the nakagin capsule tower and the dream of a home that could change
architecture archivesby thomai tsimpou I designboom·5d ago
kisho kurokawa’s plug-in home In Tokyo’s Ginza district, Kisho Kurokawa’s Nakagin Capsule Tower once looked less like a conventional apartment building than a piece of infrastructure waiting for...
Astronomers discover a giant, rocky 'mega-Earth' 23 times more massive than our planet
Latest from Space.comby Samantha Mathewson·5d ago
Astronomers have discovered an unusually massive, dense exoplanet that challenges conventional ideas about how rocky planets form.
This 23-foot crocodylian may have ruled South America’s food chain
ScienceDaily·5d ago
This 23-foot crocodylian may have ruled South America’s food chain - Date: - August 19, 2026 - Source: - University of Helsinki - Summary: - Miocene South America was packed with giant prey—and the...
Securing wireless communication in next-generation devices
MIT Newsby Adam Zewe | MIT News·5d ago
MIT researchers have overcome a major challenge holding back the real-world deployment of microwave quantum technologies for advanced signal processing and secure communications.
16 mummies and a dog reveal a hidden order inside an ancient Egyptian tomb
ScienceDaily·5d ago
16 mummies and a dog reveal a hidden order inside an ancient Egyptian tomb A crowded ancient Egyptian tomb filled with stacked mummies and a mysterious mummified dog reveals centuries of carefully...
Breast cancer is surging among Asian American women — and scientists don’t know why
ScienceDaily·5d ago
Breast cancer is surging among Asian American women — and scientists don’t know why - Date: - August 19, 2026 - Source: - University of California - San Francisco - Summary: - Breast cancer is...
Japanese scientists use tiny silver particles to make DNA assembly up to 5x more efficient
ScienceDaily·5d ago
Japanese scientists use tiny silver particles to make DNA assembly up to 5x more efficient Silver nanoparticles could give scientists a far more powerful way to cut and assemble DNA, boosting...
SpaceX Starship the talk of remote Australian island as Elon Musk’s engineers sent to retrieve it
Space | The Guardianby Petra Stock·6d ago
Engineers from Elon Musk’s SpaceX are on their way to a remote Australian island to retrieve part of a Starship that dived into the Indian Ocean.
Shrews’ noses grow in winter as their brains shrink
Science Newsby Jake Buehler·6d ago
This nose grows. During harsh Japanese winters, long-clawed shrews’ snouts temporarily expand. The seasonal swelling is the opposite of the previously known winter pattern in shrews, in which the...
Widely prescribed blood pressure drugs linked to 33% higher kidney risk in type 2 diabetes
ScienceDaily·6d ago
Widely prescribed blood pressure drugs linked to 33% higher kidney risk in type 2 diabetes A common blood pressure drug may quietly increase the risk of serious kidney decline in people with type 2...
Tiny robots powered by light can hunt down and collect bacteria
ScienceDaily·6d ago
Tiny robots powered by light can hunt down and collect bacteria Light-powered nanorobots can now hunt down, collect, and relocate bacteria like futuristic microscopic cleaning crews.
NASA astronaut and 1st female French spacewalker remove failed ISS antenna but run out of time for replacement
Latest from Space.comby Robert Z. Pearlman·6d ago
Two astronauts — including the first French woman in history to perform a spacewalk — worked outside of the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday (Aug 18), becoming temporary TV...
Scientists discover a natural Arctic cloud factory missing from climate models
ScienceDaily·6d ago
Scientists discover a natural Arctic cloud factory missing from climate models - Date: - August 18, 2026 - Source: - University of Birmingham - Summary: - A newly discovered Arctic process can...
Mysterious waves sweeping across your brain may help turn sensory chaos into what you see
ScienceDaily·6d ago
Mysterious waves sweeping across your brain may help turn sensory chaos into what you see - Date: - August 18, 2026 - Source: - Salk Institute - Summary: - Traveling electrical waves sweeping...
When AI art has no author: Study finds generated images often can’t be traced to training data
History of MITby Rachel Gordon | MIT CSAIL·6d ago
When an artificial intelligence image generator produces a portrait, whose work went into it? The question sits at the center of lawsuits, licensing deals, and proposed regulations worldwide.
From Prototype to Production: The Architecture Behind Secure & Governed AI Agents | Towards Data Science
Towards Data Science - Mediumby Partha Sarkar·6d ago
A There are several reasons for this, primary among them being infra and data readiness, but also building responsible AI — model & agent governance, security, transparency, explainability, etc.
Anthea Coster awarded International Union of Radio Science Appleton Prize
MIT Newsby Nancy Wolfe Kotary | MIT Haystack Observatory·6d ago
MIT Principal Research Scientist and Haystack Observatory Assistant Director Emerita Anthea J. Coster was awarded the prestigious Appleton Prize at the International Union of Radio Science (URSI)...
Building Enterprise Agent Systems that People can Trust, Verify and Improve | Towards Data Science
Towards Data Science - Mediumby Sheila Teo·6d ago
I I’ve distilled my experience into 5 principles for building agent systems that succeed inside a business, earn people’s trust and improve over time.
Can the existence of an afterlife be proven? The scientists looking for God
El País Englishby Daniel Soufi·6d ago
Now that singer Rosalía has embraced mysticism and the “[Spanish protest movement] 15-M philosopher” Ernesto Castro has converted to Christianity, it is not surprising that science is being seduced...
What Spider-Man gets right — and wrong — about turning off superpowers
Science Newsby Tina Hesman Saey·6d ago
Note: Slight spoilers for Spider-Man: Brand New Day. A plot device in the new Spider-Man movie is real-world science.
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