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Why are we so squeamish about eating hagfish?

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When fishers are out working their boats, they are typically targeting a specific type of fish. However, other species often end up in their nets or trawls as well. This is known as "bycatch"—seafood for which the fishers receive no payment. Although it is illegal to discard bycatch back into the sea, it still happens.

Fingernail-sized chip untangles mixed light into clean beams

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Stanford engineers and colleagues designed a chip that can take a muddled mixture of light from multiple lasers and output clean beams of light. It's the first time researchers have demonstrated a device that can take in mixed, or partially coherent, light and sort its photons into a clear set of separate beams.

Sources: Anthropic has told investors in recent meetings that its 15-person chip design team is using Claude for engineering and design work on its custom chips (The Information)

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Sources: Anthropic has told investors in recent meetings that its 15-person chip design team is using Claude for engineering and design work on its custom chips  —  Anthropic's AI models have helped uncover serious cyber vulnerabilities and transform the software coding profession.

US supreme court to hear arguments in Catholic preschools’ LGBTQ+ exclusion case

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A decision could reshape the relationship between religious freedom and nondiscrimination laws in the US

The US supreme court will hear arguments on Tuesday over a challenge brought by two Catholic preschools in Colorado, arguing that they should be admitted to the state’s free education system despite their rejection of children with LGBTQ+ parents.

A decision in the case, St Mary Catholic Parish v Roy, could reshape the relationship between religious freedom and nondiscrimination laws in the US.

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