One of the most important surviving Anglo-Saxon royal seals, belonging to Edward the Confessor, was thought to be lost after it went missing 40 years ago. CA reports on newly published research which describes the circumstances of the object’s rediscovery and offers illuminating insights into its innovative imagery.

The scientific classification of human affect has historically been characterized by a fundamental polarization. On one side, the basic emotion paradigm asserts that human emotions are hardwired, discrete, and genetically pre-programmed survival circuits. On the other side, psychological constructivism conceptualizes emotions as emergent phenomena assembled dynamically from undifferentiated somat…

_Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society_ 69 (1):137-154. 2026Critics of Eternal Relations of Authority and Submission (ERAS) frequently attack the view on the grounds that it lies outside the bounds of orthodoxy—here understood as the set of affirmations contained within the ecumenical creeds and councils. In this article, I argue that none of the current attempts to establish the heterod…

ABSTRACT For over 150 years, the field of fluid mechanics has been defined by two major unsolved problems: the lack of a universal transition criterion between smooth and chaotic flow, and the inability to mathematically describe the development of turbulence. This work resolves both issues as one continuous, connected physical process. We present the Universal Hydrodynamic Principle in two inter…

_Global Bioethics_ 14 (4):33-36. 2001With these models of human nature at the focus of our consciousness, we can now, I believe, understand that there is a philosophical option to ethical monism and ethical laissez-faire relativism. And that would be Bioethical pluralism23. In essence, it states that science and technology can contribute to moral resolutions in these levels: (1) options; (2) pred…

ABSTRACT This work forms the second part of The Universal Hydrodynamic Principle, building directly upon the discovery of the Universal Stability Threshold established in Part 1. For centuries, turbulence has been described as random, chaotic, and unpredictable, with Werner Heisenberg famously calling it the hardest problem in physics. This difficulty arose because previous theories lacked knowle…

The Language of Culture Wars: When Words Become Weapons Why do modern societies seem increasingly unable to communicate? Why do political debates become moral crusades, public discussions turn into tribal conflicts, and familiar words suddenly acquire entirely different meanings? In The Language of Culture Wars, the fourth part of The Tower of Babble, Vol. III of The Miscommunication Trilogy, Pet…

In quantum field theory a conformal anomaly is a quantum anomaly that breaks conformal invariance. Discussion of the conformal anomaly (Weyl anomaly) of the relativistic string as an anomalous action functional is in (Freed 86, 2.). The following summary of this is taken from this MO answer by Pavel Safronov. Let be a compact surface (worldsheet) and a Riemannian manifold (spacetime). The string …

Introducing what came to be called Floreanini-Jackiw theory for the chiral boson: Early discussion of D=5 Chern-Simons theory: On superconducting qubits realized on Josephson junctions and described via Heisenberg groups:

On realizing qbits and quantum gates (hence quantum computation) via quantum states of magnetic flux through (Josephson junctions in) superconductors, manipulated via electromagnetic pulses: Michel H. Devoret, A. Wallraff, John M. Martinis, Superconducting Qubits: A Short Review [arXiv:cond-mat/0411174] John Clarke, Frank K. Wilhelm, Superconducting quantum bits, Nature 453 (2008) 1031–1042 [doi:…

Nature Communications, Published online: 02 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41467-026-73823-5 Using newly developed electron imaging and applied to epitaxial BiFeO3 thin films, the authors uncover a depth evolution of polar textures: surface stripe domains transform into subsurface flux-closure vortices, which bifurcate into three-fold vertices near the bottom electrode.

Nature Communications, Published online: 02 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41467-026-73860-0 It is challenging to balance molecular selectivity without compromising mechanical properties. Here, the authors introduce network completeness as a key descriptor to guide the design of subnanometer diffusion channels in hyper-crosslinked polymer membranes. By linking bridge connectivity to separation performan…

Utility company pleaded guilty to criminal offence of supplying water unfit for humans ‘My son is still suffering’: the ill effects of water contamination in ‘Brixham incident’ A utility company has been fined £1.85m for supplying water unfit for human consumption after a parasite outbreak made hundreds of people sick and forced thousands of households to boil their water. South West Water (SWW) …

Millions of older adults have tiny brain hemorrhages called cerebral microbleeds, which are strongly associated with dementia, cognitive decline, and stroke.

Nature Immunology, Published online: 02 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41590-026-02552-0 Fed T cells

Nature Immunology, Published online: 02 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41590-026-02550-2 Stromal immunology in Sjögren disease

Nature Immunology, Published online: 02 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41590-026-02553-z Affinity maturation of AAN-I-IFNs

Nature Immunology, Published online: 02 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41590-026-02551-1 OXPHOS fuels cDC1s

A laboured attempt to resurrect toy IP very few people still care about is a $200m-budgeted waste of everyone’s time It’s not just that He-Man himself is from the 80s that gives 2026’s Masters of the Universe such an aggressive throwback vibe. It’s that trying to assemble a film around the haphazard mythology of a toy and dusting off IP that a precious few still care about feels like something Ho…

I try to make simple mic amplifier stage using lm358, from which the signal goes to a BJT amplifier. The output of amplifier is very low (only) with microphone stage, so i try to add lm358 op-amp ...