Science Daily

Small root mutation could make crops fertilize themselves

Scientists discovered a small protein region that determines whether plants reject or welcome nitrogen-fixing bacteria. By tweaking only two amino acids, they converted a defensive receptor into one ...
Wired

This AI Model Can Intuit How the Physical World Works

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Here’s a test for infants: Show them a glass of water on a desk. Hide it behind a wooden board. Now move the board toward the glass. If ...
Associated Press

Root finally scores an Ashes century for England in Australia and makes it a big one

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. England’s Joe Root celebrates his century during ...
The New York Times

The Ashes Briefing: Root scores his first century in Australia, but Starc torments England again

Mitchell Starc continued his fine wicket-taking form, while Joe Root celebrates his century Cameron Spencer/Getty Images; David Gray/AFP via Getty Images The Athletic has launched a Cricket WhatsApp ...
Los Angeles Times

California strongly objects to Trump’s plan to pump more Delta water south

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The Trump administration is seeking to weaken environmental protections for fish and pump more water to farmlands ...
Live Science

Law of 'maximal randomness' explains how broken objects shatter in the most annoying way possible

A new mathematical equation describes the distribution of different fragment sizes when an object breaks. Remarkably, the distribution is the same for everything from bubbles to spaghetti. When you ...
Phys.org

New universal law predicts how most objects shatter, from dropped bottles to exploding bubbles

When a plate drops or a glass smashes, you're annoyed by the mess and the cost of replacing them. But for some physicists, the broken pieces are a source of fascination: Why does everything break into ...
New Scientist

Physicists have worked out a universal law for how objects shatter

A dropped plate, a smashed sugar cube and a broken drinking glass all seem to follow the same law of physics when it comes to how many fragments of a given size they will shatter into. For several ...
Bleeping Computer

Code beautifiers expose credentials from banks, govt, tech orgs

Thousands of credentials, authentication keys, and configuration data impacting organizations in sensitive sectors have been sitting in publicly accessible JSON snippets submitted to the JSONFormatter ...
Futurism

Professor Says Mysterious Interstellar Object May Be Releasing Sentinels Around Jupiter

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is expected to make its closest pass of the Earth just under a month from now, coming within around 170 million miles of us. Three months later, it’s expected to get even ...
Rock Paper Shotgun

How to complete The Root Of The Matter in Arc Raiders

Need a hand completing Celeste's Root Of The Matter quest in Arc Raiders? Don't fret! We've got you covered. The Root Of The Matter quest sends you to the Research Building in the Buried City to get ...