Determining the lower limits of pore and throat sizes for shale oil occurrence is essential for reservoir evaluation, yet existing methods yield a single fixed threshold that fails to capture the heterogeneity of interbedded systems. This study addresses this limitation through integrated characterization of 59 core samples from the Chang 7 Member, Longdong area, Ordos Basin, using high-pressure …

High-altitude hypoxia imposes substantial challenges on cerebral oxygen delivery and brain functional regulation. Body mass index (BMI) may influence neurophysiological adaptation to such environments through metabolic and hemorheological pathways, yet its relationship with resting-state Electroencephalography (EEG) microstate dynamics remains unclear. This study examined whether blood viscosity …

​Genes are not passed on exclusively from parents to their offspring. Some are mobile and can also jump to other species, as researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen have now shown.

An epigenetic "mechanostat" has been discovered that protects tooth-forming progenitor cells from mechanical stress and supports lifelong tissue renewal.

Fusion startups have raised $7.1 billion to date, with the majority of it going to a handful of companies.

I came across this problem in Facebook. What is the limit of the definite integral $$\int\limits_{x^2+y^2\le R^2}\frac{2 x^2+1}{x^4+6 x^2 y^2+y^4+1}-\frac{y^2+1}{x^4+y^4+2} \,dx dy $$ as $R\to\infty$? ...

New antibiotic candidates for drug-resistant bacteria may reside inside prions, mis-folded protein in the brain best known for rare and fatal degenerative brain diseases.

Nature Communications, Published online: 19 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41467-026-74577-w The authors identify conserved gene networks across fern and angiosperm reproductive development, including between the sporophyte ovule and the fern gametophyte egg-chamber. Repurposing of this network could partly explain the ovule’s evolutionary origins.

OpenID Connect is an identity layer built on top of OAuth 2.0 that provides a standardized way for apps to verify a user's identity and obtain basic profile information. It allows applications to authenticate users without handling passwords, leveraging the authentication capabilities of existing providers like Google, Microsoft, and others. What is OpenID Connect? OpenID Connect is an open stand…

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Hyundai's move to buy SoftBank's remaining 9.65% stake in Boston Dynamics for $325 million is not just cleanup from an old deal. It gives Hyundai full control of one of the few humanoid robotics companies with real factory work in sight. Hyundai Motor Group is expected to approve the purchase on June 22, closing out SoftBank's last piece of Boston Dynamics and turning the Waltham, Massachusetts r…

Every endpoint in the C# API powering my techstackblog uses async/await. Every LINQ query I write is secretly built on delegates. These two concepts are usually taught in separate chapters, but in real production code they constantly overlap - an event handler is often async, and a delegate parameter is often awaited. This post covers both, with the analogies that made them click for me and the m…

Nature Electronics, Published online: 19 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01664-7 Parallel DNA synthesis is key to high-throughput synthetic biology and diagnostics, and potentially to DNA data storage, but has proved challenging under mild conditions. Now, a silicon chip is developed that enables the parallel enzymatic synthesis of 64 distinct DNA sequences in water through spatially programmed…

Your engineering team adopted Claude Code last month. Productivity went up. Then the bill came in. 340% increase. Nobody budgeted for this. Nobody even knew who spent what. The math that kills budgets A single coding agent session makes 50-200 API calls. Claude Sonnet 4 processes 100K+ context windows on every call. One developer running sessions all day burns $50-100. Scale that to 40 engineers …

When DeepSeek launched V3 at $0.27 per million input tokens, the developer world collectively did a double take. At the time, GPT-4o was charging $2.50 per million input tokens — roughly 9x more. Today, the gap has widened further. Chinese frontier models routinely operate at $0.10–$0.50 per million tokens while their Western counterparts hover at $2.00–$15.00. This isn't a temporary discount str…

Published on June 19, 2026 4:17 PM GMT Here’s Holden Karnofsky : I tend to think it’s worse than 51/49. I tend to think we’re always going to be prone to overestimate how robustly good our actions are. And the more we learn about all the galaxy-brained considerations that one should have had in one’s head, the more it’s going to be like 50+ε%. I think AI safety is a great cause to work in. I’m ex…

From Restore and tactical voting to questions over that £5m gift, the Reform leader faces challenges on several fronts As those around Nigel Farage are fond of pointing out, Reform UK has now led in more than 300 consecutive national polls. When it comes to byelections, though, it is fair to say the party’s results are more mixed. Yes, Robert Kenyon came second in Makerfield to a popular regional…

Harvard researchers found that adding a little randomness to robot movements can prevent gridlock and dramatically boost efficiency in crowded swarms. Imagine a swarm of robots sent into a tight space to handle an urgent job, such as cleaning up an oil spill or assembling complex equipment. At first, adding more robots speeds things up. [...]