The feathers can emit two frequencies of laser light from multiple regions across their colored eyespots. Peacock feathers are greatly admired for their bright iridescent colors, but it turns out they can also emit laser light when dyed multiple times, according to a paper published in the journal Scientific…
NIH leaders got funding-pause memo Tuesday afternoon. Trump admin then backpedaled. Amid the Trump administration’s ongoing efforts to wrest the power of the purse from Congress, an estimated $15 billion allotted by lawmakers to fund life-saving biomedical research via the National Institutes of Health was temporarily frozen and then…
AP survey shows most Americans treat AI chatbots like a search engine replacement. On Tuesday, The Associated Press released results from a new AP-NORC poll showing that 60 percent of US adults have used AI to search for information, while only 37 percent of all Americans have used AI…
Buying Windows 10 a one-year stay of execution doesn’t have to cost anything. Officially, Microsoft will stop providing new security updates for Windows 10 PCs after October 14, 2025, a little over a decade after its initial release. It’s a stick that Microsoft is using to push upgrades to…
Roman concrete produces as much, if not more, CO2 as modern concrete, fewer air pollutants. Builders in ancient Rome used a special kind of ancient concrete to construct their aqueducts, bridges, and buildings. But is Roman concrete more sustainable than the Portland cement used in today’s concrete? The answer…
“I thought best case was maybe 40 seconds of flight time, but I’ll take 14 as a win.” Back-to-back engine failures doomed a privately developed Australian rocket moments after liftoff Tuesday, cutting short a long-shot attempt to reach orbit with the country’s first homegrown launch vehicle. The 82-foot-tall (25-meter)…
The company is not looking to make new enemies in Europe. Big Tech is increasingly addicted to AI, but many companies are allergic to regulation, bucking suggestions that they adhere to copyright law and provide data on training. In a rare move, Google has confirmed it will sign the…
Red Viper on the 3DS makes Nintendo’s failed ’90s experiment look like new. Here at Ars, we’re big fans of classic console emulators that go beyond providing perfect re-creations to those that actually improve on original hardware with new features we could only dream of as kids. So we were…
The lithium iron phosphate cells will be made in Michigan. Tesla has a new battery cell supplier. Although the automaker is vertically integrated to a degree not seen in the automotive industry for decades, when it comes to battery cells it’s mostly dependent upon suppliers. Panasonic cells can be…
Beware of coding agents that can access your command window. Researchers needed less than 48 hours with Google’s new Gemini CLI coding agent to devise an exploit that made a default configuration of the tool surreptitiously exfiltrate sensitive data to an attacker-controlled server. Gemini CLI is a free, open-source…
