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    Chronic pain is reflected in the folds and grooves of the cerebral cortex

    August 28, 2026, Categories  Health/Medical, Biology/Biotechnology

    Chronic pain is reflected in the folds and grooves of the cerebral cortex
    Surface-based morphometry workflow for ROI-wise cortical surface feature extraction. Surface atlases were mapped to individual surfaces using the spherical registration parameters obtained during surface processing. Surface-based measures (e.g., cortical thickness, sulcal depth) were then extracted for each ROI in native space. Credit: NeuroImage: Clinical (2026). DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2026.104023 Created in BioRender. https://BioRender.com/4zyhoc8.

    Persistent pain often has no clear cause. However, studies show measurable differences in the structure and activity of the brains of those affected. This might explain why they experience chronic pain...

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    ASTRID traces 13.5 billion years of black hole and galaxy evolution

    August 28, 2026, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    In dark skies at night, distant starlight twinkles and speaks to vast cosmic histories almost as old as time itself. New data from instruments such as NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope are helping astrophysicists probe deep cosmic mysteries, including the evolution of black holes and galaxies.

    Using supercomputers to help make sense of the data, researchers from multiple institutions worked together to complete the largest cosmological hydrodynamic simulation, called ASTRID—a mind-boggling computational run that traces the evolution of the universe from its earliest times to the present.

    “The most important information about our recent study is that we’ve evolved the ASTRID simulation to z = 0, and that these data are available,” said Yihao Zhou, a Ph.D...

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    AI agents are all the rage—but research shows they leak private data

    August 28, 2026, Categories  Physics, Technology/Electronics

    AI agents are all the rage—but research shows they leak private data
    A real-world credential leakage case discovered in the study. The developer embedded a Base64-encoded client secret directly in the skill’s source code, exposing the credential to anyone who installs or inspects the skill. Credit: arXiv (2026). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2604.03070

    Before you prompt AI to answer another question or perform another task, a Wake Forest computer scientist wants you to know it could expose your sensitive data.

    Ying Zhang, an assistant professor in Wake Forest University’s Department of Computer Science, studies security in software engineering. Her latest research, “How Your Credentials Are Leaked by LLM Agent Skills,” explores how large language model (LLM) agents make data vulnerable to attacks.

    LLM agents are autonomous AI systems that analyze circum...

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    Roman telescope aims to directly image exoplanets 1,000 times fainter than current limits

    August 28, 2026, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    Enabling images of distant worlds
    An artist’s concept of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Credit: NASA/SVS

    The Roman Space Telescope is designed to directly image exoplanets using complex optomechanical systems developed by the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy

    The Roman Space Telescope has been under development for about a decade under NASA’s leadership and is scheduled to launch on Aug. 30, 2026, at 7:26 a.m. EDT. The telescope is named after Nancy Grace Roman, who was considered the architect of NASA’s modern science program and, among other efforts, dedicated herself to the success of the Hubble Space Telescope project.

    Roman’s destination is the L2 Lagrange point, a specific location 1...

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