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Northwestern University scientists have developed fungal-inspired melanin nanoparticles that can be added to clothing dyes to capture and destroy toxic organophosphorus compounds, halving a deadly byproduct within ten minutes.

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Amazon is in talks to buy AI startup Decart in a deal that could value it at ~$7B; Anthropic had decided against acquiring Decart for ~$6B in September  —  San Francisco company's software makes it easier for developers to switch between different AI chips

A new review proposes an anatomy-guided framework in which the bladder, prostate and kidney each demand distinct nanomedicine designs to translate local drug delivery into lasting cancer control.

Bill Gates warns of catastrophic AI misuse, seeks talks with Trump on oversight and backs considering a robot tax and human-reserved roles.

Oregon State University researchers have shown in mice that cobalt-doped iron oxide nanoparticles can both reveal a misplaced placenta on MRI and end an ectopic pregnancy through controlled magnetic hyperthermia.

Bill Gates warned that AI-powered cyberattacks could disrupt financial systems and fuel extortion schemes, with criminals exploiting unsafeguarded models.

Researchers have embedded piezoelectric zinc oxide within mesoporous bioactive glass nanospheres that, when activated by low-intensity pulsed ultrasound, enhance both odontogenic differentiation of dental pulp stem cells and angiogenesis in vitro and in vivo.

Some classical physical systems can explore many configurations over time until their long-term behavior no longer reveals their starting conditions. The sampling of available configurations according to the appropriate statistical distribution is a property called ergodicity.

New research shows that rolling 9Cr-ODS steel within the intercritical temperature window preserves its strengthening nano-oxides and delivers higher strength at 650 degrees Celsius than conventional high-temperature rolling.

A two-year Indian field trial shows that cyhalofop plus penoxsulam delivers near-complete weed control in direct-seeded rice, while foliar nano urea adds a numerical but statistically unproven yield boost and a cautionary lesson about NDVI sensors being fooled by weeds.

A new critical review argues that artificial intelligence has accelerated epitope prediction for multi-epitope vaccines, but chemical developability, nanocarrier formulation and validated release modeling remain the decisive bottlenecks.

Stretching a quantum material revealed two distinct superconducting states, challenging previous assumptions about its behavior and offering new clues to the mechanisms behind superconductivity. Stretching a crystal by less than 1% has allowed scientists to separate two distinct superconducting states in a material that has puzzled physicists for years. The experiment also increased the temperature [...]

Researchers have developed a CNN-BiLSTM-Attention hybrid neural network optimized by an improved antlion algorithm that diagnoses and predicts transformer faults with 98.28 percent accuracy.

Scientists have engineered an MG1 peptide-targeted liposome that delivers aspirin-triggered resolvin D1 to spinal microglia, reprogramming them via a newly discovered ANGPTL4-SUCLG1-propionate axis to treat neuropathic pain.

A new RGB-D perception-to-action framework called E-YOLOv11-RGBD raised robotic greenhouse harvesting success from 51.7 to 92.5 percent by converting AI fruit detections into depth-validated, reachable and graspable robot actions.

A controlled comparative study shows that a Sargassum seaweed extract produces smaller, more stable, and optically distinct zinc oxide nanoparticles than identical chemical synthesis without it.

Denmark’s Salling Group is trialling Hive Robots in stores to handle demanding restocking, freeing staff for customer service while robots work mainly at night.

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Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: PitchBook: robotics and physical AI companies have raised ~$48B YTD, as they gather training data from people completing tasks in factories, offices, and homes  —  ‘Physical AI’ developers are putting cameras in homes, offices and factories to fill a gap in the training material of robotics

As I’m writing this I’m able to stare out into my driveway at my trusty Honda Odyssey. Most of the public’s association with Honda is through their “mobility” products - i.e. their cars. But the company has an impressive track record of other technical achievements, not the least of which has been in robotics. Now, it’s teaming up with space infrastructure firm Redwire to develop an automated laboratory support system for use on future commercial space stations.

A new data-driven framework called STREAM models ICU patients as trajectories through a multidimensional physiological space, identifying state outliers whose mortality risk is up to sixteen times higher than expected.

A machine learning model trained on CT texture features of metastatic neck lymph nodes predicted which patients with advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma would achieve complete treatment response, outperforming clinical variables alone.

A spinach leaf can turn light into chemical energy. A struggling heart cannot. Researchers in China have brought part of the leaf's energy-making machinery into rat heart cells to test whether borrowed photosynthesis could help an overworked heart.

Engineers in Uganda have designed and simulated a two-axis sliding robotic system that charges scrap into electric induction furnaces at 87 kilograms per minute, up from 73, while removing workers from hazardous furnace-side conditions.

A long day’s haul in the video game slop mines.

Legendary 1975 supercomputer gets a modernized replica with old Mac Minis, showcasing decades of innovation.

Researchers have synthesized urchin-like copper oxide nanostructures that are superhydrophobic and superoleophilic without organic modifiers, enabling highly efficient oil-water separation and oil spill cleanup.

Researchers in India have designed ultra-compact quantum-dot cellular automata memory circuits, including a 14-cell D-latch and a SET/RESET-enabled SRAM cell, that promise lower power and latency than conventional approaches.

Bloomberg: A look at Beijing-based Neolix, which operates the world's largest robovan fleet at 27K, as Shenzhen tests nighttime parcel deliveries by driverless vehicles  —  Autonomous vehicle companies believe there's a huge market opportunity in delivering after dark, if the technical challenges can be overcome.

Researchers have built a multilingual transformer-based AI system that diagnoses crop diseases, generates farming advice, and delivers market intelligence while sustaining 10,000 concurrent users at 0.35 seconds per query.

A new experimental study shows that molybdenum-doped titanium dioxide nanoparticles can recover much of the efficiency lost when ethanol is blended into diesel, though the gains come with measurable emissions trade-offs.

Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: Multiply Labs, which develops robotic systems to automate pharmaceutical manufacturing processes, raised a $75M Series B led by Patrick Soon-Shiong's NantWorks  —  Multiply Labs Inc., a startup that develops automation equipment for drugmakers, has raised $75 million in funding.

NIH researchers have released BRACE, an open-source pure-Python software framework that lets clinical researchers rapidly build, control, and tune robotic devices from exoskeletons to mechanoreception instruments without large-scale robotics infrastructure.

A Chinese proof-of-concept study found that a CT radiomics model predicting early response to radiotherapy in elderly esophageal cancer patients showed unstable performance under fully nested validation, with no proven benefit from combining clinical and imaging data.

Researchers have synthesized quaternary (RuMoVNb)Se2 alloy nanosheets that achieve near-platinum hydrogen evolution performance across the full pH range by combining ruthenium-driven phase transitions with selenium vacancy engineering.

Researchers in Shandong, China, have developed and externally validated machine learning models that use preoperative data to predict complications, prolonged hospital stay, and postoperative pain in patients undergoing surgery for thymic epithelial tumors.

Materials scientist and chemist Antonio Facchetti, formerly of the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States, has joined the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology as a chair professor in its newly established department of materials. Facchetti, who was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering last year for his “contributions to the engineering of commercially viable electronic materials and devices”, researches semiconductors, dielectrics for thin-film and...

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Researchers trained an explainable XGBoost model on 1,670 field-recorded concrete mixes, achieving R-squared 0.9263 in strength prediction while using SHAP analysis to reveal that water-cement ratio, curing time and total cementitious content dominate performance.

The Norwegian Consumer Council made this lovely short video about enshittifcation, the practice of making products and services crappier than they should or need be. It’s called “The Life of Death and the Ensh*ttificator” and also called “Killing Things”.      

Researchers at IRCCS Fondazione Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta and Politecnico di Milano have shown that mitochondria can be coated with metal-organic frameworks without losing their ability to produce energy, opening possible new routes for treating mitochondrial dysfunction.

Researchers converted discarded pineapple peels into fluorescent silicon nanoparticles that detect the insecticide nitenpyram in water through dual fluorescence and colorimetric readouts.

A hybrid deep learning and radiomics framework can detect subjective cognitive decline, the earliest preclinical stage of Alzheimer's disease, from standard MRI scans with nearly 89 percent accuracy.

Researchers at the European XFEL and ETH Zurich have developed two methods, including a pixel-based colour separation technique and an algorithm called Dichography, to disentangle superimposed two-colour X-ray diffraction signals and record the fastest nanoscale movies ever made.

Researchers have developed a green-synthesized gallic acid, tin oxide and activated carbon nanocomposite that removes up to 98.64 percent of methylene blue dye from water under statistically optimized conditions.

A multicenter study found that a deep learning model analyzing full ultrasound videos significantly improved diagnostic accuracy for suspicious breast lesions, lifting junior sonographers' accuracy from 66.7% to 89.2%.

Researchers in Algeria have combined convolutional neural networks with a Swin Transformer to detect network intrusions with up to 99.69 percent accuracy by converting traffic data into images.

A new brain-imaging study presented at the ECNP Congress shows that intensive breathwork reduces cerebral blood flow by up to 45 percent and alters communication within the brain's default mode network, producing experiences resembling moderate to high doses of LSD or psilocybin.

Scientists used leaf-extract-derived silver oxide nanoparticles to convert non-edible Madhuca longifolia seed oil into ASTM-compliant biodiesel with a 92 percent yield and a reusable catalyst.

A multi-task deep learning model that fuses pretreatment MRI and whole slide pathology images outperformed standard staging in predicting chemotherapy response and survival for locally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

When we think about a diamond, we often think about a material whose value comes from its perfection. In my research, however, I am interested in something almost opposite: the tiny imperfections inside diamonds. These atomic-scale defects can give diamonds new optical and electronic properties, and some of them can serve as quantum systems. The challenge is learning how to control these defects without disturbing the others.

Nadella joined other tech moguls and researchers in calling for stronger safeguards and, in some cases, for the pacing of frontier development.

Nadella joined other tech moguls and researchers in calling for stronger safeguards and, in some cases, for the pacing of frontier development.

Researchers at The University of Manchester have created bulk ferroelectric heterostructures in a lead-free bismuth ferrite-barium titanate ceramic, achieving a Curie temperature of 824°C and programmable electromechanical behaviour for high-temperature sensors and actuators.

Scientists have used graphene oxide nanosheets to deliver neuropeptide Y into the rat amygdala, selectively erasing fear memories through Y1 receptor-expressing circuits while leaving anxiety behaviors intact.

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Financial Times: Sources: Nvidia is in talks to acquire or invest more into US open-weights AI startup Reflection AI; the deal may be an acquihire to avoid antitrust scrutiny  —  Donald Trump's administration hopes the company will rival cheap Chinese alternatives such as DeepSeek

Researchers have sprayed beta-phase silver vanadate nanorods onto greenhouse plastic to convert unused green sunlight into red light, significantly boosting root and stem growth in wheat and barley seedlings.

Scientists have developed a powerful new way to calculate the Kondo effect, a strange quantum phenomenon that appears when magnetic atoms are embedded in metals. Instead of relying on simplified models, the method uses the real atomic and electronic structures of materials, allowing researchers to predict their behavior with far greater accuracy.

A strange chemical signature in old Hubble observations may point to a planet that formed after its star had already died. Astronomers found unusually high levels of niobium around the white dwarf HS 0209+0832, suggesting some of the star’s expelled material may have assembled into a new gas giant. TESS data also hints at a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting just 3.7 million miles from the star.

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory may have found a dramatically more efficient route to fusion energy by reversing the traditional approach: heating plasma first, then increasing its density. Their calculations could help future reactors reach self-sustaining fusion with far less energy while avoiding hidden problems that make ignition harder.

Depression may not be one biological condition, but several distinct patterns of brain activity hiding under the same diagnosis. Researchers studying 263 people with depression identified five brain profiles, each showing different patterns of communication between brain regions and associations with symptoms such as anxiety, trauma, and substance abuse.

A ZIF-8-gated cascade nanoreactor converts tumor glucose into hydrogen peroxide and carbon monoxide, depleting ATP and suppressing HSP70 so that mild photothermal therapy near 45 degrees Celsius can kill cancer cells through ferroptosis.

Researchers converted millions of LendingClub loan records into structure-aware grayscale images and showed that a hybrid convolutional neural network and Random Forest model predicts peer-to-peer credit defaults more accurately and more robustly than conventional tabular machine learning models.

A new study in Medical Oncology reports that diosmin loaded into chitosan nanoparticles reduced tumor burden and protected the kidneys of mice with Ehrlich ascites carcinoma by activating Nrf2 antioxidant signaling and suppressing NF-κB-driven inflammation and apoptosis.

A new PLOS Digital Health opinion argues that tens of thousands of authorised AI diagnostic tools rest on benchmark accuracy figures that say little about real patient benefit, and calls for prospective clinical validation, subgroup performance disclosure, and clinician co-design as prerequisites for deployment.

Most of us recognize basic phases of matter and their properties: solids maintain their shape, liquids flow freely with constant volume, and gases expand to fill their container. Quantum phases, on the other hand, are much harder to categorize, overturning traditional notions of what a phase even is and forcing physicists to rethink their definitions.

CBS News: A look at a 1,700-member Slack run by Medicare agency CMS where Microsoft, OpenAI, and other companies help shape policy on AI apps and medical records access  —  A cadre of elite techies, financiers, and high-level Trump administration officials have spent a year quietly charting an extraordinary …

A new study shows that an interpretable AI model fusing 18F-PSMA-1007 PET/CT and multiparametric MRI can predict prostate cancer aggressiveness before surgery with high accuracy.

Researchers used machine learning to create a CKM-specific biological aging index that outperforms existing measures in predicting mortality and identifying high-risk cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome.

Researchers developed EntQA, a reference-free, entity-centric metric that scores how faithfully large language models preserve clinically relevant concepts in medical question answering.

A new study shows that ultrafine-grained Ti-6Al-4V substrates refine the crystalline structure of high-entropy (TiZrVCrAl)N coatings, shrinking coherent scattering domains from 14.0 to 8.2 nanometers.

Researchers have developed a dual-stream convolutional neural network that fuses RGB imagery with vectorized Error Level Analysis and CBAM attention to localize image forgeries such as splicing and retouching.

Researchers have created solution-blown polyacrylonitrile nanofiber mats embedded with Congo red dye that change from red to blue within seconds to visually signal the oxidation of heated soybean oil.

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A sweeping review of 7,909 studies shows how food-grade nanoemulsions are transforming nutrient delivery, food preservation, and intelligent packaging while exposing critical gaps in industrial-scale validation and safety evidence.

‘Swarms’ of cyborg cockroaches with cameras and miniature medical injectors could deliver supervised emergency care to people trapped

Boston University's Maria Kamenetska has been named a 2026 Moore Foundation Experimental Physics Investigator, receiving $1.35 million to study light-matter interactions at the nanoscale with ultrafast laser spectroscopy.

Firmus said it had made the decision due to "recent market volatility and prevailing market conditions".

A large experiment around the 2024 UK election found that researching political claims with AI chatbots increased accurate knowledge as effectively as Google search, and 6 to 10 percent faster.

But businesses should not be locked into a single machine and must keep the flexibility to move.

A new computational framework called STARIT converts the spatial positions of mRNA molecules inside cells into image tensors, allowing deep learning models to identify cell states that conventional gene-count analysis overlooks.

Nvidia reportedly discontinues GeForce RTX 5090-series products leaving GB202 for data center and professional graphics boards. GeForce RTX 5080 24 GB rumored to become de-facto flagship from the green camp for a while.

Solid tumors are not merely collections of malignant cells but complex ecosystems comprising tumor cells, stromal cells, and the extracellular matrix (ECM).

Researchers have built an explainable ensemble deep learning framework that fuses four transfer learning models using CMAES optimization to classify brain tumors in MRI scans with up to 99.93 percent accuracy.

Participants meditated inside an MRI tube, with and without psilocybin.

New films about Zuckerberg, Musk, Altman and AI arrive as public concern about the technology and its leaders rises.

New films about Zuckerberg, Musk, Altman and AI arrive as public concern about the technology and its leaders rises.

A fully automated deep learning system called CFAPS segments carotid plaques on multi-contrast MRI and classifies their vulnerability in under a second, matching expert radiologists and predicting stroke-free survival across four clinical centers.

Researchers synthesized multi-walled carbon nanotube/gallium selenide nanocomposites by pulsed laser ablation in liquid and used DFT calculations to reveal how interfacial charge redistribution dramatically reshapes the hybrid's anisotropic optical properties.

For the better part of a century, people have been trying to understand dark matter. This invisible substance

Live Science spoke with Steve Winter ahead of the release of "Big Cats."

Physicists in the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford have used a hybrid quantum computer, made up of qubits and quantum oscillators, to observe the Aharonov–Bohm effect in a quantum simulation. The effect is a quantum phenomenon in which a particle can acquire a measurable phase by traveling around a magnetic flux, even though it never passes through a region where a magnetic field is present.

A new ternary ZIF-8/NiFe2O4/magnetic graphene oxide nanocomposite removes up to 96 percent of tetracycline from water, recovers magnetically and retains over 92 percent of its capacity after five reuse cycles.

A national discrete choice experiment of 211 Chinese urologists found that surgeons' stated preferences for robot-assisted versus laparoscopic prostatectomy shifted dramatically depending on whether the hypothetical patient was financially well-resourced or constrained, with cost becoming the dominant factor only for financially constrained patients.

A prospective study found that an AI-enhanced 12-lead ECG score accurately identified angiographically significant coronary artery disease in patients undergoing elective angiography.

A new computational study shows that the magnetic field induced by a flowing Cu–TiO2/water hybrid nanofluid inside a parabolic solar collector's receiver tube can be systematically strengthened or damped, opening a potential new control channel for solar-thermal systems.

Researchers used Millettia ferruginea leaf extract to synthesize a zinc oxide/bentonite nanocomposite that showed enhanced antibacterial activity against four bacterial strains.

Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the National Energy Technology Laboratory showed that coal-derived carbon nanodots enable the growth of ultrathin, high-quality dielectric layers on two-dimensional semiconductors, clearing a longstanding obstacle for next-generation electronics.

China has unveiled a smart robot prototype designed to assist with wheat breeding in the latest step in its ongoing drive to advance agricultural technology and bolster food security. The robot made its public debut at a recent seminar on wheat breeding, state-run China Science Daily reported on Friday. Traditional wheat breeders rely on a wealth of accumulated experience to identify and select strains with superior traits from tens of thousands of hybrid offspring. But this requires manual...