Researchers Solve Long-Standing Mystery After Voyager’s 1986 Flyby of Uranus Summary Researchers led by the University of Houston report that Uranus emits about 12.5% more heat than it absorbs from…
xAI Was About to Land a Major Government Contract. Then Grok Praised Hitler Summary WIRED reports that the General Services Administration (GSA) moved quickly to onboard leading AI providers for…
A DOGE AI Tool Called SweetREX Is Coming to Slash US Government Regulation Summary SweetREX is an AI-driven tool being developed by affiliates of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)…
Inside the Biden Administration’s Gamble to Freeze China’s AI Future Summary The article recounts how the Biden administration redesigned US export controls on semiconductors and chipmaking equipment to limit China’s…
Why Trump Flip-Flopped on Nvidia Selling H20 Chips to China Summary President Trump abruptly reversed an earlier ban and agreed to let Nvidia continue selling its H20 AI training chips…
Daily briefing: Why some places on our bodies heal without scars Summary This Nature Briefing (13 August 2025) highlights why certain body sites — notably the inside of the mouth…
Astronomers gave up this comet for dead — but they were wrong Summary An icy body from the distant Oort Cloud that was believed to have disintegrated after a close…
Spatial correlation in economic analysis of climate change Summary Christof Schötz publishes a Matters Arising critique of Kotz, Levermann and Wenz (KLW 2024), arguing that their high-profile analysis of economic…
Controversial quantum-computing paper gets hefty correction — but concerns linger Summary The journal Science has lifted an editorial expression of concern on a high-profile 2020 paper that reported evidence for…
A mind-reading brain implant that comes with password protection Summary A new brain–computer interface (BCI) decodes imagined speech in near real time for people who cannot speak clearly. Implanted microelectrodes…
