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Exploiting user comments for early detection of fake news prior to users’ commenting
Higher Education PressCAS-FEND distills comment knowledge into a content-only student, beating comment-aware rivals with a quarter of comments for timely fake-news catch
- Journal
- Frontiers of Computer Science
Tsinghua University Press launches ocean journal to promote global marine research collaboration
Tsinghua University PressBusiness Announcement
Tsinghua University Press is pleased to announce the official launch of Ocean (www.sciopen.com/journal/3008-1203), an international, peer-reviewed open-access journal dedicated to advancing research in ocean science, technology, and engineering.
- Journal
- Ocean
New multi-modal AI framework brings human-like reasoning to self-driving vehicles
Tsinghua University PressPeer-Reviewed Publication
Autonomous driving systems increasingly rely on data-driven approaches, yet many still struggle with reasoning, handling rare scenarios, and transparently explaining their actions. A new study introduces DriveMLM, a multi-modal large language model framework that aligns language-based reasoning with structured behavioral planning states, enabling full closed-loop driving in realistic simulators. By integrating multi-view images, LiDAR inputs, traffic rules, and natural-language instructions, DriveMLM generates both driving decisions and human-readable explanations that map directly to vehicle control. The system significantly improves safety, adaptability, and interpretability, demonstrating how large language models (LLMs) can advance the next generation of autonomous driving technology.
- Journal
- Visual Intelligence
Surprising nanoscopic heat traps found in diamonds
University of WarwickPeer-Reviewed Publication
- Journal
- Physical Review Letters
- Funder
- EPSRC
UAE launches new AI ecosystem for global agricultural development
CGIARBusiness Announcement
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates – The United Arab Emirates has launched Abu Dhabi’s AI Ecosystem for Global Agricultural Development, a platform designed to bring AI solutions to climate-exposed agricultural regions and support the communities most affected by shifting weather patterns.
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- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Fast-tracking a natural climate solution by compressing millennia of carbon capture into hours
The Hebrew University of JerusalemPeer-Reviewed Publication
Researchers have managed to speed up a natural process that normally takes thousands of years, creating a lab “machine” to capture carbon dioxide. A new study shows how limestone, dolomite, and seawater can be used as a natural carbon absorption system and could help reduce emissions from power plants in the future. By running CO₂ and seawater through columns filled with these common rocks, the team demonstrated a controllable way to lock carbon safely in dissolved form, rather than letting it escape into the air. The system already works but currently captures only part of the CO₂, leaving clear room – and a clear roadmap – for engineering improvements toward a practical, nature-based carbon capture technology.
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- Environmental Science & Technology