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A synthesis of natural volcanic watersheds published Aug. 26, 2026, in Nature finds that the dissolved chemistry carrying a carbon-removal benefit downstream is partly lost between the soil and the…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared a Roche blood test intended to help doctors in primary care, not only specialists, check whether a patient's memory problems are likely to involve…
The Justice Department and the FBI have seized internet domains used to run two hacking platforms, QScan and QTRouter, and the court-authorized seizures left both inoperable, the department announced…
Google has released Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, a speech-to-text model, into public preview, the company announced Aug. 26. It is already running in two consumer products: the Gemini app on macOS, in…
Z.ai has published GLM-5.3-Flash and released the model's weights for download under an MIT license, the permissive terms that allow commercial use and modification. The model repository on Hugging…
Giant viruses are actively infecting fungi, a kingdom of life in which the paper says they had not previously been definitively found, according to a study published Aug. 25 in the open-access…
The adult human hippocampus produces new neurons through a chain of cell states, and that chain appears to stall partway in people who had major depression, according to a study of donated brain…
At least 2.1 million people are envenomed by snakebites each year and at least 274,000 die, according to a modeling study published Aug. 25 in PLOS Medicine — the first global re-estimate the same…
NASA astronaut Anil Menon and ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot installed a replacement high-speed antenna on the outside of the International Space Station on Aug. 25, finishing a repair the pair had…
Plant compounds promoted as a way to cut nitrous oxide emissions from farmland also suppressed the soil bacteria that consume methane, researchers at Kansas State University report in a study…
Coatings that build up on soot particles in the air raise black carbon's warming effect from 0.20 watts per square meter, plus or minus 0.25, to 0.30 watts per square meter, plus or minus 0.42,…
Astronomers have measured the naked surface of comet 28P/Neujmin from more than 10 astronomical units out, and report that it reflects light differently from the asteroids whose color it otherwise…