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A single nanomaterial that can strip a stubborn industrial dye from water and, under the same visible light, drive cervical cancer cells toward apoptosis has been reported in the Journal of the Saudi Chemical Society. The study, authored by Karma M. Albalawi of the University of Tabuk, describes an engineered heterojunction combining magnesium titanate (MgTiO₃) […]

Diacylglycerol, or DAG, is one of those quiet molecules that food scientists have long wanted more of. It occurs naturally in vegetable oils at levels below ten percent, yet studies have linked it to beneficial effects on lipid metabolism and a reduced risk of obesity and related metabolic disorders. Because its natural abundance is too […]

Artificial intelligence is quietly rewriting the rules of diagnostic medicine, and nowhere is the tension between technological promise and legal preparedness more visible than in Bangladesh. A new doctrinal study published in Discover Artificial Intelligence examines how the country’s legal and ethical frameworks are coping with the rapid arrival of AI-powered medical imaging tools, and […]

On a scorching summer weekend along Idaho’s Payette River, the parking lots at Banks and Beehive Bend fill within hours, spillover cars line the highway shoulders, and the water itself churns with rafts and kayaks. For decades, managers of this world-famous whitewater corridor have known that demand outstrips the physical space available for staging a […]

LG Electronics’ key value drivers are shifting from traditional home appliances and vehicle components to artificial intelligence (AI)-powered heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) and robotics. On Oct. 2, Shinhan Investment Securities raised its target price for LG Electronics by 61% fro

Every pellet of fish feed that rattles through a pipeline on its way to a rearing tank carries a hidden price tag. Feed accounts for 50 to 70 percent of total aquaculture production costs, and when pellets crack, crumble, or grind into dust during pneumatic transport, that money literally blows away. Broken pellets leach nutrients, […]

Lithium-sulfur batteries have long promised a leap in energy density that could transform everything from electric aircraft to wearable electronics, but they have stubbornly refused to leave the flat, rigid world of conventional cells. Now a team of researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Chungnam National University, Charles University, and Chalmers […]

Glioblastoma remains one of the most feared diagnoses in medicine, and the reasons are as much physical as biological. The most aggressive cancer originating in the brain, it resists nearly every drug thrown at it, largely because the very barriers that protect a healthy brain also shield the tumor. A new review published in Medical […]

Landslides kill thousands of people every year and inflict direct economic losses exceeding four billion US dollars annually, yet one of the most basic questions in hazard assessment remains stubbornly hard to answer with confidence: how far will a failing slope travel? The answer, known as the runout distance, determines which villages, roads, and buildings […]

When ChatGPT burst onto the scene, critics quickly reached for a blunt but philosophically loaded word: bullshit. Not in the casual sense, but in the precise meaning given to the term by the philosopher Harry Frankfurt, who defined bullshit as language produced with complete indifference to truth—a mode of talk in which the speaker does […]

Medical image segmentation, the task of tracing the exact outlines of lesions, polyps, and blood vessels in clinical scans, has long been dominated by a trade-off. Convolutional networks excel at capturing fine local detail but struggle to connect distant regions of an image, while transformer-based models reason globally at a steep computational price. A new […]

When a patient survives a cardiac arrest but remains comatose, one of the hardest questions in medicine follows within days: will the brain recover? Clinicians currently answer it with a painstaking blend of neurological exams, EEG recordings, brain imaging, and biomarkers, and even then the answer is often uncertain. A new study published in Neurocritical […]

A team of researchers at Zhejiang Sci-Tech University in Hangzhou has built a soft actuator from one of the most abundant biomaterials on Earth—cellulose—and shown that a small dose of a sulfonic acid compound can more than double its bending performance while giving it the ability to sense its own motion. The work, published in […]

Microsoft AI: Microsoft launches MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, a model for low-latency, real-time transcripts, and two new voice models, MAI-Voice-2.1 and MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash  —  MAI-Transcribe and MAI-Voice models: accurate, fast, low cost, and chart-topping audio understanding and generation for building the best conversational voice agents.

Document forgery has entered an era in which a single swapped digit on a bank statement or a subtly altered stamp on an official certificate can slip past even a trained eye. As high-quality image editing tools proliferate across finance, government, judicial review, and archives management, the telltale signs of manipulation—broken character strokes, inconsistent noise, […]

Aquaculture has quietly become the world’s fastest-growing food production sector, delivering a record 122.6 million tonnes of fish and other aquatic products in 2020 and supplying affordable protein to billions of people. Yet the industry’s rapid expansion has come under sustained criticism for its environmental footprint, from polluted effluent and nutrient leaching to the overuse […]

Metastasis, the process by which cancer cells spread from a primary tumor to distant organs, remains the leading cause of death among cancer patients, and decades of research have yet to produce reliably effective antimetastatic therapies. A new study published in Materials Today Bio by Rujing Wang, Lan Zou, Dandan Mi, Chuan Wang, Zijian Song, […]

Every year, the automotive industry loses billions of dollars to something deceptively mundane: vehicles that break down when nobody expected them to. Poor maintenance planning leads to higher operating costs, unplanned downtime and reduced reliability, and the machine learning systems designed to predict these failures have long been hampered by their own complexity. They demand […]

Learn how an oarfish’s hundreds of joystick-like fin rays help it swim and could inspire underwater robots that move without startling fish.

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NASA announced Wednesday a mission to explore the history and evolution of the universe, PRIMA (PRobe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics), is advancing to the next phase of development. This space telescope is the first in a new class of NASA astrophysics missions, called Probe Explorers, within the agency’s longstanding Explorers Program.

In the early history of our solar system, scientists theorize that a Mars-sized object called Theia smashed into the infant Earth, vaporizing massive amounts of rock and blasting it into space. Some of that material coalesced into the moon, where NASA's Artemis program is returning humans, preparing for Mars and shaping the future of space exploration.

Cancer chemotherapy has long been a blunt instrument. Drugs that can kill tumor cells also ravage healthy tissue, and the body clears many of them so quickly that patients must endure high, toxic doses just to give the medicine a fighting chance at the tumor site. A new review published in Medical Oncology by Mohammad […]

Although quantum computing hasn't quite hit prime time, the promise is still huge

For couples undergoing in vitro fertilization, one of the most agonizing questions is also the most basic: what are the real chances that this treatment will end with a baby? A new study from reproductive medicine specialists in Yantai, China, offers a fresh answer by combining machine learning with causal inference, a branch of statistics […]

Meta didn’t need frontier intelligence to build a really good AI app. A ‘next-level-down’ model was good enough. Continue reading...

Whether in drug discovery, environmental analysis or metabolomics: anyone analyzing complex biological samples often needs to identify the small molecules they contain. Researchers at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, in collaboration with partners from the Helmholtz Zentrum München and the Technical University of Munich, have developed a method that addresses a problem in analytical chemistry that has persisted for decades.

Working in close collaboration, researchers from Paderborn University, the University of Basel and Ruhr University Bochum have made a breakthrough in quantum communication. In their recently published paper in the journal Physical Review Letters, they demonstrate how special semiconductor nanostructures can be used to generate individual photons and pairs of photons that are almost perfectly identical. These "indistinguishable" particles form the basis for quantum entanglement and quantum interference.

InvestorPlace - Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading Tips Google sends AI chips into space... Earth's data center backlash... did the “plumbing” lift SPCX?... Jonathan Rose on what comes after the landing The post Google’s AI Chips Blast Off Today appeared first on InvestorPlace.

Project Suncatcher is aimed at testing Google's AI chips in the harsh environment of space

The court acknowledges AI search comes with consequences, but it's not an antitrust issue.

Watermarks have long protected everything from bank notes and fine art to digital photographs and software, helping prove authenticity and trace an object's origin. Their main function is to protect copyright and verify authenticity.

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope completed its 200,000th orbit around Earth on Sept. 19th and marked this milestone with observations that could help refine astronomers' measurements of cosmic expansion (aka. the Hubble Constant).

Psychologists say generative tools can weaken attention and problem‑solving.

Mike Scarcella / Reuters: A US judge dismisses Chegg and Penske lawsuits alleging Google violated antitrust law by forcing them to allow content in AI Overviews, reducing web traffic  —  Alphabet's Google has persuaded a US federal judge to dismiss lawsuits from education technology company Chegg …

Researchers from The Australian National University (ANU) have engineered new optical coatings for LIGO, the global collaboration hunting gravitational waves from colliding black holes and neutron stars.

Google is promising major advances in coding and cybersecurity, but the company is quickly falling behind in personal agents.

Elon Musk predicts AI and robotics could bring universal high incomes and better healthcare, but warns the transition and fair distribution of benefits remain uncertain.

Google is promising major advances in coding and cybersecurity, but the company is quickly falling behind in personal agents.

Aparna Nair, IBM's chief talent officer, says college students and entry-level workers need these two skills to succeed as AI reshapes their work.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is moving upstream in science. Systems such as AlphaFold have already transformed protein-structure prediction, while newer agentic systems can search literatures, generate hypotheses, write and execute code, interpret ...

Basecamp Research will train AI models on the world’s largest biological dataset and design new medicines. Most AI drug-discovery companies train their models on the small slice of biology that’s already been studied to death: human genomes, known disease pathways, existing drug compounds. Basecamp Research is betting on something closer to the opposite. The London-headquartered […] The post Basecamp raises $140m to teach AI all of biology appeared first on Longevity.Technology.

A robot can be perfectly safe by every engineering metric and still terrify the people around it. A mobile platform that never collides with anyone but barrels past workers at high speed, inches from their bodies, will feel threatening no matter what the collision statistics say. Conversely, a robot that creeps along at a snail’s […]

The NHS recently outlined plans to expand robotic surgery sevenfold by 2035, but initial findings from the first UK big data studies on this topic published by The BMJ suggest that robotic assisted hip and knee replacements offer no clear benefit over conventional surgery for implant survival, revision risk, or surgical complications.

A federal judge has dismissed a pair of antitrust lawsuits filed by Chegg and Rolling Stone parent company Penske Media Corporation, which accused Google of driving away web traffic with its AI-powered search features, as reported earlier by Reuters. US District Judge Amit Mehta takes Google's side in a ruling on Wednesday, writing that PMC and Chegg's claims don't stand up to antitrust law. In lawsuits filed last year, Chegg and PMC accused Google of abusing its monopoly power by coercing publishers into supplying content for AI Overviews for free, or risk disappearing from search results. The publishers alleged Google's practices diverted … Read the full story at The Verge.

Rice feeds more than half of humanity, yet one of its most destructive enemies attacks through openings so small that they have long been difficult to study in detail. Bacterial leaf blight, caused by the pathogen Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae, invades rice leaves primarily through stomata, the microscopic pores formed by pairs of guard cells […]

Today Project Suncatcher is sending four AI processors into orbit on a SpaceX rocket to see whether the building blocks of a data center can survive space

Google has begun a restricted rollout of Gemini 4 Argon to selected cyber defenders and partners, citing strong early benchmarks while withholding wider access pending further safety and performance testing.

Video has never been easier to fake. Consumer editing suites can duplicate a frame, splice in footage from another clip, or use inpainting algorithms to erase a person from a scene entirely, and the compression pipelines of social media platforms then wash away many of the subtle artifacts that forensic investigators traditionally relied upon. A […]

The most comprehensive catalogue of exploding white dwarf stars ever assembled has revealed new clues about dark energy,

“We're getting great results, big reductions in chemical spraying and also quite good increases in yield as well," says Antobot VP Marc Jones. The post Antobot scales UV-C robotics push with 300 deployments targeted in 2027 appeared first on AgFunderNews.

Google DeepMind’s SynthID Bio embeds detectable watermarks in AI-designed proteins while preserving their function in early laboratory tests. The post Google DeepMind Adds Watermarks to AI-Designed Proteins Without Breaking Them appeared first on TechRepublic.

Google is testing payments to publishers whose content contributes to AI search answers, but early payouts vary widely across participating websites. The post Google Tests Publisher Payments as AI Search Cuts Into Website Traffic appeared first on TechRepublic.

When a museum visitor kneels before a machine that dispenses randomly generated aphorisms, the boundary between art, oracle and algorithm begins to blur. That spectacle is one of the striking cases examined in a new open-access study published in AI & Society by Yunlin Xie and Ashley Lee Wong of The Chinese University of Hong […]

Biomedical science has quietly crossed a threshold that few researchers anticipated even a decade ago. The bottleneck in discovery is no longer the generation or availability of data. Genomics, proteomics, high-throughput screening and clinical records now produce evidence at a rate that dwarfs any individual’s capacity to read, let alone integrate. Writing in Nature Machine […]

MDASH roll-out builds on Microsoft and Core42’s expanding sovereign cloud investments in the UAE, supporting the nation’s cyber security ambitions through AI-driven threat detection and code security

Nvidia’s new Open Agent Safety Platform combines OpenShell sandboxing with BlueField-powered Sentry hardware to monitor and rapidly quarantine rogue AI agents

Google DeepMind has brought its SynthID watermarking technology to synthetic biology. The new tool, SynthID Bio, hides a signature in the amino acid sequence or predicted 3D structure of a protein. The lab announced it on Wednesday in a blog post and a paper in Nature. Google DeepMind says a test can find the signature […] This story continues at The Next Web

Speech-language pathologist Hilary Shae questioned whether Mitch McConnell's public gestures demonstrate recovery, while stressing that her comments were not a diagnosis and lacked confirmation from his doctors.

Nikon is reviewing a competition-winning video that some people suspect of being made with AI.

Google yesterday unveiled its new flagship Gemini 4 model with some impressive scores, but a report suggests that it might “struggle” in some cases. more…

Mayo Clinic AI model flagged pancreatic cancer risk up to three years early using health records. The research is preliminary and not yet in use.

Cosmic detectives are being called on for an interstellar mission to hunt down thousands of invisible black holes lurking in our own backyard. Space scientists from the University of Southampton need amateur astronomers to search for signs that might locate them.

Researchers have experimentally observed energy patterns that physicists have predicted for about 40 years. By arranging laser-trapped atoms into a quantum simulator, they recreated two different quantum tipping points and watched the atoms fall into the exact energy ratios predicted by theory. The technique could now be used to explore mysterious quantum systems where scientists do not already know the answer.

A proposed qubit made with superfluid helium could cut quantum computing error rates by around 100 times by shielding quantum information from common forms of electromagnetic noise. If experiments confirm the predictions, the technology could eventually work alongside today’s superconducting qubits or serve as a new kind of quantum memory.

DeepSeek and Huawei have released open-source programming tools for Ascend 950 AI chips, including compute and communication libraries, aimed at making Huawei hardware easier to program and optimize.

It's not about zero-days, at all, but rather about properly exploiting already known flaws, Google says.

Meta tells the IRS that its AI data centres are an experiment that could fail, The New York Times reported on Wednesday. That lets Meta claim a research tax credit on the AI chips it buys. The credit cut almost $4bn off its tax bill last year. Kashmir Hill, Jesse Drucker, Eli Tan and Mike […] This story continues at The Next Web

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Quantum technologies rely on qubits, units of information that can exist in combinations of the states 0 and 1 instead of being limited to one or the other like conventional bits. Qubits can become entangled, which means their states become linked in ways that cannot be explained by considering each qubit separately.

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Hyperuricemia, the silent metabolic disorder defined by elevated serum uric acid, has quietly become one of the fastest-growing health burdens on the planet. A comprehensive review published in Results in Chemistry maps the full landscape of emerging therapies now racing to catch up, from artificial enzyme mimics built from metal-organic frameworks to genetically engineered probiotics […]

Lung cancer remains the deadliest malignancy worldwide, and for patients whose tumors have already spread beyond the lung at diagnosis, the first choice of therapy can determine how long and how well they live. Now, a phase II clinical trial from China offers a striking signal that a reformulated, decades-old chemotherapy drug may dramatically strengthen […]

At a Washington health summit, Robert F. Kennedy Jr argued that AI could offer better-informed medical opinions, but the article examines the technology's limits and political risks.

Only two of five vehicles finished the race around a notoriously difficult Formula 1 track, exposing what happens when autonomous systems meet blind corners, sensor failures, and physics.

The memory shortage is expected to worsen in 2027 and 2028 — and beyond that Micron warns that robots will eat tons of RAM.

SpaceX plans to launch Google tensor processing units into orbit on Planet Labs satellites.

In the quiet soil beneath the world’s croplands, an army of microscopic hunters has been waging war on insect pests for millions of years. Entomopathogenic nematodes, threadlike roundworms barely visible to the naked eye, seek out beetle grubs, caterpillars, and other soil-dwelling larvae, invade their bodies, and kill them with the help of symbiotic bacteria […]

SpaceX plans to launch Google tensor processing units into orbit on Planet Labs satellites.

Mark Zuckerberg came up with the AI safety accord that President Donald Trump signed on Tuesday, Semafor and Politico reported. He also circulated the draft. Microsoft and Amazon did not sign it. Satya Nadella and Jeff Bezos both attended the White House lunch where the CEOs agreed it. Ashley Gold first reported the story for […] This story continues at The Next Web

This review develops an integrative framework for nanomeritics, the systematic characterization of pharmaceutical particles and structures of roughly 5 to 1000 nm, with particular attention to how size, morphology, surface properties, and biological interactions shape nanoparticle behavior. It argues for orthogonal measurement strategies that combine methods such as DLS, electron microscopy, NTA, and AF4 while also examining how nanoparticles change in biological environments.

Google Gemini 4 Argon Google’s most capable model in years is reaching security teams before anyone else. The

As psychedelic drugs inch closer to commercialization, two House lawmakers are charting a path forward for their inevitable rollout and what any potential accompanying legislation could focus on. The chairs of the Congressional Psychedelics Advancing ...

Good morning and happy October. Today, I’m cringing at this gaggle of billionaires pretending to be human, vibing to the new Tinashe album, Popstar, and heartily dining on all the brutal ‘Digger’ reviews. As a reminder, Inbox is the tech newsletter that goes beyond the news cycle. We cover the most important 9to5Google stories from the last couple of days along with a few highlights from around the web. We publish every Tuesday and Thursday, and if you like what you read, please subscribe. more…

A new AI tool can guess what you’re looking at just by analyzing your brain scans—and recreate that image with remarkable precision. It can go the other way too, and predict a person’s brain activity based on what they’re looking at.  In the image above, for example, the left-hand image of each pair is what…

One of the largest real-world comparisons of surgical technology ever conducted has found that robotic-assisted hip and knee replacement surgery offers no clear benefit over conventional operations when it comes to the outcomes that matter most to patients and health systems. The findings, published in The BMJ by researchers analysing more than 1.3 million joint […]

Meta claimed nearly $3.9B in US research tax credits in 2025, including for AI data-centre equipment, but filings show uncertainty about its positions.

“It is always too early to evaluate a new technology until, unfortunately, suddenly it’s too late”Buxton’s law1Robot assisted surgeries in the UK are planned to increase from about 70 000 annually to 500 000 by 2035, according to the NHS—a sevenfold expansion over the coming decade,2 with similar ambitions emerging elsewhere. Yet the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence concludes that although robot assisted surgery can improve the precision of implant positioning in hip and knee arthroplasty, it remains uncertain whether this translates into better clinical outcomes and calls for further evidence generation.3 Plans for rapid expansion are therefore taking shape just as evidence about the clinical value of robot assisted arthroplasty is beginning to emerge.The promise of robot assisted arthroplasty is straightforward: greater precision in bone preparation and implant positioning should mean fewer technical errors—and ultimately better outcomes for patients. This promise is

Few crops punish forecasting errors quite like strawberries. The fruit is delicate, the season is short, and every punnet that ripens without a picker or a cold-chain slot waiting for it is money left rotting in the field. A new study published in Smart Agricultural Technology shows that daily strawberry yields on a working commercial […]

Smart homes promise to watch over elderly relatives and patients with chronic diseases, alerting caregivers the moment something goes wrong. But most of today’s activity recognition systems share a fundamental blind spot: they can label what a person is doing right now, yet they struggle to predict what that person will do next. A new […]

Brooks Barnes / New York Times: Google partners with talent agency Range Media to launch 100 Zeros, a rotating fund designed to shape positive onscreen depictions of tech and test AI tools  —  Jonathan Zepp, left, Google's head of entertainment content and platforms, and Peter Micelli, chief executive of Range Media Partners …

According to Andrey Mordvichev, work is currently underway to integrate machine vision functions and AI technologies into reconnaissance devices

FBN will make the first features available to early test users now, with a broader rollout expected this fall. The post FBN and Google team up to give farm AI the context it’s been missing appeared first on AgFunderNews.

A team of researchers in China has engineered a remarkable new material that could one day change how medicine approaches one of its most devastating conditions: spinal cord injury. Writing in the Journal of Saudi Chemical Society, Tao Xu, Xiaoyu Cai, Weibin Sheng and colleagues at the First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University describe […]

Nanoparticles have quietly become one of the most transformative tools in modern science, powering everything from cancer therapies to water purifiers. Yet the way most of them are made has long been an environmental liability. Conventional synthesis routes rely on toxic reducing agents such as sodium borohydride, energy-intensive furnaces, and organic solvents that leave behind […]

Mobile robots are increasingly expected to navigate environments that were never engineered for them: cluttered warehouses, crowded public spaces, and outdoor terrain where obstacles appear and vanish without warning. A new study published in Discover Artificial Intelligence by Xinyue Cui of Shanxi Professional College of Finance tackles one of the most persistent problems in this […]