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In a guest post on Terence Tao's blog, mathematician Shaoming Guo says he and colleagues are preparing a new open-access math journal that prioritises understanding over priority, and invites the community to discuss what journals should reward, how papers are evaluated, and how new tools could reshape mathematical publishing.
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CERN and Mistral join forces to accelerate AI for science
CERN and Mistral AI have signed a statement of intent for a long-term partnership on foundation models for science, starting with a pretrained Large Physics Model for collider physics trained on billions of simulated LHC proton-proton collisions to support tasks from particle reconstruction to analysis.
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$50K First Letters Prize awarded for PHerc 343
The Vesuvius Challenge awards a $50K First Letters Prize to Erwin Nieuwlaar for virtually unwrapping and detecting ink in PHerc. 343, revealing the first text read from this still-rolled Herculaneum scroll since AD 79. Papyrologists read a Greek sequence likely meaning 'everything that happens' and discuss possible references to music.
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Open data for predictive AI models of biology: $1.8 billion committed
Biohub, the U.S. Department of Energy, NIH, Google DeepMind, Isomorphic Labs and Meta expand the Virtual Biology Initiative to a combined $1.8 billion in funding, data, compute and measurement technology, aiming to generate open, standardized datasets for AI models that predict how cells respond to interventions.
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai for the discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis. The press release explains how their work helps answer why life's chemistry uses only one mirror image of molecules such as amino acids.
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The 28th CGPM adopts Resolution 5 on technical actions to keep Coordinated Universal Time continuous, addressing leap-second policy and the metrology work BIPM and partners must complete so civil timekeeping remains reliable worldwide.
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arXiv receives multiyear investment to support independent nonprofit launch
arXiv announces $17.2M in multiyear philanthropic commitments from the Simons Foundation International, XTX Markets, and the Siegel Family Endowment as it launches as an independent nonprofit.
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Rainmaker Raises $100M Series B to Scale Low-Cost Water Production and Weather Modification
Rainmaker Technology announced a $100 million Series B to expand atmospheric research and scale drone-based cloud seeding for freshwater production. The company says its radar and validation systems have linked operations to more than 145 million verified gallons of freshwater.
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