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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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A collaborative research team has successfully visualized in real space the ultrafast optical modulation of hyperbolic phonon polaritons (HPhPs) in a van der Waals heterostructure composed of hBN and WS2. The research is published in the journal Nano Letters, and was led by Kazuki Kamada of the Institute for Molecular Science (IMS) and Osaka Metropolitan University, along with Dr. Jun Nishida, assistant professor at IMS, and Takashi Kumagai, associate professor at IMS.

Weeks after a Tesla Model 3 sat stopped in a live Florida interstate lane and its driver was killed, it happened again — a 2020 Model 3, stopped dead on a Phoenix-area freeway at 3 a.m., rear-ended by a pickup, its driver dead at the scene. And as in the Florida case that we revealed today, no one investigating knew what Tesla’s own data shows: the car’s driver-assist system was engaged. This is part of an ongoing Electrek series matching previously reported Tesla crashes to the company’s own redacted NHTSA data. more…

Fast, on-farm genetic testing for cattle is practical and achievable for northern producers, according to University of Queensland research. In partnership with Meat & Livestock Australia and the Department of Primary Industries, a team from UQ's Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI) tested low-pass nanopore sequencing on three commercial farms. Associate Professor Elizabeth Ross said the team produced reliable data for age, genomic breeding values (GBVs) and parentage for about 24 animals in less than 24 hours on each farm.

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir on Sunday posted an AI-generated video depicting the starvation of Palestinian prisoners as he continues to boast of his efforts to impose harsher conditions on Palestinians held in Israeli jails. The post, which Ben Gvir later deleted, showed what appeared to be overweight Palestinian detainees being brought into […]

OpenAI's ChatGPT Work offering was down for some users on Monday, and Microsoft said it was having issues with Exchange Online.

Aerosols have a profound influence on air quality, human health, clouds and climate, but new particle formation in the atmosphere has remained a scientific conundrum. Large fractions of airborne fine particulate matter consist of secondary organic aerosols (SOA) formed by gas-to-particle conversion of organic precursor molecules in the atmosphere. The growth rates of these atmospheric nanoparticles, however, have remained enigmatic: They are often smaller and less dependent on condensable vapor concentration than expected.

OpenAI's ChatGPT Work offering was down for some users on Monday, and Microsoft said it was having issues with Exchange Online.

After analyzing infrared images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of researchers has discovered multiple massive black holes from approximately 12.5–12.8 billion years ago that were actively accumulating surrounding matter and growing rapidly. Some were even on the path to merging, according to a study published Aug. 31 in the Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan.

Algae have a habit of turning up where they're not wanted. They coat your swimming pool in green gunk, cling to rocks at the beach and even make headlines when they take over prominent reservoirs, such as the White House Reflection Pool. But put them to work in the right setting, and algae can be surprisingly useful. In fact, these plant-like organisms may hold the key to sustainable fuels of the future.

After a flawless launch, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is on a mission to solve some of the universe’s biggest mysteries

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Researchers are developing AI that can estimate cycling pedal forces from video, potentially turning ordinary smartphone footage into useful performance and injury-risk data.

Import a supported Google Play book, and Gemini Notebook will use it as a source of information to generate reports, quizzes, podcasts, and more.

Rocket Drew / The Information: Reframe, which uses AI and industrial robot arms to make modular homes in a factory, raised a $40M Series A extension round led by Energy Impact Partners  —  For all the talk of robots that look like humans, the next robots to move into people's houses could look more like ducks.

The DoD on Monday launched OpenAI’s ChatGPT Mil on GenAI.mil, making the chatbot available for work involving controlled unclassified information.

The DoD on Monday launched OpenAI’s ChatGPT Mil on GenAI.mil, making the chatbot available for work involving controlled unclassified information.

Apple has released the eighth iOS 27 beta for developer testing. iOS 27 beta 8 continues Apple’s summer beta cycle ahead of a public release in September. We’ll update our devices and share what we discover. more…

As AI continues to be a bigger and bigger part of Google Search, the company is making AI Overviews bigger on some searches. more…

Google’s Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash adds video extensions, frame controls, cheaper previews and upscaled 4K output for AI video creators. The post Google Upgrades Gemini AI Video: What Omni 1.1 Changes for Creators appeared first on TechRepublic.

"...the nature of the design means that it does not need to be reset between jumps. It resets itself."

A tiny magnetic robot drilled through sheep brain tissue in laboratory tests, offering a possible new way to reach difficult brain lesions.

Tim Cook took over as Apple CEO in the long shadow of his predecessor, Steve Jobs — and yet he became the best tech CEO in a generation, more than preparing the company for his successor, John Ternus.

A new way to imprint complex surfaces on low-cost, sustainable polymers could be used in a wide range of industries, including water-repellent coatings, optical devices and data storage disks. The complex nano- and microscale patterns on sulfur-derived polymers, unveiled this week in the ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces journal, build on a wide range of green chemistry solutions led by Flinders University.

The XENONnT experiment, in its hunt for dark matter, has detected the rare, feeble glow of neutrinos smacking into electrons

Cyborg cockroaches fitted with cameras and miniature injectors could one day help deliver emergency treatment in disaster zones.

Tesla has expanded the operational geofence for its driverless Robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, marking the first such increase in some time. The updated Service Area for Robotaxi in Austin now spans about 288 square miles and is roughly 9 percent larger than the previous boundary. This incremental growth adds approximately 24 square miles of […] The post Tesla expands driverless Robotaxi geofence in Austin appeared first on TESLARATI.

Meta is testing robots for data center maintenance, from swapping cables to restarting servers, raising questions about automation and IT staffing. The post Meta Tests Robot Technicians: Inside Its Push to Automate Data Center Work appeared first on TechRepublic.

Honor crammed a gimbal camera into a phone in a promising hardware experiment.

China’s Carmakers Move Into Humanoid Robots Hype around humanoid robots is not new. Tesla chief executive Elon Musk

Astrophysicists at Syracuse University in New York think they've found a hitherto-hidden explanation for strange activity during so-called repeating partial Tidal Disruption Events (rpTDEs). These are interactions between a supermassive black hole and a star that wanders too close for comfort, but not close enough to get swallowed up.

Pollen Robotics has unveiled a bipedal robot called Microduck, at an introductory price of $399 before taxes and shipping. The Bordeaux company is owned by the AI platform Hugging Face. Its new machine has one eye and 15 motors, stands 25cm tall, and weighs under 800g. Preorders opened on Thursday. Pollen is targeting first deliveries […] This story continues at The Next Web

The ability to precisely adjust the expression of genes inside the human body—ramping up protective ones and tamping down harmful ones—holds enormous potential for treating and preventing disease. But the standard molecular tools used to tune genes, such as the CRISPR system, are too bulky to package and deliver into the body's cells.

Tesla Full Self-Driving is set to get a major fix with pothole avoidance, a feature that CEO Elon Musk said recently was “coming soon.” The feature has been included within the FSD v14 release notes for some time as an upcoming improvement. Potholes come in all shapes and sizes, but one thing is universal about […] The post Tesla is fixing Full Self-Driving’s pothole problem appeared first on TESLARATI.

Scientists have uncovered hidden complexity inside two ultrathin superconductors that seemed much simpler than they really are. Niobium diselenide and tantalum disulfide appeared to have a single superconducting state, but highly sensitive measurements revealed that each actually contains two strongly interacting states working so closely together that they masquerade as one.

A long-standing picture of brain evolution as newer, rational layers stacked on top of an ancient “lizard brain” may be deeply misleading. Researchers found that evolution instead appears to balance two competing styles of brain wiring, expanding one while shrinking the other depending on what an animal needs to survive.

Physicists have demonstrated a new way to entangle distant quantum bits without the constant measurements and active control normally required. The team created a “quantum bath,” a shared environment filled with correlated microwave photons that automatically pushes separated qubits into an entangled state and helps keep them there. The experiment confirms a theoretical prediction made more than 20 years ago and could offer a simpler way to connect modules in future quantum computers.

We have selected seven of the most interesting and important news stories covering US-China relations from the past few weeks. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. Harvard, MIT among 30 US universities ordered to audit China research ties Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Johns Hopkins University were among 30 American institutions ordered to audit their foreign research relationships, according to US officials, as...

Fully autonomous multi-point turning capability enables units to execute complex maneuvers in field applications. The post Agtonomy Highlights Expanding Data Capabilities and New Autonomous Maneuvers Across Its Physical AI Platform appeared first on CropLife.

Discover how high-resolution satellite analytics can support crop scouting, variable-rate management, crop insurance investigations, and more. The post Tech Talk: Satshot on AI-Enhanced Satellite Imagery appeared first on CropLife.

Australia's agricultural exports have long traded on a simple label: clean and green.

In a promising milestone for nanotechnology, Constructor University has contributed to a study demonstrating self-assembling nanopores capable of detecting disease proteins associated with illnesses like Parkinson's and ALS.

Meta spent the first half of this year planning to replace much of the work its employees do with AI agents, then abandoned the most aggressive part of the plan when the technology did not deliver. Meta code-named the scheme Project OT, short for Organization Transformation. It explored cutting the size of many teams by […] This story continues at The Next Web

InvestorPlace - Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading Tips Nvidia’s latest earnings reveal where the next AI bottleneck is forming — and why AI bottleneck stocks could become the market’s next major winners. The post Nvidia Just Revealed the Next Big AI Bottleneck appeared first on InvestorPlace.

Bloomberg: Nvidia plans to invest $3.5B into MediaTek through convertible bonds; MediaTek forecasts AI chip revenue of about $2B this year  —  Nvidia Corp. is investing $3.5 billion into MediaTek Inc., deepening collaboration with the Taiwanese chipmaker at a time when it's working to persuade …

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope has begun its million-mile journey to L2, carrying a panoramic infrared camera designed to map billions of galaxies and uncover thousands of planets.

More than fifteen years after the introduction of the term “Industry 4.0,” the fourth industrial revolution is no

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope has launched on a million mile journey to L2, where it will scan huge portions of the cosmos for clues about dark matter, dark energy, and distant worlds. With survey speeds roughly 1,000 times faster than Hubble and a torrent of 1.4 terabytes of data per day, Roman could uncover cosmic surprises astronomers have never seen before.

Interactive mobile "gizmos" are easy to make, hard to share outside Meta's platform.

A century-old trick for tuning musical instruments has been repurposed to power robots that fly, float and steer themselves using nothing but sound waves.

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is on a mission to probe dark energy, hunt for distant worlds and transform our view of the universe

Roman Space Telescope Launch NASA’s newest flagship observatory is on its way. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

AI models have changed shape over the past two years. Instead of producing a single quick answer, many

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Wendy Lee / Los Angeles Times: Sources: Google approached Disney, Universal, and other studios to license characters and films for its AI tools, but legal and union concerns stalled deals  —  - Google is quietly courting Disney, Universal, Warner Bros. Discovery and other studios to license characters and film libraries for its AI tools …

Photo by Alex Knight on Unsplash. By Hasan Ayaz, Drexel University; Ewart J. de Visser, United States Air Force Academy; Frank Krueger, George Mason University, and Yigit Topoglu, United States Air Force Academy People become more suspicious of a humanoid robot that makes errors, especially when the robot is an expressive conversation partner. In our […]

Europe is buying another AI supercomputer, and this one is headed to Kajaani in northern Finland. LUMI-AI is a €387.8 million system, roughly $449 million, that will be built by Bull, the French supercomputer maker that the French state bought outright five months ago. The order is the sixth AI Factory procurement contract signed by […] This story continues at The Next Web

Meta has become one of Anthropic’s largest customers, at the same time as Mark Zuckerberg has been attacking the company in public. At one point this year Meta internally projected that it could spend as much as $10bn a year on Anthropic’s models, The New York Times reported, citing two people who declined to be […] This story continues at The Next Web

A patient in England was told they had demyelination, the nerve damage that underlies conditions including multiple sclerosis. The test result had actually read “null demyelination”, and an AI scribe had dropped the word that reversed the meaning. That case appears in a warning from Healthwatch England, the statutory patient watchdog, reported by the Guardian today. […] This story continues at The Next Web

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US President Donald Trump has published AI-generated clips showing a missile strike on Iran’s Kharg Island amid a new escalation with Tehran Read Full Article at RT.com

Researchers developed a solid-phase-synthesized nanoMIP sensor integrated with surface plasmon resonance for rapid, label-free detection of bisphenol A in water. The platform detected BPA across 5 to 800 nM with a 1.46 nM detection limit and was validated using LC-MS and commercial drinking-water samples.

Kurly N Mart, an online grocery service launched jointly by Naver and Kurly, saw its transaction volume surge tenfold in its first year, driven by loyal subscribers from Naver’s paid membership program, the companies said Monday. The service launched in September 2025, combining Naver's broad base of online shopping users and its Naver Plus Store app with Kurly's product sourcing and dawn delivery network, a same-day pre-dawn delivery system Kurly pioneered in Korea's grocery delivery market. Naver said users in their 30s and 40s made up more than 72 percent of customers who used the service 10 or more times, with people in their 40s visiting at least once a week on average. More than 80 percent of Kurly N Mart's transactions came through the Naver Plus Store app, the company said. After the company began offering same-day delivery in February, in addition to its existing dawn delivery, order volume placed between 6 a.m. and noon rose 34 percent within a month. The companies also said

NC AI is taking its vision of physical artificial intelligence (AI) to Riyadh this week, where it will showcase technology designed to connect virtual environments with machines operating in the physical world. The Korean physical AI company said Monday it will operate a joint pavilion for the Korean Full-Stack AI Consortium at LEAP 2026, which runs Monday through Thursday at the Riyadh Exhibition and Convention Center. The four-day technology exhibition is expected to draw more than 201,000 visitors from 203 countries and feature more than 1,000 speakers, including AMD Chief Executive Lisa Su and physicist Michio Kaku. NC AI will join MegazoneCloud, Upstage, FuriosaAI and Uracle in presenting Korean capabilities spanning AI semiconductors, AI models, cloud and infrastructure. At its pavilion, NC AI will focus on VAETKI, its industry-specific AI technology, and demonstrate how physical AI can move from digital environments to real-world action. The company will showcase a technology

A single dose of psilocybin produced a lasting increase in sociability for at least two weeks in Cntnap2-knockout mice with social deficits, while it did not enhance sociability overall in mice with normal social behavior. The effect required 5-HT2A receptor activation and persisted when psilocybin was administered under light anesthesia, suggesting that wakefulness during the drug’s acute effects was not necessary for this behavioral response.

Hong Kong’s first convenience stores operated by humanoid robots will open on Tuesday, with the Beijing-based company behind it planning to establish about 10 more outlets locally as it makes the city its first stop in “going overseas”. Following an opening ceremony on Monday, the first “Galbot stores” will open in Hung Hom, Kai Tak and Wan Chai the next day, marking the company’s first outlets outside mainland China. The embodied-intelligence robotics company launched its first store on the...

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: The challenges John Ternus inherits as he replaces Tim Cook on Sept. 1 amid rising component costs, staff retention issues, efforts to catch up in AI, and more  —  Apple's changing of the guard will be gradual, with outgoing CEO Tim Cook handling Trump, China.

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NASA's newest eye on the sky, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, has begun its journey to unravel the secrets of dark matter, dark energy and Earthlike planets — months ahead of schedule.

When high or low tide occurs, the water does not necessarily rise and fall uniformly along the entire coastline. In fact, the height of the tide in a bay can vary by up to one meter (3 feet) from one location to another just a few kilometers away.

A routine photograph of the back of the eye has quietly become one of the most information-dense objects in modern medicine, and a new study argues that a single retinal scan can carry measurable traces of the health of two organs it never touches: the heart and the brain. Writing in Nature Cardiovascular Research in […]

Physicists have, for the first time, directly imaged the exotic edge currents that race along the boundary of zirconium pentatelluride, one of the most tantalizing candidates for a topological quantum material, and in doing so they have solved a puzzle that has haunted the field for nearly a decade. The work, published in Nature Nanotechnology, […]

Trump dialed into a NASA press conference after the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy from Florida.

For much of the past three decades, coaxing nanocrystals made of more than one metal into existence has been closer to alchemy than to engineering. Researchers mix metal salts, reducing agents, ligands and heat, scrutinize the products under an electron microscope, and repeat until something useful appears. A study now published in Nature Synthesis by […]

The $4.3-billion observatory will aid the search for "Earth twins" and explore the nature of dark matter and dark energy.

Aaron Tilley / The Information: Sources: OpenAI bought tens of thousands of Macs for RL, Anthropic rents them, Nvidia sees Apple as its main local AI rival as Macs gain traction with AI devs  —  The hottest products at Apple right now are not the iPhone, the iPad or a buzzy new show on the company's streaming service.

Now that the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has finally launched, learn what will happen in the days, weeks, and months after launch.

NASA's newest crown jewel blasted off Sunday to hunt for planets around other stars, explore secret dark energy and survey the cosmos like never before.

In the global race to neutralize the two greenhouse gases most responsible for warming the planet, few chemical reactions promise as much as dry reforming of methane. The process, known among catalysis researchers simply as DRM, takes methane and carbon dioxide — the principal components of natural gas flares and biogas — and converts them […]

Physicists have mathematically captured a bizarre “spacetime crystal” that can either dissolve or collapse into a microscopic black hole after only a tiny change in energy. Their breakthrough came from an unusual trick involving infinitely many dimensions, potentially giving researchers a new tool for studying primordial and microscopic black holes.

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