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Imagine a world where the evening sky glows hot enough to tear water apart, where winds whip at 11,000 miles per hour, and where nightfall may bring showers of liquid rubies and sapphires. This is not speculative fiction but the latest weather forecast for WASP-121b, an ultra-hot Jupiter roughly 880 light-years from Earth, delivered today by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

Physics Jun 15, 2026 19:18 Share An AI trained on cosmic evolution data reverse-engineered the universe's governing equations, but its breakdown at the largest scales exposes a foundational gap in modern physics. The data plot that stopped a Heidelberg research team in its tracks was not a discovery — it was the absence of one.

The two men who tried to steal a delivery robot last year in Los Angeles probably did not see it as a pivotal moment in surveillance history. They were just after a free meal. The bot, a knee-high cooler on wheels sporting Serve Robotics livery, was idling at a kerb when they grabbed it. What they failed to account for were the half‑dozen cameras stitching a 360‑degree view of their faces, clothes, and getaway route directly into a cloud server.

The mosquito sat dead under the microscope, its body already dissected. What remained—the needle-like proboscis—was about to become the most precise 3D printer nozzle available for less than a dime. This is 3D necroprinting: scientists harnessed the power of the dead to solve a persistent problem in micro-scale fabrication. Harnessing the dead: from mosquito mouth to micro-nozzle Necroprinting is not about grinding cadavers into ink.

Five U.S. Army soldiers near Fort Carson, Colorado, were watching Cheyenne Mountain on a winter afternoon in 2022 when they saw something that shouldn’t have been there: a mystery potato hovering over Colorado’s most famous granite peak. It was large, oddly shaped, and shimmering white—a creamy, opalescent object that seemed to hang motionless before vanishing from sight.

The experiment, published this week in Physical Review Research, confronts a puzzle that has nagged at the foundations of physics for decades. In theories of quantum gravity, time does not appear as a built-in feature of reality. Yet we experience a clear arrow from past to future. The Birmingham team, led by Professor Giovanni Barontini, set out to test whether time can arise purely from change — specifically, from the way particles spread through a system, a concept known as entropic time.

In a move that ricocheted through the AI world this week, a scoop: Trump admin blocks foreign access to Anthropic's most powerful AI models. The decision, delivered in a Friday letter from Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, placed Mythos 5 and Fable 5 under immediate export controls.

Space Jun 12, 2026 21:22 Share SpaceX shares soared on their Nasdaq debut, pushing the company's market cap past $2 trillion and making Elon Musk the first person to surpass a $1 trillion net worth. SpaceX stock rises after IPO: the math behind Musk’s trillion-dollar milestone Musk entered the day already the world’s richest person, but the IPO pricing vaulted him across a line that had been purely theoretical.

At 11:32 a.m. on Friday, traders at the Nasdaq market site in Times Square stared at screens displaying a number they'd never seen before: $150. That was the opening price for SpaceX, and it was only the beginning. Within minutes, the ticker SPCX was swinging wildly, turning Elon Musk into the world's first trillionaire before lunch. The stock closed at $161.11, up 19% from the $135 IPO price, giving the rocket and satellite company a market capitalisation of roughly $2.1 trillion.

It was a tiny squiggle on a strip of chart paper, easy to miss. But the 24-year-old PhD student who spotted it in midsummer 1967 knew instantly that it didn’t belong. Jocelyn Bell Burnell had been hand-analysing hundreds of metres of data each night from a new radio telescope at the University of Cambridge. The instrument, a field of wooden posts and wires covering four acres, was designed to study the twinkling of distant radio sources.