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Author(s): Yuxuan Zhang, Shuo Qiao, Anliang Lu, Xiaohui Sun, Jun Lyu, Jinlong Du, Yang Lu, and Lin YangStrain-gradient engineering provides a doping-free route to modulate broadband optical emission in microfabricated diamond. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 106201] Published Thu Sep 03, 2026

Author(s): A. Hayrapetyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)The first search for production of a Higgs boson along with a pair of vector bosons yields constraints on Higgs self-coupling constants. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 101806] Published Thu Sep 03, 2026

LG will bring together its top technology executives with representatives from Nvidia, Google, Amazon and Microsoft at a two-week artificial intelligence event running Sept. 7-17 at LG Science Park, the company's research and development hub in southwestern Seoul's Magok area, the company said. The event, called LG SPARK 2026, began in 2018 as a series of internal events for LG affiliates to share R&D progress and was consolidated in 2023 into a single festival combining technology, culture and the arts. It drew about 60,000 attendees last year and has grown into LG's largest annual event. This year's edition has been reorganized to spread examples of AI transformation (AX) across the group. The festival opens Sept. 7-8 with a Tech Fair showcasing 41 new technologies, including 13 developed jointly across LG affiliates in physical AI, AI data centers and mobility, and 28 additional technologies in AI, biotechnology and clean technology — three areas Chairman Koo Kwang-mo has designated

H&L Advanced, the first integrated entity created under South Korea’s petrochemical industry restructuring drive, has officially launched. HD Hyundai Chemical merged with Lotte Daesan Petrochemical and changed its name to H&L Advanced, holding an official launch ceremony on Sept. 4 at the Daesan pla

Lan Xiaohuan is a professor of economics at China Europe International Business School. His book, How China Works: An Introduction to China’s State-led Economic Development, has sold millions of copies in China and has been translated into multiple languages. Here, he discusses the economic realities behind China’s record trade surplus, the case for a stronger social safety net, and how public data infrastructure shapes the artificial intelligence race with the United States. SCMP Plus readers...

Garlic and sweet flag, two plants with centuries of use in traditional medicine, have now been fused into a single nanoparticle platform that kills bacteria, neutralizes oxidative stress, and devastates mosquito larvae while showing markedly lower toxicity to soil organisms than commercial synthetic pesticides. In a study published in Applied Nanoscience, researchers report the green […]

Researchers in Turkey have engineered an electrospun nanofiber wound dressing that closes nearly all of a full-thickness wound within two weeks, and their results suggest the material could become a new tool for treating injuries sustained in chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) incidents. The study, published in Polymer Bulletin by Nilay Tufan, Halis Uğuz, […]

Alexei Oreskovic / Fortune: AI scientist and Google researcher Ray Kurzweil joins BCI startup Subsense, which develops non-surgical BCI tech involving inhaled nanoparticles, as an advisor  —  Ray Kurzweil, the pioneering AI scientist, Google researcher, and “AI visionary,” is joining a Silicon Valley startup developing …

In a development that could reshape how clinicians manage one of the most stubborn problems in wound care, a team of researchers in China has engineered a “smart” wound dressing modeled on the hexagonal architecture of a honeycomb. The dressing, described in a new open-access paper in Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials, does something conventional […]

An international collaboration of researchers has used ANSTO's facilities to uncover new properties of one of the most fundamental everyday materials, water, and answer an important scientific question. The findings, published in Nature Communications, have practical implications for understanding water at very low temperatures. The findings are relevant to cryopreservation of biological materials, food-freezing technologies and understanding water in living cells, where it is often confined at the nanoscale.

WashU Medicine surgeons report the first robotic combined liver-kidney transplant, replacing a 16-inch incision with one of about three inches.

Molecular dynamics simulations have revealed how nickel–palladium core–shell nanoparticles melt, fuse, and—crucially—emerge from the process stronger and more ductile than either of their pure-metal building blocks. The study, published in the Journal of Nanoparticle Research by Taslima Hossain Sanjana, Sadia Afrin, and Mohammad Nasim Hasan of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Bangladesh University of […]

A camera overlooking a loading dock might record twelve hours of trucks arriving, workers moving through the site, and boxes leaving the building. Most days, nobody has a reason to watch any of it. The footage only becomes useful when a package goes missing, an accident happens or somebody needs to work backwards from an […] This story continues at The Next Web

The latest first-party app that Gemini Spark can control is Google Photos. The personal agent can “handle complex, multi-stage workflows” with your library. more…

With the rapid spread of cloud computing, artificial intelligence and data centers, global energy consumption is rising to new heights. A promising way to reduce this burden is to develop memory devices that store information magnetically yet are written using electric fields. Magnetic memories are nonvolatile, meaning stored information is retained without a power supply.

A flash detected by the LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter detector in South Dakota intrigues physicists, offering a potential hint of dark matter, though alternative explanations remain possible.

Nvidia locked in an October 2026 launch for RTX Spark, detailing two N1X chip configurations built for Windows-on-Arm gaming.

The Hubble Space Telescope spied a large atmospheric phenomenon on Saturn: a decagon surrounding the south pole.

Cross-disciplinary research at Perimeter Institute and University of Maryland shows that dark photons could be lurking in more places than previously thought.

Cilia are tiny, whip-like filaments that line many of the body’s internal passages, and when they beat in coordinated waves they can push fluid along without any external pump. Now, a team of researchers has built one of the most complete mathematical models yet of how such cilia-driven pumping moves blood laced with engineered nanoparticles […]

Physicists have proven a 100-year-old prediction of relativity by showing that Einstein's equivalence principle holds at quantum scales.

WeatherNext 3 is also supposed to be much better at predicting precipitation.

The 346-MW Gibson City Solar Project, developed by Earthrise Energy and constructed by Burns & McDonnell, achieved commercial operation in Illinois using Earthrise Energy’s surplus interconnection strategy. By connecting through the existing switchyard of an adjacent gas-fired peaking facility, the project leveraged available grid capacity rather than requiring a new interconnection, illustrating one approach to accelerating… The post Illinois solar project uses terrain-following trackers, installation robots to reduce engineering effort appeared first on Solar Power World.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a sprawling cosmic vista in the Large Magellanic Cloud, or LMC, the largest of the small galaxies that orbit our Milky Way galaxy. At just 160,000 light-years away, the LMC offers a close look at highly active star-forming sites like the one in this image. This photogenic nebula, named LHA 120-N44, or N44, is in the constellation Dorado.

Nvidia expands beyond AI hardware with its $12.93 billion acquisition of Hugging Face, gains control of a major open AI model platform, vows to preserve its support for competing models, clouds, and hardware platforms.

Nvidia’s new PAIR software turns every idle PC in your house into a shared AI cluster, free, open-source, and live in beta starting today.

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Microsoft AI debuts MAI-Transcribe-2, a speech recognition model that it says beats Gemini 3.5 Transcribe and GPT-Transcribe, at $0.10/audio hour through 2026  —  Then it priced the thing at 10 cents per hour of audio.  —  That figure deserves a pause. … Thursday's early-bird price cuts that by roughly 72%.

Politico: A White House official says Zuckerberg opposed a US AI regulator in a call with Trump last month; another source says he didn't ask Trump to change his stance  —  Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg expressed concerns about plans for a national AI regulator in a previously unreported phone call …

Ten research teams were honored Thursday at a satirical science awards ceremony that was hosted outside the U.S. for the first time due to travel concerns.

Lenovo’s new Yoga Pro laptops use Nvidia RTX Spark to deliver powerful local AI performance for creators, developers, gamers and 3D professionals.

The color of penguin poop, as seen from space, is offering a new window into how Antarctica's ecology and environment are changing over time.

Mayo Clinic researchers tested an approach that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to help people without previous ultrasound experience capture heart images and identify patients who may have a common and serious heart valve condition.

A compound found in certain mushrooms prevents nerve damage during chemotherapy

Google is rolling out Gemini-powered voice features that let users search Gmail, draft in Docs and turn spoken thoughts into organized Keep notes.

A new study has demonstrated that it is possible to make a network of atoms and photons that could improve how artificial intelligence stores and recalls memories. This network, called a quantum-optical spin glass, works as an associative memory, a form of AI that enables the recall of full memories from partial information—much like how humans can recognize a person's face in a blurred photograph.

For children born with cleft lip and palate, repairing gaps in the jawbone often means waiting until they are 10 to 12 years old before undergoing invasive bone graft surgery.

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Google today announced WeatherNext 3 as its “most advanced and accurate global weather AI model,” with immediate benefits for Search and Gemini. more…

Billions of disposable respirators were consumed during the COVID-19 pandemic, and nearly all of them shared two stubborn traits: they depended on fragile electrostatic charges to trap particles, and they were made of polypropylene that will persist in landfills for centuries. A team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, working with Advanced Functional […]

You may be surprised to find how affordable some robotic mowers are in 2026. Check out these seven options for budgets of all sizes.

In recent years, psychedelic drugs have attracted growing interest as potential treatments for conditions including depression, anxiety and addiction. Although these drugs are often considered one group, researchers from the University of Southern Denmark have now shown that they affect the brain in markedly different ways. The findings are based on brain scans in rats and suggest that the differences between psychedelic drugs may be greater than previously assumed.

Nvidia says Hugging Face will stay open even as the chipmaker takes control of a key AI hub.

Researchers at Nagoya University have built a graphene nanoribbon that can switch the direction of its twist using a natural solvent. Graphene nanoribbons are thin, ribbon-shaped structures made of fused carbon rings. Twisted or helical versions of these ribbons show promise for advanced light and electronic devices. However, until now, no graphene nanoribbon could switch its twist on demand.

Fruit, honey and other naturally sweet foods may have helped fuel the evolution of the human brain, according

Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: Nvidia launches Personal AI Router (PAIR), a free tool that distributes local AI inference workloads across compatible computers on a network, in beta  —  PAIR is designed to get your desktop and laptop working together on local AI tasks when not in use.

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Japanese scientist Hideki Shirakawa, co-winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in chemistry for discovering and developing conductive polymers, has died. He was 90.

Research means asking questions of the universe. For centuries, clever minds have advanced science by devising ingenious experiments designed so their results reveal something about the laws of nature as clearly and unambiguously as possible.

Nvidia's Personal AI Router (PAIR) clustering utility lets agentic AI workloads take advantage of every spare GPU cycle on a home network, potentially making for faster execution and more private inference.

Nvidia is announcing its new Personal AI Router (PAIR), a free tool that syncs up your home computers for tackling local AI inference tasks with tools like Ollama and LM Studio. Let's get the obvious thing out of the way, despite what its name might imply: PAIR is not a hardware router. It's open-source software developed by Nvidia that discovers compatible PCs on a network, connects them, and prepares them for crunching numbers on agentic workflows. While the compatible devices are mostly Nvidia GeForce GPUs (PAIR works with RTX 20-series cards and newer, as well as RTX Pro GPUs and DGX Spark systems), Apple's M4 chips or newer will also … Read the full story at The Verge.

A research team led by Professor Yong Taik Lim at the SKKU Advanced Institute of Nanotechnology (SAINT), Sungkyunkwan University, have developed an engineered nanoplatform named t-SMC (trained immunity-mediated splenic myelopoiesis converter), which precisely targets the spleen to reverse splenic myelopoiesis toward an antitumoral immune phenotype. The research is published in the journal Advanced Materials.

NVIDIA's PAIR is a free, open-source tool that can distribute AI workloads across idle computers.

Google makes its suite of voice tools available for Gmail, Docs and Live - at least if you're a paying customer.

Uber is launching driverless taxis in London — but your chances of getting one are slim.

Lenovo is putting NVIDIA's Arm superchip in a Yoga with up to 128GB of unified memory. That is enough to run a relatively large LLM entirely on-device, which, for regulated firms, is a compliance feature for on-device AI needs

Liver cancer and chronic liver disease claim roughly two million lives every year, and despite rapid advances in imaging and targeted therapy, tissue diagnosis still depends on biopsy. Now, a team of biomedical engineers at King’s College London has unveiled a proof-of-concept robotic platform that could fundamentally change how clinicians reach deep-seated liver lesions. Writing […]

There are millions of species of bacteria and archaea on Earth, remarkably little is known about most of them. Now, researchers have mined the genomes of thousands of microorganisms preserved at the RIKEN BioResource Research Center (BRC) to find organisms that may be capable of capturing CO2. BRC, located in Tsukuba—one of Japan's largest centers of scientific research—is a unique, world-class research facility.

For patients diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, one of the greatest uncertainties is what comes next. Some people experience relatively mild symptoms for years. Others face a much steeper course marked by worsening movement problems, cognitive decline or both.

A team of Korean researchers has become the first in the world to identify the origin of the "beating" signal that has long been a major obstacle to interpreting quantum signals in topological insulator (TI) nanowires. Their analysis confirmed that the beating arises when two different quantum oscillations overlap: one created by topological electronic states on the surface and the other by ordinary electronic states inside the nanowire. This achievement provides a key criterion for interpreting the signals of topological quantum devices and realizing desired electronic states.

InvestorPlace - Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading Tips Tesla Grok can now control vehicle functions, marking a shift from chatbot AI toward Physical AI embedded in cars, robots, and machines. The post Tesla Just Put Physical AI In the Driver’s Seat appeared first on InvestorPlace.

Security and safety are inseparable in physical systems. The post Building Trust Into Physical AI Systems appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering.

Google is rolling out an updated AI weather model that's supposed to be more accurate, especially when it comes to predicting rain and snowfall. In the announcement today, the company says it's now able to make forecasts with "unprecedented resolution" using its new WeatherNext 3 AI model. It can produce a global picture that's five times sharper than Google's previous model by learning from real-time weather observations, according to the company. "One of the main developments is for [WeatherNext 3] to go beyond what data most global AI models train on," says Samier Merchant, a research engineer at Google Research. "We're able to leverage … Read the full story at The Verge.

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Ultragenyx drug fails pivotal Phase 3, FDA's success at regulating unproven stem cells, and other biotech news

Google Pics brings Nano Banana-powered image creation and editing directly into Workspace, giving Canva a potentially formidable new rival.

Enterprise AI has evolved from isolated tools to integrated systems, says Capgemini. Success depends on human-AI collaboration, runtime governance, and orchestration

Microsoft AI on Thursday released MAI-Transcribe-2, a speech-recognition model the company says is faster, more accurate, and cheaper than anything OpenAI, Google, or ElevenLabs currently sells. Then it priced the thing at 10 cents per hour of audio. That figure deserves a pause. When Microsoft AI shipped the first model in this line just five months ago, it charged $0.36 an hour. Thursday's early-bird price cuts that by roughly 72%. For an enterprise processing 100,000 hours of call-center audio a year — a modest volume for a large bank or telecom — the bill drops from $36,000 to $10,000. At that level, transcription stops being a line item anyone argues about. The release arrives as Microsoft executes a strategy that would have seemed implausible two years ago: building its own frontier-class models one modality at a time, then steadily swapping them into products that once ran on OpenAI's technology. Transcription is the modality where that plan has moved fastest,

Researchers from MIT have designed a new qubit architecture that enables qubits to interact with each other much more quickly while remaining very stable. This advance could someday help scientists build practical quantum computers that can run long, complex algorithms with high accuracy.

The acquisition is the latest attempt by Nvidia to pull ahead in the global AI race. Read more: Nvidia expanding AI offering with $12.9bn Hugging Face acquisition

Siri AI on Apple Watch arrived two cycles late for watchOS 27 beta this summer. I had high hopes for how new Siri could transform Apple Watch into an AI wearable. What actually happened in July and August is that Siri has been remarkably unusable in watchOS 27 beta. Like “hold off on updating” bad. This week, I half-expected Apple to remove “Siri AI” from watchOS 27 beta 8 and revert to the previous version of Siri. Instead, I think Siri AI on Apple Watch actually got good? more…

Fuel adulteration is one of those quiet crimes that most motorists never see but almost everyone eventually pays for. When cheaper hydrocarbons such as kerosene are blended into commercial gasoline or diesel, engines lose efficiency, critical components wear out faster, and exhaust emissions of particulates and pollutants climb. The financial losses ripple through transport fleets […]

Sarah Demers, chair of the physics department at Yale University, sees the potential for large language models to both help and harm her field. The post In an Age of AI, a Physicist Seeks What Endures first appeared on Quanta Magazine

The hidden world of quantum mechanics exists at scales many orders of magnitude smaller than living organisms, yet scientists have long theorized that quantum effects play an important role in biology. Birds' ability to sense magnetic fields during migration is one of the best-known mysteries in this field, with leading theories suggesting that this sensing could be achieved by exploiting quantum entanglement.

At IFA 2026, Nvidia and its partners showed off the first RTX Spark-powered laptops and mini PCs, designed to run AI models right on your computer.

Why the next wave of generative video will be defined by control, connected workflows, and real-time interaction For

The long-rumored deal will give the chip giant access to—and help it promote—a huge repository of open-source AI models and data sets.

Nvidia agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, gaining a platform used by more than 18 million developers to share and deploy AI models.

Gravitational waves are ripples in spacetime created when pairs of black holes spiral into each other and eventually merge. But if this ripple has been warped by another massive object on its way to Earth, a new analysis suggests that these black holes might appear far larger than they really are.

TCL has brought two NxtPaper tablets and a kids smartwatch to IFA. Unlike the new TCL P80 phones, which introduced the first AMOLED-based NxtPaper displays, the tablets rely on LCD. TCL Tab A1 NxtPaper The TCL Tab A1 NxtPaper is a new 11” tablet with a NxtPaper LCD with 2.1K resolution and 90Hz refresh rate. TCL will offer the tablet on its own, but there is also a version that comes bundled with a Kids Proof case that adds protective padding, a place to stash a small stylus and a built-in carrying handle/kickstand. TCL Tab A1 NxtPaper The Tab A1 is based on the Helio G100...

RPCS3 explains why modern temporal upscalers are difficult to implement in PS3 emulation as modders continue experimenting with the leaked DLSS 5 DLL.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that with Hugging Face, the chipmaker will "expand access to AI for developers and institutions worldwide."

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that with Hugging Face, the chipmaker will "expand access to AI for developers and institutions worldwide."

Mammotion’s Luba 4 AWD can clean up the sides of your driveway and flower beds with its edger attachement. | Image: Mammotion Anker's new robot lawnmower might take over for your weed whacker, too. Announced at IFA 2026, the Eufy Robot Lawn Mower S2 Max comes with an extendable trimming arm to clean up the grass around your driveway and flowerbeds. The dual-blade mower offers vSLAM navigation that uses built-in cameras to build a 3D map of your yard, eliminating the need to set up boundary wires or a Real-Time Kinematic (RTK) base station. Anker says the Mower S2 Max can map and mow up to 3.7 acres, while handling yards with up to 80 percent (38-degree) slopes. The robot mower is AWD and will launch in May 2027 for €3,999. There's no word on US pricing or availabi … Read the full story at The Verge.

China’s military AI models trail their foreign equivalents in performance, concentrating on support functions rather than combat, according to a study by Chinese researchers. The findings appeared in a paper by researchers affiliated with the Armed Police Force Shandong Corps and the Engineering University of People’s Armed Police, published in the journal Defence Industry Conversion in China in July. “The military’s AI applications are mainly used in auxiliary fields such as intelligent...

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Alemnis AG has released the MLC-0.025, a new low-force load cell designed to extend high-precision mechanical testing into lower-force applications.

A Google Quantum AI researcher recently described visuals and metaphors as essential to sharing research that often sounds

Efficient heat management in solids is key to advancing the next generation of electronics. However, wavelike heat movement

Syncing your Philips Hue lights to your TV display used to be a rather expensive undertaking, at $385 for the company’s Sync Box 8K. A couple of new products now bring that cost down to as little as $120. Additionally, you can now integrate Nanoleaf wall panels into your Philips Hue ecosystem thanks to a new $40 Wall Light Module … more…

Google's Latest AI Breakthrough: Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber Google has announced the release of Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber, marking the third Flash release in just six weeks. These new models represent a significant leap forward in AI capabilities, delivering next-generation intelligence for agentic workflows and cybersecurity applications. Building on the momentum of Gemini 3.7 Flash from three weeks prior, these models showcase Google's commitment to rapid innovation in the...

A preliminary study explores how humanoid robot touch may relate to mood changes and emotional expression, highlighting potential implications for future robot-assisted therapy.

McLaren Construction is deploying autonomous robot dogs on UK sites to automate data collection and safety monitoring, aiming to enhance efficiency and address skills shortages without replacing human workers.

Sugon has released a teaser of an upcoming mobile workstation with a 64-thread processor and 16GB of VRAM to tackle AI models.

Alex Gibney's documentary 'Musk' investigates Elon Musk's alleged access to sensitive government data, raising concerns about potential misuse in elections and AI-driven politics.

Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: At the G20 summit, Jensen Huang, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk joined Trump officials in lobbying policymakers against heavy AI regulations  —  Company bosses, officials say advances in technology are already making AI safer than under government regulations

In late August the US Army fired a high-energy laser at three drones near the Mexican border. All three came down. A week later the Army signed the contract to buy the production version. AeroVironment announced on Wednesday that it has won a $464.8m award from the Army’s Portfolio Acquisition Executive for Fires. The company […] This story continues at The Next Web

AI-powered robots demonstrate delivery, factory and household tasks at a robotics showcase in Brussels, highlighting advances in artificial intelligence.

Londoners can now get something unusual when they order an Uber: a self-driving Ford Mustang Mach-E. And you won’t have to pay extra for the experience.

Meta just released Muse Spark 1.3, its most powerful AI model yet, and according to Bloomberg, the company says it can finally compete with OpenAI and Anthropic.