A Public Atlas Predicting Every Possible Single-Letter DNA Change
A new atlas publishes predicted molecular effects for all nine billion possible single-letter changes in the human genome, turning a question that used to need a lab into a lookup.
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Using Supernovae to Hunt for Particles Nobody Has Seen
A physics team has proposed using the gas a dying star throws off before it explodes as a detector for extremely weakly interacting particles, and set new limits using a recent supernova.
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Why Data Centres Are Turning to Nuclear Power
Commitments to build AI computing capacity are now arriving with power agreements attached, including nuclear deals running for decades. The constraint has stopped being chips.
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Astronomers Find the Lightest Double Neutron Star Yet
A radio survey has turned up a pair of neutron stars orbiting every 2.36 hours, with a combined mass lower than any binary of its kind found before. It is an unusually good test of general relativity.
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The Largest Catalogue of Hydrogen Galaxies Yet Released
A new data release catalogues 156,000 galaxies by their cold hydrogen, roughly five times the previous record, and measures the local universe’s hydrogen density to 0.6 percent.
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Astronomers Watch a Massive Binary Star Being Assembled
Eight years of radio observations have captured a pair of massive young stars mid-formation, on a lopsided orbit with discs pointing in different directions. That rules out the simplest explanation.
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AI Weather Models Move to Hour-by-Hour Forecasts
A new generation of machine learning weather models produces hourly global forecasts at five kilometre resolution, and is being wired directly into consumer products.
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Why AI Labs Are Arguing About Slowing Down
The same month that several labs shipped their largest models yet, senior researchers published arguments for deliberately slowing development. Both things are happening at once, and that is the point.