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• Josie Ford Josie Ford Feedback isNew Scientist’spopular sideways look at the latest science and technology news. • You can submit items you believe may amuse readers to Feedback

• Orlando Gili/Millenium Images Orlando Gili/Millenium Images Your friends are likely to have more friends than you do. • Don’t worry, it’s nothing personal. • It’s just about how

• As AI workloads scale, achieving high throughput, efficient resource usage, and predictable latency becomes essential. • NVIDIA Run:ai addresses these challenges through intellig

• Cavan Images/Alamy Cavan Images/Alamy International Women’s Day, held annually on 8 March, is a stalwart of what we might call the ‘awareness calendar’ - the loose collection of

• Elaine Knox Elaine Knox Someone inhales fungal spores. • They might get a bit bitey. • Something gruesome happens and the horror spreads. • Such is the fate of many inCold Storag

• Dwight Ellefsen/FPG/Archive Dwight Ellefsen/FPG/Archive The Laws of ThoughtTom Griffiths, William Collins (UK) Macmillan (US) FOR nearly 70 years, cognitive researchers have been

• Fuller/VWPics/Alamy Jon G. • Fuller/VWPics/Alamy Pollution is making many cities unlivable for their human inhabitants, but it is also tearing ant families and communities apart.

• Nevada sues Kalshi for operating a sports gambling market without a license The Trump administration, which has ties to prediction markets, claims it alone has the authority to e

• CSL Limited retains rights to clazakizumab in end-stage kidney disease. • Eli Lilly gets rights to the the IL-6-blocking antibody in other indications that could put it in compet

• NASA’s Hyperwall Storytelling opens Feb 25, 2026 at Exhibit Hall Booth #3481. • Wednesday session: Karen St Germain presents ‘NASA: Your Space and Science Agency.’ • Thursday’s l

• The Protocol: Zora moves to Solana Also: EF’s Stańczak to leave ED role, XRPL member-only DEX and Ethereum revives the DAO. • What to know: Welcome to The Protocol, CoinDesk’s we

• Want to develop your Linux skills? • I’ve found the perfect distro for you Follow ZDNET:Add us as a preferred sourceon Google. • ZDNET’s key takeaways Nutyx isn’t your ordinary L

• Science Space March’s Full Blood Moon: Here’s When the Total Lunar Eclipse Happens The eclipse will be visible across North America, but you’ll need to stay up late to see it. •

• The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.

• Report Entertainment Film Ken Watanabe didn’t think a kabuki movie would work Despite the actor’s reservations, the nearly three-hour-long Kokuho has become Japan’s top-grossing

• Societe Generale’s SG‑FORGE launches EUR CoinVertible on the XRP Ledger. • The stablecoin now operates on Ethereum, Solana, and XRP Ledger. • Ripple’s custody infrastructure back

• Production Console Design Business Interviews Outgoing Sucker Punch boss hopes studio can make games in ‘shorter periods of time’ ‘This isn’t about offshoring. • This isn’t about

• After weeks of relentless rain and flooding, and even more forecast, 2025’s droughts and hosepipe bans feel like ancient history.

• The Coinbase-incubated Ethereum Layer 2 is ’evolving its foundational software by moving to a unified, Base-operated stack.'

• Stiffness and fatigue are very common after spending hours sitting in the same position at your desk day after day. • With a standing desk, you can implement a simple, healthy ha

• Coinbase’s Base moves away from Optimism’s ‘OP stack’ in major tech shift Base launched in 2023 and quickly became one of the most widely used Ethereum layer-2 networks. • What t

• Optimism’s OP token falls after Base moves away from the network’s ‘OP stack’ in major tech shift Base launched in 2023 and quickly became one of the most widely used Ethereum la

• A new study from Bar-Ilan University is shedding light on a long-overlooked social group in archaeology: the elderly. • While research on women and children has flourished in rec

• Trending: Hands-on with Google’s new Pixel 10a phone Tesla drops ‘Autopilot’ upsell in California Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2026 is Feb. • 25 The best VPNs with free trials iPhone

• For anyone who relies on coffee to start their day, coffee wilt disease may be the most important disease you’ve never heard of. • This fungal disease has repeatedly reshaped the

• Intel’s Discontinued Open-Source OpenPGL Project Finds A New Home Back in 2022 Intel announced OpenPGL as an open-source library for path guiding to help enhance the quality of p

• Intel’s Discontinued Open-Source OpenPGL Project Finds A New Home Back in 2022 Intel announced OpenPGL as an open-source library for path guiding to help enhance the quality of p

• Dragon Armor 3.0 introduces world‑first fire‑energy separation in Li‑ion batteries. • Physical isolation of terminals from pressure relief channels reduces thermal runaway risk.

• ‘ZDNET Recommends’: What exactly does it mean? • ZDNET’s recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. • We gather data from the best ava

• Rain and Uptop leaders share how stablecoin cards and onchain loyalty are reshaping payments, rewards, and fan engagement.

• The CMS Collaboration has shown, for the first time, that machine learning can be used to fully reconstruct particle collisions at the LHC. • This new approach can reconstruct co

• This local AI quickly replaced Ollama on my Mac - here’s why Follow ZDNET:Add us as a preferred sourceon Google. • ZDNET’s key takeaways Using local AI is responsible and private

• Citizen Lab Finds Cellebrite Tool Used on Kenyan Activist’s Phone in Police Custody New research from the Citizen Lab has found signs that Kenyan authorities used a commercialfor

• SMIC experiences delays in deploying procured tools, exposing challenges in China’s domestic WFE ambitions. • The post How China Struggles to Reach WFE Self-Sufficiency appeared

• Researchers in the Harvard John A. • Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences have devised a new way to make some of the sma

• River deltas are among the most complex and productive environments on Earth. • Yet, they face serious threats from upstream industrialization and climate change, which alter sup

• CEOs who survived natural disasters prioritize workplace safety, reducing injury rates. • Their firsthand crisis experience translates into stronger safety protocols for employee

• 1 min read Fishing Boats and City Lights Monika Luabeya Fishing boats illuminate the Arabian Sea along India’s west coast with green lights designed to attract squid, shrimp, sar

• Mars Global Localization Pinpoints Perseverance’s Location Downloads Mars Global Localization Pinpoints Perseverance’s Location PNG (566.29 KB) PIA26705 animation MP4 (2.77 MB) D

• Build a ‘Breathing Head in a Jar’ using Circuit Playground Express and an air pump. • Create a 3‑D head image, laminate, and seal mouth for realism. • Drill and seal jar with cab

• A follow up to the book review Traversal by Maria Popova… Polymaths, and the Transit of Venus while it’s still in head space. • Somewhere in a conference room with bad lighting

• During Australia’s unprecedented heat wave in late January, air temperatures reached 50°C in inland South Australia.

• Hi, I do not understand the way clang is using PHINodes in the second example below. • Let’s consider a condition: ((i < 5) || ((j < 5) || ((k < 5) || (l < 5)))) The resulting IR

• Ethereum’s 50% staking milestone triggers backlash over ‘misleading’ supply data CoinShares researcher Luke Nolan says the 50% figure is ‘inaccurate, or at least materially misle

• The carbon footprint of the Olympic Games remains substantial, despite reforms by the International Olympic Committee. • A new study by the University of Lausanne shows that the

• Researchers reimagine Nitinol as woven, fabric-like structures via 3D printing. • New superelastic metamaterials achieve flexibility beyond traditional laser powder bed fusion. •

• Comments from German Chancellor Friedrich Merz may represent the unofficial pulling of the plug on the effort to produce a sixth-gen fighter for France, Germany and Spain

• Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms stock jumps nearly 9% as Starboard urges AI data center expansion The activist investor said Riot’s 1.7 GW power capacity can drive premium AI hostin

• Bitcoin miner Riot stock jumps nearly 9% as activist Starboard urges AI data center expansion The activist investor said Riot’s 1.7 GW power capacity can drive premium AI hosting

• On January 30, 2026, SpaceX filed an application with the US Federal Communications Commission for a megaconstellation of up to 1 million satellites to power data centers in spac

• Yet another ingenious 3DCP application has emerged: swimming pools. • I saw aLinkedIn postby Axtra3D’s Rajiv Kulkarni, and tracked down what had occurred. • The project involved

• Use an M.2 PCIe 3.0 SSD with an M.2‑to‑PCIe AIC to fit vintage PCI slots. • Connect the AIC to a PCIe‑to‑PCI adapter, bridging modern and legacy hardware. • PCIe and PCI are phys

• Cambridge-based materials testing companyPlastometrexhas introduced a new MultiScale capability for itsPLX-Benchtopsystem, allowing high-resolution mapping of mechanical properti

• Integration of Equinox EV components boosts range to 262 miles. • New lithium‑iron‑phosphate battery chemistry enables 150kW fast charging. • Relocated brake lights improve safet

• Corals living in coastal bays with strongly fluctuating temperatures and environmental conditions are better able to withstand heat and other stressors than their counterparts on

• The filing provides little detail on the firm or its funding source, leaving the identity of the ultimate investors behind the IBIT position unclear.

• Home Kitchen & Household This New Toilet Won’t Do You Dirty. • It Cleans the Entire Bowl and Rim With One Flush At KBIS 2026, we got a first look at Toto’s industry-first Aurora

• Watch: China’s humanoid robots impress with synchronized Lunar New Year performance Unitree CEO Wang Xingxing recently claimed the company aims to almost quadruple production, sh

• Betterment data breach might be worse than we thought Betterment LLC is an investment advisor registered with US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). • The companydiscloseda

• Researchers atRWTH Aachen Universityare investigating whether steel scrap can be transformed into certified, load-bearing construction components using 3D printing. • The BMWE-fu