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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 4-Jun-2026 13:16 ET (4-Jun-2026 17:16 GMT/UTC)
Why students ignore feedback – and the free tool helping them to use it constructively
University of SurreyETRI breaks the “memory wall” in large-scale AI training
National Research Council of Science & TechnologySouth Korean researchers have successfully developed a core technology that can fundamentally resolve “memory shortages,” a chronic bottleneck in large-scale artificial intelligence (AI) training. This technology is a next-generation memory expansion technology based on Ethernet, which is expected to drive infrastructural innovation across the entire AI and big data industries in the future. Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) announced that it has developed “OmniXtend,” a new memory technology that overcomes GPU memory capacity limits and data movement overheads, which are regarded as the biggest problems in large-scale AI training.
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- Ministry of Science and ICT
Proliferation of low-cost infrasound sensor used for monitoring volcanoes, earthquakes, fires, and mudflows
Boise State UniversityIndian and Tibetan wolves found to have important, ancient genetics
Rice UniversityLauren Hennelly and team discovered that the DNA of wolves in southern regions of Asia contained an unexpectedly large amount of unique genetic variation, making them an important reservoir of global wolf genetic diversity. This work, published in Communications Biology, establishes southern Asia as a hotbed for grey wolf diversity –— an evolutionarily important location that contains information about wolves’ past and hope for their future.
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- Communications Biology
Q&A: The new Ebola outbreak
University of California - RiversideHelping more patients through a new production process for specific PET Scan tracers
Universitair Medisch Centrum GroningenFrom bottleneck to breakthrough: Student engineers unlock fully autonomous electroporation at UCLA
California NanoSystems InstituteUCLA students developed new software and hardware tools that streamline a traditionally time-consuming step in synthetic biology research - helping scientists deliver genetic material into cells more quickly, efficiently, and with far less manual work. This innovation will help accelerate research workflows for scientists in both academia and industry, while also expanding the potential for more autonomous biotech labs in the future.
New research offers practical biosecurity tools to limit poultry disease spread
Texas A&M AgriLife CommunicationsNew research from a Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences doctoral graduate could help producers better protect poultry flocks from disease outbreaks while reducing costs.
Lindsey Wythe’26, Ph.D., who recently defended her doctoral thesis in the Texas A&M Department of Poultry Science, published three studies this year examining how biosecurity practices perform under real-world farm conditions. The work was conducted in the laboratory of Morgan Farnell, Ph.D., professor, associate department head and Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service program leader for avian microbiology and immunology.
Why is universal healthcare so elusive in the Philippines?
Ateneo de Manila UniversityFor millions of Filipinos, healthcare is not an abstract system; it’s a daily risk, a financial burden—and, far too often, an unanswered question.