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'I thought I had the flu': Mom nearly died after dismissing deadly sepsis symptoms

In the wake of NASCAR star Kyle Busch’s death from sepsis, a Virginia Beach mother who almost lost her life to the deadly condition is sharing her harrowing experience to raise awareness. In 2015, Audrey Wiggins was a healthy 31-year-old when she thought she’d come down with the flu. Instead, her condition spiraled into a severe case of sepsis that left her in the ICU for 10 days, including five days in a medically induced coma.

Starting kindergarten soon? Summer is a perfect time to support a child's early literacy learning

Starting kindergarten soon? Summer is a perfect time to support a child's early literacy learning Sadie Harley Scientific Editor Andrew Zinin Lead Editor The first day of kindergarten is a momentous occasion for children and families. It's an exciting milestone that comes with new friends, teachers, and learning opportunities.

The Trump Administration Is Done With Social Science

In the summer of 1945, four days after Japan’s official surrender and a few weeks into the Atomic Age, President Harry Truman began floating the idea of an agency guided by “the free intelligence of the scientist” that would fund investigations into how the world works. As of 2024, the agency that Truman had envisioned, the National Science Foundation, supplied about one in every 10 federal research dollars going to U.S. universities. Its Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences division...

Scientists warning as ocean monitoring network decommissioned under Trump cuts

Scientists warning as ocean monitoring network decommissioned under Trump cuts Comes as an El Niño event, known for disrupting weather patterns and intensifying marine heatwaves, is forecast to hit the Pacific coast this summer - Bookmark A crucial component of one of the world's most ambitious ocean monitoring networks is set to be decommissioned this month, as scientists prepare to retrieve a research buoy from the depths of the Pacific off the Oregon coast. This removal, scheduled for 16...

Scientists lose critical climate record as ocean observatory will go dark under Trump funding cuts

Scientists lose critical climate record as ocean observatory will go dark under Trump funding cuts Andrew Zinin Lead Editor A portion of one of the most ambitious ocean monitoring networks ever built will go dark this month when scientists board a research vessel and motor off the Oregon coast to pull a research buoy from deep out of the Pacific. The buoy 80 meters (260 feet) below the water's surface will be removed June 16 from the Ocean Observatories Initiative—a network of more than 900...

Entity-Centric World Models: Interaction-Aware Masking for Causal Video Prediction

Announce Type: replace Abstract: Learning predictive world models from unlabelled video is a foundational challenge in artificial intelligence. While Joint Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPA) have set new benchmarks in semantic classification, they often remain physics-blind, failing to capture the causal dynamics necessary for downstream reasoning. We hypothesize that this stems from standard patch-based masking strategies, which prioritize visual texture over rare but informative...

Thirty years at El Mirón cave uncover 40,000 years of Iberian prehistory

Thirty years at El Mirón cave uncover 40,000 years of Iberian prehistory Lisa Lock Scientific Editor Robert Egan Associate Editor For the past three decades, a team of archaeologists have been uncovering some of the field's most recent monumental discoveries, relying on gut instinct, persistent hard work, and cutting-edge methods and technologies. The El Mirón Cave excavation project has been a long-term commitment for the lead researchers, fueled by each new discovery and a continued...

The Latent Space: Foundation, Evolution, Mechanism, Ability, and Outlook

Announce Type: replace Abstract: Latent space is rapidly emerging as a native substrate for language-based models. While modern systems are still commonly understood through explicit token-level generation, an increasing body of work shows that many critical internal processes are more naturally carried out in continuous latent space than in human-readable verbal traces.

MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second

From the first roaring racer of the combustion age to the sonic boom that shattered the sound barrier, humanity's hunger for speed is written into our very DNA. The speed of AI reasoning is no different — it defines the boundaries of intelligence itself. When a model is fast enough, it ceases to be a tool you wait on and becomes an extension of your own thinking: responding in real time, iterating in an instant, collaborating without friction.

AI and data sovereignty in Postgres: An answer to the datacenter energy crisis