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Rare blue diamond fetches $21.5 mn at auction in Geneva

May 14, 2025

An exceptionally rare blue diamond went under the hammer in Geneva late Tuesday, selling for $21.5 million, Sotheby’s auction house said.This article is brought to you by this site.

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Breathtaking images show what working as a scientist can look like

May 13, 2025

A scientist braving crashing waves to track whales in a northern Norwegian fjord tops a list of winners of Nature’s 2025 Scientist At Work competition. Arctic telescopes, tiny frogs, and mountain fog also feature in […]

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‘CoVox’: A matched vocal dataset for comparing singing and speech styles

May 13, 2025

The human voice is as diverse and individual as a fingerprint and can provide information about emotions, age, or health. In order to study vocal performances, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics […]

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Saturday Citations: AI predicts cancer survival outcomes; Hubble spots a wandering black hole

May 10, 2025

This week, physicists at CERN reported the transmutation of lead into gold in the Large Hadron Collider, raising the possibility that a Science X alchemy vertical could be on the horizon. An international research collaborative […]

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Virtual reality study reveals how burglars weigh risk and reward in response to environmental features

May 8, 2025

Criminology studies have posited theories based on the assumption that environmental features (e.g., street lighting, housing design) shape offenders’ perceptions of risk and reward. In a new study, researchers used virtual reality (VR) to determine […]

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Chinese research isn’t taken as seriously as papers from elsewhere, researchers find

May 8, 2025

My new research suggests there is a stubborn pattern in academic publishing. My co-author and I examined some 8,000 articles published in the world’s most reputable economics journals to study citations, which are where academics […]

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France, EU leaders take aim at Trump in bid to lure US scientists

May 5, 2025

French President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission head Ursula von der Leyen took aim at Donald Trump’s policies on science on Monday, as the EU seeks to encourage disgruntled US researchers to relocate to Europe.This […]

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Saturday Citations: Cancer precursor cell identified; Webb spots more old galaxies

May 3, 2025

This week, archaeologists identified depictions of the Milky Way galaxy in ancient Egyptian imagery. A mathematician found a new way to solve higher polynomial equations, one of algebra’s oldest challenges. And climbing shoe abrasion releases […]

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French research center seeks to lure US-based scientists

May 2, 2025

France’s flagship scientific research center CNRS has launched a new initiative, in an apparent effort to lure US scientists hit by federal research spending cuts under President Donald Trump.This article is brought to you by […]

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Some ‘Star Wars’ stories have already become reality

May 1, 2025

Just 48 short years ago, movie director George Lucas used the phrase “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away” as the opening to the first “Star Wars” movie, later labeled “Episode IV: […]

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Economics & Business

People who swap mundane jobs for meaningful careers still have it tough, study indicates

Credit ratings are a key check on CEO overconfidence in corporate acquisitions, new research finds

Why it doesn’t—and shouldn’t—always pay to be a super-successful CEO

Switch to two-point rating scales to reduce racism in performance reviews, research suggests

Study says green consumers focus on brands and fashionability

People who use AI at work are perceived by colleagues as lazier and less competent, study finds

A temporary international market exit may lead to future global expansion

Clues to accounting fraud are hiding in plain sight

What shoppers say about sustainability doesn’t match how they spend, study finds

How a 5,000-year-old technology, politics, and culture led to modern wealth inequality

Technology

New study reveals generative AI boosts job growth and productivity

AI model classifies images with a hierarchical tree from broad to specific

Nvidia to send 18,000 AI chips to Saudi Arabia

Deep learning model dramatically improves subgraph matching accuracy by eliminating noise

Europe backs generative AI to drive clean energy transformation

AI can scan vast numbers of social media posts during disasters to guide first responders

AI methods help predict the emergence of ‘gazelles’ and other high-growth firms, but challenges remain

AI meets the conditions for having free will—we need to give it a moral compass, says researcher

British govt suffers setback in AI copyright battle

Inner workings of AI an enigma—even to its creators

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