How sound and light act alike—and not—at the smallest scale

A world-famous light experiment from 1801 has now been carried out with sound for the first time. Research by physicists in ...
NASA

October’s Night Sky Notes: Let’s Go, LIGO!

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. September 2025 marks ten years since the first direct detection of gravitational waves as predicted by Albert ...
Reuters

Venezuela's pattern of arrests of opposition members' relatives meant to create fear, UN says

Sept 19 (Reuters) - Venezuela arrests opposition figures' family members in a "sustained and systematic pattern" to generate fear and social control, a United Nations fact-finding mission said in an ...
Microsoft

Tool-space interference in the MCP era: Designing for agent compatibility at scale

This year we’ve seen remarkable advances in agentic AI, including systems that conduct deep research, operate computers, complete substantial software engineering tasks, and tackle a range of other ...
Frontiers

Binaural speech perception patterns in adult listeners with hearing aids and/or cochlear implants: a retrospective observational study

1 Department of Otolaryngology, HNS and Communicative Disorders, School of Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, United States 2 Heuser Hearing Institute, Hearing & Language Academy, ...
Science Daily

Physics meets art: A new twist on interference patterns

Researchers have discovered brand new interference patterns in twisted two-dimensional tungsten ditelluride lattices. These so-called moir patterns can be tuned to look like periodic spots or even one ...
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Rising GPS interference risks planes and critical systems, can atomic clocks save us?

On January 17, 2025, a Ryanair flight from London was just moments from touching down in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius when its descent was abruptly aborted. The Boeing 737 MAX 8-200 had descended ...