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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…
Instead of waiting for a new cable or fiber line on the property and a technician visiting your home, you can often set up the provider's gateway yourself and find a spot where it receives a good signal. Plan terms can…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…