Photo credits: zverge / BigStock The Belmont Forum, a partnership of funding agencies, international scientific councils and regional consortia supporting global environmental change research, is investing in transdisciplinary projects that tackle pressing global ocean challenges.
Baltic nations agree collaboration on microchip innovation
Photo credits: artiemedvedev / BigStock Horizon Europe has been bombarded with applications this year, with success rates for some calls falling as low as 2%. National research funders are experiencing similar pressures. For Christina Egelund, Denmark’s higher education and science.
Environmental and health advocates have long sought to curb dangerous chemicals used in dry cleaning. Now a new study adds to the evidence of harms, linking a
TLDRs; Alibaba’s Qwen3-Max-Thinking achieved perfect scores in AIME and HMMT, marking China’s first flawless AI math performance. OpenAI’s GPT-5 Pro also self-reported perfect results, setting up a new East-West rivalry in reasoning AI. Verification concerns linger, as Alibaba’s results lack third-party validation or evidence of closed-book testing. API access opens doors for developers and investors, [.] The post Alibaba’s Qwen AI Outsmarts Global Peers in Math Benchmarks appeared first on CoinCentral.
Photo credits: Christophe Licoppe / European Union Initiatives to bolster research security in the EU, advanced by the European Commission on October 28, will soon filter down to researchers setting up projects. These include a due diligence platform to support researchers in assessing international cooperation risks.
Photo credits: Sergey Nivens / BigStock On October 28, research Commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva promised to embed research security in EU law. In doing so,.
Photo credits: Freshpixel / BigStock Principles intended to make research data findable, accessible, interoperable and re-usable (Fair) have gained increasing traction since they were endorsed by the G20 nations in 2016. Yet scientists still find their practical application a challenge.
Photo credits: AliseFox / BigStock Despite many promises, quantum computing researchers have yet to develop algorithms that can make quantum hardware outperform classical computer systems in a useful way. The European Commission’s view, set out in its.
FROs hope to create new scientific tools like AlphaFold, which has automated the prediction of protein structures. Photo credits: Burgstedt / BigStock Over the past few years, a new type of institution has entered the scientific scene: focused research organisations (FROs), which try to build new scientific software, databases and other tools in a rapid, five-year timeframe. So far,.
