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Physicists have run a double-slit interference experiment inside a silicon crystal, using two neighboring rows of silicon atoms as the slits, 1.36 angstroms apart, in a paper published Aug. 19 in…

Human brain organoids kept in culture for more than five years went on maturing, and their molecular age tracked how long they had spent in the dish, a group led by Paola Arlotta of Harvard…

A virus that preys on bacteria shuts down its host's immune defenses by attaching phosphate groups to almost every protein in the cell, a group at EMBL Heidelberg reports in Nature on Aug. 19. The…

Five U.S. federal agencies issued a joint advisory Aug. 19 saying that attackers are using scripts written with the help of AI to find and probe Siemens S7 programmable logic controllers, the small…

A Phase 3 trial of Merck and Moderna's individualized mRNA cancer therapy, intismeran autogene, has met its primary endpoint of recurrence-free survival and a key secondary endpoint of distant…

The Food and Drug Administration said Aug. 19 that it has authorized the Aletta, a standalone robot that draws blood from a patient's arm without hands-on intervention by an operator. The device is…

Salt marsh area along China's coast has grown on net in recent decades, and the organic carbon held in the topsoil under those marshes rose overall with it, according to a national mapping study…

Sea surface temperatures in three of four European sea regions this summer reached a level that "would have been virtually impossible in a pre-industrial climate," World Weather Attribution said in a…

The soil bacterium Bacillus subtilis assembles tubes of protein that carry the fat-soluble molecules of respiration away from its cell membrane, a research team reports in a paper published Aug. 17…

Pictures made by AI image generators trained on large datasets often cannot be traced back to any individual training image, according to a study published Aug. 18 in Nature Communications by Zheng…

Researchers led by a Cornell University team have grown the superconducting tantalum films used in quantum-computing chips at substrate temperatures as low as 200 degrees Celsius by switching the gas…

Modular has published the source code for the compiler and toolchain of Mojo, its programming language for AI and high-performance computing, under the Apache 2.0 license with LLVM exceptions, the…