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An international team led by the University of Geneva has measured the orbit of the planet GJ 3090 b and found it running backward. The planet circles its star in the direction opposite to the star's…
Researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women's Hospital have built a battery that powered two swallowable medical capsules inside living pigs and then dissolved in the animals' digestive tracts. Pills…
NASA says its Perseverance rover found rock formed from cooled magma, not the lakebed sediment mission scientists expected, in a band of ground called the Margin Unit, at the inner rim of Mars'…
Building the power plants and grids that China would need to meet stricter climate targets releases more carbon dioxide during construction than a business-as-usual expansion would, according to a…
Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences put China's wind power potential at 7.62 to 14.06 terawatts once the land a build-out would occupy is taken into account. The range comes from a study…
A team led by Microsoft Research published a retrosynthesis model called RetroChimera in Nature on Sept. 21, 2026, and released its code and trained weights the same day on GitHub under the MIT…
Ireland's Data Protection Commission fined Google Ireland Limited €403 million on Sept. 21 and ordered the company to bring its handling of location data into compliance within six months, ending an…
Beacon Therapeutics said on Sept. 21 that its experimental gene therapy for X-linked retinitis pigmentosa, an inherited eye disease with no approved treatment, met the main goal of a controlled trial…
A 39-day experiment in the German North Sea has measured how much alkaline material seawater can take before a spring plankton bloom runs late. Juliane Tammen of GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean…
The Planetary Boundaries Science Lab at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research published its Planetary Health Check 2026 on Sept. 21, reporting that seven of the nine planetary boundaries…
Three AI systems that control robot arms almost never turned down hazardous instructions in an independent test published Sept. 18, 2026. Robocurve, the group that ran the test, reports that…
The Chinese chipmaker CXMT said on Sept. 20 that its fifth-generation platform for making DRAM, the working memory used in phones and computers, is now in mass production. The company showed two…