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Nikon disqualified the first-place Small World in Motion video over generative AI under a rule that never defines the term, 14 days after The Scientist reported it had called the same AI step compliant. Journals and Nikon's own software pages draw the line the contest did not.

Two labs have made a thorium nucleus steer a laser on its own. Here is what that proves, why the "six times steadier" claim needs a footnote, and how far nuclear clocks remain from beating atomic ones.

A new Nature study finds ordinary raindrops build up enough static electricity to punch through protective coatings on metal, a corrosion mechanism nobody had measured before.

Using 59 days of data, the underground JUNO observatory sharpened two neutrino oscillation parameters by a factor of 1.6, a debut result its builders say proves the detector is ready for its main goal.

A robotic survey of the southeastern Indian Ocean found 476 whale fossil sites and five living whale-fall ecosystems down to 7,001 meters, the deepest such habitats on record.