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Logitech G has released the Yeti 2, successor to the original Blue Yeti USB microphone launched in 2009, priced at $159.99 in black or white. The mic features a built-in proximity sensor that tracks a speaker's position in 3D and automatically adjusts gain, EQ and pickup pattern, along with an interactive LED display and AI de-noising.
A temporary structure built on the National Mall this past July echoed the classical architecture of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The piece traces how that six-month fair became a recurring cultural touchstone, appearing in branding, conspiracy theories, and political imagery well over a century later.
Researchers studying birdsong for International Dawn Chorus Day found that species such as blue tits, blackbirds, great tits, woodpigeons and yellowhammers show clear regional and even individual variation in their calls. Woodpigeons' familiar phrase changes syllables depending on location, while yellowhammers split into two dialects across the UK, distinguished by pitch differences in the final notes of their song.
Rocket Lab has filed a protest with the Government Accountability Office challenging NASA's decision to award Blue Origin a contract worth roughly $700 million to build, launch and operate a Mars Telecommunications Network spacecraft. Rocket Lab argues NASA's selection violated eligibility criteria set by Congress in the funding legislation and that its own technical proposal was reviewed unfairly.
Researchers led by Simin Ma at Yunnan University developed perovskite solar cells specifically tuned to convert the blue-shifted light that penetrates several meters underwater into electricity. They addressed the material's usual weakness to moisture by adding polyhexamethylene guanidine hydrochloride, which forms a water-repelling layer and strengthens the crystal structure, improving both durability and power output.
Tiffany & Co. partnered with agency L&C on the '1837 Tiffany Blue Conservation' campaign, which took the jeweler's tightly controlled signature hue and let it appear more freely to raise awareness about ocean health. The effort has been recognized as a winner in Fast Company's 2026 Innovation by Design Awards.
Fast Company's Innovation by Design Awards named its 2026 advertising and marketing winner: '1837 Tiffany Blue Conservation,' created by agency L&C for Tiffany & Co. in partnership with Pantone. The campaign repurposes Tiffany's signature blue color as a vehicle for promoting ocean conservation, and the awards also recognized several other honorees in the category.
OpenAI announced on September 8, 2026 that an AI system had produced a solution to the Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of the seven unsolved Millennium Prize Problems. The claim triggered disputes over how much credit belongs to the machine versus human mathematicians involved, with some drawing parallels to Deep Blue's chess victory over Kasparov. Philosophers Silvia De Toffoli and Eamon Duede argue mathematicians should resist treating their field as a 'game' that AI can simply win or end.
Researchers applied mass spectrometry-based proteomics to analyze adhesives and glues found on a range of ancient Egyptian artifacts without damaging them, publishing their findings in Science Advances. Alongside expected animal collagens and egg proteins, they identified plant-derived proteins from sesame and moringa (drumstick tree) sources, expanding the known palette of binding materials used by ancient craftspeople.
United Launch Alliance remains one of the few major US rocket companies still focused almost entirely on launch services rather than branching into satellites, spacecraft, or other space businesses. Competitors like SpaceX, Blue Origin, Rocket Lab, and Firefly Aerospace have all expanded beyond launch to capture higher-margin revenue streams, leaving ULA increasingly isolated in a low-margin segment of the industry. This has renewed speculation about whether ULA's parent companies, Boeing and Lockheed Martin, will eventually sell the venture.
Windows includes a pre-installed Memory Diagnostic utility that checks whether a computer's RAM is reliably storing and retrieving data. It works by repeatedly writing information to memory and reading it back, flagging any mismatches that suggest faulty hardware. This can help explain symptoms like crashes, freezes, and the Blue Screen of Death without needing a technician.
Several major US space firms, including SpaceX, Blue Origin, Stoke Space, K2, and Starcloud, have withdrawn from a French-organized space summit in Paris after a call led by a White House science and technology official. Politico first reported that the administration pressured these companies to avoid the event, which was convened by President Macron to unify French and European space strategy. Some US presence reportedly remains on the summit's agenda despite the corporate pullout.