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Open-source AI tool beats giant LLMs in literature reviews — and gets citations right - Nature
science 2026/02/04 16:56:43

Open-source AI tool beats giant LLMs in literature reviews — and gets citations right - Nature

Researchers can deploy the cheap and transparent model on their own computer system.

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Watch: These metal tubes don’t sink in water - futurity.org
science 2026/02/04 16:29:09

Watch: These metal tubes don’t sink in water - futurity.org

New unsinkable metal tubes could pave way for more resilient ships, floating platforms, and renewable energy innovations.

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Mars Just Got a Whole Lot More Habitable, Thanks to These Weird Earth Creatures! - The Daily Galaxy
science 2026/02/04 16:15:00

Mars Just Got a Whole Lot More Habitable, Thanks to These Weird Earth Creatures! - The Daily Galaxy

Mars may not be as hostile to life as we’ve been led to believe. Scientists have found a surprising contender for surviving on the Red Planet, and it’s not what you’d expect.

The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel
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Imaging a terahertz superfluid plasmon in a two-dimensional superconductor - Nature
science 2026/02/04 16:08:18

Imaging a terahertz superfluid plasmon in a two-dimensional superconductor - Nature

Terahertz microspectroscopic imaging at subgap millielectronvolt energies of a two-dimensional superfluid plasmon in few-layer Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x is demonstrated, allowing the spatial resolution of its deeply subdiffractive terahertz electrodynamics.

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Synthesizing scientific literature with retrieval-augmented language models - Nature
science 2026/02/04 16:08:17

Synthesizing scientific literature with retrieval-augmented language models - Nature

A specialized, open-source, retrieval-augmented language model is introduced for answering scientific queries and synthesizing literature, the responses of which are shown to be preferred by human evaluations over expert-written answers.

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Terahertz microscope reveals the motion of superconducting electrons - Phys.org
science 2026/02/04 16:00:06

Terahertz microscope reveals the motion of superconducting electrons - Phys.org

You can tell a lot about a material based on the type of light shining at it: Optical light illuminates a material’s surface, while X-rays reveal its internal structures and infrared captures a material’s radiating heat. Now, MIT physicists have used terahert…

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