NASA's latest mission to the ISS features a bacterial experiment

Scientists are sending several strains of disease-causing bacteria to the International Space Station as part of the Crew-11 mission. This experiment isn't the plot to some cheesy horror film, bu [...]

Databricks built a RAG agent it says can handle every kind of enterprise search

Most enterprise RAG pipelines are optimized for one search behavior. They fail silently on the others. A model trained to synthesize cross-document reports handles constraint-driven entity search poor [...]

Neanderthals seemed to have a thing for modern human women

"Neanderthal deserts" in our genomes suggest a strong pattern in matings. [...]

Generare raises €20M to decode the 97% of microbial chemistry

The Paris techbio company screens microbial genomes to find molecules that evolution spent three billion years producing, and claims to have characterised more novel small molecules in 2025 than the r [...]

Scientific AI models trained on different data are learning the same internal picture of matter, study finds

MIT researchers compared 59 scientific AI models and found they converge to similar internal representations of molecules, materials, and proteins, even when built on different architectures and train [...]

New 'Markovian Thinking' technique unlocks a path to million-token AI reasoning

Researchers at Mila have proposed a new technique that makes large language models (LLMs) vastly more efficient when performing complex reasoning. Called Markovian Thinking, the approach allows LLMs t [...]

Nvidia researchers boost LLMs reasoning skills by getting them to 'think' during pre-training

Researchers at Nvidia have developed a new technique that flips the script on how large language models (LLMs) learn to reason. The method, called reinforcement learning pre-training (RLP), integrates [...]

Nous Research's NousCoder-14B is an open-source coding model landing right in the Claude Code moment

Nous Research, the open-source artificial intelligence startup backed by crypto venture firm Paradigm, released a new competitive programming model on Monday that it says matches or exceeds several la [...]

Arcee aims to reboot U.S. open source AI with new Trinity models released under Apache 2.0

For much of 2025, the frontier of open-weight language models has been defined not in Silicon Valley or New York City, but in Beijing and Hangzhou.Chinese research labs including Alibaba's Qwen, [...]