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Author(s): Zefang Wang, Wenbo Zhao, Yuan Ma, Hanyu Liu, and Yanming MaWhy does LaSc 2 H 24 exhibit superior superconductivity compared with LaH 10 ? Here, the authors indicate that scandium not only distorts the hydrogen cage structure but also creates MgB 2 -like Sc-H states at the Fermi level. This synergy enhances electron-phonon coupling, unifies strongly coupled H-H states with widely distributed Sc-H states on the Fermi surface, and leads to

Dark matter is the invisible stuff that accounts for roughly 85% of the mass in the universe, and for decades, physicists have been trying to figure out what it's made of. Now an experimental facility located nearly a mile below ground in South Dakota has recorded a single interaction between subatomic particles that doesn't match what's expected from normal matter. Has a dark-matter particle been detected at last? It's too early to say, but the anomaly is definitely attracting attention from dark-matter detectives.

Extreme quasars near the dawn of time are giving astrophysicists clues to the formation of supermassive black holes.

We know from a wealth of research that children's picture books support language learning.

STILLWATER, Okla. — Every time antibiotics are used to keep livestock healthy, traces of those medications, along with the genetic material that allows bacteria to resist them, can remain in farm wastewater. If left untreated, those contaminants can move beyond the farm, contributing to antimicrobial resistance, one of the world’s fastest-growing public health challenges. In […] The post OSU Researchers Explore Nanobubble Technology to Help Curb Spread of Antibiotic Resistance From Agricultural Wastewater appeared first on Morning Ag Clips.

Anthropic's Model Hardware Standard gives AI agents a common method for controlling laboratory equipment, robots, and other programmable physical machines.

Influenza viruses constantly shapeshift to evade recognition by the immune system. This shapeshifting occurs in critical proteins like hemagglutinin (HA), which controls how the virus attaches to human cells before entering them. Influenza viruses can evade immunity in two major ways: through the gradual accumulation of mutations that make HA harder for the immune system to recognize or through reassortment events that can introduce substantially different viral proteins and potentially lead to flu pandemics. To address this challenge, seasonal flu vaccines remain the primary approach because they can be developed to target the flu viruses circulating most predominantly in a given season.

Google has reportedly been reaching out to a number of Hollywood's biggest studios, hoping to strike licensing agreements that would allow it to train its AI models on copyrighted material in exchange for massive piles of cash. In theory, these deals would be a win-win: a huge financial boon to the studios that would also give Google a significant advantage in its race to outpace other AI companies. But while there's little downside for Google, these deals pose a distinct set of risks to each of the studios that might be thinking about going all-in on AI. Getting into bed with Google this way might benefit Hollywood in the short term, but … Read the full story at The Verge.

Google launched Pics, an AI powered design tool built into Workspace, positioning it as a direct alternative to Canva and Adobe Express.

Korea is moving toward a future firefighting system in which drones and robots enter hazardous zones first, artificial intelligence (AI) helps commanders make decisions and more advanced protective gear gives firefighters a better chance of surviving extreme conditions. “Drones and robots will be deployed to collect information on risks at the scene. Once they finish the task, AI will analyze it and provide commanders with the information they need,” Kim Yeon-sang, head of the National Fire Research Institute, said in a written interview with The Korea Times. “All this will enable faster and more accurate situational judgments.” The envisioned changes reflect a broader effort to adapt firefighting to increasingly complex emergencies, including high-rise blazes, electric vehicle fires — as seen in the 2024 Incheon underground parking garage fire, which damaged more than 900 vehicles — and large warehouse and logistics-center fires, such as the recent four-day blaze at a Coupang facility

The latest release from Meta Superintelligence Lab is a powerful transcription model.

Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica: Google rolls out its September Android Drop, with remembered items in Find Hub, Guided vision in Gemini Live, Motion Assist to reduce motion sickness, and more  —  Let's be frank: Some of Google's recent Android feature Drops have been duds, offering little more than an expansion of Gemini summaries and chat functions.

Erin Woo / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Google plans to release Gemini 3.8 Flash as soon as Wednesday; Gemini 4 has done well on pre-training evals but still needs to complete post-training  —  Internal tests of Gemini 3.8 Flash show progress in an area where the company has lagged behind Anthropic and OpenAI.

Descriptive, Diagnostic, Predictive and Prescriptive—with two new domains: Critique and Creative. The result lays out where medical AI's greatest opportunities lie and how it could shift health care from treating disease to proactively reducing disease burden. At the same time, they emphasize that realizing this potential will require a careful balance between innovation, patient safety and responsible implementation.

Advanced materials power everything from batteries and electronics to clean energy technologies. For years, engineers have known that microwave-assisted synthesis can dramatically accelerate the chemical reactions used to manufacture these materials. Now, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have provided new evidence challenging a long-held assumption about why, suggesting that microwaves speed chemical reactions in a fundamentally different way than many scientists believed.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is superb when it comes to analysing vast amounts of data quickly. That is where

Meta Platforms has become a battleground stock.

As he steps down from his post as Apple CEO today, Tim Cook leaves behind a mostly positive environmental record. As far as billionaire tech moguls and the environment go, Cook will likely be remembered as one of the better ones - certainly far from the worst. But it will become harder for the company to meet the climate goals Cook set in place as Apple tries to catch up in the AI race. Under his watch, Apple set industry-leading goals for reducing the amount of pollution created by its products and suppliers. It has managed to keep its carbon footprint from growing while other tech giants see their emissions rise with the energy-needs of … Read the full story at The Verge.

Meta Platforms has become a battleground stock.

Meta AI Research: Meta launches Muse Voice Transcribe, MSL's first real-time audio perception model, with streaming automatic speech recognition, trained with 70+ languages  —  Experience Muse Voice Transcribe in real time … We're excited to introduce Muse Voice Transcribe, the first real …

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John Ternus takes over as Apple CEO after Tim Cook, inheriting challenges involving artificial intelligence, hardware costs, services, and supply chains. The post Apple After Tim Cook: John Ternus Inherits an AI and Hardware Test appeared first on TechRepublic.

Every second, tens of billions of neutrinos produced by nuclear fusion in the sun pass through every square centimeter of Earth—and through our bodies—almost without interacting. Although they are among the most abundant particles emitted by the sun, their extremely weak interactions make detecting these elusive particles one of the greatest experimental challenges in particle physics. A number of specialized neutrino detectors are in operation around the world, exploiting the unique properties of neutrinos to investigate astrophysical phenomena.

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Waymo opened driverless rides in Denver, San Diego and Tampa, and Denver is its first commercial deployment in a city with real snowfall. Under EU rules an automated driving system’s weather envelope is part of a type-approved operational design domain, and the vehicle must perform a minimum risk manoeuvre when it reaches the boundary. Waymo […] This story continues at The Next Web

Researchers at Cardiff University have presented two studies at the 2026 International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2026) that address fundamental challenges in modern AI: understanding the complex geometry and relationships within data and recognizing patterns that occur across very different scales.

Virtual reality-based digital defocus vision training (DDVT) may be a promising adjunctive approach for pediatric myopia control, according to a study published online Aug. 27 in JAMA Ophthalmology.

A research group in Japan has demonstrated a world-record 10-channel multiplexed quantum photonic interface based on an integrated waveguide array, a key technology for optically interconnecting multiple quantum computers. The study is published in the journal Optica.

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Empirik, which uses AI to predict and prevent IT outages by analyzing system changes and their effects, raised a $21M seed and spins out from Sequoia Capital  —  Before joining Sequoia Capital in 2020 as chief digital and information officer, Avon Puri spent over a decade running infrastructure at Rubrik and VMware.

Meta envisions a future where robots look after incident response, monitoring and maintenance at its data centers.

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has posted plans to buy a fleet of Boston Dynamics robot dogs. The listing puts the spend at $1m to $2m. It also says ICE does not intend to compete the purchase. Joseph Cox found the plan for 404 Media on Friday. It sits in the Department of Homeland Security’s […] This story continues at The Next Web

GoPro suddenly looks like a very different company than it did just last week. First, YouTuber Mark "Markiplier" Fischbach became the company's single largest shareholder, without disclosing that in a sponsored review that came out a week later. Now, almost the entire company has been bought by Starman Holding for $285 million in cash, which Starman is characterizing as a "merger." While GoPro has always been best known as the company that makes consumer action cameras, the press release takes a bit of a different tone: founder and CEO Nick Woodman now calls GoPro "a leading American imaging and optical solutions company, addressing import … Read the full story at The Verge.

CJ Haddad / CNBC: AI power infrastructure company SB Energy, which is backed by SoftBank, OpenAI, and Nvidia, files for an IPO, and says it is “substantially dependent” on OpenAI  —  SB Energy, the artificial intelligence power infrastructure company backed by Softbank, OpenAI and Nvidia …

For the better part of a century, people have been trying to understand dark matter. This invisible substance makes up roughly 85% of the mass in the universe but has never been directly detected. Determining exactly what it is remains one of the biggest questions about our world.

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Google launches Google Pics, a creative design suite powered by Gemini and Nano Banana to compete with Canva and Adobe Express, available as a Workspace app  —  This new image generation and editing app is bringing graphic design to Google Workspace.

Google wants Workspace users to edit and generate their business imagery with Pics. | Image: Google Google has a new suite of creative design tools for Workspace users called Google Pics, which aims to make editing and generating "professional-grade" AI images less cumbersome for businesses. Built around Gemini and the Nano Banana generative AI model, Google Pics is designed to give more granular control over prompt-based image making and manipulation, allowing users to tap on specific objects or text, and describe what they want to change - features that may avoid the ugly results that chatbots are known to spit out for marketing imagery. "While AI image generation has been a huge hit for personal use, it's been a different story for bus … Read the full story at The Verge.

Following the announcement at I/O 2026 in May, Google Pics is launching in general availability today. more…

Google brings its Pics image editor to AI Pro and Ultra subscribers.

SB Energy hasn't generated any revenue from its data center business, and none of its data centers are operational yet.

SB Energy hasn't generated any revenue from its data center business, and none of its data centers are operational yet.

Keeping your subjects in the frame and focused even at long distances. Oh, and it identifies bird species too.

A Tesla Model Y turning left at an intersection collided with a pickup truck in Batavia, Illinois, killing a passenger in the Tesla — Maggie Espinosa, 37, a teacher and mother of five. It was reported as an ordinary intersection crash. But Electrek was able to confirm that Tesla’s own report to federal regulators says the car’s driver-assist system was engaged as it made that turn. This is part of an ongoing Electrek investigation matching reported crashes to Tesla’s redacted NHTSA data. more…

Logan Webb and Paul Skenes square off as the San Francisco Giants visit the Pittsburgh Pirates in a matchup of two underperforming 2025 clubs.

Nvidia invests $3.5 billion in MediaTek as the companies expand their partnership into custom AI infrastructure with NVLink Fusion, local AI computing, and automotive platforms.

Sabrina Ortiz / The Deep View: PSI, which aims to use AI “to industrialize the discovery of new physics” including cracking interstellar travel, emerges from stealth with a $58M seed  —  AI is best known for transforming coding.  Now, one startup is making the case for physics.

Lora Kolodny / CNBC: Waymo starts offering driverless rides to customers in San Diego, Tampa, Florida, and Denver; Amazon's Zoox plans to start testing in Houston and San Diego  —  Alphabet's Waymo is expanding its commercial service, and Amazon's Zoox said it plans to test in more U.S. cities, as the nascent robotaxi market gains momentum.

The world’s biggest dark matter search saw a particle it cannot explain

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A lone signal from an experiment in South Dakota doesn’t fit the profile of any other known particles, physicists say.

AI's rapid evolution in financial markets may challenge central banks' ability to control policy messaging, potentially leading to increased market volatility.

NASA has brought two of Swift’s telescopes back online after technical problems derailed a commercial mission intended to rescue the aging observatory by raising its orbit. With atmospheric drag pulling the spacecraft downward faster than expected, scientists may have only another month or two before Swift falls below a critical operating altitude.

Donald Trump's AI-generated video depicting explosions on Iran's Kharg Island has sparked controversy, as US-Iran tensions rise following American strikes on Larak Island.

By combining roughly two decades of observations from NASA's Swift X-ray Telescope with radio monitoring, astronomers have caught a supermassive black hole at the heart of the Perseus Cluster suddenly flaring in X-rays, and about 300 days later, its powerful radio emission flared too. Their paper describing the connection between this black hole's accretion disk and the jets it launches was submitted to the arXiv preprint server on Aug. 13 and accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.

An OpenAI executive and former White House adviser is calling for AI safety cooperation between Washington and Beijing ahead of a summit between US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping, even as Chinese state media launch a scathing attack on American frontier governance in artificial intelligence. “I have always believed US/China AI safety collaboration would be desirable but thought it was unlikely to happen,” Dean Ball, OpenAI’s head of strategic futures, wrote on X on Tuesday....

While fridge magnets are great for saving favorite recipes, modern magnetic materials are useful for improving fiber optics or quantum information science technology. On most fridge magnets the atoms are arranged in a repeated lattice structure called a "spinel." These structures are made up of three types of atoms, generically referred to as atoms "A," "B" and "X."

A new ethics paper from the American College of Physicians (ACP) says that while the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in medical practice can improve health care efficiency and quality, it must be grounded in clinical integrity and professionalism. The paper, published in Annals of Internal Medicine, outlines three guideposts for the ethical use of AI in medical practice: rationality, self-governance and competence.

Emma Roth / The Verge: A look back at Tim Cook's 15-year tenure: Apple silicon, wearables, a $1T market cap, privacy, Apple Vision Pro, Apple Car, AI, App Store battles, and Trump  —  Expectations for Tim Cook were almost impossibly high when he stepped in to replace Apple's visionary co-founder in 2011.

Last-mile delivery company OneRail is launching a new platform with Nvidia to use AI to help retailers make faster and more efficient delivery decisions.

John Ternus' first day as Apple CEO comes at a critical juncture for the iPhone maker, with memory prices soaring and AI challenges looming.

Last-mile delivery company OneRail is launching a new platform with Nvidia to use AI to help retailers make faster and more efficient delivery decisions.

Last-mile delivery company OneRail is launching a new platform with Nvidia to use AI to help retailers make faster and more efficient delivery decisions.

John Ternus' first day as Apple CEO comes at a critical juncture for the iPhone maker, with memory prices soaring and AI challenges looming.

Introduction In a surprising turn of events that reveals the unpredictable nature of enterprise technology adoption, Apple found itself unexpectedly overwhelmed by demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio computers. According to reporting from The Information, the tech giant's unusually early announcement of new Mac models this week was driven by unexpectedly strong enterprise appetite for AI hardware — a demand surge that caught Apple's leadership by surprise and exposed gaps in the company's organiz...

Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: Dyson unveils the $499 CameraJet, an AI-powered toothbrush with a 100K-pixel macro lens that scans at 28 images per second and is trained on nearly 470K images  —  Dyson Ltd. introduced a $499 toothbrush that uses artificial intelligence and a built-in camera to give real-time feedback …

Award-winning Swedish chip expert Henry Homayoun Radamson has died in Shanghai at the age of 63. Radamson, who moved to China in 2016, was working as the chief scientist at the Guangdong Greater Bay Area Institute of Integrated Circuit and System. The institute said on Tuesday that he died from a “sudden illness” on August 12. Radamson was best known for his research into nanotechnology and its use in medical diagnostics. He also worked on the development of short wave infrared chips. The...

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Shenzhen, the southern Chinese city home to US-sanctioned telecoms giant Huawei Technologies and drone maker DJI, has seen an influx of investors and business leaders amid rising global interest in Chinese artificial intelligence and robotics. On Tuesday, the tech hub hosted investor conferences led by three international financial institutions – HSBC, UBS and Nomura – with AI, robotics and other emerging technologies featuring prominently on their agendas. More investors could arrive to chase...

Honor’s Gimbal Phone Goes on Sale Honor built a motorized gimbal into a phone and started selling it

The two companies will work on integrating Nvidia technology with MediaTek's custom AI chip business as well as other areas such as PCs and cars.

The two companies will work on integrating Nvidia technology with MediaTek's custom AI chip business as well as other areas such as PCs and cars.

The colorful "Microduck" robot from HuggingFace's French subsidiary Pollen Robotics has sold more than 10,000 units since launching on Thursday.

The colorful "Microduck" robot from HuggingFace's French subsidiary Pollen Robotics has sold more than 10,000 units since launching on Thursday.

The colorful "Microduck" robot from HuggingFace's French subsidiary Pollen Robotics has sold more than 10,000 units since launching on Thursday.

Metal-insulator transitions (MITs), where a material changes from a metallic state with low resistivity to an insulating state

Heavy rain and internet outages have marred the first day of operations for Hong Kong’s fully automated convenience stores, but visitors say they appreciate the new robot shop manager’s work. The “Galbot Stores”, operated by wheeled humanoid robots, opened two outdoor outlets in Hung Hom and Wan Chai and an indoor unit in Kai Tak on Tuesday, marking the city’s first fully automated retail roll-out. Shelves carry a mix of snacks and drinks, along with local souvenirs such as pineapple-bun and...

Bill Gates urges governments to reserve certain jobs for humans, despite AI capabilities, to preserve irreplaceable human elements and address potential job losses.

Private investors in Asia, including family offices operating in Hong Kong, are showing a growing appetite for advanced medical technologies such as brain-computer interfaces and surgical robotics, as healthcare deal activity picks up across the region amid China’s biotechnology boom. “Asia is ageing, so there’s a structural, long-term demand for better surgery and medicine,” said William Chow, deputy group CEO of Raffles Family Office, headquartered in Hong Kong and Singapore. “A lot of the...

Dark Matter's return hooks with strong momentum, raising questions about dead Jasons, hidden doppelgangers, and box mechanics that needs to be answered.

Black holes are some of the most awe-inspiring and mysterious celestial objects in the universe. This is primarily because astronomers still don’t understand the underlying mechanisms that drive black holes, including its formation, evolution, and end. As their name implies, black holes can’t be viewed directly since they blend into the background of the vastness of space. Therefore, astronomers are limited to “seeing” black holes when they consume other celestial objects, most notably stars. When this happens, the astronomers see the light from the star being violently consumed by a nearby black hole in a spectacular display. However, astronomers are still puzzled regarding what happens after the consumption.

Author(s): Quentin Duong, Vincent Baglin, and Gaël SattonnayElectron cloud buildup limits the performance of high-intensity proton accelerators like the LHC, driving beam instabilities and cryogenic heat loads. Existing methods to measure the maximum secondary electron yield (δmax) typically require dedicated instrumentation and beam-time interruptions. This work introduces a novel in situ technique that extracts δmax directly from routine electron cloud current measurements during standard LHC operation, using the transition to a linear regime with the number of injected bunches. Applied to Vacuum Pilot Sector data, it enables noninvasive, long-term monitoring of vacuum-surface conditioning. [Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 29, 083503] Published Mon Aug 31, 2026

Author(s): H. A. J. Middleton-Spencer, B. McCanna, D. Proment, and H. M. PriceVortex reconnections are fundamental to quantum fluids. They are reconnections of quantum vortices defined by a topological change and irreversible energy transfer given by universal scaling laws, leading to quantum turbulence. We generalize this mechanism by studying reconnections of extra-dimensional quantum vortices. We find a new range of vortex interactions depending on their initial orientation – a four-dimensional generalization to the known three-dimensional case; vortex interactions with no reconnections; and a new class reconnection that keeps the same scaling law with no energy transfer, suggesting a form of reversible reconnection not allowed in three-dimensional systems. [Phys. Rev. Fluids 11, 084701] Published Mon Aug 31, 2026

A federal watchdog found that Amazon workers on food stamps and Medicaid have nearly tripled since 2020, as the retailer plans $200 billion in AI spending and taxpayers foot the bill.

Spatial transcriptomics is a powerful tool to create a detailed map of not just how genes are expressed in a piece of tissue, but also where genetic activity takes place in different cells and locations within the tissue.

Scientists and philosophers have argued over the nature of time since … well, since time immemorial. Is time real, or is it a convenient illusion? Why does time seem to flow in just one direction? In a new book called “On Time,” British physicist Jim Al-Khalili lays out what he thinks is the answer to such questions.

Robot outpolls Congressman after mishaps

Delivered by injection, the drug transforms astrocytes into neurons. In an early study, mice modeling Alzheimer's showed marked improvement compared to untreated peers. The post This Drug Makes New Neurons in the Brain. Scientists Say It Reversed Alzheimer’s Symptoms in Mice. appeared first on SingularityHub.

Actuators account for 40% to 60% of a humanoid robot’s bill of materials and China refines roughly 90% of the rare earth magnets inside them, which makes the components rather than the models the limit on scale. Europe has a 2030 cap on single country supply under the Critical Raw Materials Act, and one company, […] This story continues at The Next Web

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My friend is fighting with cancer, and she has been asking ChatGPT for medical tips. A recent interaction about painkillers went awry and I ended up rushing her to hospital due to severe effects of the medicines she took.

A research team from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has developed an innovative "one-pot" testing platform, known as TEMPO, that could transform highly sensitive nucleic acid testing from a laboratory-based procedure into a simple, single-step test that can be performed at home. With a single reaction tube, users can obtain results comparable to those of professional laboratory tests in as little as 30 minutes. The breakthrough has the potential to bridge the technological gap between existing rapid tests and laboratory-based nucleic acid diagnostics, offering a more convenient solution for future infectious disease surveillance and genetic screening.

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