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AI agents don’t go rogue. That’s something only humans do. Nevertheless, a New York Times article – representative of much news coverage of AI – described an OpenAI hacking as “A.I. bots going rogue and independently spearheading a cyberattack.” Name-brand artificial intelligence agents have been on a hacking spree in 2026. OpenAI’s software agents hacked…
A schematic diagram of a thorium-229 nuclear clock. The nucleus is irradiated with laser light (laser 1). A second laser checks if the nucleus was successfully excited. A photomultiplier tube (PMT) checks laser 2’s output. Based on its signal, laser 1 is stabilised to the nuclear transition via a feedback loop. | Photo Credit: LarsvdW…
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Researchers from CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) analysed the medical records of 171 children, aged up to 18 years, with Sickle Cell Anaemia and receiving treatment at the Government Medical College and Hospital, Nagpur. The image is used for representative purposes only. | Photo Credit: GETTY IMAGES Doctors may soon have a more…
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Falcon 9 launches the 18th Transporter rideshare mission from the Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, U.S.A., as part of the Transporter-18 rideshare mission, on October 2, 2026. The mission delivered 130 payloads in orbit. Multiple payloads developed by Indian companies were successfully deployed in orbit by Space X’s…
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At any gathering, you could easily spot him by his colourful printed shirt or jacket. His tall stature, smiling face, and warm handshakes have put generations of students, researchers, and scientists at ease. Since 1956, when he joined the founding faculty of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, he has never…
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At any gathering, you could easily spot him by his colourful printed shirt or jacket. His tall stature, smiling face, and warm handshakes have put generations of students, researchers, and scientists at ease. Since 1956, when he joined the founding faculty of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, he has never…
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Scientists have long known every tonne of carbon dioxide matters to the climate. But governments keep approving new fossil fuel projects – even as climate change worsens. Until now, it’s been difficult to say how much damage and extra warming a specific project will do. Fossil fuel companies – and government agencies approving their projects…
Read More “Scientists can now measure the damage each new coal mine can do to people, nature” »
A study published in September in Nature by neuroscientist Sergiu Pașca’s group at Stanford University reports an experiment that sounds almost like science fiction. Human brain tissue grown from stem cells was transplanted into mice in which much of the cerebral cortex had been genetically prevented from forming. The transplanted tissue grew into this vacant…
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Secondary grasslands that grow in ther place, consist of species that are taller, with greater leaf area. | Photo Credit: Getty Images (This article forms a part of the Science for All newsletter that takes the jargon out of science and puts the fun in! Subscribe now!) Ancient grasslands, one of the least valued ecosystems, support…
Views of a Cepheid variable star taken nearly 90 years apart and a portrait of its galactic home are shown in this image collection. | Photo Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / flickr If I were to leave a blank after the word “Andromeda”, then chances are that you would be filling it in…
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