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Nanobodies are extremely small antibody fragments that bind to specific molecules. When nanobodies are labeled with dyes, they can be used as probes to enhance super-resolution microscopy. However, conventional blinking dyes often perform poorly when attached to nanobodies, limiting their practical advantages. An international research team led by the University of Göttingen and the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) has now shown that self-blinking dyes—which can switch between bright and dark states on their own—bypass this limitation.

Christa Pike's lawyers believed she was brain dead before she unexpectedly woke up and began talking, days after Tennessee's botched execution.

Researchers at South China University of Technology, in collaboration with the Dongguan Institute of Materials Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, have developed a novel supranano multi-precipitate microstructure in amorphous soft magnetic composites using Ar/O₂ plasma treatment. By facilitating magnetic-moment reversal, this approach significantly reduced coercivity while maintaining excellent overall performance.

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Google DeepMind’s EmbeddingGemma 2 brings text, image, video and audio search to consumer devices with lower memory and less reliance on cloud AI. The post Google DeepMind Launches EmbeddingGemma 2 for On-Device Multimodal Search appeared first on TechRepublic.

Google’s Nano Banana 2.1 cuts image-generation costs, improves editing consistency and gives developers only weeks to migrate from Nano Banana 2. The post Google Launches Nano Banana 2.1 With Better Image Editing and Lower Costs appeared first on TechRepublic.

Claude now works inside Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides. See how it compares with Gemini for editing, spreadsheets, presentations, and Workspace context. The post Claude vs Gemini: Comparing Google Docs, Sheets and Slides appeared first on TechRepublic.

A new DFT study shows that carboxyl-functionalized single-walled carbon nanotubes bind the tuberculosis drug isoniazid far more strongly than pristine nanotubes through two partially covalent hydrogen bonds that remain stable in water.

The US Treasury on Wednesday announced its first penalty under rules governing American investment in sensitive Chinese technologies, revealing a US$200,000 fine against the parent of Plug and Play Tech Centre for failing to report an investment in a Shanghai robotics AI company. The Treasury said on Wednesday that Amidi, LLC failed to submit a required notification after its Chinese fund subsidiary invested around US$92,478 in Shanghai Qiongche Intelligent Technology Company Limited, known as...

InvestorPlace - Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading Tips Let’s look at what Google’s Suncatcher project reveals about the AI boom’s growing constraints. Then, I’ll show you where the next AI opportunity is ready for liftoff. The post Google Just Sent AI to Space – Here’s What That Means for Investors appeared first on InvestorPlace.

DeepSeek's two new repositories already have hundreds of GitHub stars between them.

A new engineered gene-editing system, proven in bacteria and showing promise for use in plants, animals and humans, addresses some limitations of current gene-editing tools, with the goal of improving their use in research, crop development and disease treatment.

The new device shows Microsoft remains committed to making its own PCs even though it's not one of the top device makers.

The new device shows Microsoft remains committed to making its own PCs even though it's not one of the top device makers.

Researchers at Henan University used machine learning models, led by CatBoost, to predict and validate cadmium adsorption on biochar with over 94 percent accuracy, identifying pore size and H/C ratio as key design levers for optimized water-treatment materials.

Modern technological breakthroughs like lasers, MRI scanners, semiconductors and quantum computers rest on the study of quantum mechanics. However, the field has predominantly focused on (sub)atomic phenomena far removed from our human senses.

Biohub, the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Institutes of Health, and new funding partners today announced a major expansion of an international effort to generate and make accessible the data enabling predictive AI models of biology.

Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: Meta rolls out AI tools to find ads that secretly lead users to CSAM and says it took action against 33.2M pieces of child exploitation content in H1 2026  —  Meta announced Wednesday that it took action against 33.2 million pieces of child sexual exploitation content on Facebook and Instagram in the first half of 2026.

An editorial in the World Journal of Pediatrics argues that artificial intelligence integrating longitudinal multi-omics data could shift necrotizing enterocolitis care from early diagnosis toward genuine preclinical prediction in preterm infants.

Researchers at the University of Malta and the University of Pittsburgh trained a modified U-Net on 95,000 synthetic microscopy images and showed it can accurately detect and count radiation-induced DNA repair foci in real mouse fibroblast images, paving the way for high-throughput biodosimetry.

Researchers used a timed acetic acid and ethanol reprotonation process to rebuild aramid nanofiber hydrogen-bond networks, producing graphene composite films with exceptional heat conduction, electromagnetic shielding, and fold durability.

Mark Cuban says AI deepfakes promoted fake diabetes treatments on Facebook as reported Meta documents estimate $16B in scam-related ad revenue.

Unconventional superconductors can host unusual electronic states, but understanding what drives their superconductivity becomes difficult when different forms of order coexist. The kagome metal CsV3Sb5 has become a particularly debated example.

Researchers at Fayoum University show that a simple averaged ensemble of machine learning models, evaluated on the OhioT1DM dataset with minimal preprocessing and Clarke Error Grid analysis, delivers clinically competitive blood glucose forecasts for Type 1 Diabetes at 30- and 60-minute horizons, while exploratory SHAP analysis reveals patient-specific feature importance.

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Marianne Blake has lived in the same home for nearly half a century. She plays bridge regularly, drives to her hair appointments and, at 88 years old, enjoys her independence.

A quaternary NiO–In₂O₃–MoO₃/g-C₃N₄ nanocomposite uses interface-driven charge transfer to degrade dyes under visible light, detect antibiotics at nanomolar levels and catalyze hydrogen evolution.

A new study explores what goes on in the brain when mice get high on marijuana

The US government’s Tradewinds initiative has made it easier to throw millions of dollars at “nontraditional” defense contractors, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.

Researchers report that a data-efficient vision transformer classified lung cancer histopathology images with 98.64 percent accuracy and near-perfect AUC while outpacing rival models in inference speed.

A qualitative study of eighteen ICU physicians, nurses, and managers reveals that workflow integration, explainable predictions, and leadership support will determine whether digital delirium prediction tools succeed in practice.

While lithium has been used as a first-line treatment for the long-term management of bipolar disorder for more than 70 years, scientists still do not fully understand how it produces its therapeutic effects in the brain.In a new study published in PLOS ONE, Surrey researchers used computational chemistry and quantum simulations to investigate whether part of the answer could lie in "nuclear spin"—a quantum property that makes an atom's nucleus behave like a tiny magnet, allowing it to influence nearby electrons and potentially change the outcome of chemical reactions.

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Google’s AI-detector for images and videos, SynthID, is getting a full release today. It will work for more than just content developed with Google’s AI models and initial partners. more…

Researchers isolated exosome-like nanoparticles from the medicinal vine Paederia foetida and found they carry five anti-inflammatory terpenoids and 1,170 microRNAs predicted to target human inflammatory genes.

The new SynthID website can now identify AI content from Google, OpenAI, and more.

Google has opened its SynthID Detector to everyone. The free website checks whether an image, video or audio file carries Google’s SynthID watermark, a hidden signal its AI tools add to what they create. The tool is available globally in English from Wednesday, Google DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli wrote in a company blog post. It flags […] This story continues at The Next Web

Biohub, the US Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health are putting $1.8bn into data to train AI models that predict how cells behave. Meta, Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs are joining with $300M between them, Biohub announced on Wednesday. Biohub is the nonprofit research institute backed by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan. […] This story continues at The Next Web

Krystal Hu / Reuters: Meta, Google DeepMind, and Isomorphic Labs invest $300M and the US invests $500M+ in Zuckerberg-backed Biohub to build open biology datasets for AI training  —  The US government and tech heavyweights Meta Platforms (META.O) and Google parent Alphabet are joining nonprofit Biohub …

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Google launches SynthID Detector, a website that lets users detect AI-generated image, video, and audio media across dozens of common file formats  —  Google on Tuesday launched a new site that lets anyone verify whether a piece of media, be it an image, a video or an audio clip, is generated using AI.

Using machine learning on tissue from 84 Alzheimer's disease cases, researchers have mapped six distinct amyloid-beta plaque types across 23 brain regions and found that only cored plaques track with tau burden while sex, ApoE4 and age shape plaque composition in class-specific ways.

A five-day brain-computer interface training protocol that feeds back the brain's own error-related potentials significantly improves people's ability to detect tiny visuo-motor errors that conventional practice cannot, according to a new study in Advanced Science.

A large-scale cross-cultural eye-tracking study of 1,272 people in 22 cities finds that perceived safety in autonomous mobility is driven by trust in automation, minority status, and cultural context rather than by visual attention to social diversity.

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 7, 2026 — Women with chronic pelvic pain disorders often find it more comfortable to sit for longer spells — easing their pain but potentially harming their overall health.Now, a newly developed AI tool can forecast when women with...

Biohub, the Department of Energy, NIH, Google DeepMind, Isomorphic Labs, Meta, and other partners have committed $1.8 billion to generate open, AI-ready biological data for building predictive models of cells and disease.

A new review reveals how silicone and EPDM rubber composites reinforced with inorganic nanofillers are transforming the sheds that protect high-voltage power transmission insulators from aging, pollution, and flashover.

Physicists have found striking evidence for an unusual form of superconducting behavior in uranium ditelluride, where electron pairs organize into rippling patterns called pair density waves. Even more surprisingly, these patterns appear to survive after ordinary superconductivity disappears, suggesting that the electron pairs responsible for superconductivity may begin forming before the material actually becomes superconducting.

The James Webb Space Telescope has found strong evidence that the rocky lava world HD 3167 b has an atmosphere, despite circling its star every 24 hours under extreme heat. The surprising discovery could help scientists understand how rocky planets retain atmospheres and what the young, molten Earth may once have looked like.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is giving astronomers a glimpse of the kinds of violent collisions that may have shaped our own solar system, including the giant impact thought to have created the Moon. By studying 21 rare “extreme debris disks” around young stars, researchers found that their dust can reveal the scale and intensity of planetary collisions.

Researchers in China have built a silicone composite with vertically aligned boron nitride and graphene networks that achieves high through-plane thermal conductivity of 2.51 W/(m·K) at low filler loading while retaining strong electrical insulation.

A European research group has built a robot that uses magnets to steer ultra-thin graphene electrodes into the brain. Barcelona’s INBRAIN Neuroelectronics, which leads the clinical work, announced the results on Wednesday, at the end of the EU-funded MINIGRAPH project. The project’s first target is Parkinson’s disease. Doctors already treat it with deep brain stimulation, […] This story continues at The Next Web

Robots from Stuttgart start-up Sereact are now sorting Zalando’s fashion returns in live operations in Germany and Poland. The two-armed machines work at CEVA Logistics sites in Greven, Germany, and Świebodzin, Poland, the three companies said on Wednesday. It is the first step of a plan to automate returns across Europe. Zalando joined Sereact’s Series […] This story continues at The Next Web

A new review argues that the success of magnetic hyperthermia cancer therapy hinges on system-level RF instrumentation design, from power amplifiers to coil cooling, rather than on nanoparticles alone.

Researchers at Okayama University used uniaxial strain to separate two competing superconducting states in the kagome metal CsV3Sb5, enhancing superconductivity while leaving its charge density wave intact.

STOCKHOLM — Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for their efforts to resolve mysterious mirror images in chemical molecules, a discovery that transformed modern medicine. Many molecules of life come in versions that look alike but aren’t exactly identical, like right and left hands. One mirror image of the chemical carvone smells like mint, for example, while the other has a whiff of caraway. When designing drugs to treat diseases, scientists want to be choosy about which mirror image they’re getting. They want the version of a molecule that’ll treat a cold, not the kind that’ll make the sniffles worse. Kagan and Soai found ways to make chemistry pick a side, designing and manipulating reactions to produce the desired mirror image. “This is probably the coolest experiment in organic chemistry,” said Peter Somfai, a member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry. “Taken together, the groundbreaking discoveries by Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai have reshaped

Google today announced Playground, a new browser-based platform for making custom games from AI prompts. Playground will be available today in the US for users who are 18 and older at playground.google. The company is pitching it as an "experimental gaming platform" that "lowers the barriers to creation" and doesn't require coding experience. "With Playground's conversational interface, you can direct the game just by typing what you want to build," Google says in a blog post. "Start from a blank canvas, remix starter prompts, or use guided support to shape your concept - and then test it right away. Want to tweak the physics, rewrite the … Read the full story at The Verge.

Jay Peters / The Verge: Google launches Playground, a browser-based, no-code AI game creation platform available to US users aged 18+, powered by Gemini, Nano Banana, and Lyria  —  Google Playground is a browser-based tool for making games from AI prompts. … Google today announced Playground …

Researchers have built an explainable hybrid deep learning framework that predicts India's Air Quality Index with unprecedented accuracy while tolerating more than half of the sensor data being missing.

Researchers at Guizhou University have developed SAGE-DQN SLAM, a deep reinforcement learning system that uses semantic scene understanding and dual temporal experts to automatically tune visual SLAM parameters, cutting trajectory errors in over 72 percent of benchmark sequences.

Trump announces a Navy contract worth up to $2.9B for Anduril to build Virginia-class submarine parts, amid scrutiny of Trump Jr's 1789 Capital ties.

Collisions between particles at high energies can sometimes produce new particles and shed light on interactions between the fundamental constituents of matter. Simulating these collisions and their underlying processes could yield valuable insights into how matter behaves at extremely small scales.

Robot production could begin as early as 2029 but the company's management "cannot disclose details" yet, Akira Sakakibara said

The fifth annual Farm Robotics Challenge will enable students from middle school through graduate school to enter agricultural automation projects and compete for prizes. The contest is held each year by the University of California and USDA.

Researchers have built a cancer-cell-membrane-coated manganese dioxide nanosheet that delivers the immune adjuvant R848 directly to tumors, relieving hypoxia and amplifying radiation therapy to achieve 92.30 percent tumor inhibition in mouse models of breast cancer.

Weill Cornell Medicine's Dr. Olivier Elemento has won a nearly $6 million NIH Director's Pioneer Award to build an AI-human discovery engine that generates and tests cancer hypotheses using large language model agents, virtual tumors, robotics platforms and patient-derived organoids, starting with lung cancer.

An Arizona appeals court has ordered a new sentencing hearing for Gabriel Horcasitas, ruling that an AI-generated video of his victim made the original hearing fundamentally unfair.

According to stellar evolution models, there should be hundreds of millions of black holes floating around in our galaxy. But so far we’ve only found 70. That’s in large part because they are so hard to find, but a citizen science project from the University of Southampton is actively seeking out these hidden monsters with the help of tens of thousands of amateur astronomers through a project on Zooniverse called [Black Hole Hunters](https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/cobalt-lensing/black-hole-hunters).

Taiwanese researchers used open-source generative AI to build 43 cultural heritage 3D assets in under a minute each and ran a smooth 72-FPS VR tour of a traditional Sanheyuan courtyard house on a standalone Meta Quest 3S headset.

Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for their efforts to resolve mysterious mirror images in chemical molecules.

arXiv:2610.08663v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video gaze prediction is led by gaze-trained models, yet gaze-free priors carry signal those models have not absorbed, if one knows when to trust them. We propose FocusGate, a gated ensemble of gaze-free priors whose members may abstain. A per-frame gate reads three shape statistics of a defocus map and selects the frames on which the estimator is above chance on average, so rejected frames reduce to the base exactly, while midrank normalisation lets an all-zero prior abstain at zero parameters. Gated fusion is significantly positive on film, sports and web video, whereas unconditional fusion is harmful on sports and null on web. Added to four supervised predictors, the NTIRE 2026 champion among them, FocusGate improves all sixteen model-domain cells in shuffled AUC, fifteen significantly, one domain pre-registered and scored once, while adding only 1% to the champion's latency. Alone, it surpasses TASED-Net and UNISAL in shuffled AUC on

Researchers have built the first spatial atlas of dermal backflow in breast cancer-related lymphedema from 282 patients and shown that machine learning models stage the disease more accurately when quantitative imaging features are included.

Researchers in Taiwan have built a dual-arm robot that autonomously makes hospital beds using vision-language semantic keypoints and closed-loop failure recovery, achieving a 91.9 percent step-wise success rate on real hardware.

SpaceX is in talks to borrow $40bn to buy AI chips from Nvidia, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday. Today, Bloomberg reported that the talks are underway, citing people familiar with the matter. Both reports rely on unnamed sources, and none of the companies involved has publicly confirmed the plan. According to the FT, the package […] This story continues at The Next Web

A palm-sized robot inspired by frogs uses snapping rods to jump, swim and navigate an obstacle course.

Researchers used programmable DNA origami nanorods to show that mechanical flexibility can enhance nanoparticle diffusion through mucus, but only when steric confinement rather than surface-driven aggregation is the dominant barrier.

A systematic study of PEO-lithium perchlorate electrolytes shows that rutile titanium dioxide nanoparticles leave thermal, morphological, and dielectric properties essentially unchanged, challenging assumptions about nanofiller benefits in solid-state batteries.

A field study in the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture shows that loading the plant hormone gibberellic acid into biodegradable polymeric nanoparticles more than doubled grape cluster weight compared with conventional treatment, pointing toward greener and more efficient crop production.

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Standing alongside prominent technology executives, US President Donald Trump announced a voluntary agreement under which major artificial intelligence (AI) companies will use internal controls and monitoring, outside audits and board oversight to manage risks. The White House calls the commitments “morally binding”, but the accord does not create a comparable system of legal enforcement. The administration’s logic is understandable. AI is becoming a source of economic and military power, and...

Researchers developed an AI-assisted, ligand-triggered, room-temperature method to produce FAPbI3 perovskite nanocrystals, combining robotic experimentation, machine learning, and continuous-flow synthesis to improve control over particle size and uniformity. The process produced nearly 13 g of nanocrystals in 1 h, lowered estimated production costs, and yielded laboratory solar cells with power conversion efficiencies above 19% and improved operational and thermal stability.

Gemini Free Tier Shrinks From October 9, the cheapest way to use Google’s Gemini Pro model is a

Farmers use a manufactured version of a natural plant hormone called gibberellic acid to improve the health and growth of crops, but it is highly sensitive to heat and light. A study in the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture shows that loading gibberellic acid into biodegradable nanoparticles can improve grape yield and quality, making it a promising and environmentally friendly approach for sustainable agricultural production.

Last month, I went to York to build a robot. I came back with a robot, a tiny trophy-shaped sense of achievement, and somehow a few new friends. From 25th-27th August, I joined the UK RAS STEPS MicroMaze Robot Hackathon at the Institute for Safe Autonomy, University of York. The brief sounded simple: build a […]

An AI-driven inverse-design framework has identified multiple distinct chemical vapour deposition recipes that grow carbon nanotube arrays with nearly identical height, density and alignment, revealing that structurally matched nanotube forests can arise from very different processing conditions.

Researchers in New Delhi have built a hybrid deep learning framework combining improved SMOTE, swarm-based feature selection, and chaos-assisted metaheuristic tuning that predicts software maintainability with up to 99 percent accuracy across five datasets.

A rotating LED display can show an illuminated object that seems to occupy open space. The effect is

An iron-modified titanium dioxide nanotube electrode combined with electricity, heat and ultraviolet light removed 92.1% of nitrobenzene from water within two hours in laboratory tests.

A new review shows that persimmon-family plants can sustainably synthesize copper nanoparticles with potent antimicrobial, anticancer, and catalytic properties, though standardization and safety hurdles remain.

A systematic study shows that Z-score normalization, applied after artifact removal, is essential for Transformer models to decode movement from EEG signals above chance level.

A new AI & Society study of 39 documented U.S. testing locations finds autonomous vehicle testing remains persistently urban and proposes a multi-domain framework for diversifying real-world exposure.

Researchers at Anna University have developed a hydrothermally synthesized MWCNT/Co3O4 nanocomposite electrode that detects glucose in artificial sweat with high sensitivity, a 0.1 mM detection limit and 96 percent signal retention after 30 days, pointing toward enzyme-free noninvasive diabetes monitoring.

Researchers built a working immunoaffinity purification resin for recombinant coagulation factor VII using nanobody binders discovered from a fully synthetic camelid VHH library, removing the need for animal immunization.

A qualitative study of 17 medical interpreters finds they perform eleven resilience-enhancing safety behaviors that current AI interpretation tools cannot replicate.

Boston Dynamics has named Rohit Prasad, an artificial intelligence (AI) veteran who helped build Alexa and lead Amazon’s foundation-model efforts, as its new chief executive officer as it moves to fuse AI with advanced robotics. Prasad, who joins the company Wednesday, will lead Boston Dynamics’ push to commercialize intelligent robots and expand physical AI applications across industries, the company said. Before joining Boston Dynamics, Prasad spent 12 years at Amazon, where he served as senior vice president and head scientist for Alexa and artificial general intelligence. He joined Amazon in 2013 during Alexa’s early development and later led work on Amazon Nova, a family of foundation models developed for generative AI applications. Prasad previously spent nearly 14 years at Raytheon BBN Technologies, where he worked on machine-learning research and applications for government and commercial customers. Boston Dynamics said Prasad’s experience turning AI research into products,

Researchers in Guangzhou built a machine-learning model that combines MRI radiomics and clinical variables to predict lymphovascular invasion in gastric cancer before surgery and to stratify patients by disease-free survival risk.

Author(s): Charles DayResearchers measured a crystal’s elastic modulus and sound attenuation to infer the properties of two superconducting states. [Physics 19, s122] Published Tue Oct 06, 2026

Author(s): Michael SchirberNeutrino astronomy and the effort to build a cubic-kilometer-sized detector at the South Pole are recognized by the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics. [Physics 19, 138] Published Tue Oct 06, 2026

Author(s): Ji-Bing Yuan, Ya-Ju Song, Shi-Qing Tang, Xin-Wen Wang, and Le-Man KuangThe authors examine the performance of a single dephasing qubit probing the cutoff frequency of Ohmic-family environments across varying temperatures and coupling strengths. They find that elevated temperatures accelerate decoherence to shorten the optimal measurement time, demonstrating that thermal noise can serve as a resource to improve sensing precision by nearly two orders of magnitude compared to zero-temperature conditions for certain weakly coupled environments. [Phys. Rev. A 114, 042407] Published Tue Oct 06, 2026