The University of Edinburgh is a major Scottish research university, with departments spanning physics, astronomy, engineering, and informatics.
Edinburgh-led researchers built an algorithm that runs photonic quantum simulations on standard computers at around 5% of the compute, the team says. If the figure holds, groups without supercomputer access can test how error-prone photonic hardware behaves.
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Edinburgh surgeons have returned a 19-year-old's frozen testicular tissue to his body, the UK's first such transplant and the second reported worldwide. Its result is the first UK test of whether tissue banked from boys before chemotherapy can restore sperm production.
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Scottish researchers used bomb radiocarbon in five stranded whales' teeth to show sperm and killer whale tooth layers form yearly through midlife. That gives museum teeth a dated record of each whale's life, though layers formed in old age were a less reliable age marker.
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Researchers writing in Nature Medicine pooled data on over 6 million people in 118 countries and found women report more pain than men at all 11 body sites. The authors say the steep climb in pain before 55 argues for prevention during working age.
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Researchers read a token out of a co-located Worker in Cloudflare's production fleet, 360 times faster than the 2021 demo that justified language-level isolation.
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Ruslan Mizhaev gave integer coordinates to all 24 vertices of an eight-faced polyhedron with three holes, so others can check it. Each face touches all seven others, some along two edges, in a looser version of the Szilassi polyhedron's all-neighbours pattern.
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An international team sorted 539 million years of CO2 and temperature proxies into five recurring regimes and found elevated extinction near the transitions between them. What makes those transitions harmful is still open.
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The DNA damage behind skin cancer has a settled mechanism and a dose-response. The benefits attributed to sunlight rest on observational studies that vitamin D supplement trials have not confirmed, and guidance is beginning to split.
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A Tel Aviv University team gave one classical acoustic method and two deep neural networks a set of toddler recordings whose meanings adult listeners could confirm. All three grouped the clips by sound.
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An international team including the University of Edinburgh set synaptic weights in Fe3GaTe2 by turning a whole skyrmion lattice into stripes, with no cooling. The 0.66 picojoule energy figure is a projection.
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A CEA-led team heated water ice past 1,800 kelvin between two diamonds and watched its oxygen atoms restack into a hexagonal lattice that takes over from the cubic phase above 200 gigapascals.
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A rider-run charity with a decade of funding, a field test in Fife and one Deliveroo courier's spreadsheet are being pressed into service as evidence, because the party holding the pay logic is not the party being asked to explain it.
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Leeds researchers confirmed their predictions with pea and potato proteins bought off the shelf, which is the right first check and also the easiest one to pass, leaving most of the list untested and the formulation work still ahead.
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The Edinburgh photon-counting sensor spinout added an ex-Arm CTO to its board. Its CEO says 2025 sales nearly doubled and break-even is close, on just over $3M raised in total.
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