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Sources and Sinks

For the entire history of our species, humans have lived on a planet capped by a chunk of ice at each pole. But Earth has been ice-free for about 75 percent of the time since complex life first ...
EurekAlert!

Songs and USVs arise from the clPAG (IMAGE)

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Assistant Professor Arkarup Banerjee and colleagues find that songs and ordinary vocalizations both arise from the midbrain caudolateral periaqueductal gray (clPAG), seen ...
EDN

Active current mirror

Current mirrors are a commonly useful circuit function, and sometimes high precision is essential. The challenge of getting current mirrors to be precise has created a long list of tricks and ...
The New York Times

WNBA proposes max salary above $1.1 million in latest proposal to players union: Sources

The WNBPA opted out of the current CBA agreement, which would have otherwise expired after the 2027 season, in October 2024. Ethan Miller / Getty Images As the WNBA and the league’s players union ...
CNN

A crucial system of ocean currents may be on course to collapse. This country just declared it a national security threat

Iceland’s relatively mild climate is shaped by a crucial network of currents that winds its away around the Atlantic Ocean transporting heat northward — without it, the island would be much icier and ...
Hackaday

Precision Current Sources By The Numbers

It isn’t unusual to expect a precisely regulated voltage in an electronic project, but what about times when you need a precise current? Over on EDN, prolific [Stephen Woodward] explains how to use a ...
EDN

Basic design equations for three precision current sources

A frequently encountered category of analog system component is the precision current source. Many good designs are available, but concise and simple arithmetic for choosing the component values ...
Microsoft

Microsoft opens state-of-the-art Quantum Lab in Lyngby, Denmark, accelerating progress toward scalable quantum computing

The expanded Lyngby facility is Microsoft’s largest quantum site and a firm investment in the long-term commitment to partner with Europe on realizing the benefits from quantum. The investment ...
Nieman Journalism Lab

“Biased,” “boring,” “chaotic,” and “bad”: A majority of teens hold negative views of news media, report finds

Mary Robb, a social studies teacher at Andover High School in Massachusetts, has been teaching news literacy for 25 years. The longtime educator sees teaching students how to critically read the news ...
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UCSB joins NSF's National Quantum Virtual Laboratory

UC Santa Barbara professor Daniel Blumenthal’s lab is part of one of four design teams from around the country selected by the National Science Foundation for its recently launched National Quantum ...
Forbes

xAI Researcher, Early Googler In Talks To Raise $1 Billion At $5 Billion Valuation For New Frontier Lab

Additional reporting by Iain Martin and Richard Nieva. Humans& will train AI models to be better at collaborating with humans. Former xAI researcher Eric Zelikman is raising $1 billion for a new ...
The New York Times

In a Looming Nuclear Arms Race, Aging Los Alamos Faces a Major Test

The lab where Oppenheimer developed the atomic bomb is the linchpin in the United States’ effort to modernize its nuclear weapons. Yet the site has contended with contamination incidents, work ...