Scientists at Columbia University and Imperial College London have found that the largest canyon system in the solar system is still active and shaping Mars today, billions of years after it first formed.
New research presents direct seismic evidence that a marsquake (Mars’s equivalent of an earthquake) detected by NASA’s InSight lander originated beneath the vast Martian canyon system, Valles Marineris, and was caused by rocks slipping along a fault deep within the planet’s crust.
The finding suggests that faults established during the formation and early evolution of Valles Marineris billions of years ago can remain weak enough to rupture under stresses acting on Mars today.
Squishy, wrinkled, weighing about as much as a cantaloupe, the brain may not be much to look at from the outside. Yet with a network of roughly 86 billion neurons, it generates more impulses daily than all the smartphones on the planet combined.
Scientists can track all that activity with scans. But what does a well-balanced brain actually look like?
Spoiler alert: New research says there’s no universal signature of mental health—or illness.
If gravity isn’t a fundamental force at all—but instead an emergent phenomenon connected to information, entropy, and the structure of reality itself? In this mind-bending exploration, we dive into one of the most fascinating ideas in modern theoretical physics and ask whether gravity could emerge from something deeper than space and time.
Inspired by ideas discussed in modern physics and popularized by scientists such as Brian Greene, this video explores how information might be connected to the fundamental laws of the universe. Could the gravity we experience every day be a consequence of deeper physical principles? And if so, what would that mean for our understanding of reality?
From Einstein’s description of spacetime to quantum mechanics, entropy, black holes, and the mysterious role of information, we’ll explore why physicists continue searching for a deeper explanation of gravity.
00:00 – What If Gravity Is Just Information? 01:24 – Why Gravity Is Still a Mystery 03:18 – Einstein Changed Our Understanding of Gravity 05:42 – Gravity as an Emergent Phenomenon 08:15 – The Strange Connection Between Gravity and Information 10:48 – Entropy and the Structure of Reality 13:22 – What Black Holes Tell Us About Information 16:05 – Quantum Mechanics vs. Gravity 18:44 – Could Spacetime Be Emergent? 21:16 – The Mind-Bending Implications 24:02 – What Physicists Are Still Trying to Discover 26:18 – Final Thoughts on Gravity and Reality.
🧠 The Bigger Question.
If gravity emerges from deeper principles involving information and quantum physics, then our traditional understanding of the universe may only be part of the story. This possibility connects some of the biggest questions in modern science: What is spacetime? Where does gravity come from? Is information more fundamental than matter?
The Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute is launching the Stanford Digital Brain Project, an ambitious new research effort to develop predictive computational models of the human brain.
Launched with lead support from philanthropists Mark and Mary Stevens, and with additional support from Clara Wu Tsai, ’88, MA ’88, the project reflects a university-wide consortium of researchers leveraging state-of-the-art brain imaging technologies to build a uniquely rich portrait of the human brain in action. The resulting data will be used to train foundation models scientists can query to predict how the brain might respond in a wide range of contexts, resulting in a powerful new tool to accelerate neuroscience research and clinical care, including the detection and treatment of brain disorders.
“This visionary project is exactly the kind of ambitious, collaborative science that Stanford is singularly positioned to undertake,” said Stanford President Jonathan Levin. “By bringing together talent from across multiple disciplines and sharing the results openly, we can ensure our discoveries provide maximum societal benefit. I am profoundly grateful to Mark and Mary for recognizing this potential, and to Clara for her longtime support.”
Governments use them to track phones. Criminals drive them through city streets and send texts that look like they came from your bank. For 20 years, researchers have been building tools to catch these fake cell towers. They have tested those tools mostly against fake towers they built themselves.
That loop has left gaps. Researchers at KAIST built a platform called Devilray that reproduces 2,592 distinct fake-base-station behaviors. They ran it against seven existing detection systems, and every one of them missed at least 192. The finding points to a larger problem with how the field tests itself: detectors have been evaluated against the wrong adversary.
The work is published on the arXiv preprint server.
A new technique to diagnose chronic inflammation developed at Nagoya University can read information from the surface and within individual extracellular vesicles in blood and urine. This technique could be used to develop noninvasive tests that can not only detect chronic inflammation but also provide information about the tissues where it occurs.
The work has been published in the journal Cell Reports Physical Science.
Whenever the body faces damage from injury, illness or toxins, it launches an inflammatory response that involves dilating blood vessels to rush fluid and nutrients to the affected site and sending inflammatory cells to destroy pathogens and repair tissue.
A groundbreaking surgery using a fully 3D-printed, lab-grown corneal implant has restored sight for the first time. Learn what this means for the future of eye care.
For years, PC builders suspected Nvidia was limiting consumer GeForce GPUs compared to expensive enterprise cards using the same silicon. In October 2026, the open-source project gpu-unlock proved it by bypassing these limits with a simple pre-boot kernel module. No custom BIOS or modified drivers required. The unlock nearly doubled RTX 4,090 FP16 Tensor performance to 331.6 TFLOPS and boosted RTX 3,090 Ti BF16 throughput by 80%. In this investigation, we explore Nvidia’s GPU segmentation, how the unlock works, the RTX 4090’s 450W power limit, and what it means for consumer hardware.
00:00 Intro. 01:01 Chapter 1: The $5,000 Silicon Illusion. 02:34 Chapter 2: The Pre-Boot Register Trick. 04:06 Chapter 3: The Benchmark Explosion Across 3 Generations. 05:46 Chapter 4: The 450-Watt Power Wall & the Laptop Catch. 07:07 Chapter 5: The War Over Hardware You Already Bought.
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