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Why I Am MUCH LESS Concerned About Tesla Robotaxi Now (Waymo Disasters)

Questions to inspire discussion.

📈 Q: How has Waymo’s crash rate changed over time? A: Waymo’s crash rate increased 8x from 10 to 80 per deployed vehicle between 2024 and 2025, despite only a 2-6x increase in fleet size, indicating a potential decrease in safety.

Operational Insights.

đŸ€– Q: What proportion of Waymo crashes involved fully autonomous vehicles? A: 521 out of 696 crashes (74.9%) involved fully autonomous vehicles without safety operators, while 167 had an onboard safety operator and 5 had a remote operator.

Market Expansion.

🌎 Q: How has Waymo’s expansion affected its safety record? A: Waymo’s aggressive scaling into new markets like Georgia and Austin, in response to Tesla’s growth, may be contributing to the higher crash rate beyond the increase in deployment rate.

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This AI-powered lab runs itself—and discovers new materials 10x faster

A new leap in lab automation is shaking up how scientists discover materials. By switching from slow, traditional methods to real-time, dynamic chemical experiments, researchers have created a self-driving lab that collects 10 times more data, drastically accelerating progress. This new system not only saves time and resources but also paves the way for faster breakthroughs in clean energy, electronics, and sustainability—bringing us closer to a future where lab discoveries happen in days, not years.

“This Tongue Outsmarts a Sommelier”: New AI Graphene Sensor Identifies Flavors With 98% Accuracy Faster Than Human Taste Buds

IN A NUTSHELL đŸœïž Scientists have developed an AI-powered graphene tongue that detects flavors with near-human precision. 🧠 The system uses machine learning to interpret chemical signals and identify flavor profiles effectively. ⚡ The integration of sensing and computing in a single device allows for faster, more efficient taste data interpretation. 🔬 Future applications could

Space Force MILNET constellation emerges as top ‘unfunded priority’

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force estimates it would need more than $4 billion to fund a proliferated low Earth orbit constellation known as MILNET that would provide global communications services, making it the largest item in the service’s fiscal year 2026 “unfunded priorities list” submitted to Congress last week.

Blades of light: A tabletop method for generating megatesla magnetic fields

Researchers at The University of Osaka have developed a novel method for generating ultra-high magnetic fields via laser-driven implosions of blade-structured microtubes. This method achieves field strengths approaching one megatesla—a breakthrough in compact, high-field plasma science.

Ultrastrong magnetic fields approaching the megatesla regime—comparable to those found near strongly magnetized or —have now been demonstrated in theory using a compact, laser-driven setup.

A team led by Professor Masakatsu Murakami at The University of Osaka has proposed and simulated a unique scheme that uses micron-sized hollow cylinders with internal blades to achieve these field levels. The research is published in the journal Physics of Plasmas.

Antibody sIgM emerges as a key guardian of gut health and metabolism

A pioneering new study published in Nature Microbiology, led by J. Oriol Sunyer, professor of immunology and pathobiology at the School of Veterinary Medicine, and a team of researchers at Penn Vet and the University of New Mexico, has uncovered a surprising new player in gut health: an antibody called secretory immunoglobulin M (sIgM).

While another antibody, secretory immunoglobulin A (sIgA), has long been known for helping balance the bacteria in our intestines, this new research shows that sIgM may be just as vital—if not more so—in protecting gut health and maintaining overall well-being.

Secretory immunoglobulins—immunoglobulins found in the mucosal surfaces or linings of various organs and tracts of vertebrates—modulate the colonization, composition, and metabolism of the gut microbiome. While sIgA and secretory immunoglobulin T (sIgT) are considered the key immunoglobulins involved in the maintenance of microbiome homeostasis in the gut of mammals and fish, respectively, Sunyer and his colleagues challenged this paradigm by demonstrating that sIgM plays a crucial and non-redundant role in the regulation of gut microbiota and metabolism.

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Producing library of heterogeneous human neurons from stem cells

Nerve cells are not just nerve cells. Depending on how finely we distinguish, there are several hundred to several thousand different types of nerve cell in the human brain according to the latest calculations. These cell types vary in their function, in the number and length of their cellular appendages, and in their interconnections. They emit different neurotransmitters into our synapses and, depending on the region of the brain – for example, the cerebral cortex or the midbrain – different cell types are active.

When scientists produced nerve cells from stem cells in Petri dishes for their experiments in the past, it was not possible to take their vast diversity into account. Until now, researchers had only developed procedures for growing a few dozen different types of nerve cell in vitro. They achieved this using genetic engineering or by adding signalling molecules to activate particular cellular signalling pathways. However, they never got close to achieving the diversity of hundreds or thousands of different nerve cell types that actually exists.

“Neurons derived from stem cells are frequently used to study diseases. But up to now, researchers have often ignored which precise types of neuron they are working with,” saysthe senior author. However, this is not the best approach to such work. “If we want to develop cell culture models for diseases and disorders such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and depression, we need to take the specific type of nerve cell involved into consideration.”