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An Italian startup says it has moved precise orbit determination, the job of pinning down exactly where a spacecraft is, onto the satellite itself. NaviGate, a spinoff of Sapienza University of Rome,…
Over two years, 9.5% to 11% of the carbon dioxide that crushed basalt could in theory remove from the air left a Vermont watershed, dissolved in its stream, a team led by Yale University researchers…
Antarctica is very likely committed to losing ice over the rest of this century, meaning the loss is already locked in by warming that has happened, even if emissions fall sharply. Yucheng Lin of…
Samuel Sokota of Carnegie Mellon University, Gabriele Farina of MIT and colleagues report that their Stratego program, Ataraxos, won 15 of 20 games against Pim Niemeijer, the most decorated player in…
Google announced a new AI model, Gemini 4 Argon, on Sept. 30 and is releasing it first to a limited set of outside cybersecurity defenders through what it calls the Fairwind Program, rather than to…
Engineers at Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia have built a chip platform that carries microwave-frequency sound waves with little loss, with the guiding channels, the power splitters and…
Astronomers with the NEID Earth Twin Survey report a planet at least 3.6 times the mass of Earth orbiting HD 126053, a Sun-like star within 25 parsecs of Earth, about 80 light-years away. The finding…
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope made the first on-sky observation with its Coronagraph Instrument on Sept. 22, and the observatory's fine-guidance system passed stability tests the week…
Microsoft Research introduced Quine, an experimental artificial intelligence system for biology, on Sept. 29, 2026, and opened applications for a first cohort of outside scientists to use it. What is…
The biotechnology company uniQure reported four-year results on Sept. 29 for 12 patients given a high dose of its experimental gene therapy for Huntington's disease. On the study's pre-chosen main…
Recording directly from the surface of the brain in nine patients undergoing awake surgery for brain tumors, a team at Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, identified which syllable a person was…
A research team reports that brains as different as a nematode worm's and a person's change in the same measurable way under anesthesia: activity in any one part of the brain keeps less of a trace of…