ORLANDO, Fla. — Oman signed the Artemis Accords for responsible space exploration Jan. 26, becoming the 61st nation to do so.
Said al-Maawali, Oman’s minister of transportation, communications and information technology, signed the…

ORLANDO, Fla. — Oman signed the Artemis Accords for responsible space exploration Jan. 26, becoming the 61st nation to do so.
Said al-Maawali, Oman’s minister of transportation, communications and information technology, signed the…

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A new risk assessment has found that xAI’s chatbot Grok has inadequate identification of users under 18, weak safety guardrails, and frequently generates sexual, violent, and inappropriate material. In other words, Grok is not safe for kids or…

A new study into how different parts of memory work in the brain has shown that the same brain areas are involved in retrieving different types of information, according to researchers from the School of Psychology at the University of Nottingham…

January 27, 2026
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Menopause linked to changes in brain’s gray matter, new study shows
Brain changes during menopause could help explain why some people experience neurological symptoms such as anxiety,…
Author(s): David Ehrenstein
The melting point of alkali-metal nanoparticles was determined with high precision by measuring the energy required to eject electrons from the particles.
[Physics 19, s18] Published Tue Jan 27, 2026
Author(s): Michael Schirber
Dark matter having a small electric charge would presumably generate a magnetic-field variation on Earth’s surface, but observations find no such signal.
[Physics 19, s10] Published Tue Jan 27, 2026

X-Humanoid’s “Embodied Tien Kung” robot became the “world’s first” humanoid to establish a direct link with a low Earth orbit satellite. The robot allegedly achieved this feat at the 3rd Beijing Commercial Space Industry High-Quality…

US chip firm Micron said Tuesday it was building a $24 billion plant in Singapore to help meet soaring AI-driven demand that has caused a global shortage of memory components.

As AI continues to transform, so too does the experience of the people it serves.
Research by McKinsey shows that in 2025, 62% of organizations are at least experimenting with AI agents, whilst almost 9 in 10 now say they are regularly using…