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How local environmental variability influences soil mesofauna in Andean wetlands
Higher Education PressSoil fauna includes a myriad of organisms, ranging from tiny microfauna invertebrates (with body sizes <100 μm) to meso (>100 μm to 2 mm) and macrofauna (>2 mm). Among soil mesofauna, some of the typical invertebrates that represent this group include mites, springtails, and small insects such as psocopterans and Diptera larvae.
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- Soil Ecology Letters
IEEE study demonstrates optical fiber bundles as a promising solution for high-altitude laser communication systems
Institute of Electrical and Electronics EngineersFree-space optical communications (FSOC), which use lasers for high-speed data links between aircraft, spacecraft, and ground stations, are limited by size and power constraints. To overcome this, researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, proposed and experimentally validated a fiber-bundle-based architecture that could enable compact, multi-directional FSOC.
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- IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics
Multi-slot memory with dynamic gating: A multi-task framework for interpretable sequential recommendation in niche POI scenarios
Osaka Metropolitan University- Journal
- IEEE Access
The quiet experiment that changed solar power
Northwestern UniversityMore than a decade ago, Northwestern chemists and materials scientists reported in Nature the first solid-state solar cell based on a halide perovskite semiconductor — an advance that ultimately helped launch one of the fastest-growing revolutions in solar energy.
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- Nature
Deep MARL-based resilient motion planning for decentralized space manipulator
Beijing Institute of Technology Press Co., LtdSpace manipulators play an important role in the on-orbit services and planetary surface operation whose reliability is a key issue. In the extreme environment of space, space manipulators are susceptible to a variety of unknown disturbances. Since it is difficult for the manipulator to be repaired immediately, once it fails, it will mean that it cannot complete the mission as expected, which may cause serious losses and dangers. How to have a resilient guarantee, i.e., the manipulator’s ability to resiliently recover and continue to complete tasks, in failure or disturbance is the core capability of its future development. The motion planning unit is used as the computing terminal of the manipulator’s joint motion trajectory. Compared with traditional motion planning, learning-based motion planning has gradually become a hot spot in current research. However, no matter what kind of research ideas, the single robotic manipulator is studied as an independent agent, making it unable to provide sufficient flexibility under conditions such as external force disturbance, observation noise, and mechanical failure.
Artificial superintelligence alignment in healthcare
Osaka Metropolitan UniversityAn Osaka Metropolitan University-led research team conducted a review that examined the theoretical foundations of Artificial Superintelligence and explored how misaligned AI systems could optimize for wrong objectives, leading to patient harm and systemic failures.
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- Japanese Journal of Radiology
Efficient production of extracellular vesicles for enhanced cancer immunotherapy
Tsinghua University PressExtracellular vesicles serve as essential mediators of communication between immune cells and tumor cells, and the recent advances in artificial induction strategies offer an adaptable and efficient platform for engineering extracellular vesicles, enabling their application as next-generation strategies in cancer immunotherapy.
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- Nano Research