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Nature and environment · Nov 8, 2026Red foxes: understanding their role in the countrysideOmnivorous and adaptable, the red fox affects rural environments in several ways. Its effects on prey, seeds and ticks, however, depend on the context.↗
Space · Nov 8, 2026Teghaza 001, a meteorite that takes us back to Mars’s earliest rocksFound in Mali, Teghaza 001 contains minerals at least 4.1 billion years old. Its zircons and traces of alteration by water offer a rare window into Mars’s ancient crust.↗
AI · Nov 8, 2026AI and research: behind the hours saved, the challenge of proofA study by Google and researchers affiliated with MIT reports time savings declared by scientists, but also hypotheses awaiting testing and a substantial need for verification. Speeding up tasks is not enough to validate discoveries.↗
Basic science · Nov 8, 2026Biosphere 2: how soil and concrete altered the oxygen balanceThe fall in oxygen levels in Biosphere 2 revealed an unexpected mechanism: the soil consumed oxygen while the concrete absorbed some of the carbon dioxide. A lesson in the limits of closed ecosystems.↗
Space · Nov 8, 2026Beyond Neptune, 27 small objects shed light on the early Solar SystemHubble and James Webb have detected 27 small objects beyond Neptune. Their colours and sizes offer clues about collisions and the formation of the Solar System’s first solid bodies.↗
Society · Nov 8, 2026In Kirchberg, the tram is due to reach the European School in 2027The first 2.3-kilometre section is due to reach the European School at the start of the 2027 school year. In Kirchberg, the project also includes a redesign of the boulevard and changes to traffic during the works.↗
Culture · Nov 8, 2026Villa Kutter: a house for reading modernity in LimpertsbergCommissioned by Joseph Kutter in 1928, the villa in Limpertsberg combines the forms of architectural modernity with a history of change. Its restoration sheds light on the choices involved in preserving a house while making it habitable today.↗
Nature and environment · Nov 8, 2026Red squirrels in winter: active, but less visibleRed squirrels remain active during winter, but venture out less when the cold sets in. Their shelter, scattered food stores and the seeds they sometimes forget offer insight into their cold-weather strategy.↗
Business · Nov 8, 2026AMD: data centres at the heart of its strategy, without abandoning the PCData centres accounted for nearly 64% of AMD’s revenue in the third quarter of 2026. This figure covers far more than just artificial intelligence chips, while its PC, gaming and embedded businesses are following different trajectories.↗
AI · Nov 8, 2026Spaces, Meta’s tool that turns a prompt into a workspaceWith Spaces, Meta wants to let users create persistent tools in Muse from a description. Their usefulness will depend on the connected apps, the data they can access and the control retained over updates.↗
AI · Nov 8, 2026Does Microsoft want to translate a video right down to the movement of the lips?Microsoft describes an AI in a patent application that would translate a live video by retouching the lips. A proposal to distinguish from the audio translation tool already documented in Teams.↗
AI · Nov 8, 2026MoE AI model: why are only some parameters working on each token?‘Mixture of Experts’ models activate certain sub-networks for each token. This selective computation reduces some of the work, but does not sum up either the memory required or actual performance.↗
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