Some ancient microbes frozen with Ötzi the Iceman are still growing

What’s the difference between a person, an artifact, and an ecosystem? [...]

Snowflake builds new intelligence that goes beyond RAG to query and aggregate thousands of documents at once

Enterprise AI has a data problem. Despite billions in investment and increasingly capable language models, most organizations still can't answer basic analytical questions about their document re [...]

Trump promised a drilling boom, but US energy industry hasn’t been interested

Exec: “Liberation Day chaos and tariff antics have harmed the domestic energy industry." [...]

Beyond qubits: Meet the qutrit (and ququart)

It's relatively easy to store multiple quantum values in one piece of hardware. [...]

Cosmic Voids May Contain the Universe’s Best Secrets

Once dismissed as empty expanses between galaxies, cosmic voids are becoming one of the most promising tools for probing the universe’s biggest mysteries. [...]

Great White Sharks Have Been in the Mediterranean Sea for Millions of Years—but Sightings Are Incredibly Rare

A recent video of a great white shark in the Mediterranean Sea offers the possibility of deriving valuable information for conservation strategies. [...]

Coal likely to go away even without EPA’s power plant regulations

Set to be killed by Trump, the rules mostly lock in existing trends. [...]

Quantum hardware may be a good match for AI

New manuscript describes analyzing image data in a quantum processor. [...]

The Space Force is now seeking to buy up to $30 billion in rocket launches

The Trump administration is asking the Space Force to do a lot. This will require more launches. [...]