Researchers have created cosmic dust from scratch by recreating space-like conditions inside glass tubes. The dust contains complex carbon-rich molecules built from elements essential to life and produces infrared signals similar to real material found in space. By studying these laboratory samples, scientists can explore how organic chemistry unfolds around stars and how comets, asteroids and meteorites may have carried those ingredients to Earth.
The cost of housing is the top political issue — ranked higher than the cost of food or protecting democracy — among U.S. voters between 18-and 34-years-old, a CNBC survey found.
CNBC’s All-America Economic Survey for the second quarter of 2026, which polled 1,000 registered voters across the country, found the cost of housing is a salient issue, particularly among the kinds of young voters that both parties are hoping to court heading into the 2026 midterm elections.
“It was my contention and the contention of some other people that Democrats had a huge miss in 2024 by not talking more about healthcare. It is an issue where Democrats have had an advantage in polling for a long time,” said Jay Campbell, a partner at Hart Research, the Democratic pollster for the survey.
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act is now law, the Supreme Court rewrote trade policy, and states are racing to fill federal regulatory gaps. Here are the eight policy trends that will define your work through the midterms and into 2027.
1. Healthcare Affordability Jumps to the Top of Voter Concerns
Healthcare costs now outrank the economy as voters’ number one worry. A March 2026 Gallup poll found 61% of Americans rate healthcare affordability as a major concern — 10 points ahead of economic issues.
In a recent demo, Lisa Su showed off a compact AI PC powered by AMD’s Ryzen AI Max+ 395.
The key feature is not just speed. It is memory.
Ryzen AI Halo systems support up to 128GB of unified memory, which gives the CPU and GPU access to a much larger shared memory pool than most consumer PCs usually have for AI workloads.
That matters because large AI models do not just need compute. They need enough memory to actually fit and run.
For developers, researchers, founders, and power users, that is why cloud GPUs, hosted AI tools, API credits, and monthly subscriptions have become such a normal part of the workflow.
If hardware like this makes local AI more practical, the economics start to change.
Instead of renting compute every month, you own the machine. Instead of uploading sensitive files to external servers, more work stays on your desk. And instead of dealing with usage limits, you have a local system you can keep using.
Cloud AI platforms like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Cursor are not going away. For most people, they are still easier and more capable.
But for local agents, private documents, coding workflows, research, and anyone juggling multiple AI subscriptions, this feels like a serious step toward a different model.
The future of AI will still include massive data centers. But more of it may also run on personal computers than people expect.
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Fifteen years ago, I sat down with a man whose job title made no sense: science comedian.
Brian Malow has performed for Apple, JPL, NIST, and the American Chemical Society. He made audio essays for Neil deGrasse Tyson and trained scientists to speak like humans for the National Science Foundation. He got laughs from rooms full of chemists, which may be the hardest crowd in comedy.
But the reason this 2011 conversation still matters is not the resume. It’s the thesis.
Brian argued that comedy and science are the same discipline. Both refuse to accept the world as presented. Both look deeper. Both require you to see the familiar with fresh eyes and notice what everyone else walked past.
We covered the tension between humor and scientific truth, his favorite science fiction writers, his insect photography, and his take on the technological singularity, including our chances of surviving it.
His answer to that last question? Listen for yourself.
MIT engineers are building a chip reaching one petabit per second. See how this hardware processes data faster than any current consumer tech. This video examines the technical details behind the new MIT processor chip designed to push data limits. We explore how researchers are utilizing interferometer technology to achieve speeds of a thousand terabits on a surface thinner than a human hair. This breakdown is for engineers, students, and tech enthusiasts interested in the future of high-speed hardware. By analyzing the electronic components and the specific measurement diagrams, you will better understand the engineering hurdles involved in reaching a petabit per second. You will see how this data processing speed milestone compares to existing silicon-based architectures and why this specific design is capable of such massive throughput.
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1:58 The Horizon of Observation.
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