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Public research university in Boca Raton, Florida, part of the State University System of Florida, with faculty conducting ecological and biological research.
USF and FAU researchers used an Oxford Nanopore MinION to detect 11 harmful algal bloom species at 20 Indian River Lagoon sites. Some were at very low concentrations, and the team says that supports earlier warning; forecasting would take repeat sampling through time.
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Florida Atlantic University researchers filmed wild blacktip sharks turning away from low-frequency sounds played as far as 74 meters away. The speaker was played loud enough to startle, so the result maps hearing range and direction in open water and leaves everyday human noise untested.
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D-Wave opened a beta of its gate-model simulator, letting customers write and test error-aware programs against its dual-rail qubit design. Teams can now check algorithms against that design's errors while fault-tolerant hardware stays on D-Wave's roadmap.
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Florida Atlantic University researchers recorded wild blacktip sharks turning from low-frequency sounds as far as 74 meters away. The sounds were played loud enough to startle, so the study measures what sharks can hear and locate; how they respond to quieter human noise is still untested.
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A Congo Basin survey makes a methods argument more than a discovery one. Vertical position is a habitat axis. The team held location and clock fixed while varying only height. That design is what makes the axis measurable.
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Alaska's North Slope tundra stays small because winter punishes anything above the snow. That ceiling is lifting by roughly 0.7C a decade, and the baseline it held cannot be collected twice.
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