Apple has filed a motion seeking to overturn a jury's $5.7 billion patent infringement verdict awarded to Taction Technology over Taptic Engine technology used in iPhones and Apple Watches. Apple argues Taction never presented evidence of what its patented contribution was actually worth, instead asking jurors to pick a reasonable royalty themselves, after the court had already excluded and barred testimony from Taction's damages expert before trial.
Apple has published service pricing for its newly announced $299 HomeView smart display, ahead of shipments starting November 13. Repairs without AppleCare are listed at $279 under a single 'Other damage' category, while AppleCare users face a $39 accidental damage fee, with no distinction made between the standard and wall-mounted models.
China has rapidly expanded its scientific output over the past five decades and is now positioned to lead global research and development, according to Nature's reporting. A growing number of China-trained AI graduates are choosing to remain in the country rather than move abroad, with Chinese researchers now dominating global AI-related publications and firms like DeepSeek and MoonshotAI demonstrating competitive AI capabilities.
A study reports that increasing air and marine traffic along western North America is contributing to measurable degradation of regional air quality. Researchers tied emissions from growing plane and ship activity to elevated pollutant levels affecting the area.
Researchers at Hopkins Marine Station observed that a bleached coral fragment regained its pigmentation after being placed touching a healthy fragment from the same coral colony. In a controlled experiment with ten fragment pairs of Pocillopora damicornis, five pairs were set to touch each other while five were kept apart, and the touching pairs showed transfer of symbiotic algae and rapid recovery of colour within days to weeks. The findings were published in Science Advances on 14 October.
Nature has issued an Author Correction to a previously published paper describing wafer-scale epitaxial growth of high-mobility p-type boron carbon nitride. The notice provided no substantive details on the content of the correction beyond acknowledging it was necessary.
Researchers have described a newly identified Jurassic-age avialan that appears to have been flightless, adding to the fossil record of early bird-line dinosaurs from China's Yanliao and Jehol biotas. The find joins other recent discoveries, such as short-tailed and bony-tailed avialans, that document a wider range of body plans among the earliest relatives of birds than previously documented.
Researchers describe a probabilistic forecasting method for predicting weather two to six weeks ahead, built on ERA5 reanalysis data from 1979-2026 and evaluated using ECMWF's AI Weather Quest competition framework. The approach forecasts temperature, precipitation and sea-level pressure as probability distributions across climatological quantile bins, scored using the Ranked Probability Skill Score.
Researchers ran a randomized controlled trial across 176 Honduran villages in Copán Department, enrolling 24,702 people who agreed to monthly health-worker visits, randomization and repeated surveys over 22 months. Within a subset of 110 villages assigned to random-targeting arms, dosage of the intervention varied from 0% (control) to 100% of residents, allowing researchers to study how varying levels of treatment altered village-level social network structure.
Researchers analyzed large collections of human and mouse RNA sequencing data—including bulk RNA-seq, TRAP-seq, single-nucleus and single-cell RNA-seq—to catalog known and previously unannotated microexons, short stretches of RNA that can be spliced into genes. Using a modified version of the MicroExonator pipeline alongside whole-genome sequencing and PsychENCODE/NIMH data, the team identified a regulatory pattern governing microexon inclusion and linked variation in this process to genetic changes found in people with autism.
A compilation of cave mineral records spanning Asia, South America and Africa traces how summer monsoon systems in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres have shifted in tandem over the last 450,000 years. The records show these interhemispheric monsoon systems responding to shared climate forcings, including glacial cycles and abrupt cooling events like Heinrich stadials.
Researchers used multiple transgenic mouse models, including four core genotype (FCG) mice that separate chromosomal sex from gonadal sex, to study epidermal stem cells. By combining lineage tracing tools with castration, ovariectomy and hormone replacement experiments, they examined how sex affects stem cell dynamics in skin.
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