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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 26-May-2026 16:15 ET (26-May-2026 20:15 GMT/UTC)
What a powerful El Niño could mean for Appalachia
East Tennessee State UniversityWhat could a powerful El Niño mean for Southern Appalachia?
University of Oklahoma data scientist unveils free software for researching human-AI interactions
University of OklahomaMeet Dr. Claw: The open-source AI assistant revolutionizing the research workflow
Lehigh UniversityLehigh University researchers have built the first “AI for Science” software tool designed to support the entire project workflow for research scientists. Dr. Claw is an open-source, full-stack AI research assistant that helps users refine ideas, conduct literature reviews, run experiments, draft and review papers, write grant proposals, and build presentations. It eliminates the need to toggle between specialized AI tools—such as deep research agents for source evaluation or code generators for data analysis—by unifying these capabilities within a single interface.
AI reads cuneiform: A milestone for Ancient Near Eastern Studies
University of WürzburgThe new AI tool “Palaeographicum” is revolutionizing research into the cultures of the Ancient Near East: It identifies individual variations of cuneiform signs—a huge step forward for academia.
From Helicobacter pylori to the AMR crisis: an interview with Microbiology in Health and Disease Lead Editor Liang Wang at the Journal of Applied Microbiology
Applied Microbiology InternationalWhy 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