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Lab Report covers new research as it publishes. Fresh studies, first findings, and the occasional retraction, drawn from the journals and the institutions doing the work.
Apollo's 4 KB figure described erasable working memory, not its fixed program storage. The deeper comparison with chargers and phones is about purpose, timing and reliability.
Aug 19, 2026
A 12,000-year-old embrace long misread as a man and woman tells a different story: genetic analysis reveals two women, one living with a rare inherited disorder that still affects families today.
Aug 18, 2026
A half-million-year-old wooden tool was buried in Africa—until modern science finally vindicated the archaeologist who discovered it decades too soon.
Aug 17, 2026
Starcloud-1 used a data-centre-class NVIDIA H100 to train NanoGPT on Shakespeare in orbit, a small but genuine demonstration distinct from its preloaded Gemma inference run.
Aug 17, 2026
A repeatedly heated patch of clay, fire-damaged tools and locally rare pyrite form the earliest convincing archaeological case for deliberate fire-making, although no human remains identify the makers directly.
Aug 16, 2026
A sunlight-pumped crystal produced photon pairs with 93.9% Bell-state fidelity. The result is real, but its efficiency comparison needs a bandwidth footnote.
Aug 15, 2026
Microsoft's diagnostic orchestrator posted a striking result on 304 rare medical puzzles, but the benchmark was text-based, the work remains a preprint, and revised figures differ.
Aug 14, 2026
About 2,000 light-years away, a planet roughly the mass of Jupiter completes a full orbit in 7.8 hours, circling so close to the collapsed star at its centre that the star's gravity has stretched it into a lemon shape.
Aug 13, 2026
A decade-old lab mystery about magnetic cells finally reveals where pigeons navigate by when clouds block the sun.
Aug 13, 2026
