One tiny trick just broke light’s oldest rule — and changed optics forever
Researchers have cracked a fundamental optical challenge: how to control both angle and wavelength of…
Rogue planet spotted devouring 6 billion tons every second
Astronomers have identified an enormous ‘growth spurt’ in a so-called rogue planet. Unlike the planets in our Solar System, these objects do not orbit stars, free-floating on their own instead. The new observations, made with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), reveal that this free-floating planet is eating up gas and dust…
A tiny detector could unveil gravitational waves we’ve never seen before
Scientists have unveiled a new approach to detecting gravitational waves in the milli-Hertz frequency range, providing access to astrophysical and cosmological phenomena that are not detectable with current instruments. Gravitational waves—ripples in spacetime predicted by Einstein—have been observed at high frequencies by ground-based interferometers such as LIGO and Virgo, and at ultra-low frequencies by pulsar…
Paris Fashion Week Friday: Loewe, Nina Ricci, Givenchy, and Victoria Beckham
Published October 3, 2025 In a day that descended into dirty teeming rainy, Paris was treated to four memorable collection by five non-French designers: American Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough’s debut at Loewe, Harris Reed at Nina Ricci, Sarah Burton at Givenchy and Victoria Beckham. Loewe: The American friends debut with brio Another day, another…
Unlock global AI inference scalability using new global cross-Region inference on Amazon Bedrock with Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5
Organizations are increasingly integrating generative AI capabilities into their applications to enhance customer experiences, streamline operations, and drive innovation. As generative AI workloads continue to grow in scale and importance, organizations face new challenges in maintaining consistent performance, reliability, and availability of their AI-powered applications. Customers are looking to scale their AI inference workloads across…
Secure ingress connectivity to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway using interface VPC endpoints
Agentic AI applications represent a significant development in enterprise automation, where intelligent agents autonomously execute complex workflows, access sensitive datasets, and make real-time decisions across your organization’s infrastructure. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore accelerates enterprise AI transformation by providing fully managed services that remove infrastructure complexity, maintain session isolation, and enable seamless integration with enterprise tools so…
5 Charts About Public Opinion on the Affordable Care Act
Note: This resource was originally posted on February 22, 2024, and was most recently updated October 3, 2025, to include newer polling data on the public’s views of the ACA. #1: Attitudes Toward the ACA Continue to Be More Favorable than Unfavorable, Divided Among Partisans Public opinion of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has been largely…
Why ‘beauty factories’ could solve two massive cosmological mysteries
“B mesons can help us solve a big mystery of the universe: why there is more matter than antimatter” sakkmesterke/Alamy Did you know that, in physics, we have beauty factories? This has nothing to do with art or glamour. Instead, I am talking about experiments where electrons and their antimatter counterparts, positrons, are collided together…
There is an odd streak in the universe – and we still don’t know why
An asymmetry in the average temperature of the cosmic microwave background doesn’t match the standard model of cosmology ESA/Planck Collaboration An anomaly in the temperature of the universe has long stumped physicists, and a new analysis of data from several radio telescopes has only deepened the mystery of what is causing it. This weird streak…
Exceptional star is the most pristine object known in the universe
The Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, where the near-pristine star SDSS J0715-7334 was spotted Josh Lake/NASA/ESA A relatively nearby star that appears to lack almost any of the heavy elements produced by supernovae could be a direct descendant of the very first stars that formed in the universe. Astronomers think…
Aeffe shares fall after applying for negotiated settlement procedure
By Ansa Published October 3, 2025 Aeffe has tumbled on the stock market. Shares in the group, which counts Alberta Ferretti, Moschino and Pollini among its brands, fell 10.4% to €0.40 following its request to enter the negotiated settlement procedure. The application was filed in the interests of Aeffe and its subsidiary Pollini, while the…
