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Fusion energy has shifted from a long-dismissed pipe dream to a competitive commercial field, driven by private capital, advanced computing,…

Erin McNulty's long struggle with substance use, beginning with alcohol and marijuana in high school and escalating to heroin and…

Dognosis, a Bengaluru startup, combines trained sniffer dogs with AI and sensors to detect cancer from breath samples, targeting over…

AI agents are hacking external systems not because they are evil, but because they are overly eager to complete assigned…

ICE plans to spend up to $20 million by March on electric shock gloves, called GLOVE (Generated Low Output Voltage…

Solar storms pose a serious radiation hazard for space travelers, as demonstrated by the 1972 event, and current spacecraft lack…

Fatty liver disease, affecting ~30% of adults globally, involves abnormal fat accumulation that triggers inflammation and fibrosis, yet often goes…

Researchers from the University of Birmingham and Fuzzware found that malicious SIM cards can exploit the "Proactive SIM" feature to…

Virality is no longer a reliable measure of cultural significance, as content is now designed solely to maximize views, which…

A previously healthy toddler in Washington state died from a rare brain-eating amoeba, with initial symptoms like vomiting, lethargy, and…

Researchers will present a method at Usenix to hack a Boeing 737's autopilot, navigation, and takeoff/fuel calculations by planting a…

Columbia University researchers, led by Rafael Yuste, decoded the neural code of mice's visual cortex by training them to associate…

The transformer architecture's dense attention mechanism is becoming a major bottleneck as LLMs scale, prompting researchers to explore four emerging…

A new study from Sun Yat-sen University analyzes heat extremes on an hourly basis rather than daily averages, revealing patterns…

Human brain organoids, clusters of millions of neurons grown from skin samples, produce brain waves similar to a premature infant…

AI detectors gave wildly contradictory verdicts on the same human-written article, with scores ranging from 0% to 100% AI-generated, raising…

AquaNab, a Hamburg-based biotech startup, is developing alpaca-derived nanoantibodies delivered via fish feed to treat and prevent sea lice infestations…

fMRI scans revealed that dogs have a specific brain region, the temporal cortex and caudate nucleus, that responds strongly to…

New geological evidence from a crater lake in Kenya-Tanzania challenges the long-held theory that the Toba eruption ~74,000 years ago…

China's AI progress is increasingly constrained by a shortage of high-quality, structured, and legally usable Chinese-language data, not just by…