Cassius Morrison's team used CT scans of a 1924 museum braincase to name Invictibellatrix amberina, a possible first megaraptoran for Europe. It rests on one partial skull, so the European first depends on how that skull is classified.
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Lopsided ordinary supernovas can account for halo stars once credited to hypernovas, UCL models find
UCL modellers say uneven, non-spherical ejection from ordinary supernovas can explain halo stars once attributed to explosions 10 times more powerful. The work tests a small set of stars, so it weakens the case for hypernovas without ruling them out.
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told Bloomberg on Oct. 14 that he would cut off a customer building unsafe AI, but only after a conversation with them. He called it a hypothetical and named no customer, so the answer's weight comes from Nvidia's roughly 90% of training chips, per Cryptobriefing.
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EPFL releases a carbon calculator that breaks a research lab's emissions out by source
EPFL released a CO2 Calculator in late September for labs that need three to 10 times more power than offices, per UCL and Green Lab. Labs can set trips, equipment and power use against one another before choosing where to cut.
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Letters from dealer Ibrahim Gejou trace Kish tablets to Iraqi diggers before the French arrived
Letters from dealer Ibrahim Elias Gejou show Kish tablets from Iraqi digs on offer to the British Museum in 1909, a UCL study reports. The date sits three years before the French dig of 1912, so the letters reach about 9% of a 32-year gap in official digging.
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Lancet Commission ranks malicious AI beside nuclear war as a threat that could end humanity
Lancet Commission experts rank malicious AI use, including bioweapons, alongside nuclear war as the threats that could end humanity by 2100. Their report says each of its 17 risks has a realistic route to action, so AI misuse reaches policymakers as a problem with a solution.
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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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UK distress stayed above pre-2016 levels after five national shocks, according to UCL panel data
UCL researchers tracking 87,857 people over 2009-2024 found distress jumped after the Brexit vote and first lockdown, then stayed above pre-2016 levels. Scores had been rising since 2009, so the study is firmer on those jumps than on what kept distress high.
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Paul Burke's team used CT scans to name Herugavialis cairensis, a new gavial, from Egyptian fossils filed as Tomistoma since the 1920s. The reread adds a species to the Mediterranean's fossil crocodile record, which the authors tie to past changes in climate and sea level.
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UCL models of lopsided supernova debris reassign four stars once credited to hypernovae
UCL astronomers modeling lopsided supernova debris find that four peculiar stars once attributed to hypernovae are better explained without them. The verdict is a statistical preference across four stars, and it depends on how poorly supernova debris mixes, a question the authors say is still open.
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UCL preprint maps 2-micrometre channels that carried tau and amyloid toward the mouse brain surface
UCL researchers report a mesh of 2-micrometre channels that carried labelled tau and amyloid beta toward the brain surface in mice, in an unreviewed preprint. They are a candidate exit for the proteins that build up in Alzheimer's, so far untested in a living human brain.
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Indonesia's fires quadruple in area as a record El Niño takes hold
Indonesia's fires grew roughly fourfold after June as the strongest El Niño on record began forming, with emissions on track to match 2015. The event is still strengthening on 1.4C of warming, and the year's outlook leans on a short record of past El Niños.
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Lopsided supernova debris can reproduce the halo-star chemistry once credited to hypernovas
Researchers who let supernova debris spread unevenly matched the element ratios of odd Milky Way halo stars as well as or better than a hypernova model did. That undercuts the chemical case for hypernovas, though MIT's Anna Frebel says they remain plausible.
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Tanzanian mouse and rainfall records predict the timing of Nigeria's Lassa fever peaks
Natural History Museum and Oxford researchers matched the timing of more than 6,000 Nigerian Lassa cases using rainfall and nearly 30 years of rodent data. Because the model runs on weather and rodent ecology, health authorities could use it to anticipate when the risk of spillover to people climbs each season.
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Bionic Reading shifts where 90 readers first look while leaving their reading speed unchanged
UCL researchers tracked 90 skilled adult readers and found Bionic Reading's bolded word starts moved their eyes but did not make them read faster. That leaves the speed claim unsupported for fluent adults, while readers with dyslexia and long-term use fell outside the test.
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Psychiatrists weigh screening psychosis patients for antibodies that attack the brain
Cambridge psychiatrist Peter Jones saw a patient's hallucinations resist antipsychotics and then fade after plasma exchange for autoimmune encephalitis. The case supports antibody tests in some psychosis, but the evidence for wider screening is still one case and a 12-patient series.
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Austria's Ancient Greek model proposes missing words for scholars to choose between
The Austrian Academy of Science built Apollo with Mistral and Sail Reply on roughly 600 million words of historical Greek, and made it free to academics through a chatbot. A scholar still picks the word that goes into the record.
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Silencing mouse V1 for 150 milliseconds shows which signals its neighbour holds on to
Recordings from 422 neurons in two mouse visual areas, and a network model fitted to them, indicate that reciprocal loops sustain activity the two areas share and let mismatched activity decay within a fraction of a second.
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One drawn polymer fiber records and doses at several depths of a mouse brain
DTU's mAxialtrode packs a light-guiding core and eight liquid channels into a fiber thinner than half a millimetre. It worked in mice, and its developers say routine clinical use needs much more testing and regulatory approval.
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Isotope bonds in two fossil teeth measure T. rex's body temperature at 36 C
The number comes from carbon-oxygen bonds in two teeth of a museum's best tyrannosaur, released for sampling only after UCLA spent a decade shrinking how much enamel the method destroys. Eagle expected roughly that value.
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