Tech billionaires continue to find new ways to alienate themselves from the public. After broad disillusionment with Big Tech played a major role in last week’s midterm elections, AI chipmaker Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was forced to publicly admit that he had cheated on his wife with a suspected Chinese spy. “I was unfaithful to my wife,” he wrote in a memo. “My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did.” While infidelity among the obscenely rich isn’t in itself surprising, his affair could have major ripple effects on the entire economy — which…
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Archaeologists at Pompeii have uncovered the imprint of a wooden wardrobe left standing when Vesuvius erupted in AD 79. Inside were a necklace of children’s amulets, 38 bronze coins, cosmetics and lead weights. The house, catalogued as IX 11, 7, sits in block 11 of Regio IX and opens onto the Via dell’Abbondanza, one of the city’s main thoroughfares. Its front was excavated in 1912 and long tied to a man called Cornelius Maximus, though the authors consider the link doubtful because it rested on inscriptions that can no longer be seen. What has now been dug is a group…
A newly discovered dwarf planet candidate has a trail stretching back more than a decade in telescope images, giving astronomers a head start in understanding its orbit. 2026 ED138 could become the solar system’s sixth officially recognized dwarf planet. The newly discovered icy body orbits beyond Pluto, and early measurements suggest it is among the […]
Geologists have uncovered new evidence that dramatic sea-level changes carved giant underwater canyons in South Australia’s Flinders Ranges hundreds of millions of years ago, helping to create conditions that preserved some of the earliest complex life on Earth. The findings, led by Adelaide University, shed new light on the environmental changes that accompanied the rise of the mysterious Ediacaran biota.
Crop residues—the stems, leaves and husks left behind after harvesting cereals—could provide an important source of renewable energy for Europe, but research led by the University of Surrey suggests that removing too much from fields could come at a cost to biodiversity.
Voyager 1, the NASA space probe that has traveled farther from Earth than any other human-made object, is closing in on a remarkable milestone. Actually, let’s call it a 16.09-billion-milestone. That’s the distance a photon can travel in a single day, which is to say the Voyager 1 spacecraft will be exactly one light-day away from our planet on November 18 at 5:18 a.m. EST. At that moment, a radio signal sent from Earth would take 24 hours to reach Voyager 1, and then it would take another 24 hours for the probe’s response to come back. Imagine on a…
Scientists at the University of Washington have created a virtual version of Earth with one big difference: there’s no life on it. The simulation follows 5 billion years of planetary evolution, helping researchers figure out which atmospheric signals might point to living organisms on distant worlds. Astronomers have already discovered more than 6,000 exoplanets outside our solar system. Some are rocky worlds that could have the right conditions for liquid water, one of the main ingredients scientists look for when searching for life. But finding a planet where life could survive is very different from finding one where life actually…
Growing two crops in succession on the same land requires a tight schedule. In parts of central and eastern China, farmers sow barley in autumn and harvest it in late spring. It is then followed by a summer crop, such as rice. For this cropping sequence to succeed, the barley must mature in time. An early harvest also helps the crop avoid heat and rain toward the end of the growing season.
The Nvidia CEO began working with consultants from Heller as early as October 2025, around the same time he was first linked to a suspected Chinese spy.