Researchers have separated Europe's Ganoderma lucidum from the East Asian medicinal lingzhi, lineages that diverged at least 16 million years ago. The name has been doing the work of both since 1781.
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Kadena airbase has barred every vehicle made by BYD, from private cars to delivery vans. American officials have not identified a specific threat.
Value added tax on aviation turbine fuel at Chennai airport has fallen from 29 per cent to 16 per cent. Two airlines have agreed to add services without saying when.
The central bank modelled what would happen to chip exports if big US technology firms slowed their AI spending next year. The scenario is the only one it published with figures.
Portia fimbriata hangs upside down in a small web at night. Researchers recorded leg curls, eye movements and twitching, then tried a loud noise.
The r/opensource subreddit now excludes projects that use, are made by, or are intended for AI. It also excludes anyone not posting in English.
WADA's 2027 prohibited list, in force from 1 January, keeps GLP-1 drugs on the monitoring programme. The agency's own criteria require at least two of three boxes to be ticked.
Switzerland lost more than 5 per cent of its glacier ice this year and nearly 20 per cent in five. Between July and September the melt came to about 2.2 trillion litres.
In a rebuttal to the US Trade Representative's notorious markets review, Meta described an AI tool that predicts unauthorised broadcasts and takes them down in real time. It published no figures.
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