All posts tagged: Reshapes

China re‑centers North Korea ties as nuclear silence reshapes balance : NPR

China re‑centers North Korea ties as nuclear silence reshapes balance : NPR

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In this photo provided by the North Korean government, Chinese President Xi Jinping (center left) shakes hands with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (center right) during a welcome ceremony in Pyongyang on Monday. 朝鮮通信社/KCNA via KNS via AP hide caption toggle caption 朝鮮通信社/KCNA via KNS via AP SEOUL/SHANGHAI — The leaders of China and North Korea reaffirmed their alliance this week in Pyongyang, emphasizing strategic cooperation while avoiding public discussion of North Korea’s nuclear weapons program. The two-day trip — President Xi Jinping’s first to North Korea in nearly seven years — comes shortly after his summit with President Trump in Beijing, where the White House said both sides agreed on the shared goal of denuclearizing North Korea. Beijing did not publicly echo Washington’s claim. And this week in Pyongyang, Xi made no public mention of denuclearization. Instead, Xi focused on China’s “firm commitment to safeguarding the shared interests of the two countries and preserving a favorable strategic environment,” according to Chinese state media. North Korea’s state media, meanwhile, quoted leader Kim Jong Un …

DAMPE telescope reshapes understanding of cosmic rays

DAMPE telescope reshapes understanding of cosmic rays

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A multinational team of scientists working with the Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) space telescope has uncovered a consistent pattern in cosmic rays, offering new insight into their origin and behaviour. The research, involving experts from the University of Geneva, identifies a shared feature across multiple types of high-energy particles. The findings have been peer-reviewed and published in Nature. The study focuses on cosmic rays, which are highly energetic particles that travel through space and occasionally strike Earth. Despite being discovered over a century ago, their precise origins remain unresolved. By analysing detailed measurements from the DAMPE satellite, researchers have now observed a phenomenon known as “spectral softening” occurring consistently across different particle types. The result is significant: it strongly supports theories that the acceleration and movement of cosmic rays depend on a property called rigidity, rather than energy per particle. This narrows the field of viable explanations and marks a meaningful step toward understanding how these particles are generated and propagate through the galaxy. What are cosmic rays? Cosmic rays are among the most …

Iran: Prolonged conflict reshapes view of the regime, analyst says

Iran: Prolonged conflict reshapes view of the regime, analyst says

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FRANCE 24’s guest Mehran Kamrave, Director of the Iranian Studies Unit at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, analyses Iran’s strategy towards the United States, highlighting three key levers the regime can rely on: sanctions, the nuclear programme, and control over the Strait of Hormuz. He also notes that, despite the war, the Iranian government is tightening its grip on the population. According to him, the longer the conflict drags on, the less unpopular the Islamic Republic becomes domestically. Keywords for this article Source link

New imaging tool reveals how cancer reshapes the body’s energy use

New imaging tool reveals how cancer reshapes the body’s energy use

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A small molecule inside your body quietly fuels life every day. It helps your cells turn fat into energy, keeping your heart beating and your muscles moving. Now, scientists have found a way to watch that process unfold in real time, offering a rare glimpse into how diseases like cancer reshape the body’s energy use. Researchers at King’s College London have developed a new imaging tool that tracks how cells use fats for fuel. Their work introduces a tracer that reveals how tumors and healthy tissues rely on a molecule called carnitine. Carnitine plays a simple but vital role. It carries fatty acids into the mitochondria, the part of the cell that produces energy. Without it, your body would struggle to use fat as fuel. Until now, scientists could not easily observe how this process works inside living organisms. “Using this novel tracer, we can look at carnitine metabolism in living subjects for the very first time,” said Professor Tim Witney, Professor of Molecular Imaging at the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences. “Understanding …

Plasma destruction reshapes the future of PFAS remediation

Plasma destruction reshapes the future of PFAS remediation

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As regulatory pressure intensifies and the cost of PFAS remediation escalates, industry and government leaders face a common question: how to permanently eliminate PFAS contamination for clean drinking water – efficiently, safely and at scale. For decades, most treatment approaches have focused on separation rather than destruction – removing PFAS from water through filtration or adsorption, only to create secondary waste streams that require additional handling and disposal. Today, plasma-based destruction technology offers a fundamentally different path forward. DMAX Plasma Inc. is at the forefront of this shift, delivering a scalable plasma destruction platform designed to permanently break down PFAS molecules across a wide range of real-world water matrices, from landfill leachate to groundwater, stormwater, and industrial wastewater. Moving beyond separation to permanent destruction PFAS compounds are notoriously difficult to destroy due to the strength of their carbon-fluorine bonds – among the strongest in chemistry. Traditional treatment technologies, such as granular activated carbon, ion exchange, or membrane systems, capture PFAS but do not eliminate them, transferring long-term liability downstream. DMAX Plasma’s solution focuses on permanent …

Digital betting boom reshapes American gambling habits raising financial harm concerns

Digital betting boom reshapes American gambling habits raising financial harm concerns

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A new report argues that gambling in the United States no longer sits on the margins of financial life. Instead, researchers say it has moved quickly into the mainstream, reshaped by smartphones, digital payment systems and constant online access. According to the analysis, US gambling has “shifted rapidly from a discrete, cash-based activity to a normalized, digitally embedded financial behavior,” a transformation researchers say carries growing financial and public health risks. The report from the Financial Services Research Group and the Kindbridge Research Institute focuses on how betting has blended into the same digital systems people already use for everyday spending. Online sportsbooks, instant deposits, digital wallets and heavy advertising have made gambling easier to access than at any previous point, the authors say. Financial impacts from gambling are becoming harder to detect and easier to overlook. @FSRGinitiative's latest Insights Report looks at how digital platforms and instant payments are changing gambling behavior and financial risk. https://t.co/PMZGKIg6so pic.twitter.com/DO1s9ZY8sR — Kindbridge Research Institute (@KR_Institute) March 10, 2026 At the same time, participation levels across the country …

NASA DART Mission data reshapes understanding of how near-Earth asteroids evolve over time

NASA DART Mission data reshapes understanding of how near-Earth asteroids evolve over time

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Bright streaks on a small asteroid moon looked, at first, like a camera problem. They were faint, fan-shaped, and easy to miss in the final images NASA’s DART spacecraft took before it slammed into Dimorphos in 2022. However, after months of image cleanup and modeling, astronomers concluded the marks were real. They now say the streaks are the first direct visual evidence that one asteroid in a binary system can shed material that lands on its companion. The finding, published in The Planetary Science Journal, points to a surprisingly active relationship between the near-Earth asteroid Didymos and its moon, Dimorphos. Rather than acting like two isolated rocks in space, the pair appears to exchange debris in slow, gentle impacts. These impacts leave visible traces on the surface. “At first, we thought something was wrong with the camera, and then we thought it could’ve been something wrong with our image processing,” said lead author Jessica Sunshine, a professor with joint appointments in the Department of Astronomy and Department of Geological, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences at the …

Budget 2026 debate: No ‘jobless growth’ in Singapore even as AI reshapes economy, says PM Wong

Budget 2026 debate: No ‘jobless growth’ in Singapore even as AI reshapes economy, says PM Wong

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INVESTING IN PEOPLE Mr Wong also acknowledged concerns raised by various Members of Parliament (MPs) on the anxieties that workers and fresh graduates are feeling amid the AI revolution. “These concerns are real and we must and we will take them seriously,” he said. Historically, every major technological wave has displaced some jobs but also created new ones, he noted. In Singapore’s experience, AI can augment jobs and help workers achieve more, even as it automates certain tasks.  Mr Wong added that Singapore’s labour market remains resilient for now. The proportion of permanent employees has risen to a record high of nearly 91 per cent, with gains across most sectors.  Vacancies continue to outnumber job seekers, and over 40 per cent of openings are entry-level professionals, managers, executives and technicians (PMETs) roles. So far, the evidence does not point to widespread displacement, said the prime minister. However, with emerging pressures, it is important to prepare for the future, he added. “We cannot rely only on today’s data, we must prepare for tomorrow,” he said. “And …

How AI Reshapes the Battle of Persuasion

How AI Reshapes the Battle of Persuasion

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We live in a paradox. Never before has humanity had access to more information, faster. Yet our decisions, from what we eat to whom we vote for, what we watch and who we date, remain stubbornly resistant to facts alone. Public health campaigns armed with statistics fail to shift behavior. Climate science, however substantive, struggles to ignite action. Heavy economic data rarely changes minds about policy. The uncomfortable truth? We are not the rational creatures we pretend to be. At every level of human existence, from the individual seeking purpose to communities navigating shared values, from nations crafting policies to our species confronting planetary crises, we operate through a complex interplay of aspirations that give us direction, emotions that move us, thoughts that make sense of chaos, and sensations that anchor us in certainty. Traditional behavior change communication, grounded in knowledge deficit models, treats humans as computers awaiting better data. Generative AI, however, understands what decades of neuroscience have confirmed: we are meaning-making beings first, rational actors second. The Four Dimensions of Vulnerability Consider how …

NVIDIA Groq Licensing Explained, B Deal Reshapes AI Chips

NVIDIA Groq Licensing Explained, $20B Deal Reshapes AI Chips

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What happens when a tech giant like NVIDIA, already dominating the AI hardware space, makes a bold $20 billion move to license innovative technology from an ambitious startup? Matt Wolfe breaks down how NVIDIA’s licensing agreement with Groq, a deal that’s anything but conventional, could reshape the future of artificial intelligence hardware. This isn’t your typical acquisition story; instead, NVIDIA has sidestepped regulatory hurdles by opting for a licensing approach, gaining access to Groq’s innovative language processing unit (LPU) technology and its top talent. But with this strategic maneuver comes a wave of questions: Will this deal stifle competition or accelerate innovation? And what does it mean for the employees caught in the middle of this high-stakes game? In this guide, we’ll explore why Groq’s LPUs, capable of processing AI models up to 10 times faster while consuming far less energy than traditional GPUs, are such a fantastic option. You’ll also uncover how NVIDIA’s calculated strategy positions it to outpace rivals like Google in the race for AI dominance. Yet, the story doesn’t end there, …