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Yplasma zaps the air to cool chips for data centers
TechCrunch
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July 9, 2025
If you didn’t know any better, you might think it’s magic. David Garcia gave TechCrunch a demo video demonstration of a device developed by his company, Yplasma. A row of five candles sit in front of a harmonica-like device with wires hanging off...
11 companies with research jobs you can apply to right now
Silicon Republic
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July 3, 2025
If you are in the market for a new role in the research space, but don’t know where to start, look no further than these exciting companies. A career in research is a great opportunity to work on the topics and challenges that most appeal to you,...
Duke coach Jon Scheyer opens door to jersey retirement talks after Cooper Flagg’s standout year
Sportskeeda
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July 9, 2025
Former Duke Blue Devils star Cooper Flagg was selected No. 1 by the Dallas Mavericks during the 2025 NBA draft after a stellar college basketball season. Flagg led the Blue Devils to the Final Four of the NCAA Tournament and was named the National...
Neo-Industrial Biomanufacturing Poised to Transform Biotech
Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News
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July 3, 2025
Despite the massive improvements in scale-up enabled by single-use bioreactors and a scale-out philosophy, going from process development scale to larger bioreactors remains tricky. That’s especially true when responsibilities are transferred...
Two Kids from Greensboro—Boston Gilmer (13) and Brianna Hood (9)—to Represent North Carolina at the 2025 Breakthrough T1D Children’s Congress, from July 7-9 in Washington, D.C.
Yes Weekly - North Carolina
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They will join 170 kids from across the U.S. and five other countries in meetings with Members of Congress to advocate for type 1 diabetes (T1D) research Boston Gilmer Greensboro, North Carolina, June 27, 2025. Boston Gilmer, a rising...
America’s Richest Immigrants 2025
Forbes
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“When you live in an oppressed, totalitarian country like I did, and you have no money, there’s no sense of having a future or that life will get better, so you wonder if there’s any hope left,” says billionaire Steven Udvar-Hazy, 79, who...
Moroccan founder raises $4.2M for her YC-backed startup building the next layer of AI search
TechCrunch
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July 9, 2025
As generative AI reshapes industries, one of its most important yet invisible challenges is retrieval, the process of fetching the right data with relevant context from messy knowledge bases. Large language models (LLMs) are only as accurate as...
Massachusetts whale watch is on a heater seeing white sharks: ‘Something unprecedented is happening out there’
Boston Herald - Massachusetts
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June 30, 2025
A North Shore whale watch is having a heck of a start to the season. The 7 Seas Whale Watch out of Gloucester is on a heater so far, seeing more and more great white sharks in the northern waters. After a trip on Sunday, the whale watch has now...
What the Research Says About School Boards: How Much Conflict Really Is There?
Education Week
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July 3, 2025
School boards in recent years have become the focal point of many heated, high-profile debates, on everything from pandemic-era mask policies to debates about LGBTQ+ students’ rights. In some places, once-quiet board rooms became centers of...
Nanostone Water and Solecta merge to form Acuriant Technologies
Smart Water Magazine
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July 3, 2025
True North Venture Partners has announced the merger of its portfolio companies Nanostone Water and Solecta into Acuriant Technologies, Inc. The newly formed company aims to address complex separation and filtration challenges in sectors such as...
Memory as Power: The Unbreakable Bond Between Knowledge and Influence
Psychology Today
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In today’s educational and leadership arenas, a dangerous narrative has emerged: Self-styled “enlightened” educators disparage rote memorization as obsolete, championing critical thinking alone. Yet this view ignores an essential truth: An...
Anti-Israel slogan spray-painted on MIT building, vandalism under investigation, school says
Boston 25 News - Massachusetts
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July 8, 2025
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Campus police at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are working with local and federal law enforcement to identify the vandals who defaced a school building with an anti-Israel slogan, the school said Tuesday. Vandals...
Listening to whales: New state program monitors whale acoustics to develop conservation strategies
Yahoo News
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Listening to whales: New state program monitors whale acoustics to develop conservation strategiesNorth Atlantic Right Whales are one of the most endangered species. There are fewer than 400 of these whales left in the world. For several months a...
Massachusetts fusion company strikes deal with Google to buy power from future plant
The Boston Globe - Massachusetts
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Commonwealth Fusion Systems has struck an agreement to sell electricity from its future power plant in Virginia to Google, the companies announced on Monday. The deal comes even though Commonwealth and its dozens of fusion rivals have yet to...
US AAFA writes to Massachusetts committee opposing The Fashion Act
Fibre 2 Fashion
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The American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) recently wrote to the Massachusetts joint committee on environment and natural resources sharing its concerns over The Fashion Act (H1032), aimed at environmental accountability in the fashion...
IIT-ian and ex-OpenAI Researcher Trapit Bansal joins Meta’s Superintelligence Labs
Edex Live
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Former OpenAI researcher Trapit Bansal has officially joined Meta’s Superintelligence Labs, a team dedicated to building artificial general intelligence (AGI) as part of Meta’s broader push to rival OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind, said a...
A volunteer finds the Holy Grail of abolitionist-era Baptist documents in Massachusetts
WTOP - District Columbia
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July 3, 2025
GROTON, Mass. (AP) — Jennifer Cromack was combing through the American Baptist archive when she uncovered a slim box among… GROTON, Mass. (AP) — Jennifer Cromack was combing through the American Baptist archive when she uncovered a slim box among...
Researchers Uncover Cell Structures Squids Use To Change Their Appearance
Technology Networks
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By examining squid skin cells three-dimensionally, a University of California, Irvine-led team has unveiled the structures responsible for the creatures’ ability to dynamically change their appearance from transparent to arbitrarily colored...
Trump freezes $6.8 billion for K-12 school programs
The Goldendale Sentinel - Washington State
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The Trump administration has put on hold $6.8 billion in federal funds for K-12 schools, according to an Education Department notice obtained by States Newsroom. The agency informed states last Monday that it would be withholding funding for...
Five Argonne Researchers Honored as 2025 Named Fellows
Newswise
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July 2, 2025
BYLINE: Beth Burmahl Newswise — Five Argonne scientists receive the Maria Goeppert Mayer and Walter Massey fellowships that support promising early-career researchers. The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has awarded...