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'I'm all in': Jacinta Allan brushes off leadership rumblings

Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan vows to 'see it through' despite party discontent Tue 9 Jun 2026 at 11:31am In short: Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan has brushed off questions about her leadership amid discontent from within her party over her performance. Some Labor MPs are frustrated over her handing of CFMEU corruption, however nobody is counting numbers for a leadership challenge. A poll published by News Corp found a majority of voters, and 39 per cent of Labor voters, think she should...

Victoria's anti-corruption watchdog to get follow-the-money powers

The Victorian government has announced the state's anti-corruption watchdog will receive follow-the-money powers. The change will allow IBAC to pursue taxpayer funds through subcontracting arrangements and labour-hire companies. IBAC itself had called for the strengthened powers.

Diet-dependent microbiota and diet-independent immunometabolic responses to probiotic supplementation in broiler chickens

Probiotics are widely used in food animal production to support gut health and immune function, but the indicators of probiotic efficacy and the conditions under which they translate to host benefit remain unclear. Microbiota composition is the most accessible data supporting probiotic effects, yet whether compositional change reliably predicts host outcomes is not well understood. We investigated this question in broiler chickens fed two nutritionally similar basal diets, with or without a...

'De-extincting' the Moa: The audacious bid to bring back the giant bird

There was a time, not so long ago in geological terms, when the forests of New Zealand shook under the weight of something enormous. The moa, flightless, featherless on its neck, standing taller than a basketball hoop, wandered those islands for millions of years before humans arrived and, within a few centuries, hunted it into silence. The largest species stretched past three metres.

European sentiments towards the US hit an all-time low

Home alone: Europeans are ready to defend themselves Summary - Amid geopolitical turmoil, Europeans are taking nuanced and realistic positions that demand tough choices from their leaders. - A major new ECFR poll shows Europeans embrace self-reliance and are clear-eyed about Donald Trump—but do not expect a permanent break from the US. - They back Ukraine—but are anxious about bringing it into the European Union now or sending troops there.

Taming the Loss Landscape of PINNs with Noisy Feynman-Kac Supervision: Operator Preconditioning and Non-Asymptotic Error Bounds

arXiv:2606.00643v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) often train slowly or fail to converge on challenging partial differential equations (PDEs), a behavior recently linked to severely ill-conditioned loss landscapes inherited from the underlying differential operator. We study PINNs augmented with a pointwise data-fidelity term, added at a few points in the domain to the standard residual and boundary losses. We show that this supervision term acts as...

Realizing microrheological response of configurable viscoelastic media with a dynamic optical trap

arXiv:2603.07100v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The local viscoelastic (VE) environment governs the motion of an embedded microsphere and consequently, pertinent dynamical phenomena. However, studying such phenomena with varying VE properties remains challenging for various reasons, including the strong coupling among the VE parameters and their dependence on experimental conditions, such as temperature. Here, we demonstrate the experimental realization of configurable VE media...

Poll: Trump’s economic message isn’t breaking through

AI ‘super-antigen’ vaccine could protect against whole families of viruses

AI ‘super-antigen’ vaccine could protect against whole families of viruses Researchers say this could prevent future pandemics, save lives and stop lockdowns - Bookmark - CommentsGo to comments A groundbreaking new vaccine technology using artificial intelligence could offer immunity against entire families of viruses and protect against future mutations with a single injection. Researchers say this could prevent future pandemics before they emerge, saving millions of lives and sparing...

Double vision: Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan faces a challenge from a familiar-sounding rival – Dan Sullivan

Double vision: Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan faces a challenge from a familiar-sounding rival – Dan Sullivan The National Republican Senatorial Committee accused Democrats of planting a candidate with the same name to throw off voters - Bookmark - CommentsGo to comments Alaska voters will have a confusing choice to make at the ballot box in the August primaries when they’ll be asked to vote for their next Republican Senate candidate: incumbent Senator Dan Sullivan or his challenger, Dan Sullivan....