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August 7, 2026
Trump is losing his war on wind power
A court rules that a hold on all wind projects clearly violates the law.
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August 6, 2026
Large genome models used to design new viruses
The AI system makes genetically distant versions of a bacteria-killing virus.
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August 5, 2026
D-Wave on rails: Company tests entanglement on its dual-rail qubits
Company noted for building quantum annealers now also making gate-based hardware.
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August 5, 2026
Pushing the limits: Infinite Machine's Olto is barely a bicycle
Scooter layout makes pedaling a bad experience. But it does have pedals.
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July 31, 2026
Not just Neanderthals: Ghost lineage in Africa left its mark on our DNA
Some group with no modern descendants contributed a lot to our genomes.
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July 30, 2026
Quantum computers outperform classical ones, with results you can trust
Three approaches to the issue of quantum results that can't be verified classically.
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July 29, 2026
Yet more qubit tech: New quantum dot options, diamond vacancies
Companies are making sure we have a surplus of options for building qubits.
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July 24, 2026
RFK Jr.'s hand-picked committee approves manufacture of peptides he uses
There's no human safety or efficacy data, but that no longer seems to matter.
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July 24, 2026
Team uses AlphaFold AI to redesign gene-editing proteins to make them safer
Google's AlphaFold can help ID what parts of a gene editing protein enable mistakes.
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July 23, 2026
White House report says Trump can usher in a "new golden age" of science
The resulting report is a near-random mixture of real problems and grievances.
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July 22, 2026
What happens when you try to chop a photon in half?
A mirror that moves mid-photon could release a shower of new photons.
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July 17, 2026
The report oil companies are worried about: Climate attribution science
New report says our ability to tie weather damages to climate change is improving.
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July 16, 2026
We've seen helium baked off a rocky exoplanet's atmosphere
If the large, rocky planet is losing helium, then we can infer what is left behind.
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July 10, 2026
Quantum error correction can constantly recalibrate a processor
Reinforcement learning uses error information to adjust control algorithms.
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July 8, 2026
Ocean rift zone saw spreading happen in a sudden burst
The crust expands at mid-ocean rifts. But how?
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July 6, 2026
NRC is (sort of) getting rid of "as low as reasonably achievable" standard
Its issues with current nuclear safety standards are termed semantic, not physical.
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July 2, 2026
Artificial cell manages a few rounds of cell division
It only works for a few divisions thanks to a lot of added materials.
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July 2, 2026
Editorial: It's time to step up and have your say for science
Your comments on a dangerous rule putting politicals in charge of science can matter.
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June 29, 2026
US renewable boom passes key milestone in April
Small-scale solar helped renewables nearly triple coal generation on the US grid.
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June 29, 2026
Quantum computing startup says it will leapfrog everybody
But the system would require a massive leap from any of its existing hardware.
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June 25, 2026
Planet orbits so close to its star that their magnetic fields connect
At the right point of the orbit and stellar cycle, the star's chromosphere brightens.
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June 25, 2026
New effort will get genome sequences for entire Endangered Species list
Colossal Biosciences will be biobanking tissues from all of them as well.
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June 24, 2026
Experimental wine bottle tracks oxygen moving through the cork
The small bit of air in the bottle sees oxygen and other chemicals move in and out.
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June 23, 2026
US's climate.gov site, taken down by Trump, relaunched by nonprofit
Climate.us has now restored everything taken down by the government.
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June 18, 2026
After Senate vote, Trump admin backs off plans to kill ocean monitoring
It's unclear whether the system is currently intact.
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June 17, 2026
Sooner than expected? Useful quantum error correction promised for 2028.
Elsewhere, beyond-classical quantum hardware, plus classical computing fires back.
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June 16, 2026
Cockroaches scurry around with thousands of pieces of bacterial genomes
Transferring genes across species doesn't just happen in microbes.
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June 12, 2026
Have politics finally come for the National Academies of Science?
A pending report on climate attribution may be setting the stage for conflict.
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June 11, 2026
The first complex cells had genes from a complex mix of species
Our ancestors' genomes were built through successive waves of gene transfers.
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June 9, 2026
Commonwealth Fusion makes the physics case for its 400 MW reactor
Five peer-reviewed papers update the design and model its expected output.
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