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How much do financial institutions really care about relationships?
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How much do financial institutions really care about relationships?

How do you measure the value of a relationship? One way is forbearance—what the involved parties would give up to stay together. That's the principle used by Stephen Karolyi, associate professor of finance at the Costello College of Business at George Mason University, in his co-authored research on relationship lending in the banking industry.

📅 2026-09-17 18:40:10    •    Phys.org
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Lincoln Laboratory summer research interns take on national security challenges
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Lincoln Laboratory summer research interns take on national security challenges

Nearly 170 interns recently dispersed from MIT Lincoln Laboratory to return to their undergraduate or advanced degree programs. For Anna Raymaker and Vivek Jagadeesh, however, the work is just getting started. They are among more than two dozen interns staying on as student technical assistants, continuing to support the laboratory's national security research during the 2026-27 academic year."Our summer research program is a key pathway for developing talent to support defense-critical programs," says Robert Loynd, executive officer in the Director's Office. "Interns are embedded in R&D teams across nearly all mission areas, from missile defense and cyber operations to advanced communicatio...

📅 2026-09-17 18:30:00    •    MIT News
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A space shark, 'royal' auroras and a 'Venusian pearl': See the winners of the 2026 ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year contest
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A space shark, 'royal' auroras and a 'Venusian pearl': See the winners of the 2026 ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year contest

A picture of a distant, shark-shaped cloud of gas in space has earned the top prize in a Royal Observatory Greenwich contest for amateur space photographers.Dubbed "The Quiet Predator," the image by skywatcher Ali Alobaidly shows off the Shark Nebula (LDN 1235), which is roughly 650 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cepheus (the Whale). (For perspective, the nearest star system to our planet is only about 4 light-years away.) The stunning image was chosen as the overall winner of the Royal Observatory Greenwich's 18th ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year contest, whose honorees were announced Thursday (Sept. 17).Alobaidly took the prize-winning image from the Jahra governorate in...

📅 2026-09-17 18:30:00    •    Live Science
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See the dazzling images that won Astronomy Photographer of the Year
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See the dazzling images that won Astronomy Photographer of the Year

The Quiet PredatorThe Quiet Predator © Ali Alobaidly (Kuwait) The astonishing diversity of the cosmos is on display in the 2026 Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition, organised by the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London. From our own solar system to distant nebulae, these images showcase the many wonders we can observe from the ground on Earth. The overall winner (above), The Quiet Predator, was taken by Ali Alobaidly in Kuwait. It shows a dense nebula 650 light years away, in the constellation Cepheus. This cloud of dust, called the Shark nebula, contains a few bright stars that make their surroundings glow blue. The nebula is so dark and distant that it took Alobaidly more than...

📅 2026-09-17 18:30:00    •    New Scientist
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Scientists identify rare genetic mutation that dramatically raises risk of lung cancer in nonsmokers
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Scientists identify rare genetic mutation that dramatically raises risk of lung cancer in nonsmokers

Scientists have identified an inherited genetic mutation that greatly increases the risk of lung cancer, even in people who have never smoked.The mutation involves the EGFR gene, which helps control cells' growth, division and survival. People who had never smoked and who had the genetic mutation — called EGFR T790M — were 62 times more likely to develop lung cancer than nonsmokers without the mutation, according to the new study, published Thursday (Sept. 17) in the journal Science. By comparison, people who smoked but didn't carry the mutation were four times likelier to develop lung cancer than nonsmokers, so the mutation alone carried a higher risk of the disease.Among people in the stud...

📅 2026-09-17 18:27:36    •    Live Science
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Threatened bumblebee populations in England and Wales face severe genetic declines
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Threatened bumblebee populations in England and Wales face severe genetic declines

A new study reveals that an important pollinator is rapidly losing genetic diversity in Britain. Moss carder bumblebees were once widespread across the UK, living in flower-rich meadows, marshes and heathlands, where they pollinated a wide variety of plants. However, the loss of these habitats has caused the species to retreat into strongholds along the country's coasts and islands.

📅 2026-09-17 18:20:21    •    Phys.org
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This million-year-old 'baby planet' is the youngest world scientists have ever discovered
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This million-year-old 'baby planet' is the youngest world scientists have ever discovered

A "baby" exoplanet, discovered emerging from its cosmic cocoon around a nearby star, is the youngest alien world ever seen, a new study reveals. The planetary infant is less than 1 million years old and could help researchers study how other planets, including our own, took shape. The juvenile world, dubbed Elias 2-24 b, orbits a newly formed star around 450 light-years from Earth. It is somewhere between two and four times as massive as Jupiter and almost twice as far from its home star as Neptune is from the sun. Astronomers spotted initial signs of the hefty exoplanet in 2017, when they noticed a small gap in the star's protoplanetary disk — the swirling ring of gas, dust and other stella...

📅 2026-09-17 18:10:12    •    Live Science
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International search begins for Dean with a radical vision to lead Rokos School of Government
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International search begins for Dean with a radical vision to lead Rokos School of Government

International search begins for Dean with a radical vision to lead Rokos School of Government Craig Brierley Thu, 09/17/2026 - 16:42 The School – announced in March this year – aims to prepare future leaders to be able to navigate the ever-more-challenging demands of both domestic and international politics in a new and complex world of great structural change.Speaking at the time of the launch, Chris Rokos said that he wanted the School to be “a unique forum for radical and remarkable thinking, capturing the inspiration of the brightest minds from around the world and harnessing new technologies in order to meet the needs of modern government.”The University today launches its search for an...

📅 2026-09-17 15:42:21    •    Cambridge News
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'Predatory behavior': Elite mathematicians clash over OpenAI's 'solution' to million-dollar math problem
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'Predatory behavior': Elite mathematicians clash over OpenAI's 'solution' to million-dollar math problem

HEIDELBERG, Germany — Often considered the slowest, most methodical and most abstract of the sciences, mathematics usually advances so incrementally and esoterically that it rarely troubles the mainstream media. It was therefore with some discomfort that a panel of elite mathematicians took to the stage Sept. 15 here at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum, a conference that unites young researchers with award-winning mathematicians and computer scientists. The focus of the panel: to confront the rapid rise of AI, whose threat to their quiet discipline has thrust them into the limelight.In the past year alone, AI systems have made substantial contributions to the solutions of dozens of problems pos...

📅 2026-09-17 15:25:53    •    Live Science
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Scientists name a new cat species for the first time in over a century
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Scientists name a new cat species for the first time in over a century

For the first time in a century, scientists have identified a new cat species, thanks to genetic analysis — and it's resolved a long-standing debate about the cat family tree. The newly identified species, Leopardus tilcayo, is a type of tiger cat ‪—‬ a small, spotted wild cat ‪—‬ that lives in the Yungas cloud forest region of Bolivia. The analysis also revealed a subspecies of another tiger cat species, named Leopardus tigrinus antisuyo, which lives in Peru.Previously thought to be a northern tiger cat (Leopardus tigrinus), L. tilcayo split off from other Leopardus species 1.4 million years ago, the study found. This makes it the first novel living cat species to be discovered in over a ce...

📅 2026-09-17 15:00:00    •    Live Science
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Beautiful new cat species is first to be named in a century
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Beautiful new cat species is first to be named in a century

The tilcayo (Leopardus tilcayo) in an animal refuge in La Paz, BoliviaPaola Nogales-Ascarrunz A new cat species has been scientifically described – the diminutive, spotted tilcayo from Bolivia. Several species of small cat in the Leopardus genus live in South America, including the ocelot, margay, kodkod, Geoffroy’s cat and the tiger cat or oncilla. The similar appearance of these nocturnal and hard-to-spot cats has made separating them into distinct species difficult. This is particularly true of tiger cats, which are about the size of a house cat, and are found in Costa Rica in Central America, and across a vast swathe of South America including Bolivia, Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuado...

📅 2026-09-17 15:00:00    •    New Scientist
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CERN’s new internal justice system is now in force
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CERN’s new internal justice system is now in force

TOPIC:At CERN CERN’s new internal justice system is now in force The reform marks an important step towards a more modern, accessible, professional and independent system of internal justice — 17 September, 2026 CERN’s new internal justice system is now officially in force. Developed through close collaboration between the Management, the Staff Association and external experts, and through a process of concertation, this reform marks an important step towards a more modern, accessible, professional and independent system of internal justice. The new internal justice system aims to clarify the options available to personnel and strengthen the fair and consistent handling of disputes, reports ...

📅 2026-09-17 14:50:55    •    CERN
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The September/October 2026 issue of the CERN Courier is out
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The September/October 2026 issue of the CERN Courier is out

TOPIC:Physics The September/October 2026 issue of the CERN Courier is out Written by: CERN Courier — 17 September, 2026 (Image: Grégory Millasseau/CERN) In his landmark 1945 report Science, the Endless Frontier, Vannevar Bush argued that basic research is the fund from which applications, and with them prosperity, are drawn. Eight decades on, the High-Luminosity LHC is expected to return to society nearly twice its cost, before a single discovery is counted. The largest share comes from the skills researchers take into the wider economy. Technological spillovers come close behind, as demanding contracts leave suppliers with new techniques and markets. The LHC demanded large-scale industrial ...

📅 2026-09-17 14:40:43    •    CERN
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Upgrading the CMS muon chamber electronics
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Upgrading the CMS muon chamber electronics

Ongoing upgrades on the road to HiLumi Upgrading the CMS muon chamber electronics Work on the CMS muon system upgrade is now underway, with teams starting to install the new electronic system for the Drift Tube (DT) chambers. By 2028, all the 250 muon chambers in the CMS barrel will be equipped with the new mini crates housing the electronic boards to read out and control the DT chambers These boards digitise signals from muons passing through the DT with nanosecond-level precision and transmit the information via high-speed optical links to the backend electronics. The new architecture will contribute to improve the performance of the CMS trigger system for the High-Luminosity LHC era, whic...

📅 2026-09-17 14:10:44    •    CERN
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Scientists discover a mysterious new frog hiding in the Amazon
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Scientists discover a mysterious new frog hiding in the Amazon

Scientists discovered a new frog species in the flooded forests of the western Amazon, distinguishing it from nearly identical relatives through DNA and its unique call. Adenomera varcena highlights how much Amazonian biodiversity remains hidden even as habitat loss and climate change threaten these poorly understood species.

📅 2026-09-17 14:08:44    •    ScienceDaily
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1,000-year-old 'snake amulet' featuring a Christian saint and 'Medusa' discovered in Russia
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1,000-year-old 'snake amulet' featuring a Christian saint and 'Medusa' discovered in Russia

Archaeologists excavating a medieval settlement in northwestern Russia have unearthed an unusual 11th-century pendant that combines Christian and pagan imagery. It is the oldest amulet of its kind discovered in the region.The double-sided copper-alloy pendant was found during a summer excavation in Staraya Russa, a historic town between Moscow and St. Petersburg, according to a translated statement from Novgorod State University. One side depicts a Christian saint, while the other side has a Medusa-like figure. The artifact is known in Russian as a "snake amulet" or "serpentine pendant." Four other examples of this jewelry type are known from Christian sites in the area, but those have been ...

📅 2026-09-17 13:59:01    •    Live Science
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The disconnection of the LHC has begun
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The disconnection of the LHC has begun

TOPIC:Accelerators The disconnection of the LHC has begun Work has begun to disconnect the focusing magnets on either side of the ATLAS and CMS experiments, a key step on the road to the HiLumi LHC Written by: Anaïs Schaeffer — 17 September, 2026 CERN Director-General, Mark Thomson, visited the LHC tunnel to mark the start of the dismantling of the accelerator sections that will be replaced by the new HiLumi LHC components. (Image: CERN) The 27 km circumference of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) contains thousands of magnets of different types – dipoles, quadrupoles, sextupoles, octupoles, decapoles, etc. – which each play a very specific role. Among them are the inner triplets: sets of thre...

📅 2026-09-17 13:25:25    •    CERN
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