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A Chip-Sized Radio Sent Brain Data Through a Cadaver's Head Without Wires
Engineers have sent data out of a mock brain implant as an electrical current through body tissue, with no wire and no antenna. They tested the link inside a human cadaveric head specimen. The system…
1mo ago
Science
A Laser Tags the Air's Own Molecules to Measure Hypersonic Wind Speed
A team led by the University of Texas at Arlington has measured the speed of air moving through a hypersonic ground-test facility by tagging the air's own nitrogen molecules with a laser pulse and…
1mo ago
AI & Technology
Anthropic's New Claude Comes in Two Versions, and Only One Is Public
Anthropic released two versions of the same language model on Sept. 1: Claude Fable 5.1, generally available, and Claude Mythos 5.1, which carries looser safeguards and is offered only to vetted…
1mo ago
Science
A Dark Matter Detector Just Measured Neutrinos From the Sun
The XENON Collaboration reports that it has measured low-energy neutrinos from the Sun, using a detector built to search for dark matter. The result rejects the background-only hypothesis at a…
1mo ago
Environment
Study Puts Global Pesticide Poisonings at More Than 400 Million a Year
Researchers at Pesticide Action Network organizations estimate that 402 million to 433 million cases of unintentional acute pesticide poisoning (sudden poisonings that were not deliberate) occur…
1mo ago
Environment
The Worst Fishing Years Come When the Ocean Is Both Too Hot and Too Empty
Ocean heat extremes and spells of unusually low ocean productivity each raise the odds of a very poor fishing year in a given place, and the odds rise furthest when the two arrive together, according…
1mo ago
Space
A Spacesuit Snag Left Astronauts With Unfinished Business on a 7-Hour Spacewalk
NASA astronaut Jessica Meir and ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot ended a spacewalk outside the International Space Station at 3:29 p.m. EDT on Sept. 1 after installing a new navigation reflector on the…
1mo ago
Space
Peptides Survive for Weeks in an Acid That Dissolves Metals
MIT researchers report that three short peptides stayed intact for weeks in a solution of about 98 percent sulfuric acid and folded into a defined three-dimensional shape instead of breaking down.…
1mo ago
AI & Technology
A Botnet Running Since 2003 Has Lost Contact With Its Operator
CrowdStrike's Counter Adversary Operations team, working with U.S. and European law enforcement, disrupted the Sality botnet on Aug. 31, 2026, cutting off the machines it had infected from the…
1mo ago
Space
Eighteen Years of Venus Orbiter Data Disagree With Two Standard Climate Models
Two reference models of Venus's atmosphere disagree with 18 years of spacecraft temperature measurements by more than 10 K, or 10 degrees Celsius, according to a paper posted to the arXiv preprint…
1mo ago
Science
Study Lifts the Count of OCD and Tic Risk Genes From Four to 36
Researchers have identified 36 genes in which rare mutations sharply increase the risk of obsessive-compulsive disorder and chronic tic disorders, up from four previously known. The study was…
1mo ago
Science
Longer Paxlovid Course Did Not Ease Long COVID, NIH Trial Finds
Extended courses of the antiviral Paxlovid did not improve long COVID symptoms compared with placebo, according to results from the NIH-funded RECOVER-VITAL trial released on August 31. The paper was…
1mo ago