By tracking neural crest cells in catshark embryos, researchers discovered that the molecular toolkit behind face-building is surprisingly conserved across jawed vertebrates. The real differences appear to come from where these cells go and how they be…
Wellness influencers have stumbled onto a huge issue when it comes male fertility, though not every solution they’re pitching is good advice.
Two conservationists working worlds apart have been recognized with the 2026 National Geographic/Buffett Awards for Leadership in Conservation. One protects bats and small mammals in West Africa. The other has spent three decades transforming how we un…
Midjourney CEO David Holz just showed off the company’s first hardware product and plans to build a San Francisco spa, which he admitted is a bit different from the “cat pictures” produced by its AI image generator. Dubbed The Midjourney Scanner, it’s an ultrasound-based full-body scanner that uses a ring of sensors to capture vertical […]
PsiQuantum has broken ground on a facility in Moreton Bay, Queensland, where it plans to build and deploy what it calls the world’s first utility-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer. The site will eventually hold tens of thousands of photonic quantu…
The sun supports all life on Earth. But its ‘solar tsunamis’ threaten our electricity infrastructure. Discover how New Zealand is preparing for extreme solar storms
A rescue cat named Moustache helped hundreds of senior dogs get adopted from Muttville Senior Dog Rescue in California by “testing” them for cat friendliness.
The US government has just become a shareholder in an AI startup, in exchange for a bet that artificial intelligence can break China’s hold on the materials inside every chip factory. The Department of Commerce has awarded SandboxAQ $500mn under the CH…
Neuralink has dominated the brain-chip story for two years. It now has a serious challenger with a patient of its own. Paradromics, an Austin neurotech firm, has implanted its Connexus brain-computer interface in the first participant of its FDA-approv…
Jeff Bezos appears to have settled on his AI thesis, and it is not chatbots. It is the physical world. CuspAI, a two-year-old Cambridge startup that uses AI to design new materials, is in talks to raise about $400mn at a $2.6bn valuation, the Financial…