YouTube is introducing a new age-estimation technology in the U.S. to better identify teen users, enhancing their experience with additional protections. The platform will implement measures such as disabling personalised…
Overview Jack Dorsey’s new app Bitchat is now on the iOS App Store. This innovative messaging app creates a decentralised, peer-to-peer platform using Bluetooth mesh networks, enabling encrypted and ephemeral…
Summary MIT physicists have conducted an idealised version of the renowned double-slit experiment, revealing the complex dual nature of light with atomic-level precision. Their findings confirm aspects of quantum theory…
A Pill for Sleep Apnea Could Be on the Horizon Apnimed is making waves with promising Phase 3 trial results for an oral pill designed to help alleviate sleep apnea.…
Summary A new modular system has been developed that joins two protein segments in response to specific combinations of cell-surface cues. This innovative tool allows for precise control over the…
Summary A new generative AI tool has successfully created a synthetic CRISPR system that edits human DNA while significantly reducing off-target effects. This advancement opens new avenues for the therapeutic…
Laser beams programmed to form various shapes by nanodisk arrays ‘Metalasers’ have been developed using metasurfaces comprising nanodisks, each with an off-centre hole. By changing the rotation angle of the…
Summary Mars has experienced varying periods of potential habitability, evidenced by its geological record showing surface water and shallow groundwater. Recent models suggest that carbonate formation and transient water oases…
Cloud-motion data identify changes in atmospheric circulation Large-scale shifts in atmospheric circulations can reshape global weather patterns and extremes, and they imprint their signatures in cloud motion. Decades of satellite-observed…
Summary Recent advancements in particle physics have brought light to the elusive interactions of neutrinos. A new study published in _Nature_ highlights the groundbreaking observation of coherent elastic neutrino–nucleus scattering.…
