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Archaea that live inside marine sponges have long been classed as strict ammonia-eaters, microbes whose sole job is stripping nitrogen waste from their host. A study published Sept. 4 in Science…
Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have sequenced nuclear paleogenomes from two fossils of Miracinonyx trumani (the extinct animal long called the American cheetah) and found it…
Katalyst Space's LINK spacecraft flew to within 12 to 15 kilometers of NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory last week, carrying out proximity and hardware tests that remained after the reboost…
Fires that follow a flash drought, a rapid collapse of root-zone soil moisture over days to weeks, spread roughly 1.3 to 1.8 times faster in their opening hours than fires not linked to flash…
A synthesis of 276 site-years of peatland carbon measurements has put a concrete depth threshold on a widely used but loosely defined climate recommendation: raising the water table in drained…
Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and CNRS have used six years of elephant seal dive data to show that small-scale ocean currents, known to churn the surface, are also active…
Coral skeletons from a Marshall Islands atoll have yielded a monthly-resolution temperature record spanning three windows of the past 1,500 years, and the comparison suggests that Central Pacific El…
IBM released Nighthawk r2, a 120-qubit quantum processor, on Aug. 31, 2026, and made it available to users on IBM Quantum Platform. The company says it executes more than 100,000 circuits per second,…
The FDA granted accelerated approval on Sept. 4, 2026 to Etcamah (camizestrant), made by AstraZeneca, for adults with hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative locally advanced or metastatic breast…
Anthropic published on Sept. 4, 2026, what the company says is the first complete, computer-verified proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, written by its Claude AI system in 11 days. The full code is…
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency added CVE-2026-85046, a type-confusion flaw in Google Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on Sept. 4,…
The ARC Prize Foundation says OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra scored 62.7% on its ARC-AGI-3 semi-private evaluation set using the foundation's standard test harness, and 99.9% using a second setup that gives…