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Here's Why The Dire Wolf Really Wasn't Brought Back From Extinction, Scientists Argue
When is a de-extinction not a de-extinction? Some headline-grabbing methods for bringing extinct species back to life fall short of such grand claims, according to a new argument published in Biology Letters. The case is put forward by marine biologist Andrew Davinack and biochemist Charlotte Daniels from Wheaton College Massachusetts, with much of their attention focused on the so-called 'de-extinction' of the dire wolf by biotech company Colossal Biosciences in 2025.
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Where AI can aid chemistry research and where reliability falls short
Researchers from the Skoltech AI Center, together with colleagues from the Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, ITMO University and other institutions, have published a paper in Chemical Society Reviews that examines where AI produces measurable value in a chemical research workflow, how to assess its reliability and why a strong benchmark result does not necessarily translate into laboratory performance.
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How ripples in space-time can reveal new exoplanets
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Nvidia's value plummets $430bn in two days, as CEO urged to quit
Nvidia has seen a staggering drop in its market value, losing around $430 billion in just two days. This sharp decline comes amid concerns about the company's future performance and leadership. Investors are increasingly questioning the effectiveness of CEO Jensen Huang, with some calling for his resignation. The sudden loss in value has raised alarms across the tech sector, as Nvidia has been a key player in the AI and gaming markets. Analysts are now watching closely to see how the company will respond to this crisis and whether it can regain investor confidence in the coming weeks.
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New study shows COVID value-added tax cut significantly boosted private consumption
In summer 2020, the German federal government lowered value-added tax from 19% to 16% for half a year as part of its COVID economic stimulus package. A new study, recently published in the journal Review of Economic Studies, uses survey data, data on retail purchases and an economic model to show the extent to which this measure influenced private consumption. The study found that lower-wealth households, as well as younger and middle-aged households, particularly benefited, regardless of their level of financial literacy.
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Gravity May Protect The Universe From Time Travel Paradoxes, But There's a Catch
We all know the rules. If, for whatever reason, by whatever means, you travel back in time, you absolutely must not find and kill your own grandfather before he has had a chance to procreate. Doing so would break the Universe – because if your grandfather never has offspring, you would not be born and could not travel back in time to kill him. Quite how the Universe would resolve this conundrum is unclear. Maybe the laws of physics would simply prevent it from happening in the first place. Stephen Hawking said so. But today, we have good news.
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Cuboid camper doubles into proper tiny home & front porch of the wild
The X8 triple-expander wasn't the only all-new telescopic camper French innovator Beauer introduced this year. In its big lineup reshuffle, it also fully reshaped the future of its six-sleeper caravan. The all-new X6 breaks out of the curvaceous mold the brand has used exclusively for its trailers in the past, becoming a smoothed-corner cuboid built to maximize internal space. And it might just be the nicest overall Beauer design yet. Category: Camping Trailers, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors Tags: Caravan, Beauer, dusseldorf-caravan-salon-2026, trailers, Trailer, Camping, Outdoors and Camping
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The 'VisionQuest' Finale Seems To Open The Door To Young Avengers — But Will It Happen?
Spoilers ahead for the VisionQuest Series finale, “Forever.” Among the many mysteries lurking in the margins of VisionQuest, there was one particularly burning question: when would Thomas Shepherd, aka Tommy Maximoff (Ruaridh Mollica), finally reunite with his brother Billy Kaplan (Joe Locke)? Though the twins were little more than constructs of their mother Wanda’s (Elizabeth Olsen) magic when we met them in WandaVision, Agatha All Along revealed that their souls had survived the destruction of Westview and found new host bodies.
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Electric comb could give thinning hair a chance to bounce back
A comb is an optimistic tool to buy when your hairline is retreating. So researchers in China gave the humble grooming implement a more useful job than rearranging the stragglers by encouraging regrowth among the remaining follicles with a series of electrical pulses and genetic treatments. Category: Medical Devices, Medical Innovations, Body and Mind
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A new tool makes biodiversity conservation planning more efficient and reproducible
ZonationR is a new tool that simplifies the use of Zonation to identify priority areas for biodiversity conservation. It brings all stages of the conservation planning analysis together in one automated and reproducible workflow and helps users systematically explore and compare alternative conservation scenarios.