Imagine opening a human’s genetic code like a text document, deleting the buggy lines, hitting “Save,” and boom: cancer erased. Sounds like fiction? It isn’t. In a first‑in‑human clinical trial at the University of Minnesota, researchers used CRISPR/Cas9 to edit tumour‑infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs), immune cells that normally battle tumours, by knocking out the gene CISH, which had been holding them back. With that brake removed, these reprogrammed T cells were able to better recognize and destroy cancer cells in patients with aggressive, stage‑IV gastrointestinal cancers. The result? Multiple patients saw their cancer stop progressing, and one achieved complete remission that’s

Quantum physicists accidentally stumble into the first step of time travel, but don’t dust off your DeLorean just yet. Somewhere between quantum mechanics and sci-fi fanfiction, researchers in Austria have managed to make a photon do something rather suspicious: go backwards in time. Well, technically, they didn’t toss it into 1997 to warn you about buying Bitcoin, but they did reverse the quantum state of a single particle, making it behave as though it had travelled back to a previous moment. The team at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University of Vienna achieved this feat using a “quantum

Japan has a knack for turning the ordinary into the futuristic. Case in point: in busy spots like Shibuya Crossing and Tokyo Station, the ground beneath your feet is generating electricity. Not in a metaphorical “people power” sense, in a very literal, “your trainers are powering the lights” sense. How It Works The secret is piezoelectric tiles. These are special flooring panels that squeeze energy out of pressure. Every time someone steps on them, the mechanical stress is converted into a tiny electrical charge. Multiply that by hundreds of thousands of footsteps a day in Tokyo’s busiest stations, and suddenly

For centuries, science was a game of steady progress: Newton worked out the math of falling apples, Galileo proved the Earth doesn’t orbit you, and Darwin explained why your cousin looks suspiciously like a gorilla. Just as things seemed settled, physics pulled a fast one with relativity and quantum mechanics, two theories that basically said: Oh, by the way, time isn’t absolute and particles can be in multiple places at once. Cue Einstein himself, muttering about “spooky action at a distance” while staring at entangled particles doing the quantum equivalent of long-distance telepathy. The Universe’s Patch Notes Entanglement is when

Compact PCs keep getting bolder, and Beelink’s latest, the GTR9 Pro, takes that to another level. It’s a mini PC that looks an awful lot like Apple’s Mac Studio, but inside hides a completely different beast. Specs that stand out: AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 (16-core/32-thread, Zen 5), clocks up to 5.1 GHz, features an XDNA 2 NPU, and delivers up to 126 TOPS of AI horsepower. Radeon 8060S iGPU (40 RDNA 3.5 CUs), this integrated GPU scores nearly on par with Nvidia’s RTX 3070 Ti Mobile, and performance comparisons show it significantly outpacing the RTX 4060 Laptop in ML and compute benchmarks 128 GB LPDDR5X