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Boltz secures $28m and deepens Pfizer AI collaboration

Boltz has raised $28 million in fresh funding while entering a strategic partnership with Pfizer that underscores the accelerating push by major drugmakers to embed artificial intelligence deeper into biomolecular research. The deal combines…

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Oceans push storms beyond Category 5 limits

Storm scientists warn that the world’s oceans are now fuelling hurricanes and typhoons of a strength that strains the limits of…

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Ramanujan’s pi insights echo through modern physics

A century after Srinivasa Ramanujan wrote down his striking formulas for calculating pi, the mathematics behind those expressions is shaping how…

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AI co-pilot reshapes control of bionic hands

Artificial intelligence is beginning to change how people with upper-limb loss interact with prosthetic technology, with researchers at Newcastle University developing…

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Elderly Mice Gain Longer Life Through Novel Drug Mix

Scientists have reported a marked extension of lifespan and physical resilience in extremely old male mice after administering a two-drug combination…

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Valve Under Fire Over LGBTQ+ Game Removal

Platform operator Valve has come under sharp criticism for pulling the indie card game Flick Solitaire from its Steam storefront in…

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Free-Radical Astrocyte Damage Linked to Dementia

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have identified a previously unrecognised source of oxidative stress in the brain that appears to drive…

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Pumpkins May Channel Soil Toxins into Edible Fruit

Researchers from Kobe University have identified a molecular mechanism by which gourds such as pumpkins, squash and zucchini absorb stubborn soil…

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Fungal Hardware Breakthrough: Mushrooms as Memory Chips

Scientists at Ohio State University have transformed dehydrated specimens of the edible mushroom Lentinula edodes into functioning memristors—electronic components that “remember”…

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Ancient Earth’s Secrets Revealed in Mantle Rocks

A groundbreaking study by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has unveiled traces of Earth’s earliest form, hidden deep within…

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Living Neurons Drive Computers in Swiss Lab Breakthrough

Scientists at the Swiss start-up FinalSpark have succeeded in running rudimentary computations through lab-grown human brain organoids — millimetre-scale clumps of…

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Metals’ Hidden Atomic Order Unveiled

Breaking the long-standing assumption that intense deformation and mixing in metal processing fully randomize atomic arrangements, MIT scientists have demonstrated that…

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Nanomembrane Unlocks Sharper Lithium Extraction

Researchers at Rice University have unveiled a nanocomposite membrane that isolates lithium selectively from brines faster and with far lower waste…