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🧬 Semaglutide May Slow Biological Aging, First Randomized Human Evidence Suggests GLP-1 drugs such as semaglutide are already well known for treating obesity and type 2 diabetes. Now, researchers at UC San Diego report the first randomized placebo-controlled evidence that the drug may also slow biological aging — at least as measured by epigenetic aging clocks. The team analyzed DNA methylation d…

🤖 OpenAI Just Released Three Versions of GPT-5.6 — and the Most Important One May Not Be the Flagship On July 9, OpenAI released GPT-5.6 as a family of three models rather than a single flagship: • Sol — the most capable version, priced at $5 per million input tokens and $30 per million output tokens • Terra — a balanced model with performance competitive with GPT-5.5 at roughly half the price: $…

🔭 Physicists Recreated a Black-Hole-Inspired Effect — in a Circuit With No Moving Parts More than 50 years ago, Roger Penrose proposed that rotational energy could be extracted from a spinning black hole. Yakov Zel’dovich later predicted a wave version of the effect: an object rotating fast enough could transfer some of its energy to incoming waves, amplifying them. The problem was speed. Reprodu…

🌌 We @science May Have Finally Figured Out Why the Universe Is Expanding… The explanation is surprisingly simple. Large language models operate using tokens. Every time a model generates a new response, it processes the accumulated context of the conversation. As the dialogue grows, each new message adds more information — while the model must repeatedly process everything that came before. The t…

🌊 Scientists Find Why Some Animals Survived Earth’s Worst Mass Extinction About 252 million years ago, the Permian–Triassic extinction erased most marine species and permanently reshaped life in the oceans. A new Stanford-led study suggests that survival depended partly on how animals’ oxygen requirements changed as the water warmed. Researchers measured oxygen consumption in living brachiopods a…

🤖 NEO Just Got New Hands 25 degrees of freedom. Still far from matching the human hand, of course — but the progress is impressive. The company calls them an “API to the physical world.” https://www.1x.tech/discover/neos-hands #Robotics #NEO #RobotHands #gadget #science

🐸 A Frog Gut Bacterium Eliminated Colorectal Tumors in Mice A bacterium found in the gut of Japanese tree frogs has shown a striking anti-cancer effect in mice. Researchers at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) screened 45 bacterial strains isolated from amphibians and reptiles, including Japanese tree frogs, fire belly newts, and grass lizards. One strain stood out: E…

🧬 Harvard Built a Silicon Chip That Can Write DNA Using Electricity and Water Writing custom DNA has barely changed in decades. Today’s DNA synthesis relies on phosphoramidite chemistry—a highly effective but solvent-intensive process that depends on hazardous chemicals and specialized manufacturing facilities. Researchers at Harvard have now demonstrated a completely different approach: parallel…

🔒 GPT-5.6 Is Here — But Most People Can’t Use It Yet OpenAI has launched GPT-5.6 — its next-generation model family — but this is not a normal public rollout. The new lineup comes in three tiers: Sol — the flagship model, built for the hardest reasoning, coding, cyber and science tasks Terra — a balanced lower-cost model, positioned as competitive with GPT-5.5 at roughly half the price Luna — the…

🧠 Scientists May Have Found a Missing Link in How Alzheimer’s Kills Brain Cells For decades, researchers have known that toxic proteins build up in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders. But one key question has remained stubbornly difficult: How exactly does that protein buildup turn into the death of neurons? A team from King’s College London and th…

⏳ Scientists Found a Way to Make Quantum Time Look Like It Runs Backward At our everyday scale, time has a clear direction. Eggs break, coffee cools, and no one has ever un-spilled a glass of water. But at the quantum scale, the story is stranger. Many fundamental equations work just as well forward or backward in time. The arrow of time appears when a system is measured — because measurement ran…