In Eastern Africa, the cradle of humankind is tearing apart

Eastern Africa’s Turkana Rift is both a hotbed for fossil discoveries of our earliest ancestors and a literal hotbed of volcanic activity caused by shifting tectonic plates. Now researchers have found that Earth’s underlying crust in the region has been significantly thinned, presaging Africa’s eventual breakup—and with that finding, the researchers offer a new perspective…

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Meet AGI CPU — a specialist processor that engineers believe will power the next wave of AI

Chip designer Arm has entered the artificial intelligence (AI) hardware arena with its first in-house processor designed to power AI agents. Unlike conventional chatbots, these are much smarter systems that can take proactive actions to achieve their goals without as much human input or supervision. By focusing specifically on powering AI agents, Arm’s chip could…

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Governments failed to deliver $160m of river improvements including for now-parched NSW wetlands, report finds | Environment

Governments failed to deliver $160m of river improvements including for now-parched NSW wetlands, report finds | Environment

Two state governments have drastically underdelivered more than $160m in infrastructure measures to improve river health in the northern Murray-Darling basin eight years since they were promised, a major independent review has found. This includes failure by the New South Wales government to secure any of the private land access needed to improve water flows…

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UK looked at ways to ‘open doors’ to US chlorinated chicken, FoI request shows | Food safety

UK looked at ways to ‘open doors’ to US chlorinated chicken, FoI request shows | Food safety

British officials were briefed on the possibility of allowing chemical-washed chicken into the UK before a meeting with the US embassy, new documents reveal. The Food Standards Agency is also looking at studies performed in the US on washing chicken with bacteriophages, including chlorine dioxide, to remove pathogens, according to the documents, released to the…

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Sparse identification of nonlinear dynamics and Koopman operators with Shallow Recurrent Decoder Networks

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 16, April 2026. <br/>SignificanceWe present sparse identification of nonlinear dynamics with shallow recurrent decoders (SINDy-SHRED), which jointly solves the sensing, model reduction and model identification problem with simple implementation, efficient computation, and … Source: Read Full Article

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Smoke Shrouds Northern Thailand – NASA Science

Chiang Mai, Thailand’s second-largest city, lies within a network of narrow valleys in the country’s northern highlands. Though the historic city is known for panoramic views of the surrounding mountains, clear skies have become less common. In recent decades, smoke has increasingly darkened the skies during the dry season, particularly in March and April. A…

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