Topic: scientific discovery
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Ex-OpenAI, Google Brain Team Raises $300M for AI Startup
Periodic Labs, founded by former OpenAI and Google Brain researchers, has raised $300 million to use AI for automating material science, integrating simulations, robotics, and large language models to propose, create, and analyze new compounds. The company's approach leverages AI to learn from al...
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Record-Breaking Ribbon Worm Is The Oldest Ever Found
Biologist Jon Allen cares for the world's oldest known ribbon worm, named Baseodiscus the Eldest, which is at least 26 and likely closer to 30 years old, shattering previous lifespan records for its phylum. This discovery dramatically expands scientific understanding, as almost nothing was known ...
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Apply Now: 2026 Global Innovators Under 35
The program seeks young innovators under 35 who are driving scientific discoveries and creating transformative technologies with widespread positive impact. Ideal candidates are the principal force behind a definitive breakthrough, with work gaining tangible momentum in fields like health, climat...
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2025 Nobel Prize Honors Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis for their discovery of macroscopic quantum tunneling and energy quantization in electrical circuits. Their work is foundational for advancing next-generation quantum technologies, including quantum...
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AI Achieves in 2 Days What Took Researchers 10 Years
Google's AI system Co-scientist replicated a decade-long scientific breakthrough in just two days by independently analyzing data and generating the same hypothesis. The AI not only matched the human researchers' findings but also proposed four additional credible theories, including one entirely...
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Male Mosquitoes Also Drink Human Blood
New research challenges the long-held belief that only female mosquitoes bite, revealing that **male mosquitoes are also capable of drinking human blood**, particularly when triggered by dehydration. Evidence from both lab experiments and wild-caught specimens confirms this behavior and shows mal...
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Ex-OpenAI, DeepMind Scientists Land $300M to Automate Science
Periodic Labs launched with $300 million in seed funding to pioneer automated scientific discovery using AI scientists that autonomously conduct experiments, backed by prominent tech investors. The startup, co-founded by former Google Brain and OpenAI executives, aims to develop advanced material...
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Nobel Prize Honors Discovery of Cells That Control Immune Response
Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi won the 2025 Nobel Prize for discovering regulatory T cells, which prevent autoimmune reactions and immune overreactions by patrolling the body. Regulatory T cells maintain peripheral immune tolerance, ensuring the immune system fights threats wit...
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The AI Revolution Is Built on a Flawed Foundation
Current AI systems like large language models (LLMs) are sophisticated pattern-matching engines for text, not nascent minds replicating human thought, as they operate on statistical patterns in language data rather than multifaceted reasoning. Neuroscience indicates that human thinking operates i...
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Ice Age Woolly Mammoth Yields World's Oldest RNA
Scientists have extracted the world's oldest RNA from a 40,000-year-old woolly mammoth named Yuka, revealing unprecedented biological details about Ice Age creatures. The breakthrough involved specialized chemical techniques to isolate fragile RNA fragments, overcoming previous challenges with de...
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Gemini Wins Elite Coding Contest: A Major Step Toward AGI
Google's Gemini 2.5 AI achieved a gold medal-level performance at the 2025 ICPC World Finals by solving 10 out of 12 complex problems, showcasing significant progress in automated reasoning and generalized machine intelligence. The model outperformed most human contestants using a multi-agent sys...
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Anthropic's $50B Bet on AI Data Centers
Anthropic is investing $50 billion in a partnership with Fluidstack to build custom data centers in Texas and New York, set to launch in 2026 for optimized AI workloads. This initiative marks Anthropic's first move into developing its own infrastructure, driven by the computational needs of its C...
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Anthropic's DIY Data Centers Fuel AI Infrastructure Boom
Anthropic is investing $50 billion to build its own custom data centers across the U.S., aiming to vertically integrate its computing infrastructure and support its rapid growth, including a sevenfold increase in large business clients. This move signals a potential industry trend where well-fund...
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Scientists Film Rare Shark Mating Behavior
Australian researchers have filmed the first-ever documented case of two male leopard sharks mating with a single female in the wild, providing crucial insights into the natural reproductive behavior of this endangered species. This observation, made in New Caledonia, confirms that mating behavio...
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