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Quanta Magazine has published a feature asking whether cold fusion — the once-disgraced claim of producing nuclear fusion at room temperature — deserves more scientific scrutiny than its reputation for failure and fraud allows. The piece revisits the history of the 1989 Fleischmann-Pons controversy and the researchers who have quietly continued low-energy nuclear reaction experiments. Readers are debating whether the field was written off too quickly or correctly dismissed.
- 2AI researcher Tomáš Mikolov receives Czech Medal of Merit●Tomáš Mikolov awarded the Medal of Merit by the President of the Czech Republic
Tomáš Mikolov, the Czech computer scientist known for his pioneering work on word embeddings and neural language models, has been awarded the Medal of Merit by the President of the Czech Republic. He is among graduates of Brno University of Technology honoured with state decorations for their contributions to science and the country's international standing in artificial intelligence research.
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Scientists have invoked an unusual physical process to explain how clouds form on Mars, where the thin, dry atmosphere should make cloud formation difficult. The finding resolves a long-standing puzzle about Martian meteorology and could improve understanding of the planet's climate. It is being discussed in physics and space science circles.