Anthropic announced today that its Claude artificial intelligence (AI) system identified a previously unknown biological system in the DNA of viruses that infec…
A dead white dwarf with no detectable disk has somehow produced a powerful shock wave that appears to have persisted for at least 1,000 years. Its magnetic fiel…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A congressional repres…
Among Wernher von Braun's lasting legacies are NASA's Saturn V rocket, the National Space Society, U.S. Space Camp and... Walt Disney's first character created …
Encyclopaedia Britannica recently wrote that the Big Bang happened everywhere at once, which is the standard assumption in astrophysics under the cosmological p…
A magnet-producing bacterium extended the average lifespan of C. elegans worms by more than 43% while helping protect their neurological and intestinal health. …
The newly described dinosaur is only the third nodosaurid fossil found in Asia. Researchers say its ancestors may have migrated from North America.…
Ancient grains inside one of the oldest known meteorites reveal that a surprisingly strong magnetic field existed during the solar system’s first 200,000 years.…
No evidence has been found linking 3I/ATLAS to aliens. But the interstellar object, just the third of its kind to be found, shows that life's molecular precurso…
Ariel, one of Uranus’ moons, may once have contained a subsurface ocean more than 100 miles deep beneath its fractured icy shell. The finding, combined with sim…
Japan's new quantum system, Shunkai, uses "optical tweezers" to trap and rearrange atoms, and will be available to researchers working on quantum error correcti…
Carbon-capture technology repurposed for breweries spreads and finds new applications…
Scientists discovered a surprising backup system that lets mammalian cells make the essential amino acid cysteine even when the pathways once considered indispe…
In this Aug. 27, 2026, image, an Alta-X drone flies an advanced guidance and navigation system known as the Safe and Precise Landing – Integrated Capabilities E…
Researchers have shown that multiple time crystals inside a semiconductor can synchronize their oscillations, much like pendulum clocks gradually falling into t…
During NASA’s SpaceX Crew‑13 mission aboard the International Space Station, astronauts will support a series of biomedical and human performance investigations…
A 70-year-old leukemia drug is still revealing new secrets. Researchers found that removing a protein called NUDT5 protected cells from the drug, even though si…
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The brain may have a built-in way to quickly settle disagreements between regions processing the same scene. Researchers found that matching signals between two…
A low-lying cloud layer brought autumn ambience to western Washington and Oregon, while mountainous areas near the coast remained above the pall.…
A Meta decidiu aproveitar o evento anual da empresa desta quarta-feira, dia 23, para apresentar oficialmente novos óculos de realidade virtual. Ao contrário dos…
A newly identified breakdown in communication between nerves and muscles could help explain why people lose strength as they age. Researchers were able to impro…
O iPhone 18 Pro e o iPhone 18 Pro Max acabam de chegar ao mercado e já há quem tenha descoberto um erro nos telemóveis que faz com que o dispositivo bloqueie e …
Hubble observations of massive stars in metal-poor dwarf galaxies are revealing clues to why the early universe looks so unusual. Researchers found that stellar…