2025-08-06

NASA explains how it keeps the Curiosity rover running, 13 years later

Thirteen years ago, the Curiosity rover landed on Mars, inside Gale crater in particular. It was originally sent to the red planet for a two-year mission, but it was extended indefinitely just a few m [...]

2025-08-06

Google Cloud's newest AI agents want to boost data science and engineering in your business

Google Cloud launches six new agents and other tools to help data scientists do more with their data – and with less experience. [...]

2025-08-06

Life After the Atomic Blast, as Told by Hiroshima’s Survivors

Eighty years after the dropping of the first atomic bomb, Hiroshima’s survivors and their descendants describe how health problems and stigma have echoed down the generations. [...]

2025-08-06

Google Cloud’s data agents promise to end the 80% toil problem plaguing enterprise data teams

New AI agents handle pipeline creation, data science workflows and analytics queries autonomously, potentially reshaping how enterprise data professionals spend their time. [...]

2025-08-06

Some AI tools don’t understand biology yet

A collection of new studies on gene activity show that AI tools aren't very good. [...]

2025-08-06

The History and Physics of the Atomic Bomb

First came the idea of splitting the atom; then, a chain of events leading to a moment forever etched in collective memory—the use of nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. [...]

2025-08-05

Analysis: The Trump administration’s assault on climate action

Official actions don't challenge science, while unofficial docs muddy the waters. [...]

2025-08-05

Titan sub implosion caused by absolutely bonkers “toxic workplace environment”

CEO Stockton Rush does not come off well. [...]

2025-08-05

OpenAI's first new open-weight LLMs in six years are here

For the first time since GPT-2 in 2019, OpenAI is releasing new open-weight large language models. It's a major milestone for a company that has increasingly been accused of forgoing its original [...]