Astronomers Catch Planets in the Act of Being Born

A fascinating glimpse into how a solar system like our own is born has been revealed with the detection of planet-forming ‘pebbles’ around two young stars. These seeds to make new worlds are thought to gradually clump together over time, in much the same way Jupiter was first created 4.5 billion years ago, followed by…

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Scientists just recreated a 1938 experiment that could rewrite fusion history

A Los Alamos collaboration has replicated an important but largely forgotten physics experiment: the first deuterium-tritium (DT) fusion observation. As described in Physical Review C, the reworking of the previously unheralded experiment confirmed the role of University of Michigan physicist Arthur Ruhlig, whose 1938 experiment and observation of deuterium-tritium fusion likely planted the seed for…

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Handicapping Who And What’s Next

VOD service screen. Man watching TV with remote control in hand. getty Disney and Hearst, the 50/50 owners of A+E Global Media, announced yesterday that after sharing control of the company and its networks for most of the last 40 years, they are putting it up for sale. Pardon me if this is beginning to…

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Chet Holmgren agrees to rookie max extension with Thunder

Oklahoma City Thunder star and 2025 NBA champion Chet Holmgren has agreed to a fully guaranteed five-year maximum rookie contract extension that could reach $250 million, agent Bill Duffy of WME Basketball told ESPN on Wednesday morning. After missing three months during the season because of a hip injury, Holmgren returned in February and came…

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​​RAG is dead: why enterprises are shifting to agent-based AI architectures

Recently, a new sentiment has emerged in AI security circles: “RAG is dead.” I’ve observed firsthand how organizations are increasingly abandoning Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures in favor of agent-based approaches. This shift represents not a temporary trend but a fundamental recognition of RAG’s inherent security and performance limitations. Sourabh Satish Social Links Navigation Co-Founder and…

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Flag football at 2028 Summer Olympics: Updates, NFL plans

Stephen HolderJul 9, 2025, 06:10 AM ET Close Stephen joined ESPN in 2022, covering the Indianapolis Colts and NFL at large. Stephen finished first place in column writing in the 2015 Indiana Associated Press Media Editors competition, and he is a previous top-10 winner in explanatory journalism in the Associated Press Sports Editors national contest….

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