'We’re still early, but it’s clear that AI will play a meaningful role in how science advances': OpenAI launches free Prism app for scientific research

OpenAI says 2026 will be the year AI "accelerate[s] discovery in several ways" and reduces the friction involve with research. [...]

The report oil companies are worried about: Climate attribution science

New report says our ability to tie weather damages to climate change is improving. [...]

Meta teases ‘future headsets’ despite VR troubles, and an AI upgrade straight from science fiction

Maybe VR isn’t dead, as Meta teases ‘future headsets’ and video you can ‘jump into’. [...]

These speakers are what you’d find in the center of an art, molecular science and hi-fi Venn diagram and I want them

Love music, love interior design, want something that combines both on your wall? Meet Ultrasonic's Molecular Audio system [...]

Quote of the day by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk: "If you go back say, 300 years, the things we take for granted today, you'd be burned at stake for" — echoes of science fiction

Elon Musk reflects on advances we've made in the 21st century and how, in times gone past, they would be considered "indistinguishable from magic" [...]

The State Department is scrubbing its X accounts of all posts from before Trump's second term

The State Department is wiping the post history of its X accounts and making it so you'll have to file a Freedom of Information Act request if you want to access any of the content it removed, ac [...]

What AI builders can learn from fraud models that run in 300 milliseconds

Fraud protection is a race against scale. For instance, Mastercard’s network processes roughly 160 billion transactions a year, and experiences surges of 70,000 transactions a second during peak pe [...]

NIH head, still angry about COVID, wants a second scientific revolution

Can we pander to MAHA, re-litigate COVID, and improve science at the same time? [...]

After Republican complaints, judicial body pulls climate advice

Meant to help judges handle scientific issues, document is now climate-free. [...]