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Jun 30
2026

World’s largest particle smasher halts for upgrade to boost hunt for dark matter

The world’s most powerful particle accelerator will shutter operations Monday for four years of renovations to dramatically boost its collision capacity and the potential for unlocking one of the greatest mysteries of the universe: dark matter.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC)—a 27-kilometer (17-mile) proton-smashing circular tunnel at the heart of Europe’s physics lab CERN near Geneva—has most famously been used to prove the existence of the Higgs boson, dubbed “the God particle.”

In the tunnel, running about 100 meters (330 feet) below the French-Swiss border area, superconducting magnets and accelerating structures propel particles to extreme energies and then smash them together at phenomenal speeds.

Jun 30
2026

Scientists Translated Brain Signals Into Movies With Surprising Accuracy

Mouse brain activity was used to recreate 10-second videos, offering a new way to study how vision is represented in the brain.

Jun 30
2026

NASA’s Orbiting Quantum Lab Pushes Deeper Into the Unknown

The International Space Station is now home to an even more capable quantum laboratory, where NASA cools atoms to nearly absolute zero to study one of the strangest states of matter known.

Jun 30
2026

NASA’s James Webb Discovers Bizarre Salt Clouds on the Pink Planet

James Webb uncovered exotic salt clouds surrounding the famous “Pink Planet,” solving a long-standing mystery about one of the coldest known alien worlds.

Jun 30
2026

Mysterious Signals Keep Coming From Space. Scientists May Finally Know Why

A pair of interacting stars may help astronomers decode a rare class of repeating radio bursts.

Jun 30
2026

Physicists Discover a Fundamental Limit to Electrical Resistance

A quantum simulation found a ceiling on resistivity caused by electron collisions.

Jun 30
2026

Physicists Solve a “Quantum-Only” Problem Using an Ordinary Laptop

A problem once touted as requiring a quantum computer has now been solved on a laptop.

Using advanced mathematical techniques and sophisticated software, physicists at the Center for Computational Quantum Physics (CCQ) at the Simons Foundation’s Flatiron Institute and collaborators at Boston University showed that a conventional computer can successfully simulate a notoriously difficult quantum system previously claimed to be beyond the reach of classical computing.

Jun 30
2026

WhatsApp is Finally Getting Usernames to Help Keep Phone Numbers Private

WhatsApp is rolling out username reservations globally, letting users reserve unique names before the privacy feature launches later this year.

Jun 30
2026

New BioShocking Attack Tricks AI Browsers Into Leaking User Credentials

LayerX says BioShocking used indirect prompt injection to trick six AI browsers into copying credentials from signed-in accounts.

Jun 30
2026

Apple Patches 30+ iOS, macOS, Safari Flaws, Including AI-Discovered WebKit Bugs

The four vulnerabilities are part of nearly 30 vulnerabilities that have been patched in WebKit, an open-source web browser engine developed by Apple. Others include a use-after-free issue in WebKit Canvas (CVE-2026–43720) and a vulnerability that could be exploited by a malicious website to process restricted web content outside the sandbox (CVE-2026–43725).

Apple has also remediated three bugs that could be exploited by a malicious app to leak sensitive kernel state (CVE-2026–43722), cause unexpected system termination or write kernel memory (CVE-2026–43724), or corrupt kernel memory (CVE-2026–39868). Security researcher Hyunwoo Kim, who discovered Dirty Frag, has been credited with discovering and reporting CVE-2026–43724 and CVE-2026–43722.

The updates are available for iOS 26.5.2, iPadOS 26.5.2, macOS Tahoe 26.5.2, and Safari 26.5.2. None of the patched vulnerabilities has been disclosed as actively exploited in the wild.