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Jun 4
2025

What if the Big Bang wasn’t the beginning? Our research suggests it may have taken place inside a black hole

New theory makes testable predictions.

Jun 4
2025

Early camizestrant therapy keeps advanced breast cancer in check

Switching to camizestrant, a next-generation oral SERD, significantly prolongs progression-free survival and maintains quality of life in patients with ESR1-mutated, hormone receptor-positive advanced breast cancer. The proactive, biomarker-guided approach allows earlier intervention and may redefine standard care.

Jun 4
2025

Emergent Holographic Forces from Tensor Networks and Criticality

A simplified quantum gravity model, which can be simulated using current quantum technologies, replicates key features of Einstein’s gravity, offering insights into the quantum nature of spacetime and paving the way for experimental exploration.

Jun 4
2025

Sakana AI’s Darwin-Gödel Machine evolves by rewriting its own code to boost performance

With the Darwin-Gödel Machine (DGM), Sakana AI introduces an AI system that can iteratively improve itself through self-modification and open-ended exploration. Early results look promising, but the method is still expensive to run.

Jun 4
2025

NASA budget would cancel dozens of science missions, lay off thousands

NASA released more details about its proposed fiscal year 2026 budget May 30, canceling dozens of science missions and cutting thousands of jobs.

Jun 4
2025

Stanford Scientist Reversed His Age by 10 Years with a Simple Nature-Based Lifestyle

Why ditching screens and embracing the outdoors may be the ultimate science-backed longevity hack

Jun 4
2025

This tiny quantum computer could blow massive data centers out of the water with speed, power, and pure physics

Slashes energy use by 99% in cryptographic test

Jun 4
2025

Qubit breakthrough could make it easier to build quantum computers

Quantum computers that correct their own errors usually require hundreds of thousands of qubits. Start-up Nord Quantique claims it can dramatically decrease that number – but many challenges remain

Jun 4
2025

Physicists Unveil New Quantum Super Material That Could Revolutionize Electronics

A new quantum material developed at Rice University combines unique symmetry-driven properties with superconductivity. A team of physicists from Rice University, led by Ming Yi and Emilia Morosan, has created a groundbreaking new material that could power the next generation of electronics. This

Jun 3
2025

Size matters: The link between social groups and human evolution

Humans are social creatures; we live in family groups, socialise with friends, and work with colleagues. Evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar’s ‘social brain hypothesis’ suggests that brain size is directly related to social group size in mammals. The bigger the group, the bigger the brain. In this interview with Research Outreach, we find out how Dunbar developed his theory as well as his now famous ‘Dunbar’s number’

Robin Dunbar discusses his eponymous ‘Dunbar’s Number’, primates to people, and why size matters with social groups and evolution.