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National University of Singapore is a leading public research university, with faculties spanning engineering, architecture, policy studies, and the sciences.
Six coding agents pass 73.6% to 91.3% of LSCBench tasks, but the best writes working, secure code on only 25.1%, NUS and Alibaba researchers found. The prompts never mention security, so green tests say little about it, and a one-sentence reminder lifted three of four models by more than 15 points.
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NUS-led researchers doped iron into nonmagnetic PtSe2 and used a gate voltage to tune its six-layer Neel temperature from about 25 K to 55 K. Order strengthens as carrier concentration falls, so a gate gives direct control in an air-stable 2D film.
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National University of Singapore physicists report in Nature a lutetium clock that measures a second about four times more accurately than any before it. It still fills a laboratory, so field uses such as monitoring magma underground wait on a transportable version.
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Researchers at NTU, NUS and CMU found seven models judged useless search results correctly 97% to 100% of the time yet kept searching anyway. For operators, a spending cap holds only when the runtime enforces it by taking the tools away.
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Cornell researchers found that winding MD&A narratives from loss-making firms tracked later earnings upturns across more than 13,000 SEC filings. The link is a correlation whose value goes mainly to investors with the time and tools to process a narrative that keeps circling back.
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Nikon is re-reviewing its Small World in Motion winner after scientists said the microscope video shows structures that do not occur in biology. Its ruling on whether neural-network coloring counts as banned generative AI rests on documents the entrant supplied after he won.
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Murray Barrett's group at Singapore's Centre for Quantum Technologies spent more than a decade on an element no other timekeeping lab uses, and now reports one part in 10^19 for a single lutetium ion clock. A redefinition of the second is expected in or after 2030.
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Physicists including Singapore's Murray Barrett report in Nature a lutetium-176 clock accurate to the 19th digit, 41% better than the prior record. The team pitches lutetium as cesium's successor in defining the second, where its tolerance of heat may count as much as the record.
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Dyson spent six years on a toothbrush whose camera finds the gaps between your teeth and squirts them, and the first outside reaction asks the question every premium sensor upgrade has to answer: who this is for.
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The US Trade and Development Agency agreed on Sept. 14 to fund a feasibility study for a trans-Pacific cable routed clear of the South China Sea. National Telecom in Bangkok has to assemble the consortium that pays for it.
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Warming a metal's electrons without warming its atoms is hard to arrange. A team at the National University of Singapore managed it in twisted bilayer graphene with 0.14-terahertz light, then read the resistance.
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Screening the Coulomb interaction killed superconductivity in magic-angle graphene outright, which is strong evidence that the electrons do the pairing. It killed the correlated insulators too, narrowing the mechanism debate but not settling it.
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The SG Child Support Package totals almost S$70,000 by age 17. In steady state that is roughly S$2.1 billion a year, about ten times the public AI research line. The researchers behind it doubt cash moves family size.
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Three bioethicists writing in Nature say sleep enhancement could make rest an auditable obligation. A Dutch regulator already found that employees cannot freely consent to sleep tracking.
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A team at the National University of Singapore primed cells on soft or stiff gels, then made them squeeze through microchannels. The soft-primed ones were over 60% faster days later.
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A National University of Singapore team grinds fibre and cured epoxy together, binds it with cellulose and freeze-dries the result. The scale-up problem is now drying, not chemistry.
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An NUS and Tsinghua team says official US flood records may omit about 11 million residents and 4.1 million buildings. Insurers and planners are budgeting against that gap.
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