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Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Today’s neural implants are smaller than ever, but often remain cumbersome and prone to complications. According to researchers at Cornell University, a new iteration detailed this week in the journal Nature Electronics may offer a novel path forward for brain implants. Small enough to fit on a grain of rice, the microscale optoelectronic tetherless electrode (or MOTE) is vastly smaller than similar implants and its design could be adapted to work in other delicate areas of the body. “As far as we know, this is the…

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NewsFeedA protester lit a flare at a concert by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in Paris, sending the crowd into brief panic and forcing musicians off stage. Police said four people were detained.Published On 8 Nov 20258 Nov 2025Click here to share on social mediashare2Share

It was the week in which Republicans took a beating at the polls, the government shutdown became the longest in history, and 42 million people across the country, including 3 million in Florida, saw their federal food aid slashed.But in the alternative reality of Miami, where tickets to an overwhelmingly conservative business conference headlined by Donald Trump cost up to $1,990, and billionaires from Saudi Arabia rubbed shoulders with equally wealthy American tycoons such as Jeff Bezos and Ken Griffin, those events created barely a ripple.Instead, in a gesture that appeared almost to mock the widening disparity between the city’s…

When is Black Friday? Black Friday 2025 falls on Nov. 28, the day after Thanksgiving. But if you’re looking to get a jump on your holiday shopping, retailers like Amazon and Best Buy are already offering markdowns on everything you need to upgrade your PC gaming setup. From monitors and headsets, keyboards and speakers, to desktops and laptops, you’ll be able to build the battle station you’ve always dreamed of without spending a fortune. Are gaming PCs and accessories really cheaper during Black Friday? While you’re more likely to see the steepest discounts on accessories like headsets, keyboards, and mice, as well…

Six weeks ago, Alex Winter was on stage at the first night of previews for Waiting for Godot – the latest Broadway revival of Samuel Beckett’s absurdist masterpiece, in which Winter plays the puttering Vladimir to Keanu Reeves’s equally aimless Estragon.Winter is an old pro at live performance: he spent almost all of his middle and high school years on Broadway, eight shows a week. He and Reeves, his longtime friend and most righteous co-star of the Bill & Ted movies, had the idea for the revival three years ago and have been prepping ever since.Anthony Carrigan, Kaya Scodelario and…

Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin is the first player in NHL history to score 900 career goals.Ovechkin scored No. 900 against the St. Louis Blues on Wednesday. After Ovechkin made history, St. Louis Blues goaltender Jordan Binnington appeared to try and hide the puck in his game pants: Ovechkin declined to comment on the incident after the game. “I think it had a lot to do with their success,” Blues coach Jim Montgomery told reporters after the game. “For us, we didn’t handle the moment well enough, that’s for sure.”Ovechkin made NHL history last April in Long Island, when he…

It was early morning on 1 January last year when Colin McGarva dived into a flooding river in Worcester to rescue an unconscious woman. McGarva said he didn’t think twice about the risk to himself, or the devastating loss his newborn son would suffer had he too been swept away by the fast-flowing icy waters.“I didn’t stop to think because the instinct – the instant reaction – is to help someone in need,” he said. “Someone’s life is an important thing. Helping is just something you have to do.”The concept of heroism was widely discussed last week after the mass…

Rachel Reeves has been told that cutting funding for home insulation at the budget would risk the UK’s climate goals and hurt low-income households in a joint intervention by energy firms, fuel poverty charities and environmental groups.In a letter to the chancellor, more than 60 groups and companies urged Reeves not to take such a damaging “short-term fix” to slash funding for more energy-efficient homes to pay for a reduction in energy bills.The Guardian revealed this week that Reeves is finalising a multibillion-pound energy support package that is likely to cut green levies paying for energy efficiency as she looks…

Flight cancellations on Friday Circles are sized by the number of canceled flights. Lines are the routes of flights that were canceled. Note: International routes and airports are not shown. Cancellations at airports include flights that were planned to depart or arrive. Source: Cirium. The New York Times Hundreds of flights across the United States were canceled starting on Friday, with deeper cuts looming in the coming days.Federal Aviation Administration and Transportation Department officials have said the traffic reduction is necessary to ease pressure on air traffic controllers, some of whom have been calling in sick and working second jobs…