Bodies of Evidence

Shackled, bleeding, raped: Palestinians describe abuse in Israel’s prisons

Shackled, bleeding, raped: Palestinians describe abuse in Israel’s prisons Former detainees tell Al Jazeera they were chained, stripped, sexually abused and filmed, with repeated allegations involving dogs. This story contains descriptions of sexual assault that some readers may find disturbing. He does not begin with the name of the prison.

GLP-1 drugs, including Ozempic, may have a beneficial effect across many types of cancer

GLP-1 drugs, including Ozempic, may have a beneficial effect across many types of cancer More than two dozen studies suggest the treatments are linked to lower cancer risk, reduced metastasis and improved survival, though researchers say trials are needed to confirm any anti-cancer benefit. A growing body of evidence suggests that popular GLP-1 drugs, widely used for weight loss and diabetes, can provide protection against many types of cancer. More than two dozen studies presented over the...

Spatially Grounded Concept Bottleneck Models via Part-Factorized Attention

arXiv:2606.04364v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Concept bottleneck models (CBMs) predict a layer of human-named attributes before predicting a class, which makes their decisions auditable. On fine-grained recognition tasks the concept heads are usually free to attend anywhere in the image, so a head named for one body region can be satisfied by evidence on another.

Detecting Flakiness in Quantum Software: A Dynamic Testing Approach

Announce Type: replace Abstract: Flaky tests, tests that pass or fail nondeterministically without changes to code or environment, pose a serious threat to software reliability. While classical software engineering has developed a rich body of techniques to study flakiness, corresponding evidence for quantum software remains limited. Prior work relies mainly on static analysis or small sets of manually reported incidents, leaving open questions about their prevalence, characteristics, and...

Your body clock has seasonal rhythms and it matters for vaccines

We think of our body clock ticking over on a 24-hour cycle, but evidence is growing that it has seasonal rhythms, which could affect our response to vaccines

Wes Streeting says Starmer ‘behind the curve’ on under-16s social media ban – UK politics live

Wes Streeting says Starmer ‘behind the curve’ on under-16s social media ban – UK politics live

‘They were laughing’: Israel’s use of rape and sexual abuse in prisons

‘They were laughing’: Israel’s use of rape and sexual abuse in prisons Former detainees detail systematic torture and sexual violence, including rape, while in Israeli custody. This story contains descriptions of sexual assault that some readers may find disturbing. Muhammad al-Bakri specifically remembers the date of his rape.

Workers found a human head in 1984 and uncovered an ancient secret

The landscape around Wilmslow appears unremarkable at first glance. Commuter trains pass nearby, housing estates edge ever closer to open ground, and modern Cheshire carries on with little hint of the distant past beneath its feet. Yet hidden within this corner of north-west England lies a place that has repeatedly produced encounters with the dead.

Neural Fields as World Models

arXiv:2602.18690v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Humans rehearse possible futures offline, as in mental practice and perhaps dreaming, suggesting that world models may support task learning away from the environment. Standard machine learning world models compress visual input into latent vectors, discarding the spatial structure that characterizes sensory cortex. We propose isomorphic world models: architectures that preserve sensory topology, so physics prediction becomes...