Science & Technology — June 25, 2026

World's first nuclear clocks use atomic nuclei to keep time. Two independent teams built clocks that track time via nuclear oscillations rather than electrons. The advance could open new searches for dark matter and tests of fundamental physics.

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Event horizon 'fingerprints' detected around a black hole for first time. Scientists identified distinct signal signatures at a black hole's event horizon — the point of no return for light and matter — in research published Wednesday.

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IBM prototype chip packs 100 billion transistors onto a fingernail-sized area. The density is double IBM's previous best, and the company says the advance could extend Moore's Law — the trend of chips doubling in power — by another decade.

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Anthropic alleges Alibaba used fake accounts to extract Claude AI data. The U.S. AI company filed a legal claim accusing the Chinese tech giant of creating fraudulent accounts to illicitly access its Claude model, escalating U.S.-China AI tensions.

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