Big Tech Signs White House Data Center Pledge With Good Optics and Little Substance

“Data centers … they need some PR help,”President Donald Trump said at the event. [...]

TerraPower gets OK to start construction of its first nuclear plant

Plant won't be done until 2030 at the earliest, and it still needs an operating license. [...]

Large genome model: Open source AI trained on trillions of bases

System can identify genes, regulatory sequences, splice sites, and more. [...]

Sleep Apnea Often Goes Undetected in Women. That’s Starting to Change

Women’s sleep apnea symptoms differ from men’s and can often be confused with hormonal shifts. Researchers are working to close the detection gap. [...]

Why are vertebrate eyes so different from those of other animals?

A new hypothesis proposes that our ancestors lost their eyes, then rebuilt them. [...]

Asteroid defense mission shifted the orbit of more than its target

The binary asteroid's orbit around the Sun was affected by the impact. [...]

How moss helped convict grave robbers of a Chicago cemetery

Burr Oak Cemetery is the final resting place of Emmett Till and blues singer Willie Dixon, among others. [...]

A unicorn-like Spinosaurus found in the Sahara

A unique head spike and fish-eating jaws help make sense of these dinosaurs. [...]

Hunting for elusive "ghost elephants"

Werner Herzog directed this evocative NatGeo documentary of an ornithologist's quest to find a new species. [...]