Basking sharks are not just drifting long-distance travelers relying on stored energy. Satellite tags reveal they likely feed throughout their migrations, diving deep into the mesopelagic zone to track dense layers of small organisms like fish and zoop…
The race to build an AI “foundation model of the cell” has a fuel problem. The biological data needed to train one is scarce, messy and inconsistent. Relation Therapeutics thinks the answer is to manufacture that data itself, and GSK is paying up to $1…
Six days ago, IBM agreed to buy a quantum-computing lab that builds a kind of qubit IBM does not. This week, the lab showed the world why. HRL Laboratories published a result in Nature on Wednesday: a silicon quantum processor that, in effect, runs its…
July’s buck moon rose worldwide on July 29, 2026, marking midsummer nights and setting the stage for August’s eclipse-packed skies.
Two meteor showers peak on July 30-31 as the Perseids continue building toward an exceptional August peak under moonless skies later this summer.
Aug. 12 might be the best day of the year for skygazers.
The Iran conflict shows how low-cost weapons exploit chokepoints. The space community must prioritize resilience through diversity to avoid the same mistake.
OpenAI made two announcements this week that look unrelated. One is generous. The other explains how it can afford to be. The generous one: OpenAI is giving 100,000 academic researchers free access to its frontier models through 2027, Axios reported. T…
Less than a year ago, AlphaFold won Google DeepMind a Nobel Prize. Now DeepMind has taken the team that built it apart. The lab has reassigned most of the original AlphaFold-paper authors over the past year, the Financial Times reported. Nearly a quart…
Climate change is helping invasive species to not only establish themselves across the Continent but to stay alive for longer. Scientists suggest we get used to it.