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Now THAT'S what you call a cold one! Rare bottle of Arctic beer will be opened after 150 years to revive the ancient brew
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The quest to find Shackleton's ship uncovered an Antarctic mystery
Environment Animals Wildlife Fish The quest to find Shackleton's ship uncovered an Antarctic mystery Beneath the ice, an underwater robot discovered something far stranger than the'Endurance' shipwreck. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. The Antarctic Ocean's brutal conditions ultimately doomed Ernest Shackleton's famed 1915 expedition aboard the . Although the icy environment has quickly turned fatal for many unfortunate explorers, it's not an entirely inhospitable place . While attempting to locate Shackleton's sunken ship in 2019, researchers unexpectedly documented a strange sight-a sprawling, geometric complex of over 1,000 icefish nests .
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Repurposing Synthetic Data for Fine-grained Search Agent Supervision
Zhao, Yida, Li, Kuan, Wu, Xixi, Zhang, Liwen, Zhang, Dingchu, Li, Baixuan, Song, Maojia, Chen, Zhuo, Wang, Chenxi, Wang, Xinyu, Tu, Kewei, Xie, Pengjun, Zhou, Jingren, Jiang, Yong
LLM-based search agents are increasingly trained on entity-centric synthetic data to solve complex, knowledge-intensive tasks. However, prevailing training methods like Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) discard this rich entity information, relying instead on sparse, outcome-based rewards. This critical limitation renders them unable to distinguish informative "near-miss" samples-those with substantially correct reasoning but a flawed final answer-from complete failures, thus discarding valuable learning signals. We address this by leveraging the very entities discarded during training. Our empirical analysis reveals a strong positive correlation between the number of ground-truth entities identified during an agent's reasoning process and final answer accuracy. Building on this insight, we introduce Entity-aware Group Relative Policy Optimization (E-GRPO), a novel framework that formulates a dense entity-aware reward function. E-GRPO assigns partial rewards to incorrect samples proportional to their entity match rate, enabling the model to effectively learn from these "near-misses". Experiments on diverse question-answering (QA) and deep research benchmarks show that E-GRPO consistently and significantly outperforms the GRPO baseline. Furthermore, our analysis reveals that E-GRPO not only achieves superior accuracy but also induces more efficient reasoning policies that require fewer tool calls, demonstrating a more effective and sample-efficient approach to aligning search agents.
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Rhinos once lived in Canada
A newly discovered species of Arctic rhino lived 23 million years ago. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. About 23 million years ago, a rhinoceros stomped across the Canadian High Arctic . Now extinct, a team of scientists from the Canadian Museum of Nature (CMN) have found a new species of the enigmatic "Arctic rhino." First uncovered almost 40 years ago in lake deposits in Haughton Crater on Devon Island, Nunavut, was more petite than many of its modern descendants.
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13 inspiring photos of thriving deep-sea animals
A recent Schmidt Ocean Institute expedition off the coast of Uruguay discovered at least 30 suspected new species and explored a sunken warship. An octopus moves around deep-sea corals at 1,612 meters (about 5,288 feet) during a remotely operated vehicle, or ROV, dive near the historic HMS'Challenger's' oceanographic station 320, where the country's first coral samples were collected almost 150 years ago. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. An expedition led by a team of scientists from Uruguay discovered that the South American nation's deep-sea coral reefs are thriving and teeming with life. The reefs are primarily home to numerous species that were recently listed as vulnerable to extinction.
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The search for Cleopatra's long-lost tomb leads to sunken seaport
Science Archaeology The search for Cleopatra's long-lost tomb leads to sunken seaport A new documentary explores this 2,000-year-old mystery and a connection to the RMS'Titanic.' Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. She's among the most famous leaders in world history, yet archeologists still don't know the location of Egyptian Queen Cleopatra's tomb. Now, National Geographic Explorer and archaeologist Dr. Kathleen Martínez and her team have uncovered a major clue in their 20-year-long hunt: the remains of a port off Egypt's Mediterranean coast. The previously unknown ancient port could have been used to keep the Egyptian queen's remains out of Roman hands.
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Is THIS Amelia Earhart's missing plane? Expedition this month will finally confirm if the 'Taraia Object' in a lagoon on Nikumaroro Island is her Lockheed Electra 10E
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Expedition & Expansion: Leveraging Semantic Representations for Goal-Directed Exploration in Continuous Cellular Automata
Khajehabdollahi, Sina, Hamon, Gautier, Cvjetko, Marko, Oudeyer, Pierre-Yves, Moulin-Frier, Clément, Colas, Cédric
Discovering diverse visual patterns in continuous cellular automata (CA) is challenging due to the vastness and redundancy of high-dimensional behavioral spaces. Traditional exploration methods like Novelty Search (NS) expand locally by mutating known novel solutions but often plateau when local novelty is exhausted, failing to reach distant, unexplored regions. We introduce Expedition and Expansion (E&E), a hybrid strategy where exploration alternates between local novelty-driven expansions and goal-directed expeditions. During expeditions, E&E leverages a Vision-Language Model (VLM) to generate linguistic goals--descriptions of interesting but hypothetical patterns that drive exploration toward uncharted regions. By operating in semantic spaces that align with human perception, E&E both evaluates novelty and generates goals in conceptually meaningful ways, enhancing the interpretability and relevance of discovered behaviors. Tested on Flow Lenia, a continuous CA known for its rich, emergent behaviors, E&E consistently uncovers more diverse solutions than existing exploration methods. A genealogical analysis further reveals that solutions originating from expeditions disproportionately influence long-term exploration, unlocking new behavioral niches that serve as stepping stones for subsequent search. These findings highlight E&E's capacity to break through local novelty boundaries and explore behavioral landscapes in human-aligned, interpretable ways, offering a promising template for open-ended exploration in artificial life and beyond.
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13 World War II shipwrecks captured in stunning detail
Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Judging by newly released photos and video, the crew aboard Ocean Exploration Trust's Nautilus research vessel had an extremely productive summer trip to the South Pacific. Over 22 days, the team completed detailed archaeological surveys of more than a dozen shipwrecks sunk amid the Solomon Islands campaign during World War II. In addition to imaging four of them for the first time, experts guided remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) towards the rediscovery of two long-lost vessels:the separated bow from the USS New Orleans as well as the Imperial Japanese Naval destroyer Teruzuki. Although researchers originally spotted some of these shipwrecks more than 34 years ago, Ocean Exploration Trust president Robert Ballard explained that the most recent trip to Iron Bottom Sound provided opportunities to document their finds using a new generation of technology including high-definition survey cameras, underwater vehicles, and imaging tools aboard the EV Nautilus.
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27 new, exciting, and blobby species discovered in the Peruvian rainforest
A rainfrog, an amphibious mouse, and a "blob-headed" fish are only some of the 27 new species discovered deep Peru's Amazon rainforest. During a survey in 2022, a team from Conservation International recorded 2,046 total species living in this lush and heavily forested landscape, many of whom are endangered. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. By signing up you agree to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The creatures were all found in the Alto Mayo Landscape which spans the Andes mountains to the Amazon River and includes the Alto Mayo Protected Forest.
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