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Imperial's Petter Brodin reports respiratory infections in 23% of babies on supplemented formula and 40% on plain formula. Nestlé funded the trial. Outside immunologist Daniel Davis cautions that a stronger immune response might raise allergy risk.
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NVIDIA has committed $250 million of compute over five years to agentic-safety research at Oxford, UCL and Imperial College London. The access is valued at $50 million a year, and the sources do not say at what rate, on which hardware or in what split.
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Imperial College London researchers say they got lettuce and tobacco plants to make myoglobin for the first time. Because myoglobin comes from animal tissue, it could give plant-based meat a smell closer to red meat than the soy leghemoglobin Impossible Foods uses.
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XFG, the covid lineage behind about 60 per cent of sequenced cases worldwide, escapes antibodies better than earlier variants in lab tests. No rise in severity has been reported so far, and immunity from past infections and vaccines appears to protect most people from serious illness.
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Max Planck, UCL and Imperial College chemists used light to make single hydrogen atoms that reduce organic molecules without metals. The mild route puts a species long considered too reactive to handle within reach of synthetic chemists, if yields and substrate range support the team's claim.
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Imperial College London researchers measuring oxygen live found hematite converts about 80% of charge to oxygen only once surface charge builds. At lower currents much of it feeds competing surface reactions, so current alone overstates the oxygen.
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MintNeuro raised $5 million in a round led by Odyssey Ventures to move its neural-interface chips from working silicon into commercial supply. The money pays to find out whether device makers beyond its first supply customer will design products around the same parts.
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The World Weather Attribution analysis of the August 26 collapse that killed more than 1,300 people finds thinning glaciers and thawing permafrost weakened the slope over decades, without saying warming caused the failure.
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Researchers at King's College London and Imperial College London pooled 423 studies and found most of 23 ecosystem benefits rise steadily with diversity. Species appear to stand in for one another less than ecologists assumed, so even small losses tend to cut what ecosystems provide.
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NTU scientists built a compound that starves Mycobacterium abscessus of energy; paired with the drug clofazimine it cut the microbe a hundredfold in four days. Two other teams mapped the same bacterium's virus defenses and a related pathogen's toxin-firing weapon.
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World Weather Attribution scientists found human influence has made annual temperatures about 1.9C warmer near the site of Nepal's 26 August avalanche. A Canterbury researcher on the team says the Southern Alps share many of the same conditions, though he expects any such event there to be much smaller.
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Petter Brodin's team found 39% of infants with a strong first-week immune 'seeding' reaction had eczema or food allergy by age 1, against 12% of the rest. The data, from nearly 600 Swedish babies, tie the risk to gut bacteria and feeding, and would put any prevention window within days of birth if the link proves causal.
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CMS combined 138 fb-1 of 2016-2018 collision data and measured a Higgs signal strength of 1.01 +/- 0.05, against a Standard Model value of 1. Any new physics that alters the Higgs rate now has room mainly near or below that 5 percent precision.
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OpenAI's louder announcement of a nine-member independent math advisory group caused widespread confusion over whether the company had appointed it. Its first job is helping release scores more results from an unreleased OpenAI model, a wave researchers already dread.
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Anthropic published a 13-million-line Lean 4 proof of Fermat's Last Theorem that dozens of Claude agents wrote in 11 days. For teams weighing agents on correctness-critical code, the kernel checks every step, so what humans still review is the statement being proved.
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Operation Blue Skies will spend 30 months testing whether Google's contrail predictions are good enough for NATS controllers to shift aircraft 2,000ft over the North Atlantic.
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Anthropic's own account has dozens of agents writing 13 million machine-checked lines in 11 days, about 7% of them dead ends, and only after a Columbia team built the shared to-do list that stopped them duplicating work.
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Kevin Buzzard holds a five-year grant to do the same job by hand. He compiled Anthropic's 13 million lines himself and says the result teaches mathematicians nothing and anyone running agent fleets quite a lot.
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Noxtua's Series C runs past 100 million euros and gives C.H.BECK a qualified majority, while five earlier backers, among them CMS, Dentons and Global Brain Corporation, leave a company built on publishers' data.
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Researchers at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences and Imperial College London found thicker heart walls and smaller chambers alongside that risk. The study is observational, so it cannot show that lowering the marker lowers the risk.
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