Researchers at BESSY II have, for the first time, experimentally confirmed that a material can exhibit truly one-dimensional electronic properties. The team studied short chains of phosphorus atoms that naturally arrange themselves at specific…
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Fractal Analytics’ muted IPO debut signals persistent AI fears in India
As India’s first AI company to IPO, Fractal Analytics didn’t have a stellar first day on the public markets, as enthusiasm for the technology collided with jittery investors recovering from a major sell-off in Indian software stocks.
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AI tool suggests tree species and placement to cool urban streets by 3.5 C
Urban landscapes could be cooled by up to 3.5 degrees using a QUT-developed AI-based tool that optimizes where trees and which species are planted to make cities cooler, greener and more resilient in the face of climate change.
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Why LLMs are plateauing – and what that means for software security
There’s no doubt the AI-generated code landscape evolved at an unprecedented rate over the last year. The rise of vibe coding, where developers use large language models (LLMs) to generate functional code, has fundamentally changed how…
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Astronomers spot one of the largest spinning structures in the universe
February 16, 2026
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Astronomers spot one of the largest spinning structures in the universe
This enormous chain of hundreds of galaxies—a cosmic filament—is twisting through space 400 million light-years away
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A 300,000-Year-Old Ancient Greek Skull Was neither Human nor Neanderthal. It Belonged to Someone Unexpected
A human skull hung on a cave wall in northern Greece for more than 300,000 years. When a villager spotted it in 1960, cemented in place by mineral deposits, it launched a scientific mystery that would outlast most of its original…
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Southern California sky is lit up by Valentine's Day SpaceX launch
Southern Californians out on Saturday night for Valentine’s Day took a break from staring longingly into each other’s eyes to gaze at something else: a SpaceX rocket blazing across the early evening Southern California sky.
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This Simple Brain Exercise May Protect Against Dementia for 20 Years
A long-running study following thousands of older adults suggests that a relatively brief period of targeted brain training may have effects that last decades. Starting in the late 1990s, close to 3,000 older adults enrolled in a research project…
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Happy Lunar New Year! Celebrate the Year of the Horse with science
The new moon on February 17 marks the start of the Lunar New Year, which is celebrated in many Southeast and East Asian countries. According to the Chinese zodiac, it’s also the start of the Year of the Horse, offering a perfect excuse to…
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A 307-Million-Year-Old Creature Found in a Fossilized Tree Is Turning Early Animal History on Its Head
A chunky, four-legged creature the size of a football has forced a reconsideration of one of evolution’s more practical questions: when did land animals first develop a taste for plants.
The answer, based on a 307 million year old skull…
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