A chip that snores through the routine: cerebellum-inspired memtransistors wake only for the unexpected
Most neuromorphic chips take their architecture from the cerebral cortex, the brain region that thinks. A team at Northwestern University instead built a chip from a different part of the brain entirely. The cerebellum, the fist-sized structure at the back of the skull, does not reason so much as predict, constantly comparing what the body […]
The deprescribing dilemma at 75: a French trial finds stopping statins is safe, but experts say don’t read it as a verdict
The average 80-year-old in the trial was taking five medications before anyone randomized them. That number, buried in the baseline characteristics of the SAGA/SITE study published this week in The Lancet Healthy Longevity, is the quiet engine behind a question that has divided cardiologists for a decade: when, if ever, is it safe to stop […]
Editorial opinion: NIH’s Visa Bar on Young Researchers Is the Latest Self-Inflicted Wound
Editor’s note: This is an opinion article. It reflects a position on current science policy and does not claim neutrality. STAT reported exclusively on August 7 that NIH is internally proposing to bar scientists on temporary visas from the K99/R00 Pathway to Independence awards, the single most important funding mechanism for early-career researchers who are […]
Bluesky loses half its app users as the company bets on its protocol
Bluesky’s mobile app is shrinking. Similarweb data puts the social network’s worldwide mobile actives at 10.4 million in June 2026, a 27.2 percent year-over-year decline, with daily actives down 25.6 percent in July to roughly 3 million. Set against the boom that followed the November 2024 wave of users fleeing X, the slide looks worse. […]
0.42 nanometers: the atomic buffer that broke the 2D transistor’s biggest tradeoff
For two decades, chips made from atomically thin materials such as molybdenum disulfide have promised to scale smaller and switch faster than silicon. But every attempt to shrink the gate stack, the transistor’s most important component, has come at a cost: the thinner the insulator, the more it scatters the charge carriers the transistor is […]
Apple Reference Image could certify that an iPhone photo is real
Apple is developing a photo provenance system that would let iPhone owners prove an image was actually captured by the phone’s camera. References to the feature, called Apple Reference Image, were found in the privacy disclosure included with iOS 27 beta 5. The feature is not live, but the description in the beta is detailed […]