Researchers Solve Long-Standing Mystery After Voyager’s 1986 Flyby of Uranus Summary New research led by the University of Houston shows that Uranus emits roughly 12.5% more heat than it receives…
Illinois Bans AI Therapy, Joins Two Other States in Regulating Chatbots Summary Illinois last week banned the use of artificial intelligence in mental health therapy. Licensed therapists in Illinois are…
Seagate ‘Spins Up’ a Raid on a Counterfeit Hard Drive Workshop Summary Seagate security teams, working with Malaysian authorities, raided a warehouse outside Kuala Lumpur in May that was refurbishing…
Can We Harness Light Like Nature for a New Era of Green Chemistry? Summary Researchers in the Polyzos group at the University of Melbourne report a new class of photocatalysts…
Large riverbed sediment flux sustained for a decade after an earthquake Summary The paper constructs a source-to-sink sediment budget following the 2008 Mw 7.9 Wenchuan earthquake using reservoir sedimentation measurements,…
Y. Wang et al. reply Summary This short reply, published in Nature, responds to two Matters Arising critiques (Hoang et al. and Sheil et al.) of the authors’ earlier work…
Sam Altman’s Brain Chip Venture Is Mulling Gene Therapy Approach Summary The startup linked to Sam Altman (referred to in reports as Merge Labs) is exploring a hybrid brain‑computer interface…
New Brain Device Is First To Read Out Inner Speech Summary Researchers report an implanted brain–computer interface that decodes “inner speech” — thoughts of spoken sentences — and displays them…
Summary A new study identifies ReHMGB1 (a form of the HMGB1 protein) as a circulating messenger that can transmit senescence signals through the bloodstream. Researchers analysed multiple human cell types…
TIOBE’s August update shows Python reaching its highest ranking ever in the index; TIOBE CEO Paul Jansen attributes part of the surge to AI code assistants. A Stanford-linked study cited…
