New paper introducing metamaterial adhesives that achieve strong yet... releasable adhesion. Programmed cuts force cracks to propagate BACKWARDS for enhanced adhesion, while allowing normal, forward crack growth for easy release. In Nature Materials atshow more

Introducing DeepConf: Deep Think with Confidence 🚀 First method... to achieve 99.9% on AIME 2025 with open-source models! Using GPT-OSS-120B even without tools, we reached this almost-perfect accuracy while saving up to 85% generated tokens. It also delivers many strong advantages for parallel thinking: 🔥 Performance boost: ~10% accuracy across models & datasets ⚡ Ultra-efficient: Up to 85% fewer tokens generated 🔧 Plug & play: Works with ANY existing model - zero training needed (no hyperparameter tuning as well!) ⭐ Easy to deploy: Just ~50 lines of code in vLLM (see PR below) 📚 Paper: 🌐 Project: joint work with: Yichao Fu , xuewei_wang, Yuandong Tian (see details in the comments below)show more

Celebrating 5️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ members of the ECA Family. In a... landmark moment for European club football, we are proud to announce that 500 clubs across Europe are now members of ECA. As of today, ECA Membership has achieved a remarkable 88% growth since the start of the 2023/24 season. With each new addition, ECA's diverse family of member clubs continues to act in the collective interest of all - working together to face the challenges and find innovative solutions and opportunities in the ever-changing landscape of European football. We look forward to further strong growth and welcoming more members to the ECA Family, to continue shaping the future of European football. 🌍 Take a look at the full story here: #WeAreECA #HeartofFootballshow more

🚨 SCIENTISTS MAY HAVE FOUND A CHEAPER PATH TO... QUANTUM COMPUTERS AND IT LOOKS LIKE A HONEYCOMB. Researchers in Japan created tiny cobalt honeycomb structures that show the exact magnetic behavior scientists have been chasing for next-generation quantum materials. Why this matters: Today’s most promising quantum materials rely on rare and expensive elements like iridium and ruthenium. This new approach uses cobalt —l one of the most common metals on Earth. The result: • Strong quantum magnetic interactions • Potential spin-liquid states • Dramatically lower cost • Easier manufacturing at scale The deeper implication is fascinating: Nature keeps reusing the same geometry. Honeycombs appear in beehives, in graphene… and now they may help build the quantum computers of the future. Sometimes the next technological revolution isn’t hidden in a new rare element it’s hidden in a smarter pattern. Could the future of quantum computing be built from one of Earth’s most common metals? Follow for more frontier physics.show more

🚨 RESEARCHERS JUST MADE WATER-BASED BATTERIES LAST OVER 2,800... HOURS WITH RECORD CAPACITY. A team in South Korea has developed a simple zwitterionic electrolyte additive that dramatically improves the performance of aqueous (water-based) batteries a technology long seen as a safer, cheaper, and more environmentally friendly alternative to lithium-ion. The additive forms tiny nanostructures that guide zinc to deposit evenly on the electrode and create a protective layer that prevents corrosion and unwanted side reactions with water. This solves two of the biggest problems that have limited aqueous batteries: uneven metal buildup and rapid capacity fade. In testing, the modified batteries achieved a world-leading areal capacity of 8.10 mAh cm⁻² and ran stably for more than 2,800 hours. Why this matters: • Aqueous batteries are non-flammable and use abundant, low-cost materials, but have historically suffered from poor lifespan and performance • This approach improves both cycle life and capacity at the same time — something many previous solutions struggled to achieve together • It uses a simple additive rather than requiring expensive new materials or complex manufacturing changes • The technology is particularly relevant for large-scale energy storage needed for renewables and AI data centers The deeper implication: We’re getting closer to making safe, scalable, and affordable grid storage a reality. While lithium-ion still dominates, aqueous batteries could become a strong contender for stationary storage where safety, cost, and longevity matter more than energy density. A small molecular tweak unlocking major performance gains shows how materials engineering at the nanoscale can have outsized real-world impact. This is the kind of incremental but meaningful progress that compounds over time. How important do you think safer, water-based batteries will be for the future energy grid compared to improving lithium-ion or other alternatives? Follow for more frontier energy storage and battery materials research.show more

🚨 AI JUST DESIGNED A MATERIAL STRONGER THAN STEEL,... LIGHTER THAN FOAM AND UP TO 5× STRONGER THAN TITANIUM. Researchers used machine learning to discover entirely new microscopic lattice structures that were then 3D-printed into carbon nanolattices. The result is a mechanical metamaterial that combines properties previously thought to be impossible together: extreme strength with ultra-low weight. Why this matters: • Aerospace and automotive industries could build dramatically lighter vehicles and aircraft without sacrificing strength • Construction and infrastructure could use stronger, lighter components • Medical implants and protective gear could become both tougher and more comfortable • It proves AI can now design physical matter at the structural level exploring geometries no human engineer would have thought of The deeper implication is huge: We are moving from discovering materials that already exist in nature… to inventing entirely new classes of matter with properties we specify. AI isn’t just writing code or generating images anymore. It’s helping us build the physical world from the inside out. What industry do you think will be transformed first by these AI-designed super-materials? Follow for more frontier science and future technology.show more

Fireflies glow. So does plankton in a breaking wave.... Both come from the same small molecule: a square of two carbon and two oxygen atoms that breaks apart and gives off light. Researchers at Stanford found that if you pull on that square instead of heating it, it breaks in the opposite order from what everyone expected. The carbon bond goes first, then the oxygen. It still emits light, just by a route nobody knew was there. That opens the door to materials that glow to warn you before they crack. We made the animation for the press release: This animation shows a pulling force, indicated by arrows, applied to a molecule of bis(adamantly)-1,2-dioxetane. The strain breaks the carbon–carbon bond (in gray) of the core structure. Then, the oxygen - oxygen bond (in red) breaks, causing a remaining piece to become unstable and emit a photon of blue light to return to a more stable state. If you have a result that needs showing, we'd be glad to help. Read more:show more

🚨QUANTUM🚨: A brand new quantum state just appeared that... links two fields we thought were separate 🧨 Scientists at Rice University have discovered a new quantum state of matter that connects quantum criticality — where electrons fluctuate between different phases — with electronic topology, which describes organized wave-like behavior of electrons. This hybrid state could open new paths for advanced computing, sensing, and materials. Source: Rice University news release on a study published in Nature Physics (January 2026). Uniphics explains this emergence directly through spin-wave dynamics in the ξM-field. Each Gyrotron is a stable 3D gyroscope formed by three orthogonal spin quanta — every quantum a tempest of whirling energy spinning clockwise or counterclockwise in its own plane. When local energy density and spin bias allow mixed configurations (similar to the musktron and maleytron patterns), the resulting spin-wave interference naturally produces both critical fluctuations and topological order at the same time. Negentropy favors these hybrid states because they represent lower-energy, organized patterns within the field. No new particles or exotic couplings are needed; the same principles that govern particle formation, the weak and strong forces through spin alignments, and the low-acceleration gravitational surge also allow these combined quantum behaviors in real materials when conditions permit. This turns the “unexpected new quantum state” into a predicted outcome of spin-wave physics once the three pillars are allowed to select stable hybrid configurations. How might recognizing that hybrid quantum states arise from mixed spin-wave interference change the way we search for new materials or design future quantum technologies? A Theory of Everything should be able to answer everything. Uniphics Explained Simply PDF: Chapters 1–10 free: Grokipedia #Uniphics #QuantumStates #SpinWaves #Topology #QuantumCriticality Grok xAIshow more

Did you know that fruits and veggies are picked... way earlier than nature intended just to accommodate legacy infrastructure? They’re harvested while still in their infancy just to survive a supply chain that’s been capped by outdated solutions. Produce sits in dark containers and cold storage for weeks, sometimes months, before it ever reaches your kitchen. Harvesting too early is a legacy constraint we’ve accepted for too long. The industry’s "solution" to keep this prematurely picked fruit from rotting has been to coat it in petroleum-derived waxes and synthetic fungicides. We were told that if we want fresh food, we have to accept a layer of plastic-like wax on our apples and cucumbers. Even the "Organic" label has been used as a shield, while still relying on those same, legacy coating methods. There’s room for innovation. The system wasn't built for flavor or nutrients. It was built for a long-haul flight. Our team of scientists and technologists are deploying a new strategy that uses food to protect food. We’ve pioneered a way to take the materials found in the peels, seeds, and pulp of all plants and recycle them into a high-performance shield. By mimicking nature’s own defense system, we’re finally able to harvest for the best consumer experience. That’s the future. We’re allowing fruit to stay on the vine longer, develop real complexity, and reach your table at the peak of its potential. We’re inviting consumers, retailers and suppliers to join us in bringing a new food experience online. Follow James Rogers and Luiz Beling to learn more. Plant-based protection is the future. Apeel forever.show more

People still want soreness to mean something. You wake... two days after a session barely able to sit down, and a voice at the back of your mind says good, that one's going to grow. It isn't. Soreness is the receipt for damage you haven't finished repairing. While the body patches torn tissue, it isn't building new muscle on top. The ache marks the days the work is paused. A sore muscle is a weaker one too. Force production drops while it's tender, so the next session runs at a discount, lighter loads, poorer stimulus. And the swelling you read as size? Fluid. It does nothing for growth and drains away in days. If you're sore all the time, that isn't a badge. It's a message. Drop some volume and put a few more rest days in. The muscle grows on the days you can walk.show more

🚨 SCIENTISTS JUST DISCOVERED THAT BACTERIA HAVE BEEN USING... A QUANTUM ENERGY TRICK FOR BILLIONS OF YEARS. In a breakthrough published in Nature Chemistry, researchers from the University of Sheffield (working with IBM and international collaborators) have shown that purple photosynthetic bacteria (Rhodobacter sphaeroides) use singlet fission (SF) as a functional mechanism to enhance light harvesting. When carotenoids absorb blue-green light (via their S₂ state), the energy rapidly undergoes heterofission: the singlet exciton splits into a pair of triplet excitons shared between a carotenoid and its neighboring bacteriochlorophyll (BChl) a molecule. These triplet pairs are long-lived and weakly coupled. They then recombine via triplet-triplet annihilation (TTA), efficiently populating the BChl a Qy singlet state which then transfers energy to the reaction center. This SF-mediated pathway contributes up to ~18% of total carotenoid-to-BChl energy transfer in some complexes and introduces a temporal “buffering” effect, staggering energy arrival at the reaction center. Why this matters: • It is the clearest demonstration yet that singlet fission plays a genuine, functional role in natural photosynthesis • The heterofission mechanism (triplets on adjacent Crt and BChl molecules) explains how bacteria achieve ultrafast SF while maintaining long-lived, harvestable triplet pairs • This pathway helps organisms make better use of blue-green light and may protect the reaction center during fluctuating light conditions The deeper implication: Nature has evolved a sophisticated way to temporarily store and then cooperatively release electronic energy using spin-protected triplet states. This biological strategy offers new inspiration for designing artificial light-harvesting and energy-conversion systems that can buffer and regulate energy flow something synthetic SF materials have struggled to achieve. We are learning that evolution solved some of the hardest problems in photophysics long before we started trying. How might understanding biological singlet fission change the way we design future solar energy or quantum-inspired technologies? Follow for more frontier photosynthesis research and natural quantum biology.show more

🚨 PHYSICISTS JUST FOUND A BRAND-NEW WAY TO MAKE... ELECTRONS ACT STRANGELY WITHOUT ANY MAGNETIC FIELD. In pentalayer graphene (five stacked and slightly twisted sheets), electrons slow down so dramatically that their mutual repulsion becomes the dominant force. The result? They form a collective quantum state that recreates the fractional quantum Hall effect but this time it’s “anomalous” (no external magnets needed). Why this matters: Normally this effect requires ultra-strong magnetic fields, ultra-clean materials, and temperatures near absolute zero. The moiré superlattice in twisted pentalayer graphene “fakes” the magnetic field from inside the material itself. This creates exotic anyons quasiparticles that behave as if they carry only a fraction of an electron’s charge. The deeper implication is staggering: Anyons are incredibly robust against noise and could be the key to building practical, fault-tolerant quantum computers that actually work at scale. We may have just unlocked a whole new playground for quantum materials one where the weirdest rules of quantum mechanics can be engineered on demand. What happens when we can routinely create and control these fractional-charge states in everyday lab conditions? Follow for more frontier physics and quantum discoveries.show more

Taxpayer-funded transgender dolls headed to Minnesota classrooms this fall.... “First-of-their-kind” paper dolls with removable genitalia will be introduced to some Minnesota classrooms for children as young as 4 years old, according to a New York Post report. The dolls, developed over six years by professors at the University of Minnesota Medical School’s Institute for Sexual and Gender Health, come with gender-neutral names like Sam, Rory, Avery and Parker. They feature more than 100 interchangeable pieces of clothing, hairstyles, accessories — and detachable internal and external genitals. The stated goal is for kids to “learn about the different options that exist for who they can be.” One of the co-founders, Associate Professor Dianne Berg, previously said: “Everyone should be learning that there’s diversity in gender identity and that what makes you real is not what your body parts are, but how you think and feel.” She added that she has already begun using the dolls with her own patients who are between five and ten years old. (Video: AI) The university’s Medical School receives $15 million in annual state funding. Critics, including Dr. Quentin Van Meter, past president of the American College of Pediatricians, have raised serious concerns about the age-appropriateness of introducing such materials to young children. A university spokesperson said no public funds supported the commercialization of the dolls, but declined to detail how much taxpayer money went into the research and development. In my view, directing public resources toward materials of this nature for preschool and elementary-age children raises serious questions about both fiscal priorities and developmental suitability. At the very least, parents must have a clear and unambiguous right to opt their children out. Many critics go further and argue the entire program should be shut down.show more

🇺🇸 COMING SOON: REP. RO KHANNA ON NEW EPSTEIN... FILES DEVELOPMENTS As pressure builds in Washington, Rep. Ro Khanna is leading the charge to force the full release of the Epstein files - and he's not alone. With support from Democrats and a growing bloc of Republicans, Khanna and Rep. Thomas Massie are pushing legislation to compel the DOJ to make every document public. This comes ahead of a bombshell Capitol Hill press conference featuring 10 Epstein victims - some speaking for the first time - who will call for full transparency and justice for crimes that have long been buried. With elites still untouched, victims still waiting, and the DOJ still redacting, Khanna says it’s time to end the silence. In our exclusive interview, he breaks down why the Epstein files matter, how Congress is being forced to act, and what’s at stake if they don’t. In an era of cover-ups and crumbling public trust, this interview cuts straight to the core. Stay tuned - dropping soon.show more

👇Easy-ECG App: Easy-PVC + Easy-WPW Algorithms 👇 I submitted... the app to the App Store for free online release. Unfortunately, the Apple reviewers rejected it, stating that it is a “simple app.” They failed to understand that the goal of the Easy-ECG App is to simplify complex algorithms and make them accessible to everyone. They only needed to understand the name of the app! 😂 Here is an overview of the Easy-PVC App, where I have integrated my 5-page algorithm. My goal is to enable every physician to localize PVCs, allowing for better patient counseling and management. #EPeeps Please share this post—perhaps it will reach someone at AppleSupport . 👉 Our mission is to make medicine easier! This app was developed, designed, and programmed from A to Z in collaboration with two other physicians Gregor Nageler Nadica Trajkovska 🙏🙏 Philipp Sommer Christian Sohns Martin Braun Moneeb Khalaph Stephan H. Winnik Maxim Didenko, MD PhD FESC FEHRA Dr. Andreas Roeschl Arnel Carmona Pedram ECGs ECG.Hacks Elon Musk 色々自粛中(ガラス細工の様な繊細なハートを持つ貴公子🤴)こちらを本稿に戻しました🌟 #CardioTwitter Syamkumar ALBERTO ALFIE HAIDER AL TAII Cheryl Teres JMC John Mandrola, MD Christian-H. Heeger Manual Of Medicine Vera Maslova Andreas Müssigbrodtshow more

It never fails. After months of late night feedings... and short bursts of sleep, your baby FINALLY begins sleeping through the night… only to begin waking again. What gives? What you’re experiencing is a sleep regression… a small setback in sleep continuity often associated with big breakthroughs in development. As your baby grows as a language user, for example, you may find that they discover 3am is a great time to practice all their new skills. This happy little guy, shared to TT by em_suttles, is a great example. He’s unlocked a cool new vocal trick (at 5 months) and he’s ready to put it to work. While it may not yet look like it, he’s on his way to spoken language. Even more pronounced regressions can coincide with major motor milestones. As your baby learns to sit, roll over, crawl and pull to a stand, their nighttime options in the crib become far more varied. And the temptation to practice them can be strong. The good news is that these sleep regressions are typically pretty short lived. So, bleary-eyed though you may be, do your best to celebrate them for what they are: markers of big steps forward in your child’s development.show more

⚡️INTRODUCING HARDSTAKE, BOOSTS AND SAFE LP TRANSFERS This very... important update concerns creators, users, liquidity providers and integrators. Please read carefully and hang tight HARDSTAKE: A new router function that allows projects to implement any custom staking logic safely on any ERC20, adhering to the Ethervista Euler model. This opens up new possibilities for token economics, including locking LP tokens permanently while still earning rewards - effectively "burning" tokens without losing benefits. The $VISTA token will be the first to implement HARDSTAKE 👇 Ethervista will now offer BOOSTS, allowing new projects to advertise directly on for an ETH fee. This feature gives launched tokens instant exposure to our large user base. All BOOST fees go straight to $VISTA stakers. It's our way of ensuring supporters benefit directly from ETHERVISTA's growth. This system exemplifies our core idea: traders, creators, and providers working together to create value for everyone involved. To ensure a smooth rollout of these new features, we're implementing a phased approach: 1. One-week integration period: We're giving everyone time to adapt to these changes and build accordingly before deploying to mainnet. 2. Public audit: During this week, we're opening a public audit period. Any bugs found will be generously rewarded 3. Documentation: Comprehensive documentation is available at providing detailed information on HARDSTAKE and safe LP transfers. 4. Developer support: We've opened a dedicated developer chat on Discord to offer full support and answer any questions during the integration process.show more

Axie started in 2018. Creatures you could collect, battle,... and raise while learning about a magical new technology called blockchain. Part of the original concept were axie homes called Terrariums. Places where your axies could live, get stronger, and harvest resources. Battles ended up getting prioritized instead, and Terrariums got shelved. But for eight years, that original idea held a special place in our hearts. Terrariums are a nod to that original dream. We're hard at work and our goal is to deliver the first version in late June. Here's how they'll work on day one: 1. You activate a plot of land. 2. You put your axies on it. 3. Every hour, the world ticks forward on its own. While you're away, your land is working. 4. It earns a reward called bAXS, the in-game currency that feeds back into the broader Axie economy. 5. To stay running, your land burns a fuel called Lunium. You get it two ways: buy packs, or let your land generate it slowly for free. 6. How much you earn scales with your axie power, a stat currently called Atia's Flame. Stronger (collectible) axies earn more points. More points means a bigger share of the prize pool. 7. Each land type has its own pool, split between everyone who owns that type. 8. There will be free terrariums that can be used to earn axie experience points (but not bAXS). These should also be useful for onboarding newcomers. The day-to-day is simple by design as we want to make sure that the gameplay is easy to grasp at first and doesn't become a grind for landowners. Learn more:show more

A single E. coli cell, placed on a dish,... will become 70 billion cells in just 12 hours. That’s exponential growth. But a new preprint shows that it's possible to engineer E. coli to grow linearly instead, where only one daughter cell continues dividing and the other stops. First, some context. In nature, there is a bacterium called Mycobacterium smegmatis (initially discovered in 1884 in ulcers scraped from syphilis patients.) M. smegmatis is weird because it divides asymmetrically. These cells grow only from one end, and all their cell wall biosynthesis machinery is located on that one end. So when the cell divides, one daughter gets this machinery and the other gets nothing. The daughter that gets the machinery can keep dividing immediately, but the other daughter has to remake all that machinery from scratch, so its growth is delayed. E. coli doesn’t grow like this. When it divides, it pinches in the middle and splits everything evenly. Enzymes, metabolites, and proteins get partitioned more or less randomly between the two daughters. For the new preprint, though, researchers engineered E. coli to behave more like M. smegmatis. Here is how they did it: First, they deleted a gene called cyaA, which encodes an enzyme (adenylate cyclase) that makes a molecule called cAMP. cAMP is SUPER IMPORTANT! It is a nutrient sensor that instructs E. coli to switch on genes that help it digest non-glucose carbon sources when glucose is scarce. Without cAMP, E. coli cells growing on alternative carbon sources will starve; they won’t know how to eat the food. Next, they added back a “split” version of the cyaA gene into the cells. In other words, they split the gene in two so that each half of the enzyme is made separately. Cells can only make cAMP, and thus eat non-glucose carbon sources, if these two halves come together. To facilitate that “coming together,” the researchers also fused the split cyaA proteins to sticky proteins that clump together, and to a fluorescent protein (to make it easy to track these molecules in the cell.) So now some interesting things start to happen if you grow E. coli on a growth medium lacking glucose. As the cell grows, its cyaA “halves” start clumping together into a giant ball. Inside the aggregate, the two enzyme halves come together and make cAMP. And when the cell gets big enough and divides, the clump of cyaA RANDOMLY goes to either daughter cell #1 or #2. The daughter that gets the aggregate (called PA+ in this paper) can keep dividing. The daughter that doesn’t (PA–) cannot. It still grows a few times — about four divisions — because it inherits some leftover cAMP from its mother. But after that, the metabolite is diluted away, and the cell stops growing. PA+ cells went through about 23 divisions on average before their aggregate decayed. And the population of cells, as a whole, grew linearly. This paper is cool because there are many applications where exponential growth is too unpredictable and, perhaps, unsafe. If you want to engineer bacteria to deliver drugs, clean up waste, or live in the gut, you don’t want them to double uncontrollably. This paper shows you can make them expand in a controlled, linear way. Alas, mutations could break this whole engineered system. A mutation that restores cyaA, for example, would give cells a new way to make cAMP. Mutations that make the aggregates split between daughters would break the asymmetry, too. But still, I really enjoy proof-of-concept engineering papers like this.show more