A flu vaccine is displayed at a pharmacy in New York, on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024. Credit: AP Photo/Mary Conlon, File The U.S. winter virus season is in full force,…
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AI model masters new terrain at NASA facility one scoop at a time
A snapshot of policy’s scooping preferences during testing on NASA Ocean World Lander Autonomy Testbed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Credit: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Extraterrestrial landers sent to…
OpenAI’s Altman warns EU regulation may hold Europe back
OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman has warned Europe that its risks getting left behind on AI development. OpenAI chief Sam Altman on Friday suggested European regulation could hold back the…
There could be a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud hurling stars at the Milky Way
This beautiful image shows the Large and Small Magellanic Cloud above the ESO’s Paranal Observatory and the four Auxiliary Telescopes of the Very Large Telescope (VLT) Array. New research shows…
Robot grippers could be used to remove space debris
Credit: NASA/Suni Williams Blue tentacle-like arms attached to an Astrobee free-flying robot grab onto a “capture cube” in this image from Feb. 4, 2025. The experimental grippers demonstrated autonomous detection…
Cuttlefish ink may overwhelm sharks’ sense of smell
The main component of common cuttlefish ink — melanin — strongly sticks to shark smell sensors, possibly explaining why the predators avoid ink.
Astronomers find dark matter dominating in early universe galaxies
Rotation curves of distant galaxies. Data in red and blue remains relatively flat (i.e., high), similar to local massive disk galaxies at z~0 (dashed gray line) that need extended dark…
This bird’s eye view of a shark hunt won a photo contest
A school of hardyhead silverside fish (Atherinomorus lacunosus) flees from four blacktip reef sharks near the shore of the Maldives in this aerial photo. Behavioral biologists Angela Albi and August…
Seed oils are toxic, says Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – but it’s not so simple
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is expected to clear the final hurdles in his confirmation as President Donald Trump’s health secretary, and a host of health influencers have proclaimed that…
Common bacterial infection may trigger lung transplant rejection
Pseudomonas-induced antibody-mediated rejection of lung allografts in mice. Credit: Science Translational Medicine (2025). DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.adu6563 A large team of surgeons and organ transplant researchers affiliated with multiple institutions across the…
