Lorenzo Dow Turner’s field recordings from Louisiana, 1935

This article presents the field recordings made by pioneering linguist Lorenzo Dow Turner in Louisiana in 1935. Until now, these materials have remained unanalyzed, undescribed, and almost unknown. Th...

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Machine-learning modelling of regional landslide susceptibility in eThekwini, South Africa - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Machine-learning modelling of regional landslide susceptibility in eThekwini, South Africa

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Another Time for Another Law: Black Women and the Ancestral Grounding of Social Theory - International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique

This article proposes that the classics of social theory be approached as ancestors rather than founding fathers, and it draws out the consequences of this shift for the relationship between social th...

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Motile vesicles (MoVes) are a cancer cell migration-associated extracellular vesicle population - Nature Cell Biology

Tsering et al. describe a class of extracellular vesicles called motile vesicles (MoVes) that is produced by migrating cancer cells, contains genomic DNA and includes organelles that can be transferre...

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Nonviolent protest and ideological change in education: a public choice approach - Public Choice

This paper applies a public choice framework to examine how successful nonviolent protest campaigns are associated with changes in the ideological orientation of state education systems. We conceptual...

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Ultrarapid decision-making in an avian brain

Perceptual decision-making is well studied in mammals, but its operation in other vertebrates remains unclear. We show that carrion crows (Corvus corone) make deliberate decisions in a classic visual ...

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The rebirth of the author: writing critical social theory in the time of generative AI - Theory and Society

Sociologists face the pressing question of how large language model-based technologies can contribute to social theorising. Several social scientists have called for a greater integration of generativ...

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“Unfinished intentions”: a photovoice study of community resilience and risk in historically disinvested urban neighborhoods - BMC Public Health

Background Despite the increasing complexity of challenges facing historically disinvested urban neighborhoods, few studies have employed the photovoice methodology to examine sources of community res...

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An interpretable model for efficient and robust runoff forecasting via causal-linear attention and adaptive KAN decoding - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - An interpretable model for efficient and robust runoff forecasting via causal-linear attention and adaptive KAN decoding

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Investing in integrity | Royal Society

Investing in integrity: What price do journals pay to uphold research integrity in the publishing ecosystem?

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Dog-Whistle-Philosophie: Martin Heideggers Gelassenheit-Rede (1955) als verschlüsselter antisemitischer Propagandatext

Martin Heideggers Gelassenheit-Rede, gehalten am 30. Oktober 1955 in Meßkirch und 1959 im Druck erschienen, gilt in der Forschung als unpolitischer Beitrag zur Technikphilosophie der Nachkriegszeit. D...

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Gravity and quantum information linked through a derivation of Einstein's equations

Recent research shows that gravity and quantum information are deeply connected and that the shape of spacetime can be traced back to the way information is stored in quantum fields.

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Preschool boys favor bigger groups while adults' choices hint at political attitudes

Two cartoon characters appear on a screen. One belongs to a group of three, and the other to a group of two. Which character would you rather play with?

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How companies drift into unethical behavior

Unethical behavior inside organizations is often less sudden than companies assume. New research from ESMT Berlin shows how employees can collectively drift into misconduct as groups gradually reshape...

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Meet Apollo, the First AI That Reads Ancient Greek | Arkeonews

Museums and libraries around the world hold hundreds of thousands of ancient inscriptions and more than a million papyrus...

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Japanese Researchers Develop AI to Find and Count Seafloor Plastic Waste | Ukraine news - #Mezha

Japanese researchers have developed an AI system that identifies and counts visible plastic debris in deep-sea footage, cutting review time by more than half.

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The promise and peril of using visual AI to study cities

In the book “How AI Sees the City,” MIT researchers examine implications of using visual AI to study urban life. Across cities, more images means more data, more insight — and more concerns about priv...

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Self-Organizing Agent Teams Learn to Reason Together

Collective intelligence depends not only on what team members know, but also on how they organize their work. When the structure of a solution is unknown, useful roles and divisions of labor cannot be...

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Parallel cut research time and cost in half with GPT‑6 Astra

GPT‑6 Astra allowed Parallel’s agents to research and synthesize labor-market data in half the time and at half the cost vs. prior models.

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Self-driving lab speeds up materials development

The new Energy Materials Acceleration Platform (E-MAP) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) enables a systematic examination, evaluation, and targeted refining of thousands of material varia...

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Aerobatic maneuvers in insect-scale flapping-wing aerial robots via deep-learned robust tube model predictive control

Biomimetic deep-learned model predictive control enables insect-like aerobatics and flight robustness in a 750-mg robot.

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Farmers’ adaptation and mitigation choices under climate change: evidence from a mixed-methods survey in the Western Himalayas - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Farmers’ adaptation and mitigation choices under climate change: evidence from a mixed-methods survey in the Western Himalayas

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Exploring the potential of large language models for public participation in urban redevelopment planning - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Exploring the potential of large language models for public participation in urban redevelopment planning

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Intercontinental evidence of the iconic genus Diplodocus Marsh, 1878 (Dinosauria, Sauropoda)

The sauropod Diplodocus is one of the most iconic dinosaurs, with fossils traditionally known from the Morrison Formation (U.S.A.; Kimmeridgian–Tithonian). Here, we describe a new diplodocid specim...

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Reimagining research papers as interactive and reliable AI agents - Nature

Paper2Agent converts research papers into interactive artificial intelligence agents by turning manuscripts, code and data into model context protocol-based tool-invoking systems that reproduce origin...

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Transitioning Into Informal Care During Working Age: Longitudinal Evidence on the Work–Family Interface Among Employees in Germany - Journal of Family and Economic Issues

Previous research has examined the impact of informal caregiving on labour market participation and health, but findings remain inconclusive, often due to endogeneity problems. This study aims to adva...

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To read 2,000-year-old burned scrolls, scientists burn their own - Berkeley News

Charred papyrus scrolls from a library inundated by volcanic ash in 79 C.E. are largely unreadable. UC Berkeley scientists teamed up to create and burn their own scrolls to test a new way to decipher ...

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