data fabrication to data tampering in four papers, according to an announcement from the agency on 28 August. The academics and their…
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Edible batteries power medical devices in the body
And after the battery has been safely digested, its broken-down ingredients can be absorbed by the body. The tiny power source has so far been tested in pigs, but the hope is that one day it could provide electricity for…
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Six principles for supporting academic freedom in universities
The conditions that make knowledge trustworthy, such as independent peer review, openness about methods and data and the ability to correct earlier work, are changing in ways that reach the core of what a university is…
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