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Samir Varma @samirvarma.bsky.social · 13h

Scientists find that ice generates electricity when bent phys.org/news/2025-09...

Scientists find that ice generates electricity when bent

A study co-led by ICN2 reveals that ice is a flexoelectric material, meaning it can produce electricity when unevenly deformed. Published in Nature Physics, this discovery could have major…

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Samir Varma @samirvarma.bsky.social · 1d

IBM wows with Granite 4 LLM launch and hybrid Mamba/Transformer architecture venturebeat.com/ai/western-q...

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Samir Varma @samirvarma.bsky.social · 2d

Wild Dogs Follow Familiar Routes When Traveling, Unlike Free-Spirited Wild Cats That Explore New Places www.discovermagazine.com/wild-dogs-fo...

Wild Dogs Follow Familiar Routes When Traveling, Unlike Free-Spirited Wild Cats That Explore New Places

Learn about the different ways that wild cats and dogs travel in nature, reflecting long-standing evolutionary strategies.

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Samir Varma @samirvarma.bsky.social · 3d

I had an excellent time talking to Gwendolyn (@profdolske.bsky.social) and Rudy about Free Will and AI: www.goodisinthedetails.com/podcast/epis... and podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g.... They both ask superb questions.

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Samir Varma @samirvarma.bsky.social · 3d

China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes interestingengineering.com/science/chin...

China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes

A new oyster-inspired Bone-02 adhesive can revolutionize bone repair without metal fasteners.

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Samir Varma @samirvarma.bsky.social · 4d

Scientists want to treat complex bone fractures with a bone-healing gun arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Scientists want to treat complex bone fractures with a bone-healing gun

It’s a bit like a handheld 3D printer, with all the accuracy challenges that implies.

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Samir Varma @samirvarma.bsky.social · 5d

Indians are the world's largest consumers of Whiskey. Need I say more? Yes! open.substack.com/pub/samirvar...

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Samir Varma @samirvarma.bsky.social · 6d

Quantum computers have finally achieved unconditional supremacy www.newscientist.com/article/2496...

Quantum computers have finally achieved unconditional supremacy

For the first time, researchers have mathematically proven that a quantum computer can solve a particular task faster than an ordinary computer, in a way that can never be beaten

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Samir Varma @samirvarma.bsky.social · 7d

World's first ‘behavior transplant’ between species achieved newatlas.com/biology/unkn...

World's first ‘behavior transplant’ between species achieved

In a breakthrough study, scientists have transferred a courtship behavior from one species to another, triggering the recipient to perform this completely foreign act as if it was its own. While genes...

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Samir Varma @samirvarma.bsky.social · 8d

Self-Assembly Gets Automated in Reverse of ‘Game of Life’ | Quanta Magazine www.quantamagazine.org/self-assembl...

Self-Assembly Gets Automated in Reverse of ‘Game of Life’ | Quanta Magazine

In cellular automata, simple rules create elaborate structures. Now researchers can start with the structures and reverse-engineer the rules.

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Samir Varma @samirvarma.bsky.social · 9d

AI Music Artist Lands Multi-Million Dollar Record Deal — Report www.mandatory.com/news/1663026...

AI Music Artist Lands Multi-Million Dollar Record Deal — Report

AI musician Xania Monet has reportedly signed a multi-million dollar record deal. Read on to learn all about it.

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Samir Varma @samirvarma.bsky.social · 10d

My daughter's first, "Physics World" (ie, non technical) article: physicsworld.com/a/physicists...

Physicists achieve first entangled measurement of W states – Physics World

Breakthrough in Japan could pave the way for robust quantum communication and scalable networks

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Samir Varma @samirvarma.bsky.social · 11d

Study: Chimps consume the equivalent of two alcoholic drinks per day - UPI.com www.upi.com/Odd_News/202...

Top News, Latest headlines, Latest News, World News & U.S News - UPI.com

UPI delivers the latest headlines from around the world: Top News, Entertainment, Health, Business, Science and Sports News - United Press International

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Samir Varma @samirvarma.bsky.social · 12d

Just how ridiculous is the Indian property market? My new post is up: open.substack.com/pub/samirvar...

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Samir Varma @samirvarma.bsky.social · 13d

India’s New Universities Offer Hope as Study-Abroad Dreams Fade: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

India’s New Universities Offer Hope as Study-Abroad Dreams Fade

An uptick in private universities indicates an inflection point for the higher-education sector

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Samir Varma @samirvarma.bsky.social · 14d

You can't eval GPT5 anymore — LessWrong www.lesswrong.com/posts/DLZokL...

You can't eval GPT5 anymore — LessWrong

The GPT-5 API is aware of today's date (no other model provider does this). This is problematic because the model becomes aware that it is in a simul…

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Samir Varma @samirvarma.bsky.social · 15d

An eight-year asymptomatic retention of a knife blade in the chest: a case report academic.oup.com/jscr/article...

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Samir Varma @samirvarma.bsky.social · 16d

The world really is quantum all the way down. This has consequences. Read my book for many of them! amzn.to/4aMQJD1

2025 Nobel Prize in Physics Goes to Researchers Who Brought Quantum Mechanics into the Macroscale World | Scientific American www.scientificamerican.com/article/2025...

This Year’s Nobel Prize in Physics Is Awarded to Three Scientists for Work in Quantum Mechanics

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis shared the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work showing how bizarre microscopic quantum effects can infiltrate our large-scale, everyday world

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Samir Varma @samirvarma.bsky.social · 17d

Cannabis extract found to be effective for lower back pain | New Scientist

Cannabis extract found to be effective for lower back pain

A clinical trial has found that VER-01, a drug derived from cannabis, eases chronic lower back pain without serious side effects or signs of addiction

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Samir Varma @samirvarma.bsky.social · 18d

Mathematicians Discover Prime Number Pattern in Fractal Chaos | Scientific American www.scientificamerican.com/article/math...

Fractal Chaos Discovered in Prime Numbers

Mathematicians have found a new way to predict how prime numbers behave

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Samir Varma @samirvarma.bsky.social · 19d

My second post on India's (normal) language chaos is up! open.substack.com/pub/samirvar...

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Samir Varma @samirvarma.bsky.social · 20d

Another excellent post from @benyeohben: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Policing, motherhood, obesity

Justin Bieber family values. Institutions of motherhood. Policing Podcast. Health: My panel chat on obesity. Autism: Naomi Fisher against determinism. Innovation circles.

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Samir Varma @samirvarma.bsky.social · 20d

AI has had zero effect on jobs so far: Yale study www.theregister.com/2025/10/01/a...

AI has had zero effect on jobs so far: Yale study

: Other studies are finding the same thing

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Samir Varma @samirvarma.bsky.social · 21d

Square Kilometre Array datacenter needs two Faraday cages www.theregister.com/2025/10/02/s...

Square Kilometre Array datacenter needs two Faraday cages

IAC 2025: Stray signals are a no-no when you’re trying to tune into the stars

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Samir Varma @samirvarma.bsky.social · 22d

Taller than Mount Everest: Scientists discover the Earth’s largest mountains, but no one could ever see them | - The Times of India timesofindia.indiatimes.com/science/tall...

Taller than Mount Everest: Scientists discover the Earth’s largest mountains, but no one could ever see them | - The Times of India

Science News: Scientists have discovered colossal mountain-like structures, known as Large Low Shear Velocity Provinces (LLSVPs), buried deep within the Earth's man

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