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38 storiesDeepMind's SynthID Bio watermarks AI-designed proteins, and the mark survives the leap from code to lab
02We compiled every disclosed AI data-center water figure: the tracker
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The Speech-BCI Scoreboard: Why the Field's Headline Accuracies Don't Compare
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Launch day for NASA's Roman Space Telescope: a 100x-Hubble eye on dark energy rides a Falcon Heavy
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'Kidney disappointment' is spreading through published science, and the oldest case predates ChatGPT
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DeepMind's hurricane model bought forecasters an extra day. Nobody knows why it works.
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OpenAI's next model, Astra, has solved ten open problems in pure mathematics with formal proofs
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A dead SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will crash into the Moon on August 5, and scientists say the debris plume could be visible from Earth
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IBM's quantum results are finally out of reach of classical computers, and you can verify them
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AI can crack undeciphered ancient scripts at extraordinary speed, but meaning remains out of reach
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Anthropic's Claude spent $100,000 and 60 hours finding new cryptographic attacks, but only after humans convinced it not to give up
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AllenAI's OlmoEarth runs satellite inference across an entire continent in a day using 994 GPUs and 19,600 CPUs
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France records its first-ever fire cloud as wildfires smash all records
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AI drug discovery hits a data wall: models trained on success can't learn from failure
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Massachusetts pilot turns parked EVs into grid-scale batteries as data centers strain the power network
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Stanford Pushes Back on AI Jobs Apocalypse, But Finds Entry-Level Workers Are the Canary in the Coal Mine
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AlphaFold Redesigns CRISPR Proteins to Slash Off-Target Gene Edits From 28% to 5%
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Claude Opus 5 Hits 30% on ARC-AGI-3, a New Interactive Benchmark Where Rivals Stall Below 10%
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Researchers Find the First Transmissible Cancer in a Freshwater Fish, and It Appeared Overnight
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The 2026 El Nino Could Be the Strongest in 75 Years as Models Show 100% Probability Through February
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Scientists Supercooled Pig Kidneys to Minus 4 Degrees and Kept Them Viable for Days
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Wildfires Have Silenced One of NASA's Three Deep Space Listening Posts
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OpenAI Moves to Become the AI Backbone of U.S. National Science
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Fields Medalist Terrence Tao verifies AI's counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture, using a rival AI to check the work
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The Department of Energy just greenlit 278 AI-for-science projects with a new platform for autonomous research agents
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Max Hodak's Science Corporation wins EU approval for a chip that restores vision to the blind
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Google and Microsoft pour fresh millions into the DOE's Genesis Mission to accelerate AI-driven scientific discovery
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NVIDIA maps the simulation stack for physical AI, betting that robotics training will move entirely into synthetic worlds
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Bruce Schneier proposes a 'Genie Coefficient' to measure whether AI agents do what you mean, not just what you say
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