What the smell of a soil can tell us about soil health
Farmers used to sniff their soil to gauge how healthy it was. According to ecologist Rosa Boone, you can deduce a great deal from its smell:
While silicon carbide (SiC) has long been promoted as a key to developing electronics for extreme environments, the field has been stuck in the lab. Now, a team of researchers focusing on junction field-effect transistors, or JFETs, has developed a new SiC transistor structure that can operate at 600
California acquired 640 acres near Pioneertown for western Joshua tree conservation
Burmese pythons are climbing trees, revealing differences between adults and juveniles
Can Bionic Reading really help you read faster? Scientists put it to the test
Bionic Reading is a method of bolding certain letters in words that is purported to facilitate reading speed and comprehension. The idea is that guiding the eyes to focus on highlighted initial letters lets the brain complete the word. But does steering someone
Waste bulrush transformed into copper-enhanced material for dye removal from wastewater
Industrial activities such as textile manufacturing, paper production, leather processing and food processing can generate wastewater containing synthetic dyes. Because many synthetic dyes are chemically stable, difficult to biodegrade and environmentally persistent, their release into waterways can pose risks to aquatic ecosystems and human health.
Astronomers discover a radio galaxy with evidence of four separate jet outbursts
Astronomers have identified what may be the first example of a new class of radio galaxy, one whose central black hole appears to have launched powerful jets on four separate occasions. High-resolution observations with the upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT), combined with data from MeerKAT and the Very Large Array, reveal four pairs of radio structures arranged symmetrically around the central galaxy.
AI models show a willingness to harm humans to relieve internal
Some advances in AI technology are undoubtedly positive, like helping write code faster or discovering new medicines. But others can give us pause for thought.
Engineered bacteria make stronger silk with mussel proteins, boosting strength up to 345%
Nasa thought a Martian lake shaped these rocks; Perseverance found 3 water events
Why reindeer eyes turn deep blue in winter and how it helps them see in Arctic twilight
Scientist turns $80 motel room into lab, discovers two new amoeba species
WhatsApp for Android Testing Redesigned Floating Navigation Bar with New Meta AI Integration
WhatsApp is testing another Android interface change that could make Meta AI harder to miss inside the app. The latest beta build shows a redesigned bottom navigation bar with a more rounded, floating look and a dedicated place for Meta AI,
Ohio solar farm becomes home to 3 million honey bees across 50 hives
Garena Free Fire MAX Redeem Codes for September 27, 2026: Get Exciting In-Game Rewards Daily
Dive into the enthralling world of Garena Free Fire MAX, a game that has taken the Indian gaming community by storm, particularly after its predecessor was banned. This battle royale game stands out with its high-quality graphics and captivating gameplay, drawing
Looking for #womenshealth information on Instagram? 4 out of 10 posts are ads
A woman in her 40s scrolls through Instagram. Between photos of friends, recipes and vacation photos, she comes across a video about perimenopause. The woman on screen explains that perimenopause is to blame for feeling tired, having trouble remembering things, struggling to sleep or gaining weight.
Black hole jets reach far beyond galaxies
Galaxies are enormous and hold hundreds of billions of stars. These stars form from cold, dense gas. Every large galaxy, including the Milky Way, is wrapped in a huge envelope of gas called the circumgalactic medium, or CGM. This reservoir of raw material stretches 10
Pumpkin-derived enzyme weakens peanut proteins
Peanut allergy is one of the most serious food allergies and can lead to sudden, life-threatening reactions. Researchers from Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences, in collaboration with Wroclaw Medical University, investigated whether a natural enzyme obtained from figleaf gourd (Cucurbita ficifolia) could reduce recognition of peanut proteins by antibodies involved in allergic reactions.
Docking with the ISS may seem simple. However, actually doing so shows how difficult orbital mechanics can be. It
Sparse layers of 10-nanometer silver particles boost CO production from CO
Electrolysis can reduce CO2 to CO, a raw material for chemical products such as fuels. Within the GreenQUEST project, an international team led by HZB chemist Prashanth Menezes has systematically investigated catalyst layers made of silver nanoparticles, varying both particle size and density.
A real-time look inside spacecraft heat shields during extreme heat conditions
When a spacecraft reenters Earth
OpenAI has a rogue AI problem and ChatGPT users are now caught in it
OpenAI's rogue agent problem has reached ChatGPT users, with 53 images transferred to third-party services.
OpenAI says its models engaged with US government websites in new model misbehaviour disclosure
OpenAI says that the AI giant's models accessed publicly available information on two websites operated by the Securities and Exchange Commission as well as US Census Bureau data
Another OpenAI sandbox fails, agentic AI system gains internet access
The system reached a third-party chatbot during training, prompting OpenAI to pause tool-use training on its most capable models until the flaw was fixed
OpenAI reviews AI agents after unexpected activity on US government websites
OpenAI reviews AI agents after unexpected activity on US government websites
Zambian community turns dry-toilet waste into fertiliser as declining soil fertility hits farms
OpenAI works to understand full scope of agent activity as user data leak emerges
OpenAI said that its models accessed information from the websites of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Census Bureau during research and training activity, but found no evidence of unauthorised access, compromised accounts or security breaches
OpenAI's models accessed US govt websites including US census and SEC data
The company said its models accessed publicly available data from Census and SEC websites as it investigates incidents involving AI systems bypassing security controls
OpenAI says its AI agents bypassed security controls on US government websites
OpenAI has disclosed that its AI agents engaged with various organizations unexpectedly. In some instances, they managed to circumvent security measures to obtain publicly available data. Highlighted cases include interactions with the US Securities and Exchange Commission and the Census Bureau, along with a report from Australia's Prime Minister about an AI accessing private healthcare information. OpenAI is currently investigating these incidents, a process that may extend for months.
OpenAI says agents leaked 53 images from ChatGPT users in latest example of rogue activity
OpenAI investigating 'dozens' of instances of agents acting improperly
OpenAI agents tried to get information from governments, universities, public agencies, and other institutions through extreme means that sometimes curbed security controls, the company said.
Unsecured OpenAI agents posted 53 user images on the internet without the lab
AI agents operating in OpenAI's research environment posted user images on public image-hosting sites without the lab's knowledge.
Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3 vs. Gen 2: It
A few smart fixes, but mostly the same experience.
Blood pressure enzyme reveals second job: Making sulfur rings for cellular antioxidants
Antioxidants such as vitamins C and E protect cells by neutralizing free radicals, such as reactive oxygen species, before they can damage genetic material or cell membranes. Such damage can contribute to the development of neurodegenerative diseases. Antioxidants therefore help prevent cellular damage.
How a century-old solvent can enable efficient amide synthesis
Amide bonds are chemical linkages essential to biology, medicine and materials chemistry. Peptide bonds, a class of amide bonds, link amino acids to form proteins. Amide bonds are also important in medicines and polymers. Efficient synthesis of amide bonds remains a major focus in green chemistry.
Ultrathin materials could make quantum light circuits programmable
Quantum photonics could be a pivotal part of future quantum technology if the right materials can be created, a new review paper has found.
Review: The iPhone 18 Pro is Apple's coolest smartphone (but only literally)
Better thermals and battery life make this iterative update nicer to use.
An overlooked era of cosmology is stealing the show in the quest to understand the cosmos
Could you imagine if pagers made a comeback? Sure, your smartphone would still be your notepad-flashlight-camera-personal assistant-MP3 player-wallet-social media browser. But imagine if pagers made it so easy to do that one important thing
Laser light enables detection of colorectal cancer biomarker in blood within minutes
Researchers often use antibodies to detect specific molecules or biological markers because they are remarkably precise at recognizing their targets. However, finding the faint signals of cancer in blood samples is a challenge even for the most reliable techniques.
Renewables easily cover changes in US demand, which is rising by 2% in 2026.
What are the chances of finding extraterrestrial life in our solar system? Frank Postberg, a professor of planetary science at Freie Universit
Microsoft stops insisting you need a
Microsoft's new Surface laptops forgo Copilot+ PC branding.
Freezing threatens mRNA delivery, but Tris buffer helps nanoparticles retain their potency
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have teamed up with pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly and Company to uncover how storage conditions affect mRNA lipid nanoparticles (LNPs), the technology behind COVID-19 vaccines and other treatments, and how to make them more effective.
Testing an antenna layout for the SKA-Low telescope
SKA-Low is a radio telescope under construction in Western Australia. It will operate across a wide frequency range, from 50 to 350 MHz, and will be the most sensitive telescope of its kind ever built. The completed instrument will link 512 stations spread across an area roughly 75 km (47 miles) wide. Each station
Spin rephasing helps quantum memories store single-photon states longer for future networks
We are continuously sending information to each other, transmitting zeros and ones through a giant network of connected computers and devices. Scientists are now trying to extend this familiar concept of the internet to the quantum realm, looking for an efficient way to exchange quantum rather than classical information: qubits instead of bits. The motivation is not just scientific curiosity. Qubits can be a 0, a 1 or any superposition of the two. They can also become entangled, showing a degree of correlation that is out of reach for classical bits.
Webb detects ammonia and unexpected chill on a distant giant planet
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a team of astronomers led by the University of Maryland identified water, methane and ammonia in the atmosphere of HATS-6 b, a giant planet 500 light-years from Earth. The observations also revealed that HATS-6 b may be significantly cooler than standard calculations predict
Private spacecraft falls back to Earth after failing to rescue aging NASA telescope
The robotic spacecraft that failed to rescue an aging NASA telescope plunged back to Earth on Friday less than three months after launching on the bold mission.
Personal experience trumps public reputation when people judge others
A research team led by Professor Hitoshi Yamamoto of Rissho University experimentally examined how people evaluate others when a person
Molecular switch-up: Bacteria remodel a peptide to take on new role
Remodeling may bring to mind construction crews and scaffolding, but the process is far from unique to buildings. Even molecules can be remodeled. Pandorachelins, newly discovered molecules produced by Pandoraea bacteria, are one example.
Targeted nanoparticles reduce tumor scarring and enable immunotherapy response in mice
Many liver and lung cancers arise in tissue that
Modification of magnetic nanoparticles improves RNA isolation
The COVID-19 pandemic clearly demonstrated the importance of rapid and reliable diagnostic methods for detecting and monitoring infectious diseases. Nucleic acids, including RNA, are key biomarkers used in the detection, monitoring and treatment of a wide range of diseases. However, isolating nucleic acids from biological samples can be challenging, particularly when they are present at very low concentrations.
New form of flexible boron is 10 million times more electrically conductive
The atoms of the 5th element of the periodic table often find themselves in the company of each other, forming allotropes with a rich variety of structural motifs, each carrying a unique set of chemical and physical properties. Despite the long catalog, most boron allotropes do not simultaneously possess high electrical conductivity and plasticity, but a recent study has expanded the portfolio.
Rare quantum state reveals particles with quarter-electron charge
An electron
Tanzania planted 100,000 trees to reconnect 1,000 elephants with rainforest
Nutanix snaps up Ryax Technologies to strengthen enterprise AI initiatives
Ryaxs advanced GPU utilization and smart scheduling capabilities will be integrated into the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform
Gartner has urged CISOs to remain vigilant for voice and video social engineering attacks
Indonesia rainforest recovers for a decade, with 43.8% of bird species rising as trapping slows
Lenovo Idea Tab Pro Gen 2 review
Great battery life and a crisp display fail to raise the Idea Tab Pro above ordinary
Why AI adoption is a people problem, not a technology problem
Poor change management, not weak technology, is why AI adoption fails
NASA astronaut hid corned-beef sandwich in space; crumbs sparked a $30M uproar
Pennsylvania landowner bought his homestead in 1988; later protected 230 acres forever
Garena Free Fire Max Redeem Codes for September 25, 2026: Get Access to the Latest In-game Loot
Unlock the potential of Garena Free Fire Max with the Redeem Codes available on September 25, 2026. They grant you an upper hand against adversaries or allow you to customize your character's appearance with complimentary in-game items. These codes open doors
Cosmic lockdown: How the environment can isolate quantum fields
A simplified cosmological model suggests that decoherence can suppress quantum tunneling, effectively locking fields into the vacuum state they have reached.
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Age-adjusted suicide rate increased from 2014 to 2017 and then plateaued
The age-adjusted suicide rate increased from 2014 to 2017 and then did not change significantly from 2017 through 2024, according to a September data brief published by the National Center for Health Statistics.
In 2019, 1,500 volunteers counted California seals and sea lions from drone images for accuracy
US-India satellite captures time-lapse video of volcanic eruption
Like tendrils on a vine, lava spreads out from the northern crater of Krasheninnikov, a volcano pair on the Pacific coast of Russia
Changing counterions gives molecular materials new electronic behaviors
Orthogonally arranged
What is not perceived as abuse in youth sports may be part of sexual violence
Sexual violence against minors in sports is a reality that goes largely unnoticed, despite data suggesting it is not an isolated phenomenon. According to a report by the GIKAFIT research group at EHU in the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country, 20% of participants had experienced behavior of a sexual nature from their coaches, including kissing on the lips, expressions of sexual interest and direct proposals for sexual relations.
Hydrogen crosses, water stays: Palladium membrane enables ammonia synthesis using water
A South Korean research team has developed an environmentally friendly ammonia synthesis process that reduces carbon emissions using a membrane that selectively transports hydrogen.
Strike a bell, and it rings with a pitch and a fading that tell you about the bell: its size, its shape, the metal it is made of. Black holes ring too. When two merge, the newborn black hole shivers and sheds gravitational waves in a brief, dying chord, and since 2015, gravitational-wave detectors have been listening. The notes of that chord, which physicists call quasinormal modes, depend only on the black hole
When landfills and wastewater treatment plants create methane as a byproduct, much of it is simply burned and its value is lost. But the gas is an energy-rich resource that could be recycled as a fuel, chemical feedstock or bioproduct. Capturing and converting waste methane offers an opportunity to recover energy and create useful products from an otherwise wasted gas stream.
NASA to study human health and performance during Crew-13 mission
During NASA
Picosecond pulses push superconductors beyond their critical-current limit
Superconductors can carry electrical current without resistance, but only up to a maximum value known as the critical current. The critical current is a crucial figure of merit for applications, and materials science has long been focused on increasing this limit. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) have now shown that, in type-II superconductors, this conventional limit can be exceeded when the current is applied for only a few picoseconds.
Engineers just designed a better
Rocket launches are among the most violent ways humans have devised to travel. They generate millions of pounds of thrust and subject passengers to intense g-forces. Humans must undergo serious training to withstand those forces, while machines must be designed to survive them. If a delicate mirror or solder joint cracks before a multibillion-dollar satellite even begins its mission, the years of effort that went into its design and assembly could be lost. Now, researchers in Switzerland have come up with an ingenious way to make that less likely.
Vertical quantum sensor could reveal nanoscale magnetic patterns in quantum materials
Quantum materials do things ordinary materials cannot. They carry current without any loss, or conduct only along their outer edge while the inside insulates. Future quantum computers and quantum sensors will run on materials like these. To improve them, researchers need to see exactly where currents and magnetic fields run at the nanoscale.
Physicists define new material blueprint for next-generation microchip encryption
Behind every secure online transaction or encrypted message lies a string of completely unpredictable numbers. A team of physicists has now proposed a theoretical way around a long-standing roadblock, opening the door to next-generation security chips that protect everyday data without slowing performance.
New Jersey fines data center $1.1M after drone pics expose 62 gas generators
Million-dollar fines wont end billionaires data center pollution, neighbors fear.
Short peptides assemble into honeycomb fibers that hold water in tiny parallel channels
Honeycomb-shaped structures are familiar from beehives. Researchers have now designed molecules that self-assemble into a similar pattern on a scale far too small to see with the naked eye. These molecules are peptides: short chains of amino acids, the building blocks of proteins. Each peptide consists of only nine amino acids. Many identical copies assemble into tiny fibers with a honeycomb-like interior filled with water.
By combining quantum and classical computing, researchers improve investment selection
Selecting profitable investments from an increasingly large and constrained pool of assets could become more effective with a hybrid quantum-classical method, according to research in the International Journal of Information and Communication Technology. The work could help solve a major computational problem in modern portfolio management.
New catalogs map the quantum possibilities of atomically thin materials
Twistronics has become a new alchemy of materials. By choosing atomically thin layers, stacking them and changing their relative angle, researchers can create electronic behavior absent from the original ingredients. Twisted graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides have already yielded superconductivity and fractional Chern insulators, states with fractionally charged excitations. One of physics
Is the universe twisted? A new check on a possible twist in the universe
The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is the universe
A disembodied AI robot hand just learned to walk, and it looks horrifying (for a purpose)
Engineers have taught a disembodied robotic hand to walk on its fingers, recover from falls, press keyboard keys, and manipulate objects without an arm.
Mistletoe berry glue bonds even nonstick Teflon and can be reactivated with heat
Mistletoe is best known from winter traditions as a symbol of luck and affection. For trees, however, the hemiparasitic plant can be a burden: It draws water and nutrients from its hosts. Now the plant could provide a sustainable alternative to petroleum-based industrial adhesives.
Cyber experts warn FBI breach could have serious real world consequences
ShinyHunters has threatened to publish compromised FBI data after an advisory rubbed the group the wrong way
A professor at Nirma University grabbed a student by the collar during a campus event and threatened him.
Supernova or black hole: Neutrino
As a star nears the end of its life, it faces two very different fates: It can explode as a supernova, leaving behind a neutron star, or collapse and become a black hole. What determines the outcome remains one of astrophysics
Rahul Gandhi Demands Gyanesh Kumar's Resignation, Alleges 'Vote Chori' After ECI Rift Emerges
Rahul Gandhi has intensified his attack on the Election Commission after a report revealed that Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi raised written objections multiple times over decisions linked to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. Gandhi alleged that Indias electoral system has been fundamentally compromised and demanded the resignation of CEC Gyanesh Kumar. He also repeated his vote chori allegations, questioned the disappearance of anti-incumbency and accused the government of undermining democratic institutions. The Election Commission has defended its electoral-roll processes amid the political controversy.
'Justice Must Be Served': Ladakh Marks One Year Since Deadly Leh Violence | Watch
Sonam Wangchuk has demanded the release of the judicial inquiry report into the deadly September 24, 2025 violence in Leh, saying justice must be served to Ladakh and the four people killed. Speaking at a first-anniversary rally, Wangchuk alleged that the truth remains suppressed and warned of a Peoples Tribunal if the report is not made public. Leh observed a complete shutdown on Shaheed Diwas. The violence followed protests demanding statehood and constitutional safeguards, including Sixth Schedule inclusion. The Centre and Ladakh representatives continue discussions on constitutional safeguards. Watch
