Report: White House drafting executive order linking vaccines and autism

Trump determined to link life-saving shots to autism, despite science and political risk. [...]

Stanford is running 37,000 AI agents as a virtual biotech — and one of its drug designs got independently confirmed by Merck

For developers, the operating assumption has been one engineer, one agent — the model Claude Code and similar tools. At VB Transform 2026, James Zou, associate professor of biomedical data science a [...]

How snails engineer their slime

Collagen and calcium work in tandem to achieve varying mechanical properties of different kinds of mucus. [...]

The ultimate eclipse chase: A Concorde raced against the Moon's shadow

Fitted with telescopes, the plane did our longest imaging of the Sun's corona. [...]

I asked ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok which sci-fi AI they're most like — and their answers were surprisingly different

Anthropic made me wonder whether AI learns from science fiction — so I asked ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude one fascinating question. Which sci-fi AI are you most like? [...]

Spokane Shows What the New Era of Wildfires Looks Like

With rising temperatures and drier conditions, fires are more likely to explode. And with more people living next to forests, the results can be catastrophic. [...]

DeepMind’s hurricane breakthrough has surprised weather scientists

Open source WeatherNext model can make accurate predictions with lower-resolution weather data. [...]

Here Are the First Images of the Crater Left on the Moon by SpaceX’s Rocket

The Korea Aerospace Research Institute shared images that show the gash on the surface. It’s pretty small. [...]

The Sharpest Image Ever Taken of the Sun Reveals a Hidden Phenomenon

The photograph, taken in visible light, made it possible to observe for the first time the tiny plasma vortices that had been predicted for more than a century. [...]