Majorana 1: Microsoft under fire for claiming it has a new quantum computer
Microsoft’s Majorana 1 quantum computer John Brecher/Microsoft Last month Microsoft announced, with fanfare, that it…
10 Crazy Features Powering Google’s Pixel 10 Phones (and Watch)
This is all powered by Google’s latest on-device Gemini Nano model, meaning nothing is processed in the cloud. If you enable this feature, it’ll replace your voicemail, so you’ll have to choose if you want to use Take a Message or the standard voicemail function. AI-Generated Voice for Translations Courtesy of Joel Chokkattu Real-time translations…
Scientists just found the brain’s secret GPS system
Science News from research organizations Researchers used neuroimaging and virtual reality to identify two brain regions that help people maintain their sense of direction while moving around. Date: August 20, 2025 Source: Society for Neuroscience Summary: Researchers discovered two brain regions that work as a “neural compass,” keeping people oriented in virtual city navigation. These…
Why listening may be the most powerful medicine
When you visit a doctor, you expect them to listen. But in today’s fast-paced health care system, real listening — the kind that makes you feel seen, heard and understood — can be the first thing to go. A new article, co-authored by Dr. Leonard Berry of Texas A&M University’s Mays Business School, argues that…
Policy Tracker: Youth Access to Gender Affirming Care and State Policy Restrictions
State laws and policies prohibiting or restricting minor access to gender affirming care have proliferated in recent years. The first state to pass such a law was Arkansas in 2021. By January 2024, that number increased more than five-fold, with states having passed such laws/policies. Most are being challenged in court. On June 18, 2025,…
Protected seas help kelp forests bounce back from heatwaves
New research finds that Marine Protected Areas can boost the recovery of globally important kelp forests following marine heatwaves. The findings are published in the British Ecological Society’s Journal of Applied Ecology. Using four decades of satellite images, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) researchers have looked at impacts Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are having…
Scientists just found a protein that reverses brain aging
Aging is particularly harsh on the hippocampus — the brain region responsible for learning and memory. Now, researchers at UC San Francisco have identified a protein that’s at the center of this decline. They looked at how the genes and proteins in the hippocampus changed over time in mice and found just one that differed…
Few Trust Most Health Content on Social Media, Autism Claims Follow Thimerosal Policy Shift, and Misleading Narratives About SSRIs in Pregnancy — The Monitor
Summary This volume analyzes findings from the latest KFF Tracking Poll on Health Information and Trust, which show that just over half of adults say they use social media to find health information and advice, but less than half trust the health content they see across an array of social media sites and apps. It…
Tracking the Medicaid Provisions in the 2025 Reconciliation Bill
Updated: July 8, 2025 Note: KFF now has a clean summary of the health care provisions in the 2025 federal budget reconciliation law as well as a separate implementation timeline highlighting key dates in the law.This side-by-side comparison tool compares the health care provisions in the House-passed and Senate-passed 2025 budget reconciliation law to each…
AI Isn’t Coming for Hollywood. It Has Already Arrived
Mostaque had answers for all of this, but investors lost confidence anyway. Four months after the article came out, VCs from both Coatue and Lightspeed left the board of directors, signaling they no longer had faith in the business. By the end of the year, the company’s head of research, chief operating officer, general counsel,…
Scientists make ‘superfood’ that could save honeybees
Georgina Rannard Climate and science correspondent Gwyndaf Hughes/BBC Scientists have developed a honeybee “superfood” that could protect the animals against the threats of climate change and habitat loss. Bee colonies that ate the supplement during trials had up to 15 times more baby bees that grew to adulthood. Honeybees are a vital part of food…
