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The precursors of heavy elements might arise in the plasma underbellies of swollen stars or in smoldering stellar corpses. They definitely exist in East Lansing, Michigan. Experiments in Michigan are unraveling how elements heavier than iron are made. Mark Belan/Quanta Magazine Introduction The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) may…

Serenading Cells with Audible Sound Alters Gene Activity Audible sound can affect gene activity in mouse cells, boosting the attachment of muscle precursors to surrounding tissue and decreasing fat accumulation By Simon Makin edited by Sarah Lewin Frasier Thomas Fuchs The cells in your ears aren’t the only ones listening:…

Hands-on with Ambrosia Sky, a funereal space game from Fallout 4's lead level designer Image credit: Soft Rains You'd think there'd be more video games that are explicitly about clearing away corpses, given how many corpses players produce. Getting rid of bodies is a routine problem for developers, with a…

A remarkable new genus and species of neornithischian dinosaur being named Enigmacursor mollyborthwickae has been identified from a three-dimensionally preserved postcranial skeleton found in the Morrison Formation of Colorado, the United States. Life reconstruction of Enigmacursor mollyborthwickae. Image credit: Bob Nicholls. Enigmacursor mollyborthwickae roamed our planet during in the Late…

1 of 2 | U.S. President Donald Trump delivers an address to the nation accompanied by U.S. Vice President JD Vance, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, June 21, 2025, following U.S. strikes on Iran's…

A few days ago, Apple released its Design Resources files with the official assets for macOS Tahoe 26. Among the new materials, there’s one tiny, 15×17-pixel icon that will undoubtedly leave a few long-time Mac users feeling a little heartbroken. That cute glove hand cursor, which many called the “Mickey…

A Long March 2D rocket lifts off from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, trailing bright yellow-orange exhaust against a clear blue sky, carrying the CSES-2 (Zhangheng-2) satellite on June 14, 2025 Credit: CNSA HELSINKI — China launched a second collaborative seismo-electromagnetic satellite early Saturday, aimed at detecting electromagnetic…

Image: Apple There were some big new features for Mac owners to get excited about when Apple announced macOS Tahoe at the start of this week. But the little details of the company’s OS updates are sometimes even more impactful, and there’s one change that will be visible almost all…

Robotic process automation will evolve as organizations marry agentic AI to the older technology to remake business processes. Robotic process automation is accelerating toward a crossroads, with IT leaders and experts increasingly debating the technology’s future. Some IT leaders believe that more powerful and autonomous AI agents will eventually replace…

The AI boom has led to fast-growing startups like OpenAI, which raised a record $40 billion at a $300 billion valuation in April, and Perplexity, which processed 780 million user queries last month. However, investors claim that no AI startup has grown as rapidly as Anysphere, the three-year-old company behind…