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The quasi-local notion of an isolated horizon is employed to study the entropy of black holes without any particular symmetry in loop quantum gravity. The idea of characterizing the shape of a horizon by a sequence of local areas is successfully applied in the scheme to calculate the entropy by the S O(1, 1) BF boundary theory matching loop quantum gravity in the bulk. The generating function for calculating the microscopical degrees of freedom of a given isolated horizon is obtained. Numerical computations of small black holes indicate a new entropy formula containing the quantum correction related to the partition of the horizon. Further evidence shows that, for a given horizon area, the entropy decreases as a black hole deviates from the spherically symmetric one, and the entropy formula is also well suitable for big black holes.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the mpox outbreak in parts of Africa a public health emergency of international concern.

The highly contagious disease — formerly known as monkeypox — has killed at least 450 people during an initial outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

It has now spread across parts of central and east Africa, and scientists are concerned about how fast a new variant of the disease is spreading and its high fatality rate.

University of Exeter scientists found that common antifungals cause pathogens to self-destruct.

The study reveals that the most common anti-fungals prompt pathogens to undergo self-destructive processes.

The white dwarf’s brightness plunges in a mere 30 minutes—faster than any observed before.

Astronomers discover massive radio galaxy 100 times larger than the Milky Way.

Gramicidins work as antibiotics against gram-positive bacteria like Bacillus subtilis and Staphylococcus aureus, but not well against gram-negative ones like E. coli. ^{[ 3 ]}

Gramicidins are used in medicinal lozenges for sore throat and in topical medicines to treat infected wounds.s are often mixed with other antibiotics like tyrocidine and antiseptics. ^{[ 4 ]} s are also used in eye drops for bacterial eye infections. In drops, they are often mixed with other antibiotics like polymyxin B or neomycin. Multiple antibiotics increase efficiency against various strains of bacteria. ^{[ 5 ]} Such eye-drops are also used to treat eye infections of animals, like horses. ^{[ 6 ]}

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Surveying the effects of quality, diversity, and complexity in synthetic data from large language models w/ alex havrilla of georgia tech.

Speakers: Cecile Tamura, Robert Pray, Riju Pahwa

AI is driving a surge in energy consumption, but tiny crystals that can toggle between light to dark, and stay there indefinitely, could be the answer.

Agentic AI will be a critical differentiating capability. This framework can help business executives define, understand, and prepare for artificial intelligence agents.