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Electricity-driven nitrogen insertion enables sustainable heterocycle synthesis

Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed an electrochemical reaction manifold that promotes efficient nitrogen atom insertion into saturated carbocycles to access either functionalized quinolines or N-alkylated saturated N heterocycles, both of which are privileged …

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CO₂-driven method rapidly creates complex nanomaterials at room temperature

A team of researchers at UNIST, in collaboration with the University of Cologne and Purdue University, has unveiled a rapid, sustainable method to create complex nanomaterials containing up to 30 different metals in just one minute at room temperature.

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Exploring the connection between gene expression and aging

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered how molecular "traffic controllers" in cells influence aging and cellular senescence—a state where cells stop dividing but remain metabolically active. The study, published in Molecular Cell, sheds light on the process of transcribing DNA into RNA, a …

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Numerical reconstruction of Schr\"odinger equations with quadratic nonlinearities

arXiv:2512.16269v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We introduce a numerical framework for reconstructing the potential in two dimensional semilinear elliptic PDEs with power type nonlinearities from the nonlinear Dirichlet to Neumann map. By applying higher order linearization method, we compute the F…

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Stochastic Optimization with Random Search

arXiv:2510.15610v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: We revisit random search for stochastic optimization, where only noisy function evaluations are available. We show that the method works under weaker smoothness assumptions than previously considered, and that stronger assumptions enable imp…

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Non-Opioid “Pain Sponge” Therapy Stops Cartilage Loss and Eases Chronic Pain

A new stem cell–based therapy challenges traditional pain treatment by using pain-sensing neurons to reduce inflammation and protect joints. Newly released preclinical data describes an unconventional strategy for managing chronic pain while helping preserve joint tissue. The findings focus on SN101…

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Quantum computers turned out to be more useful than expected in 2025

Rapid advances in the kind of problems that quantum computers can tackle suggest that they are closer than ever to becoming useful tools of scientific discovery

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This Simple Chemistry Fix Could Revolutionize Flow Batteries

A new twist on bromine-based flow batteries could make large-scale energy storage cheaper, safer, and far longer-lasting. Bromine-based flow batteries store and release energy through a chemical reaction involving bromide ions and elemental bromine. This approach offers several advantages, including…

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Medical students explore ChatGPT's ability to support qualitative research

Newly published research from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine highlights student-led work in medical education and examines how artificial intelligence (AI) can assist with qualitative research.

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Learning Confidence Ellipsoids and Applications to Robust Subspace Recovery

arXiv:2512.16875v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study the problem of finding confidence ellipsoids for an arbitrary distribution in high dimensions. Given samples from a distribution $D$ and a confidence parameter $\alpha$, the goal is to find the smallest volume ellipsoid $E$ which has probabil…

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On the Universal Representation Property of Spiking Neural Networks

arXiv:2512.16872v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Inspired by biology, spiking neural networks (SNNs) process information via discrete spikes over time, offering an energy-efficient alternative to the classical computing paradigm and classical artificial neural networks (ANNs). In this work, we analy…

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Hierarchical Neural Surfaces for 3D Mesh Compression

arXiv:2512.15985v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) have been demonstrated to achieve state-of-the-art compression of a broad range of modalities such as images, videos, 3D surfaces, and audio. Most studies have focused on building neural counterparts of tradition…

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December has the longest days (wherever you live)

The longest days accompany the winter solstice. In December, a day - a whole cycle of day and night - is about half a minute longer than the average 24 hours.
The post December has the longest days (wherever you live) first appeared on EarthSky.

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New Immunotherapy Strategy Could Treat Many Types of Cancer

Researchers demonstrated that newly developed molecules designed to block an immune checkpoint can trigger a powerful immune response against tumors. Scientists at MIT and Stanford University have introduced a new method for activating the immune system to recognize and attack cancer cells, offering…

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Neural networks for dengue forecasting: a systematic review

arXiv:2106.12905v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Background: Early forecasts of dengue are an important tool for disease mitigation. Neural networks are powerful predictive models that have made contributions to many areas of public health. In this study, we reviewed the application of neural ne…

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Bridging Data and Physics: A Graph Neural Network-Based Hybrid Twin Framework

arXiv:2512.15767v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Simulating complex unsteady physical phenomena relies on detailed mathematical models, simulated for instance by using the Finite Element Method (FEM). However, these models often exhibit discrepancies from the reality due to unmodeled effects or simp…

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Learning-based Approximate Model Predictive Control for an Impact Wrench Tool

arXiv:2512.16624v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Learning-based model predictive control has emerged as a powerful approach for handling complex dynamics in mechatronic systems, enabling data-driven performance improvements while respecting safety constraints. However, when computational resources a…

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Finite-state transducers for substitution tilings

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We present a suite of algorithmic techniques for handling substitution tilings by treating a tile's hierarchy of supertiles in a purely combinatorial fashion using finite state automata. The resulting techniques are very convenient for practical generation of patches of tilings such as hats…

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He made beer that’s also a vaccine. Now controversy is brewing

An NIH scientist’s maverick approach reveals legal, ethical, moral, scientific and social challenges to developing potentially life-saving vaccines.

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Illumination Under the Ocean: Understanding Bioluminescence and Biofluorescence

Across the ocean, many different animals share a seemingly magical trait: they can light up and glow.
The post Illumination Under the Ocean: Understanding Bioluminescence and Biofluorescence appeared first on New England Aquarium.