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World24 Sept

NISAR radar reveals months of change in a Kamchatka lava field

Seventeen NISAR radar observations reveal the changing outline of a Kamchatka lava field and offer a public starting point for studying how landscapes move.

NASA radar visualization of the Krasheninnikov lava field with its observation date and map grid. — Krasheninnikov lava field · 17 radar observations, 2025–26. Brightness represents reflected signal, not heat or lava volume.

Earth observation · 3 reading depths

San Francisco / Culture · archive16 Sept

Grace Cathedral scheduled five nights of light across Nob Hill

Illuminate scheduled GRACE+WINDOW across Nob Hill for September 21–25, with overnight beams and free indoor viewing from 8 p.m. to midnight.

Grace Cathedral’s illuminated stained-glass rose window, viewed from the dark interior in 2019. — Grace Cathedral’s rose window · 2019.

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THE EDITION

From the city to the frontier.

United States

Possibilities taking shape

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Energy24 Sept

DOE selects 31 projects to expand capacity on existing transmission lines

DOE selected 31 projects intended to expand transmission capacity through upgraded conductors and better operation of existing lines, with awards and benefits still ahead.

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Planned investment and projected capacity are different quantities

$5.25 billion in planned contributions.

US$ billion · planned

Federal contribution1.9

Recipient contribution3.35

DOE selections · Planned investment, projected benefits.

Medicine24 Sept

FDA approves a kidney-cancer combination that delays progression

FDA approval adds belzutifan plus lenvatinib after immunotherapy for certain advanced kidney cancers, supported by better progression-free survival but no statistically significant overall-survival advantage.

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Progression and overall survival give different answers

Longer before progression or death.

Median progression-free survival · months

Belzutifan + lenvatinib14.6

95% confidence interval: 11.1–16.6 Median progression-free survival · months

Cabozantinib10.6

95% confidence interval: 9.2–11.1 Median progression-free survival · months

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747 trial participants · Dots: medians; lines: 95% confidence intervals.

Ukraine

Continuity. Reconstruction. Life.

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Education24 Sept

Ukraine reallocates ₴731.1 million for frontline teachers’ supplements

Ukraine reallocated ₴731.1 million to continue a ₴2,600 monthly supplement for eligible teachers working in person or in blended classrooms near the front and border.

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A twelve-month strip. January to August is marked for adjustments to actual eligible work; September to December for continued funding. The supplement is ₴2,600 a month for eligible teachers working in person or in blended classrooms in frontline and border communities. The ₴731.1 million reallocation spans 90 local budgets in six oblasts. — The reallocation maintains an existing ₴2,600 monthly supplement. Earlier months require adjustments to eligible work; later months receive continued funding. Targeted funding is neither a universal entitlement nor proof of payment. Employers must confirm eligibility, recorded months and receipt.

World

A wider perspective

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Culture24 Sept

Sudanese heritage teams assess damage and train for recovery

UNESCO’s work with Sudanese heritage professionals combines site assessment and local training, building the evidence needed to decide what to protect before restoration begins.

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Conceptual damage–risk grid: damage already done increases horizontally, and risk of further loss increases vertically. Little damage with high risk can warrant urgent attention; extensive damage alone does not determine priority. No actual site, score or restoration result is plotted. — Damage records what has happened; risk asks what may be lost next. This conceptual grid explains why the most damaged site is not automatically the most urgent. Actual priorities also depend on local expertise, authority and feasible protective work.

Artificial intelligence

New tools, considered

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Practical tools24 Sept

Microsoft Foundry makes scheduled and event-triggered routines generally available

Microsoft Foundry’s generally available routines connect a time or supported event to an agent invocation, while leaving the quality and authority of the resulting action to the application.

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One configured trigger invokes one agent action per routine. Trigger options are a schedule or supported GitHub and Teams events; only recurring schedules have a five-minute minimum. Records retain input, status and output. Dispatch uses the agent identity by default, or the routine creator identity if explicitly chosen at setup. This does not assert exactly-once delivery. — Foundry configures one trigger and one agent action per routine. The five-minute minimum applies to recurring schedules. Dispatch uses the agent identity unless the routine creator explicitly chooses their own at creation. Delivery can retry; branching and approvals require workflow logic.

Biotechnology × AI

At the edge of what we know

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Research tools24 Sept

PREDICTS puts 62 molecular models into a four-organization pilot

Deep Origin says four organizations now have access to PREDICTS ADMET models, creating a pilot in which experimental results could reveal whether predictions help beyond their training data.

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Availability can be counted; usefulness needs an experiment

62 of 77 planned models

models

Available to pilot62

Planned collection77

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Deep Origin’s reported deployment. These counts establish neither independent prospective validation nor clinical benefit.

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