Astronomers have discovered a huge filament of hot gas bridging four galaxy clusters. At 10 times as massive as our galaxy, the thread could contain some of the Universe’s ‘missing’ matter, addressing a decades-long mystery. The astronomers used the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton and JAXA’s Suzaku X-ray space telescopes to make the discovery. Over one-third…
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The New York Giants have been devoid of characters and flavor the past few seasons (Tommy DeVito and his agent notwithstanding), and now are playing catch-up. This offseason, the addition of three new quarterbacks from three different backgrounds is adding a new vibe to the culture. The players who have been here for a while…
Researchers have made a major leap in solar physics by finding the first direct evidence of small-scale torsional Alfvén waves within the Sun’s corona. These elusive magnetic waves, first theorized in the 1940s, have long been suspected to play a key role in heating the Sun’s outer atmosphere. The findings, published on October 24 in…
This post was written with Bryan Woolgar-O’Neil, Jamie Cockrill and Adrian Cunliffe from Harmonic Security Organizations face increasing challenges protecting sensitive data while supporting third-party generative AI tools. Harmonic Security, a cybersecurity company, developed an AI governance and control layer that spots sensitive data in line as employees use AI, giving security teams the power…
© IMAGO – Richard Hughes Liverpool 2024-25 Liverpool are always on the hunt for the biggest teenage talents around. The club recently secured a deal for Rio Ngumoha from Chelsea, which followed on from a similar agreement for Trey Nyoni from Leicester. There is an established pathway for young players from the under-age ranks to…
In 2024, NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance collected an unusual rock sample. The rock, named Sapphire Canyon, features white, leopardlike spots with black borders within a red mudstone and might hold clues about sources of organic molecules within Mars. Here on Earth, in Review of Scientific Instruments, by AIP Publishing, researchers from Jet Propulsion Laboratory and…
Today, we’re launching a new Search experiment in Labs – Audio Overviews, which uses our latest Gemini models to generate quick, conversational audio overviews for certain search queries. Searching for a topic you’re not familiar with? An audio overview can help you get a lay of the land, offering a convenient, hands-free way to absorb…
Jonah Fisher BBC environment correspondent Jonah Fisher/BBC Between May and July 2025 10,000 tests for water pollution at the Environment Agency’s Starcross laboratory in Devon were cancelled Thousands of water tests to identify potential harmful pollution in rivers, lakes and estuaries in England have been cancelled in the last three months due to staff shortages,…
The data center gold rush hinges in part on the idea that models will improve in line with the laws of scaling—so long as they’re trained on more data and compute. “There’s this basic story that scale is the thing, and that’s been true for a while, and it might still be true,” Jonathan Koomey,…
