2025-07-17

Trump's defunding of NASA would be catastrophic

"This is probably the most uncertain future NASA has faced, maybe since the end of Apollo," Casey Dreier tells me over the phone. Dreier is the chief of space policy at The Planetary Society [...]

2025-05-02

The White House's proposed budget would cancel NASA's Gateway space station project

The Trump administration's preliminary 2026 budget proposes the biggest single-year cut to NASA funding in the agency's 67-year history. The cuts are part of the White House's broader g [...]

2025-12-12

Google’s new framework helps AI agents spend their compute and tool budget more wisely

In a new paper that studies tool-use in large language model (LLM) agents, researchers at Google and UC Santa Barbara have developed a framework that enables agents to make more efficient use of tool [...]

2025-02-05

Will AI revolutionise drug development? Researchers say it depends on how it’s used

The potential of using artificial intelligence in drug discovery and development has sparked both excitement and skepticism among scientists, investors and the general public. “Artificial intelligen [...]

2025-06-15

ChatGPT lost badly to Atari's 1979 Video Chess engine

ChatGPT lost badly to Atari's 1979 Video Chess engine. It gave solid advice and explained tactics, but couldn't track the game.<br /> The article ChatGPT lost badly to Atari's 197 [...]

2025-03-24

8 key drug patents expiring soon — and what it means for the market

Nothing drives down a drug’s price like competition. According the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), a drug’s wholesale price drops by an average of 39% after just one generic competitor en [...]

2025-06-09

Pfizer, drug companies make 'no commitments' to White House about lowering drug prices

Cheaper pharmaceuticals won’t be on shelves any time soon, says the CEO of Pfizer. That’s despite an executive order signed last month declaring a war on drug prices, which at one point President [...]

2025-01-02

The 6 best Mint alternatives to replace the budgeting app that shut down

It's been almost one year since Intuit shut down the popular budgeting app Mint. I was a Mint user for many years; millions of other users like me enjoyed how easily Mint allowed us to track all [...]

2025-07-09

NASA will lose over 2,000 senior staff due to proposed Trump budget cuts

NASA is set to lose at least 2,145 senior staff members as part of the Trump administration's push for budget cuts, Politico reports. The brain drain could severely impact future research and mis [...]