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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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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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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AI co-scientists are revolutionizing how research is done

The artificial-intelligence system that she had prompted is designed to produce innovative scientific hypotheses. But, unlike a typical chatbot, this AI tool — called Co-Scientist — doesn’t simply generate an answer in a…

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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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Losing your way of life to climate change matters — and we need a way to measure it

The first time I began to understand climate loss as a mental-health issue was not while reading a report or attending a summit. It was while listening to people describe what they feared losing. While working with…

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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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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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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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