Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale is investing in an animal testing company that aims to secure a national supply chain of monkeys for biomedical testing.
If there’s one issue that seems to activate all kinds of voters in 2026, it’s data centers. The rapid buildout of these massive server storage facilities – and the infrastructure construction and expenses that come with them – has sparked local opposition in communities across the country and become a major issue in many congressional […]
See spectacular images of October’s full Hunter’s Supermoon rising into twilight around the world as the first of three consecutive supermoons closes out 2026.
Less than a month after its mass release of hundreds of manuscripts that it said contained solutions to long-standing mathematics questions, OpenAI is back with three more “major” discoveries in math, computer science, and physics. What’s different this time is the choice to have external experts that OpenAI describes as “shepherds” guiding the results in […]
Hundreds of computer science papers rest on a conjecture that an internal OpenAI model now claims to have refuted, the company said on Monday. OpenAI announced two more results the same day, one in mathematics and one in physics. In a blog post, OpenAI…
As it prepares to go public, Anthropic’s S-1 filing makes generative AI’s methane dependency glaringly obvious. “Competition for access to electrical supply and data center locations with adequate power availability is intense.” In documents filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission Monday, Anthropic acknowledges that data centers are becoming increasingly reliant on “natural gas” […]
Untreated tooth decay is Earth’s most common health condition. A biologist explains how farming, sugar and oral bacteria made cavities a modern human problem.
A study of 380,000 adults suggests single people’s happiness hinges on how their community views singlehood. Here’s the one tip a psychologist recommends.
The AI giant warns that while its tools can be used to find new treatments for disease, its safeguards are “incomplete” against bad actors who might use them to create biological weapons.
Last week, I sank into my living room couch and watched a bedraggled, nihilistic Matthew McConaughey take a drag of a cigarette in season 1 of True Detective. “You know, someone once told me time is a flat circle. Everything we’ve done, or will do, we’re gonna do over and over and over again.” I […]