August 2026
All columns and Brief analyses.
10 results
The Sun stops looking smooth at 20 kilometres
DKIST resolved swirling fringes a little over 20 km wide at the edges of granules that are 500 to 2,000 km across. The size of the finding is the size of the instrument's limit, which is why the second measurement matters more than the first.
Three models sorted accept from reject, none sorted oral from poster
A preprint holds the papers, the instructions and the missing decision information constant across three providers, then asks how far their reviews travel with human ones. The interesting result is where the agreement stops.
Uber's profit guidance moves up while its volume growth slows
Gross bookings grew 24 per cent and revenue grew 12 per cent. The gap between those two rates says less about where the company grew than about how much of that growth it books as revenue.
What the complaint says was stripped before training
EVOX's case against Midjourney holds two allegations that travel on different evidence. One asks whether copying tens of thousands of photographs into a training set was lawful. The other asks a narrower question about the files themselves, and that one has a document trail.
Where does the scrap go when it cannot be sold abroad?
The United States has no active tungsten mines, and the processing of black mass takes place largely in Asia. The obligation to sell at home lands squarely between those two facts.
Who is carrying the rising cost while hiring contracts?
In the services survey the prices index is 70.3 per cent and the employment index 47.4 per cent. In the same survey activity and orders are expanding, and the adjustment is being made on the labour side.
Whose tumours are in the dependency map?
Two resources published on the same day in Nature give the same field a better model system and a harder question. The Sanger biobank screened 162 organoids and reported 1,733 dependency links; the compendium banked 665 models, 71 of them from participants of non-European ancestry.
Why did a wider table leave the claim of jurisdiction as narrow as before?
The meeting in Amman brought Turkiye, Pakistan, Indonesia and Malaysia alongside the Arab ministerial committee. The text it produced sets up a documentation mechanism and a media platform, and leaves binding authority where it already sat.
Will the policy rate bring down a prices index sitting at 70.3 per cent?
A Fed president says monetary policy is not restrictive and wants small increases starting in September. A services survey published the same day shows where the price pressure comes from and who is squeezed first.
A closed briefing, an industry draft and a court order
A White House cyber framework briefed to major labs without published criteria, an Nvidia-led industry draft on incident sharing, and an appeals court order on Perplexity's shopping agent show AI rules forming outside open public rulebooks.