Scientists used Google’s superconducting quantum processor to simulate gauge-theory particle interactions, illustrating how particles and the connecting strings behave, fluctuate, and even break, per remarks by Prof. Michael Knap of TUM. ICFO demonstrated a 10-qubit quantum RAM prototype—an array of ten memory cells that can store multiple qubits and retrieve them on demand, building on…
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Biotech & Pharma Industry Updates Regulatory & Drug Approvals Clinical Trials & Innovations Medical Research Highlights Health Policy & Government Public Health & Global Health Alerts Sources: This report draws on recent press releases and expert commentary from Reuters, AP, and industry outlets (with citations) to provide an accurate and timely summary of developments. Readers…
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Over the weekend, an anonymous whale dumped 24,000 BTC worth over $2.7 billion, triggering a flash crash that sent BTC briefly below $111,000 before hovering around $112–113K by Monday morning. Ethereum briefly crossed $4,900 to set a fresh all-time high before easing to the mid-$4,700s, with ETH up about 9% on the week amid BTC-to-ETH…
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Nvidia launched the Jetson AGX Thor on August 25, 2025, a $3,499 developer kit marketed as a ‘humanoid robot brain’ with 128GB memory and 7.5x higher AI compute than the Orin, used by Amazon Robotics, Boston Dynamics, Caterpillar, Medtronic and Meta. Nvidia shares rose about 1.96% on August 25, 2025 to $181.48, are up over…
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Cell Metabolism reports that gut bacteria–produced D-lactate leaks into the bloodstream to drive hepatic overproduction of glucose and fat, and a safe polymer trap in the gut bound D-lactate to improve blood sugar, insulin resistance, and fatty liver in obese mice (senior author Professor Jonathan Schertzer). Baylor College of Medicine researchers show metformin’s brain action:…
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The Perseid meteor shower ran July 17–August 23, 2025, but its peak was washed out by the nearly full Sturgeon Moon, which NASA estimated reduced meteors by about 75%. Under dark skies, the Perseids would normally yield 40–50 meteors per hour, but this year observers faced about 10–20 per hour or fewer due to moonlight.…
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Rocket Launches and Mission Highlights Breakthrough Scientific Discoveries and Tech Advances Policy and Regulatory Developments Commercial and Industry News Sources: Spaceflight Now spaceflightnow.com spaceflightnow.com spaceflightnow.com; Space.com space.com space.com space.com space.com; NASA/Wallops abc11.com abc11.com; ISRO isro.gov.in isro.gov.in; Copernical/SpaceNews copernical.com copernical.com; The Moscow Times themoscowtimes.com; EurekAlert (AURA/NSO) eurekalert.org eurekalert.org; RTL Today Luxembourg today.rtl.lu today.rtl.lu.
Google unveiled its Pixel 10 lineup in New York, with the base Pixel 10 at $799 and the Pixel 10 Pro at $1,799, adding a telephoto camera to the base model. The U.S. government announced a 9.9% equity stake in Intel worth about $8.9–$10 billion by converting CHIPS Act subsidies into stock. SpaceX launched CRS-33…
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Meta inked a six-year cloud deal worth over $10 billion with Google to power its AI push, as Meta raised its 2025 capital expenditure forecast to $66–72 billion and moved to offload $2 billion in data-center assets. Nvidia unveiled a GeForce NOW upgrade to run the Blackwell RTX 5080-class GPUs, enabling 5K at 120 fps…
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By mid-2024, Spain’s fiber broadband coverage reached 95.2% of the population, well above the EU average. Telefónica’s Movistar completed the copper switch-off in May 2025, with the last copper exchanges closed and fiber replacing copper nationwide. Movistar’s fixed fiber network reaches about 31 million premises. Fiber accounts for about 89.3% of fixed broadband subscriptions (16.6…
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