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The United States is in the midst of the largest outbreak of cyclosporiasis ever recorded. At least 1,645 laboratory-confirmed cases of Cyclospora cayetanensis infection have been reported across 34 states since May 2026, with more than 5,100 additional cases under investigation, bringing the potential total above 6,700. 141 people (9% of confirmed cases) have been […]

Biofilms, communities of bacteria encased in a self-secreted matrix, are notoriously difficult to eradicate. They coat medical implants, clog industrial pipes and resist antibiotics by harboring dormant cells that recolonize after treatment. Now researchers at UC San Diego and Pompeu Fabra University have discovered that starved biofilms of Bacillus subtilis (hay bacillus) eject motile cells […]

Nobel laureate Giorgio Parisi has used Anthropic’s Claude AI system to solve a mathematical puzzle in the theory of jamming that had resisted analytical proof for 12 years, marking one of the most concrete demonstrations yet of AI-assisted mathematical discovery. Parisi, who won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on complex systems, […]

Nearly six years after a diving accident left Keith Thomas, then 42, with complete paralysis below the chest, no movement, no sensation, he can now feed himself, drink from a cup, and feel the pressure of a handshake. The change comes from a “double neural bypass” (DNB), a hybrid brain-computer interface (BCI) neuroprosthesis that simultaneously […]

By Marie The Tibetan Plateau, Earth’s highest and largest plateau, spanning roughly 2.5 million square kilometers, is both a global biodiversity hotspot and a region where agriculture is already stretched thin. Crops grown on steep slopes and widespread overgrazing have long threatened long-term productivity, creating a tension between feeding a growing population and preserving fragile […]

By Marie For decades, the semiconductor industry’s playbook was simple: make transistors smaller, pack more onto a chip, and computing power increases. That playbook is running out of pages. Transistor sizes are approaching fundamental limits set by the atomic structure of silicon and the laws of quantum mechanics. A team at the University of Illinois […]

When the Trump administration ended the $2,000 federal tax credit for heat pumps on December 31, 2025, many observers expected a sharp drop in sales, the kind of cliff that hit electric vehicles when their $7,500 tax credit expired three months earlier. EV sales plummeted before beginning a slow normalisation. That is not what happened […]

Large language models have transformed how machines process text, but their ability to learn the “language of molecular geometry”, the spatial arrangement of atoms in three dimensions, has remained largely unexplored. A new preprint from a team led by Joseph Cavanagh and Teresa Head-Gordon at the University of California, Berkeley, suggests the answer is: remarkably […]

When the Trump administration ended the $2,000 federal tax credit for heat pumps on December 31, 2025, many observers expected a sharp drop in sales, the kind of cliff that hit electric vehicles when their $7,500 tax credit expired three months earlier. EV sales plummeted before beginning a slow recovery. That is not what happened […]

Every conventional optical filter operates the same way: it lets certain wavelengths through and blocks others, exploiting the material’s absorption or interference properties. Color filters, polarizers, and dichroic mirrors all rely on what light does as individual photons. But light has properties that only emerge collectively. A stream of photons from a laser behaves differently […]