Nov 5 : Microsoft will not exercise an option to more than double the size of its existing agreement with AI cloud provider Nscale to rent more computing power at a Texas data center, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The Financial Times, which first reported the news on Thursday, said a potential deal extension would have been worth tens of billions of dollars for Nscale.
Are we the last generation to grow old?
In Ep04 of The Tetr Podcast, Dr. David Sinclair [@LifespanOfficial] Professor of Genetics at @harvardmedicalschool & and one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People, sat down with Pratham Mittal, founder of @tetrcollege for a detailed conversation about aging, genetics, and the century of biology. He shares insights from his anti-aging research, the science that could change how long we live.
From curing blindness in monkeys by reversing the age of cells, to why billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Sam Altman are betting on this research, this episode doesn’t just change how you see aging.
It changes how you think about your health, your body, and how many healthy years you really have left.
Chapters.
00:00 — Introduction: Dr. David Sinclair & the century of biology.
A Korean research team has developed a transfer printing process that enables solid electrolytes, a key component of solid-state batteries, to be fabricated as very thin, uniform and defect-free layers over large areas. The technology is expected to provide a foundation for the large-area manufacturing of high-energy-density solid-state batteries.
A research team led by principal researcher Yongku Kang and senior researcher Myung-Soo Park at the Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT) developed a transfer printing technology using the garnet-type oxide solid electrolyte LLZTO, in which a solid electrolyte layer is first fabricated on a separate substrate and then transferred onto an electrode.
The study was published in Advanced Functional Materials in September 2026. Post-master’s researcher Seul Gi Chu participated as the first author, while principal researcher Kang and senior researcher Park served as corresponding authors.
Skeletal muscle injury triggers regeneration. Arabaci et al. demonstrate that intermittent fasting accelerates this process in mice by expanding the satellite cell population and stimulating myogenic gene expression in progenitors. These effects depend on EDA2R-NIK signaling, which drives myogenic fusion via Myomixer, highlighting a potential therapeutic strategy for muscle repair.
Strong, waterproof polyester could seed new ideas for sustainable materials
Cerebellar developmental differences between preterm- and term-born children persist into early childhood
Some parents are even building their own solutions. Frustrated by available offerings, Callaghan, the Australian dad, created a web-based tool called Joey Family. The idea is not to catch his son doing something wrong but to answer a simple question: “Is he happy?” He wanted to know if his kid was lonely, whether he sent more messages than he got back. The data opened conversations. “The people I’m trying to help are people like me who want to have that relationship with their kids,” Callaghan told me. “They want to be guides and learners.”
If anything is fundamental, it’s the relationship: Online safety efforts work best when anchored by a young person’s trust in someone else. For kids whose homes aren’t safe—like M., or Wisniewski when she was young—that someone can even be an online community. “There are so many ways where we can find real community online,” says Caitlyn Vergara, a child-safety researcher at Harvard who studies youth mental health. “Especially for youth of color coming from majority-white spaces, it is a legitimate way to find community when community is not tangible around you.” Walling off kids in the name of safety can isolate them, she says; the point is to make sure every kid has somewhere safe to belong.
The core tension is that families are being asked to solve at the kitchen table a problem engineered in boardrooms. Monitoring is one answer to that assignment, but while it might mitigate risks from outside the home, it can also damage the trust inside it. The best parents can do is refuse to become one more thing their kids have to hide from—and stop believing they should have to fix a dangerous situation alone.
Blood levels of beta-amyloid 42 rose by an average of 35% in healthy adults who spent 40 minutes on a gently vibrating mattress while taking two nitric-oxide-releasing sublingual pills. That result, from Vesa Kiviniemi of the University of Oulu and colleagues, is the study’s central finding, and it needs immediate context to make sense.
Beta-amyloid 42 is a protein involved in normal neuronal signaling, but when it misfolds and clumps inside the brain tissue, those aggregates are associated with Alzheimer’s disease.
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science will support Rubin Observatory in its operations phase to carry out the Legacy Survey of Space and Time. They will also provide support for scientific research with the data. During operations, NSF funding is managed by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) under a cooperative agreement with NSF, and DOE funding is managed by SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), under contract by DOE. Rubin Observatory is operated by NSF NOIRLab and SLAC.
NSF is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 to promote the progress of science. NSF supports basic research and people to create knowledge that transforms the future.
The DOE Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time.
Pulsed electrolysis could provide an alternative to conventional electrosynthetic carbon–heteroatom bond formation for chemical synthesis. This Review examines how pulsed electrolysis enables different reaction modes and improves selectivity, stability and cost, and outlines key scale-up challenges.
