Should Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang be exonerated of any wrongdoing after his affair with an alleged spy? Maybe now that he has a morally upstanding character witness like president Donald Trump on his side. During a presser Monday night, Trump defended Huang as an “honorable guy” after revealing that Huang had personally told him that he didn’t know that the Chinese businesswoman he was cheating on his wife with with was allegedly a Beijing operative. “I asked him that question: ‘Did you have any idea that she was a spy?’” Trump told reporters at the White House, per the New…
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New York is preparing to enforce its sweeping AI safety law, requiring major developers like OpenAI and Anthropic to register, disclose safety practices, and report critical incidents or face fines.
The genetic code determines the correspondence between genetic instructions and amino acids—the building blocks that form proteins. How this correspondence arose is one of the major open questions in evolutionary biology. A study led by Dr. Lluís Ribas de Pouplana, ICREA researcher at IRB Barcelona, and Dr. Paul Schimmel, with the participation of researchers from MIT and Scripps Research, has identified conserved signals in transfer RNAs that could help reconstruct the early stages of this system.
Former SignalFire investor Sahir Raoof raises $27.5M for new fund targeting AI in pharma
X-energy received a construction permit from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to build four reactors in Texas.
Astronomers may have solved one of the biggest mysteries uncovered by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), using sophisticated simulations to show that enigmatic objects known as “little red dots” (LRDs) are likely the birthplaces of the first supermassive black holes.
Cells share small molecules with their neighbors through tiny tunnels made of proteins arranged in a ring. Research at Nagoya University suggests that the tails of the proteins must link up to form an inner ring for the tunnel to become evenly round—a previously unknown step in how these cell-to-cell connections are built.
Our modern world runs on math, from social media algorithms, package delivery, and weather prediction to medical imaging and machine learning. The rise of computers helped fuel its dominance, enabling us to work with increasingly large numbers that would otherwise be beyond the capacity of our finite human brains. But with the rise of large language models, AI chatbots, and, soon, quantum computing, so-called “big math” is beginning to outstrip its creators entirely. What that means, and how we might adapt, is the focus of a new book, Big Math: The Hidden Codes That Run Our World, by applied mathematicians…
An immune protein called perforin can turn iron against cancer cells in laboratory experiments, suggesting a possible route to more effective immunotherapy. The immune system can attack cancer cells by punching holes in their outer membranes and sending in enzymes that kill them. Research led by the University of Michigan Health Rogel Cancer Center shows […]
Yes, bears are big. Depending on the time of year and sex, the average black bear (Ursus americanus) weighs between 90 to 500 pounds. On average brown bears (Ursus arctos) can weigh between 600 to 900 pounds. However, one female black bear named Volverine is a true fat bear queen this year. The U.S. Forest Service team at Tongass National Forest in southeastern Alaska have awarded her with the 2026 Big & Beautiful Award for her heft. The rangers say that this mother bear is a “true icon,” who will often pose on a rock for a long time, seemingly…