United States District Judge Mark Pittman has rejected xAI’s attempt to keep Elon Musk’s Tesla and SpaceX emails out of discovery in the lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI. Here are the details.
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A cloud of water larger than anything ever seen in space has turned up around one of the brightest objects in the early universe. The reservoir surrounds the quasar APM 08279+5255, a blazing source powered by a supermassive black hole more than 12 billion light-years from Earth. The scale is hard to grasp. Astronomers estimated...
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Physicists have directly observed the optical Magnus effect for the first time by mapping how a tightly focused laser interacts with a single trapped calcium ion. The strongest atom-light interaction shifted sideways by several hundred nanometers instead of occurring exactly at the laser beam’s center. The effect could create unwanted...
Google searches for common physics concepts fell steadily between the 2022-23 and 2024-25 academic years as generative AI became more widely used. The decline was strongest for mechanics topics and in many non-English-speaking countries, while physics-related Wikipedia traffic showed a similar pattern. The findings do not show that students are...
Living in a democracy is linked to better mental health, and recent research reveals this happens primarily when citizens feel a genuine sense of personal freedom. The research suggests that the subjective experience of democratic governance, rather than official institutional structures alone, shapes human well-being by fulfilling a basic psychological...
