Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warned vessels not to approach the Strait of Hormuz, saying their safety would be at risk.

Israeli sources said on the 20th Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Katz ordered the Israel Defense Forces to cease fire in Lebanon, while directing that forces not immediately withdraw from southern Lebanon. Separately, after a situation assessment, Chief of General Staff Zamir ordered a ceasefire in southern Lebanon.

A study in Nature reports a new quantum sensor that can effectively cancel background noise limiting measurement precision, enabling searches for previously undetectable weak signals and potentially informing the formation of supermassive black holes. Imperial College London, which led the research, said detecting the universe’s composition and new gravitational-wave sources requires measurements of extremely weak signals. Atom interferometers use interference of atomic matter waves, but the laser pulses required introduce noise that can swamp those signals and prevent meaningful data.