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Author(s): Alexander V. Balatsky and Saikat BanerjeeSuperconductivity begins when electrons bind into pairs. Because electrons are fermions, exchanging the two partners in a pair must flip the sign of its wavefunction — and that minus sign can be paid for in four different currencies: the pair’s spin, its spatial shape, its orbital character, and, less obviously, the relative between the two electrons. Sharing one minus sign among four ± choices leaves exactly eight allowed kinds of Cooper pair. Balatsky and Banerjee show here that this eightfold rule is one face of a larger structure. A pair also has a center of mass — a place and a moment — and a superconductor can order in those as well. Taking internal shape (ρ), internal timing (τ), spatial modulation (R), and temporal modulation (T) as four independent axes builds the Berezinskii–Abrahams hypercube: a

Chinese surgeons last month completed the world’s first commercial surgery to implant an invasive brain-computer interface (BCI) device in a patient with a spinal cord injury, a milestone in the neurotechnology development race with US companies like Elon Musk’s Neuralink. This month a Chinese company, state-owned PICC Property and Casualty, launched the world’s first commercial insurance policy covering BCI implantation surgery. September will see the first undergraduates in China to major in...

Preventing hip fractures depends on identifying people at high risk early. Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have now developed a new clinical decision support tool that makes this possible-without requiring clinic visits or patient questionnaires.

The southern humpback whale migration is in full swing. Tens of thousands of whales are now making their journey from warm Australian waters in the north to their cold feeding grounds in Antarctica.

Tiny Nanoparticles Could Transform the Fight Against Deadly Ventricular Arrhythmias Ventricular fibrillation and other ventricular arrhythmias can turn a heartbeat into a medical emergency within seconds. In ventricular fibrillation, the heart’s lower chambers quiver chaotically instead of contracting, stopping effective blood flow and making sudden cardiac death a constant threat. Standard treatments, including antiarrhythmic drugs, […]

Google shipped Gemini editions for law firms and banks. Both are previews, and pricing isn't available yet.

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Bill Gates argues some jobs should remain human as AI advances, proposing “Human Reserved” roles and new taxes intended to curb worker displacement. The post Bill Gates Says Some Jobs Should Be Off-Limits to AI appeared first on TechRepublic.

Japanese researchers got lucky when a comet they wanted to study was found photo-bombing archival images from Japan's Subaru Telescope. The Subaru, with its 8.2 meter mirror, happened to image comet 28P/Neujmin from just the right angle to accurately characterize its surface. Their work is part of the ongoing effort to understand comets and asteroids, why some of them share properties, and what that means for their formation and evolution as Solar System objects.

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Nvidia paused some deals with AI cloud providers in the revenue-sharing program it announced in July; Nvidia says the program is still in place  —  The company is rethinking the program less than two months after announcing it  —  Nvidia paused some deals in a new financing initiative …

Standardized driver interface aims to let devices talk to AI and each other.

Near-infrared organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) that emit about 1,000 nanometers could support biomedical and security technologies. Yet pushing organic light to these longer wavelengths usually causes a steep drop in efficiency. As the energy gap becomes smaller, molecular vibrations more readily turn excited-state energy into heat rather than light.

InvestorPlace - Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading Tips Nvidia's blowout earnings… the “Messy Middle” of AI tariffs… an AI thrift-store play from Eric Fry… why Brian Hunt believes Canada belongs in your portfolio The post Nvidia Roared. Why Didn’t All AI Stocks? appeared first on InvestorPlace.

Following the launch of the Pixel 11 series, Google has updated its developer documentation for Gemini Nano 4.

Nanodiamonds Give Solid Electrolytes a Four-to-Five-Order Conductivity Boost A pinch of diamond dust has helped transform two sluggish solid salts into substantially better ion conductors, according to research published in Ionics. The study examined whether nanodiamonds could improve the performance of organic ionic plastic crystals—materials that combine the mechanical advantages of solids with the molecular […]

Google added three new travel features to AI Mode, letting you track flight prices, compare rewards points, and book hotels all in one chat.

Author(s): Menghua Deng, Sheng Yang, Chen Sun, Fuxiang Li, and Xue-Jia YuDriven dynamics at topologically nontrivial quantum critical points leads to anomalous boundary and edge scaling beyond the Kibble–Zurek prediction in several quantum spin chain models. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 096605] Published Thu Aug 27, 2026

Author(s): F. Aharonian et al. (H.E.S.S. Collaboration)A 500-hour survey of the Galactic Center by the H.E.S.S. telescope array has set the most stringent limits to date on TeV dark matter line annihilation cross sections. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 091002] Published Thu Aug 27, 2026

A plant native to Türkiye has been recruited to build a new kind of multifunctional nanomaterial: zinc oxide particles wrapped in the chemistry of Astragalus tokatensis. In a study published in The Science of Nature, researchers report that these biologically produced nanoparticles can attack bacterial biofilms, inhibit bacterial growth, neutralize chemically reactive molecules and help […]

In dark skies at night, distant starlight twinkles and speaks to vast cosmic histories almost as old as time itself. New data from instruments such as NASA's James Webb Space Telescope are helping astrophysicists probe deep cosmic mysteries, including the evolution of black holes and galaxies.

Most of the stars in our Milky Way galaxy sit neatly on a flat plane. But the space around our galaxy is much more chaotic. Rogue bands of stars called "stellar streams" orbit the Milky Way much like planets in our solar system orbit the sun.

Nvidia is nabbing critical infrastructure for open models as interest grows.

CNBC: Nvidia stock closed up 8.74% on Thursday, adding ~$440B to Nvidia's market cap, after its revenue guidance reassured investors that AI demand remains strong  —  Nvidia shares rose nearly 9% Thursday after the chip giant's revenue guidance reassured investors that artificial intelligence demand will remain strong.

Emma Roth / The Verge: Google adds Expert Intelligence to Gemini Notebook, letting users import eligible titles they own in Google Play Books to ask questions, generate podcasts, more  —  Gemini Notebook's new ‘Expert Intelligence’ feature pulls information from the books you've purchased.

Facing a global RAM shortage tied to AI demand, Google sets new memory thresholds for Android apps starting February 2027, with penalties for non-compliance.

World Liberty’s proposed trust bank has preliminary federal approval as the Trump-backed crypto venture deepens its ties to a senior UAE official.

World Liberty’s proposed trust bank has preliminary federal approval as the Trump-backed crypto venture deepens its ties to a senior UAE official.

Expert Intelligence is a new “cross Google initiative that helps you engage with your trusted sources through Google AI products,” starting with Play Books and Gemini Notebook.

Gemini’s video toolbox just got much bigger, with longer clips, 4K output, and far more control over every shot.

Plastic pollution is one of the most urgent environmental challenges of the 21st century. As larger plastic debris breaks down through mechanical, photochemical and biological processes, it forms microplastics that have been detected in water, soil, air and even the human body. Among these materials, polyamide microplastics are of particular concern because polyamide is widely used in textiles, fishing gear, packaging and engineering materials.

Google's AI note-taking app, Gemini Notebook, can now pull information from the books you've purchased. The new "Expert Intelligence" feature allows you to bring titles from Google Play Books directly into Gemini Notebook, which means you can ask questions about the material, as well as generate plans, infographics, AI podcasts, and more based on their contents. During a briefing with The Verge, Google Labs editorial director Steven Johnson showed how you can use the tool to generate a recipe book using the information in Michael Pollan's Food Rules. In another example, Gemini Notebook applied the knowledge from Kim Scott's management-focus … Read the full story at The Verge.

Some molecules come in two "handed" forms. This property, called chirality, can influence not only how molecules interact with light but also which electron spins they allow to pass. Researchers at the University of Osaka have developed novel chiral hole-transport materials that shed new light on this unusual effect while also improving the interfaces of perovskite solar cells.

Every weekday, the Investing Club releases the Homestretch; an actionable afternoon update just in time for the last hour of trading.

A novel prognostic stratification model can predict indwelling catheter conversion (ICC) among patients with early-stage spinal cord injury (SCI) and neurogenic bladder (NB), according to a study published online Aug. 23 in Neurourology and Urodynamics.

A Tesla running the latest version of “Full Self-Driving” failed to stop at an active railroad crossing this week and nearly drove straight into a passing train, according to the driver and as evidenced in dashcam footage. The kicker: it was running FSD v14.3.7, the newest build Tesla has released — and it’s at least the third time this year that Electrek has documented FSD trying to drive a Tesla into a train.

Will Knight / Wired: Anthropic releases Model Hardware Standard, a framework to help AI agents use physical systems like microscopes, quantum computing hardware, and robot arms  —  The potential for AI to automate scientific research and manufacturing must be balanced with new risks, Anthropic says.

Why do we remember certain moments while forgetting others? Every day, our minds are bombarded with thousands of pieces of information, yet our brains have a limited capacity to consolidate these experiences into lasting memories. This means we need a way to hold on to what is most important and disregard irrelevant details.

The Model Hardware Standard is initially available in a research preview, but Anthropic plans to open source it in the future.

The potential for AI to automate scientific research and manufacturing must be balanced with new risks, Anthropic says.

Hugh Langley / Business Insider: Internal memo: Meta's AI agent Hatch “has its own computer” to perform tasks, works when the app is closed, can connect to email, Instagram, OpenTable, and more  —  It can DJ.  It can order food.  It can book you a table at a restaurant.  And of course, it can access your Instagram.

Researchers hope their findings could help inform future therapies for people with severe autism.

Autonomous machines have killed humans in recent conflicts, arms experts say.

Microsoft reportedly cracks down on unnecessary "tokenmaxxing" as some employees spend thousands per month on AI compute.

Sam Sabin / Axios: OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS, Microsoft, and 100+ companies warn there is “a limited window” to prepare for AI-enabled cyberattacks and call for “collective action”  —  OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and more than 100 other companies warned Thursday …

Artificial Intelligence Flags Students at Risk of Dropping Out—and Triggers Personalized Support A new artificial-intelligence system designed to identify students at risk of leaving school early has combined academic records, attendance patterns, family information and behavioral data to forecast performance and guide individualized support. The system, known as TC-Net, was tested using records from 395 […]

The World Humanoid Robot Games' crashes show how far the technology still needs to go to be useful, "Survivor" reality TV star and robotics scientist Christian Hubicki says.

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The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida Sunday morning (Aug. 30). The state-of-the-art spacecraft will help astronomers study exoplanets, distant galaxies, dark matter and much more.

Finding one Higgs boson was hard enough, but physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are hunting for something even more elusive: pairs of Higgs bosons. At the recent International Conference on High Energy Physics 2026, the ATLAS and CMS collaborations presented new constraints on the double-Higgs production rate, providing insight into how the Higgs boson interacts with itself.

New data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows definitive evidence of a dwarf galaxy merging with the young Milky Way galaxy in the earliest phases of its evolution. This finding extends our knowledge of our galaxy’s history 1.8 billion years farther back in time than before.

Hugging Face MicroDuck robot is the first educational robot I've wanted in a very long time — even if I do have to program some of the cuteness.

Google is rolling out a trio of updates that boost AI Mode’s travel capabilities, starting with the ability to get price alerts for flights.

Apple's new toxic hellstew is a battle over regulation, litigation, and keeping your data safe.

A new manufacturing method could help move the production of nanoscale sensors from specialized fabrication facilities to conventional semiconductor manufacturing plants.Publishing in Science Advances, researchers from KTH Royal Institute of Technology liken their technique to uprooting a tree stump with a rope.

Astronomers are lining up to leverage NASA’s soon-to-launch Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which boasts capabilities unlike any previous off-world observatory

Google: Google launches Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, which it says delivers studio-quality video production, including the ability to extend a scene, 4K upscaling, and more  —  Omni now delivers studio-quality video production, including the ability to extend a scene, first and last frame interpolation …

Google launches Gemini Enterprise for Legal, giving law firms AI agents for contract review, legal research, compliance monitoring and other workflows. The post Google Brings AI Agents to Big Law With Gemini Enterprise appeared first on TechRepublic.

Google adds pay-as-you-go pricing, spending caps and savings plans to help businesses manage Gemini Enterprise agent costs and unpredictable usage. The post Google Adds Pay-As-You-Go Gemini Enterprise appeared first on TechRepublic.

Ring’s new TAKE encryption limits video-key retention while keeping cloud AI features, Ring Verify, and optional end-to-end encryption in play. The post Ring’s New TAKE Encryption Deletes Video Keys Without Giving Up AI Features appeared first on TechRepublic.

Google AI Mode is getting a flight price tracker, hotel booking and a way to view the cost in miles or points.

Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal: Nvidia says its commitments to component suppliers for its AI chips and systems hit $279B in Q2, up from $119B in Q1, $95.2B in Q4 2025, and $50.3B in Q3 2025  —  The AI chip leader is using its financial muscle to win the supply battle, but it comes with downsides

Having established the effectiveness of her nanoparticle drug-delivery system for cancer immunotherapy, University of Massachusetts Amherst researcher Prabhani Atukorale, has been awarded $2.5 million from the National Institutes of Health to broaden the scope of her vaccine research to include treating those with active cancer.

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Google DeepMind: Google launches a pilot of double-blind AI evaluations, keeping external evaluations in a cryptographic “box” to stop benchmark contamination and protect IP  —  Building trust in proprietary model benchmarks using cryptographically secure environments  —  Imagine a student is set to take a high-stakes exam.

In the hunt for one of nature's most elusive substances—dark matter, which makes up 85% of all matter in the universe—scientists are going to extremes. Deep underground and chilled to near absolute zero, the Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (SuperCDMS) SNOLAB—one of the world's most sensitive dark matter searches—has begun collecting its first scientific data.

X-Humanoid's TianGong Ultra ran 100 meters in 9.32 seconds at Beijing's World Humanoid Robot Games, beating last year's winner by more than half.

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Nature is the foremost international weekly scientific journal in the world and is the flagship journal for Nature Portfolio. It publishes the finest peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology on the basis of its originality, importance, interdisciplinary interest, timeliness, accessibility, elegance and surprising conclusions. Nature publishes landmark papers, award winning news, leading comment and expert opinion on important, topical scientific news and events that enable readers to share the latest discoveries in science and evolve the discussion amongst the global scientific community.

Table tennis professionals are true masters at redirecting fast-moving projectiles. Putting a targeted spin on a serve can make the little white ball fly straight toward the edge of the table but then, at the last moment, take a sharp curve into the left corner. The physical phenomenon behind this sporting trick is known as the Magnus effect. It acts on balls of all sizes and has helped decide more than a few soccer matches.

Michael Burry bought Nvidia call options as a hedge against his AI short positions. He has repeatedly warned of an AI bubble and how tech firms use accounting tricks to inflate balance sheets.

Nvidia is optimizing hardware for DeepSeek and Qwen while warning that potential U.S. restrictions on models originating in China could hurt its business.

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Google announces new performance thresholds for Android apps including memory-use limits, citing the AI-induced memory crunch  —  Google is making changes to its requirements for Android apps as developers face industry-wide memory chip shortages driven by the AI data center boom.

China’s Humanoid Robot Gap China builds more humanoid robots than the rest of the world combined. It also

Nvidia is optimizing hardware for DeepSeek and Qwen while warning that potential U.S. restrictions on models originating in China could hurt its business.

Pollen Robotics’ Microduck is a tiny $399 biped designed to make physical AI training more accessible, letting developers experiment with new robotic behaviors on hardware that can survive the occasional tumble.

SFPathFormer improved robot navigation performance across four benchmark datasets by combining frequency-aware perception, dynamic feature selection, and global environmental modeling.

If you've ever wanted a robotic duck as a companion, now's your chance.

New York Times: Sources: Meta internally projected that it could spend as much as $10B annually on Anthropic's AI models, even as Zuckerberg publicly criticized Anthropic  —  The social networking giant projected it could spend $10 billion annually on Anthropic's tools, illustrating the friend-foe relationships underlying the A.I. race.

Hugging Face's Pollen Robotics has launched its second cute AI robot, the Microduck, a one-eyed biped standing just under 10 inches tall. It's available to preorder now for $399 in cream, graphite, lavender, and sky blue, and Pollen Robotics says it plans to start shipping the little robot "before Christmas 2026." Video demos of the Microduck show it picking up socks and markers, kicking around a ball, and zipping around on tiny rollerskates. Pollen Robotics says it can also "react to its surroundings" and follow around a laser pointer, or users can control it with a game controller. The Microduck's software is open-source, like Hugging Fa … Read the full story at The Verge.

Foster + Partners is part of a consortium that has won a £4m, three-year research grant from the European Innovation Council’s Pathfinder funding programme. The SWIFT-BUILD – shorthand for Swarm-based… The post Foster’s swarm robots invert timber construction appeared first on Global Construction Review.

The latest Swedish-led search for technosignatures in the form of Dyson spheres has again come up empty-handed. The two latest stellar candidates in the hunt for such hypothetical extraterrestrial technology have been eliminated as Dyson spheres.

Waymo published a list of “10 AI lessons” from driving more than 200 million fully autonomous miles, and several of them read as a direct rebuke of Tesla’s self-driving strategy — without ever naming Tesla. The sharpest: trying to turn a driver-assist system into full autonomy is a “false summit,” according to Waymo. That’s exactly what Tesla is attempting with Full Self-Driving.

A swarm of giant cockroaches may sound like the stuff of nightmares, but Australian researchers say the insects could one day be used by search-and-rescue teams to deliver...

Researchers discovered a brain-based “brake” that can shut down chronic nerve pain in mice by calming an overactive pain circuit. Targeting this system more precisely could one day lead to powerful pain relief without affecting opioid receptors throughout the entire body.

Scientists created smart nanoparticles that can both illuminate hidden glioblastoma cells during surgery and destroy microscopic cancer left behind afterward. In mice, the treatment prevented recurrence and led to 100% survival at 60 days, though it has not yet been tested in humans.

Meta's AI-driven restructuring hit a setback as Zuckerberg cancelled a major layoff phase, citing limited productivity gains from AI. The move highlights challenges in AI implementation.

“How does a site known as Historic Boston Archives post something so historically inaccurate?” The post The 14,000 followers of ‘Historic Boston Archives’ are calling out its insane AI videos appeared first on Boston.com.

Adobe today announced a beta for AI Assisted Editor, a new optional editing mode within Photoshop with a simplified, prompt-based interface for image editing. Here are the details.

Hydraulic robots could soon handle heavy machinery with the steadiness of far lighter electric systems, according to a new control strategy designed to make six-degree-of-freedom machines more accurate, safer during contact and less dependent on costly force sensors. The approach, developed by researchers at Xidian University in China, combines virtual decomposition control with an indirect […]

Paul Krugman warns that Donald Trump may cause further damage to the US as his political downfall approaches, drawing parallels to historical events and highlighting ongoing controversies.