Elon Musk asks US court to block OpenAi’s for-profit conversion

Credit: Sanket Mishra from Pexels Elon Musk has again asked a US court to stop ChatGPT-maker OpenAI from converting into a for-profit enterprise, CNBC reported Saturday. Attorneys representing the billionaire…

New spin quantum battery can be charged without an external field

The left panel shows a sketch of the charging process: the delta parameter varies over time from δ_0 to δ_0+δ_1 and then returns to δ_0, altering the strength of interactions…

3 reasons why kids stick Lego up their nose

Credit: Anete Lusina from Pexels Children, especially toddlers and preschoolers, have an uncanny ability to surprise adults. And one of the more alarming discoveries parents can make is their child…

Africa’s making progress against HIV, but donor funds are drying up—what must change

Credit: Miguel Á. Padriñán from Pexels Remarkable progress has been made against the HIV epidemic in the last two decades. However, a loss of momentum in fighting HIV across the…

Masculine Ideals Double Suicide Risk in Men

Summary: Men who strongly adhere to traditional masculine ideologies, such as suppressing emotions and valuing independence, are more than twice as likely to attempt suicide compared to those with more…

How worried should we really be?

by César Martín-Gómez, Mohd Zahirasri Bin Mohd Tohir and Victor Debeure, The Conversation Credit: Kindel Media from Pexels Electric vehicles (EVs) bring not just environmental promise, but also raise critical…

I’m a pro astronomer and have been skywatching for over 25 years. These are the best Black Friday telescope deals I’ve seen so far

Spending over 25 years observing the night sky, I have come to appreciate what makes a great telescope — from the build quality and accessories on offer, to the optical…

Cosmological model proposes dark matter production during pre-Big Bang inflation

As physicists continue their struggle to find and explain the origin of dark matter, the approximately 80% of the matter in the universe that we can’t see and so far…

Balloon system can produce localized solar electricity for the ground below

Promising strategy leverages atomic displacements to control quantum properties of a vanadate perovskite

Left parts of a,b: Sketch showing the epitaxy of YVO3 on different facets of a YAlO3 substrate. The latter are shown as orange cubes, with purple faces indicating the orthorhombic…