By James Whitbrook Published April 10, 2025 | Comments (0) | A Minecraft Movie released in China last week. © Warner Bros. After President Trump’s reciprocal tariff plan pivoted from a large scale implementation on practically every country in the world this week to a targeted further increase on imports from China, the China Film Administration has said it will curtail the amount of U.S. film imports that are shown in Chinese theaters. In a statement given today, the CFA said it will “moderately reduce” the number of U.S. films it brings into China, describing Trump’s sudden decision this week to further increase tariffs on Chinese imports to 125% as impositions that “will inevitably further reduce the domestic audience’s favorability towards American films.” While the decision is far from the complete ban that had been rumored this week, it still marks a significant response to the burgeoning trade war between the U.S. and China, alongside a tariff of 84% on American goods announced this morning. While China has become a significant market for U.S. films in their international releases, American-made films make up a much smaller portion of the Chinese box office, in part due to a heavily reduced distribution. Under prior trade agreements, China has only distributed up to 34 foreign-made films a year, giving international studios 25% of box office earnings. Although U.S. studios have frequently vied for tentpole releases to take up those 34 slots, Chinese interest in U.S. films has significantly decreased in recent years. The Verge reports that in 2024 U.S.-made films made up just 3.5% of the annual box office in China, but that’s still approximately $585 million. Although the CFA has yet to confirm the extent of the reductions, it’s already going to make a very small list even smaller. Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, what’s next for the DC Universe on film and TV, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who. Daily Newsletter You May Also Like By Thomas Maxwell Published April 9, 2025 By Matt Novak Published April 9, 2025 By Lucas Ropek Published April 9, 2025 By AJ Dellinger Published April 8, 2025 Maleeka Singh, Maria G. Corradini, Robert Hanner, The Conversation Published April 8, 2025 By Lucas Ropek Published April 8, 2025

Science Island Museum / SMAR Architecture StudioSave this picture!© L.Mykolaitis Architects: SMAR Architecture Studio Area Area of this architecture project Area:  15000 m² Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2025 Photographs Photographs:L.MykolaitisMore SpecsLess Specs Save this picture! Text description provided by the architects. The new Science Island Museum (Mokslo Sala) aims to be the heart of Kaunas' Nemunas Island. Our proposal follows the island's topography to create a deep connection with nature and the city. The roof will feature circular access points that serve as public stages and natural seating areas, allowing the museum to blend seamlessly into the landscape and the park.Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!The building comprises two main areas: the "Back of the House" and the "Front of the House." Unlike many public buildings, the "Back of the House" is not neglected but rather a space where laboratories and offices also receive natural light and have views of the park.Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!The design of the building emphasises a continuous connection to the exterior and the climate to foster the understanding of how the building contributes to a comprehensive understanding of Environmental Sciences. This extends beyond the exhibition spaces, providing a holistic experience for visitors who are aware of the light, weather, and seasonal changes as they navigate through the building. This creates a full phenomenological experience, allowing visitors to witness natural phenomena through the building.Save this picture!The existing landscape shapes the Innovation Centre, with the roof hosting native vegetation and featuring a sloping and reflective upper disk. This distinctive landmark, capable of reflecting the landscape and natural light into the building and artificial light from the building at night, will serve as a new sun for Kaunas, evidence that Science is always awake, searching for new answers.Save this picture!Save this picture! Project gallerySee allShow less Project locationAddress:Kaunas, LithuaniaLocation to be used only as a reference. It could indicate city/country but not exact address.About this office MaterialConcreteMaterials and TagsPublished on April 10, 2025Cite: "Science Island Museum / SMAR Architecture Studio" 10 Apr 2025. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/1028903/science-island-museum-smar-architecture-studio&gt ISSN 0719-8884Save世界上最受欢迎的建筑网站现已推出你的母语版本!想浏览ArchDaily中国吗?是否 You've started following your first account!Did you know?You'll now receive updates based on what you follow! Personalize your stream and start following your favorite authors, offices and users.Go to my stream

In this video, you'll learn how to modify materials using Substance 3D Viewer (beta). Whether you're new to 3D or just exploring the latest features of Viewer, this guide will help you get started with material adjustments quickly and easily.
 
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The ongoing proliferation of AI coding tools is not only boosting developers’ efficiency, it also signals a future where AI will generate a growing share of all new code. GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke (opens in new tab) predicted as much in 2023, when he said that “sooner than later, 80% of the code is going to be written by Copilot.”   Both large and small software companies are already heavily using AI to generate code. Y Combinator’s Garry Tan (opens in new tab) noted that 95% of code for a quarter of Y Combinator’s latest batch of startups was written by large language models. In fact, most developers spend the majority of their time debugging code, not writing it. As maintainers of popular open-source repositories, this resonates with us. But what if an AI tool could propose fixes for hundreds of open issues, and all we had to do was approve them before merging? This was what motivated us to maximize the potential time savings from AI coding tools by teaching them to debug code.  By debugging we mean the interactive, iterative process to fix code. Developers typically hypothesize why their code crashed, then gather evidence by stepping through the program and examining variable values. They often use debugging tools like pdb (Python debugger) to assist in gathering information. This process is repeated until the code is fixed. Today’s AI coding tools boost productivity and excel at suggesting solutions for bugs based on available code and error messages. However, unlike human developers, these tools don’t seek additional information when solutions fail, leaving some bugs unaddressed, as you can see in this simple demo of how a mislabeled column stumps today’s coding tools (opens in new tab). This may leave users feeling like AI coding tools don’t understand the full context of the issues they are trying to solve.  Introducing debug-gym A natural research question emerges: to what degree can LLMs use interactive debugging tools such as pdb? To explore this question, we released debug-gym (opens in new tab) – an environment that allows code-repairing agents to access tools for active information-seeking behavior. Debug-gym expands an agent’s action and observation space with feedback from tool usage, enabling setting breakpoints, navigating code, printing variable values, and creating test functions. Agents can interact with tools to investigate code or rewrite it, if confident. We believe interactive debugging with proper tools can empower coding agents to tackle real-world software engineering tasks and is central to LLM-based agent research. The fixes proposed by a coding agent with debugging capabilities, and then approved by a human programmer, will be grounded in the context of the relevant codebase, program execution and documentation, rather than relying solely on guesses based on previously seen training data. Figure 1: Diagram demonstrating the code-repairing process in outline. In most existing approaches (shown in black), an agent rewrites its code conditioned on error messages obtained from executing the code. debug-gym equips the agent with additional tools such as pdb (shown in red), so it can interactively seek necessary information from the semantic space hidden behind the code and therefore have better code-repairing performance. Debug-gym is designed and developed to: Handle repository-level information: the full repository is available to agents in debug-gym, allowing them to navigate and edit files. Be robust and safe: to safeguard both the system and the development process, debug-gym runs code within sandbox Docker containers. This isolates the runtime environment, preventing harmful actions while still allowing thorough testing and debugging.   Be easily extensible: debug-gym was conceived with extensibility in mind and provides practitioners with the possibility of easily adding new tools.   Be text-based: debug-gym represents observation information in structured text (e.g., JSON format) and defines a simple syntax for text actions, making the environment fully compatible with modern LLM-based agents. With debug-gym, researchers and developers can specify a folder path to work with any custom repository to evaluate their debugging agent’s performance. Additionally, debug-gym includes three coding benchmarks to measure LLM-based agents’ performance in interactive debugging: Aider for simple function-level code generation, Mini-nightmare for short, hand-crafted buggy code examples, and SWE-bench for real-world coding problems requiring a comprehensive understanding of a large codebase and a solution in the format of a GitHub pull request. To learn more about debug-gym and start using it to train your own debugging agents, please refer to the technical report (opens in new tab) and GitHub (opens in new tab).  Early experimentation: promising signal For our initial attempt to validate that LLMs perform better on coding tests when they have access to debugging tools, we built a simple prompt-based agent and provided it with access to the following debug tools: eval, view, pdb, rewrite, and listdir. We used nine different LLMs as the backbone for our agent. Detailed results can be found in the technical report (opens in new tab). (opens in new tab) Even with debugging tools, our simple prompt-based agent rarely solves more than half of the SWE-bench (opens in new tab)Lite issues. We believe this is due to the scarcity of data representing sequential decision-making behavior (e.g., debugging traces) in the current LLM training corpus. However, the significant performance improvement (as shown in the most promising results in the graph below) validates that this is a promising research direction.  Figure 2: The success rate represents the percentage of the 300 SWE-bench Lite issues resolved. The green bars indicate the performance of the agent with debugging tools, while the gray bars show the performance of the agent without debugging tools. Note that both agents use the same backbone LLM to make decisions and propose code edits. Microsoft research podcast NeurIPS 2024: The co-evolution of AI and systems with Lidong Zhou Just after his NeurIPS 2024 keynote on the co-evolution of systems and AI, Microsoft CVP Lidong Zhou joins the podcast to discuss how rapidly advancing AI impacts the systems supporting it and the opportunities to use AI to enhance systems engineering itself. Listen now Opens in a new tab Future work We believe that training or fine-tuning LLMs can enhance their interactive debugging abilities. This requires specialized data, such as trajectory data that records agents interacting with a debugger to gather information before suggesting a fix. Unlike conventional reasoning problems, interactive debugging involves generating actions at each step that trigger feedback from the environment. This feedback helps the agent make new decisions, requiring dense data like the problem description and the sequence of actions leading to the solution.  Our plan is to fine-tune an info-seeking model specialized in gathering the necessary information to resolve bugs. The goal is to use this model to actively build relevant context for a code generation model. If the code generation model is large, there is an opportunity to build a smaller info-seeking model that can provide relevant information to the larger one, e.g., a generalization of retrieval augmented generation (RAG), thus saving AI inference costs. The data collected during the reinforcement learning loop to train the info-seeking model can also be used to fine-tune larger models for interactive debugging. We are open-sourcing debug-gym to facilitate this line of research. We encourage the community to help us advance this research towards building interactive debugging agents and, more generally, agents that can seek information by interacting with the world on demand. Acknowledgements We thank Ruoyao Wang for their insightful discussion on building interactive debugging agents, Chris Templeman and Elaina Maffeo for their team coaching, Jessica Mastronardi and Rich Ciapala for their kind support in project management and resource allocation, and Peter Jansen for providing valuable feedback for the technical report. Opens in a new tab

The right side of Bald Eagle 390’s beak as of March 24, 2025. A protein called keratin is showing signs of growth, following meticulous care from a rehabilitation team in Missouri.   CREDIT: World Bird Sanctuary. Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 After surviving a likely gunshot wound in July, a bald eagle in Missouri is showing an important sign of recovery–keratin growth on his severely injured beak. According to World Bird Sanctuary, a nonprofit that treats and houses injured raptors, it’s taken nearly nine months and seven surgeries to get the bird’s beak growing again. “While this growth is still no guarantee that the keratin will regrow over his entire beak, it gives us hope that we may start to see the growth area spreading as we move forward,” the organization wrote in a recent Facebook post.  Bald Eagle 390 at the World Bird Sanctuary in Valley Park, Missouri. CREDIT: Stu Goz Photography. Bald Eagle 390’s story On July 11, 2024 a male bald eagle (later designated as Bald Eagle 24-390 or just 390 for short) was spotted on the side of the road near Vienna, Missouri with an obvious facial injury.  “Based on the pattern of damage to the beak and trace amounts of metal found in the wound, we believe the injury to be caused by a gunshot wound,” Kira Klebe, World Bird Sanctuary’s Rehabilitation Director, tells Popular Science. “390 also had a large wound over his left humerus that was consistent with gunshot injury.” The injured bird was taken into the rehabilitation center, where his wounds were cleaned out and evaluated. Veterinarian Dr. Allison Daugherty and her team performed an initial surgery and placed eight metal cross pins, two on each side of the fracture on the bird’s beak. Bald eagle 390’s initial intake photo from July 2024 showing the extent of the injury. CREDIT: World Bird Sanctuary. Eagle beaks and talons are made of keratin, a strong type of protein that helps form skin, hair, and other outer layers of skin on a variety of animals. The team’s biggest concerns for 390’s recovery since July has been that the growth bed would be too damaged for the keratin to regrow and that the bone that supports the entire structure of the upper beak may have too much missing and grow back together. A significant chunk of that bone was missing due to the eagle’s initial injury, limiting the amount of tissue and blood that carries nutrients to the outer half of that bone. “Gunshot wounds are also inherently dirty and carry a higher risk of infection and non-union fracture healing than fractures from other sources such as vehicle collisions,” says Klebe. Since first arriving at the sanctuary, 390 has had seven additional surgeries and “countless cleanings” to keep the beak from getting infected. The team was able to remove the external support in October and added a dental acrylic covering over the gap in the bone until late March. [ Related: Hunters’ bullets are poisoning bald eagles. ] How to heal an eagle The keratin that makes up a bird’s beak and talons is similar to human nails. When it is healthy, keratin is constantly growing. Wild raptors like eagles, hawks, and falcons, need this continual keratin growth to keep their beaks and talons sharp for hunting.  “For birds under human care, the beak and talons can actually become overgrown, as they are not being used as frequently and therefore wear down more slowly than that of wild birds,” explains Klebe. “Birds under professional care can also experience faster beak and talon growth than their wild counterparts as birds under professional care are typically receiving ideal nutritional intake.” A speal eagle beak splint made using popsicle sticks. CREDIT: World Bird Sanctuary. To try and promote faster keratin growth in a bird like 390, the primary course of action is good nutrition and a low-stress environment. Eating a balanced diet with the right amount of nutrients gives their bodies the energy that they need to put the nutrients right back into beak growth, instead of just essential metabolic needs. 390 receives a vitamin supplement customized for raptors and extra calcium supplements with his daily feedings. “Stress can also limit beak growth as it puts the animal in survival mode and added energy is going to stress management,” says Klebe. “While a rehabilitation setting is always going to have some inherent stressors, we are making sure we do everything possible to promote a healthy environment for 390’s recovery.” On April 5, the organization announced that keratin was starting to grow on the right side of 390’s beak. The keratin is growing over the area of the beak that was first to heal and is “coming in a bit rough.” The team will likely need to smooth it out using a Dremel as it grows to try and keep it forming into its natural state. While full growth is still not a guarantee, it gives some hope that the growth area will spread.   390 wearing a reduced external fixator on his healing beak. CREDIT:World Bird Sanctuary. What’s next for 390? To keep 390’s day-to-day life as calm as possible, the eagle has been in one of the largest rehabilitation aviaries since February. While he is also able to interact with other bald eagles in this area, human contact is a bit more limited.  “These aviaries are behind the scenes and amongst our farthest removed from human activity so that 390 is minimally disturbed,” says Klebe. “These are large enough for him to fly around in and maintain good muscle strength.” Now that the bone is finished healing and the keratin is growing, the team will mostly have to be patient. While they will be closely monitoring the wearing of the older keratin on his upper beak, they will try to be as hands off as possible to minimize stress levels.  “Even if the keratin starts to regrow over the entire beak, 390 will likely require another full year of care before the beak has regrown to the point that he can be released back to the wild,” says Klebe. 390 standing on a mew. The rehab team will limit contact with him, while still monitoring his beak. CREDIT: Stu Goz Photography. What to do if you find an injured bird According to Audubon New York, if you find an injured bird, carefully place it in a cardboard box with a lid or towel covering it. Place the box in a cool, safe place to help keep the bird from going into shock.   As soon as possible, call your local animal control office for further information. The Wildlife International also has a directory of bird rehabilitators that may have facilities near you.

Health & Medicine A shadowy market for weight-loss drugs has emerged online Shortages and big price tags have driven patients to unconventional sources of GLP-1 drugs Doctors are raising concerns about patients turning to unconventional sources of semaglutide and tirzepatide, the key ingredients in Ozempic and Zepbound. Eoin Ryan By Meghan Rosen 2 hours ago In late 2022, pharmacist Joseph Lambson got an unusual call from a poison control specialist. He said, “Hey Joe, I’m getting these weird calls about semaglutide.” According to the specialist’s calculations, people were giving themselves 10 times the correct dose. But that didn’t make sense. The drug is the key ingredient in the blockbuster diabetes and weight-loss medications Ozempic and Wegovy. Both come in prefilled injector pens, which typically take the guesswork out of dosing. Lambson, a board-certified toxicologist, knew right away what was going on. “This drug is probably being compounded,” he remembers thinking. He was right. After investigating, Lambson’s team at the Utah Poison Control Center in Salt Lake City reported that people were overdosing on compounded semaglutide. That means “a lot of nausea, a lot of vomiting, a lot of diarrhea,” he says. Ozempic and Wegovy, made by Novo Nordisk, had both been on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s drug shortage list since 2022. Across the boundless wilds of the internet, online sellers sprang up to meet demand. Some sold compounded medications. When pharmaceutical companies can’t keep up with demand for their FDA-approved drugs, compounding pharmacies can step in to fill the gap. These pharmacies measure and mix a drug’s active ingredient, creating a product that’s essentially a copy of the brand-name drug. Outside of shortages, compounding pharmacies routinely provide medicines that aren’t otherwise available or need to be tailored to a particular patient. Melanie T. shows a syringe and a vial of compounded tirzepatide, which she got with a prescription from a telehealth company.Melanie T. But even with legal, compounded forms of semaglutide, which require a prescription and usually come premixed in a vial with a syringe, patients can run into trouble, as Lambson found. People weren’t always sure how to take the drugs, so “they just went for it,” he says. Last year in Clinical Toxicology, emergency medicine doctors reported similar issues in a few cases. One man injected 20 times the correct dose of semaglutide because he misunderstood instructions. Semaglutide belongs to a class of medications known as GLP-1 receptor agonists. Even when used correctly under doctor supervision, they come with potential side effects. And when patients have to pull up the correct dose with a syringe, the risks go up. Soon, the situation could get even dicier. In February, the FDA removed semaglutide from the drug shortage list. By May, pharmacies will no longer be able to dispense compounded versions, though that depends on ongoing litigation. It’s a similar story with another GLP-1 drug, tirzepatide, the main ingredient in Mounjaro and Zepbound, Eli Lilly’s diabetes and weight-loss drugs. The FDA erased tirzepatide from the drug shortage list in October. But just because a drug is off the list doesn’t mean supply is guaranteed. And even with new discounts offered by pharmaceutical companies, the drugs’ prices keep them out of reach for many patients — especially since insurance won’t always cover them. Sign up for our newsletter We summarize the week's science breakthroughs every Thursday.

Nature, Published online: 10 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01094-zAlgorithms for studying knots and other topological objects could have a quantum advantage.

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