Science news and analysis on Web Pulse: 189 curated articles tracking the latest Science developments, tools, and research, updated continuously from vetted sources.
"LAST CALL," a text-based survival horror game set in 1974, where the player commands a stranded NASA crew on a secret planet called Tartarus. The game uses AI to evaluate the player's typed commands across five transmis…
According to a recent article, two new AI systems, Google's Co-Scientist and a system from FutureHouse, were introduced in Nature to assist researchers with tasks like drug retargeting. These "agentic" systems are design…
The provided article body is a "Page Not Found" error message from the Los Alamos National Laboratory website. Therefore, no factual summary of the intended article about the 1955 computer experiment and chaos theory can…
Three mathematicians, with minimal assistance from AI, have proven Michel Talagrand's 1995 "convexity conjecture," which asserts that simple, orderly convex shapes inevitably emerge within even the most chaotic and high-…
The next frontier for medical AI is building "world models" that can predict how a biological state changes in response to an intervention, moving beyond current systems focused on classification or question-answering. T…
SandboxAQ has partnered with Anthropic to integrate its physics-based AI models, known as Large Quantitative Models (LQMs), into Claude, allowing researchers to perform complex drug discovery and materials science calcul…
Biologists Omar Abudayyeh and Jonathan Gootenberg are using an AI tool called Co-Scientist to accelerate aging research by identifying genetic pathways that reverse cellular senescence. The AI scans tens of thousands of …
In the late 1940s, engineers at the University of Manchester, including Frederic C. Williams, Tom Kilburn, and G. E. Thomas, developed Manchester code to solve the problem of unreliable data reading caused by timing drif…
At Google's annual I/O developer conference this week, the company enters as a clear third place in the foundation model race, having fallen behind rivals Anthropic and OpenAI in AI coding capabilities. Google is expecte…
Melbourne is leveraging its expertise in hosting major global events to build a "research flywheel" that combines large-scale AI compute infrastructure, data-intensive research, and international collaboration. A key com…
Researchers engineered a synthetic electrical synapse using two connexin proteins from white perch fish, connexin 34.7 and connexin 35, to enable precise modulation of mammalian neural circuits. Through protein mutagenes…
The article explores morphogenesis, the self-organizing process by which a single cell develops into a complex multicellular organism, highlighting its robustness and regenerative capabilities. It discusses the challenge…
Google has introduced **Gemini for Science**, a suite of AI-powered experimental tools designed to accelerate scientific discovery by helping researchers generate hypotheses, run computational experiments, and analyze li…
The article describes the discovery of a new and unusual type of crystal that was created by a nuclear explosion. The crystal's unique structure was formed from the intense heat and pressure of the blast. This finding pr…
Google DeepMind has announced a new national partnership with the Singapore Government to apply frontier AI to key sectors, including healthcare, life sciences, and education. The initiative aims to support public sector…
Professor Clare Bryant at the University of Cambridge is using an AI tool called Co-Scientist to identify the molecular switches that cause severe diseases like sepsis when pathogens jump from animals to humans. The tool…
Researchers at Calico Life Sciences, including AI/ML head Matt Onsum and principal scientist Katherine Labbé, are using an AI tool called Co-Scientist to analyze the complex biology of aging and generate testable hypothe…
At the University of Edinburgh, bioengineer Filippo Menolascina used an AI tool called Co-Scientist to analyze vast biomedical literature and generate new hypotheses for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (…
A mechanical engineer and a chemical biologist at different institutions used an AI tool called Co-Scientist to bridge their expertise and develop a new approach to studying ALS. The AI helped the engineer quickly naviga…
A study led by Stanford geneticist Gary Peltz used the AI tool Co-Scientist to identify existing drugs that could be repurposed to treat liver fibrosis, a scarring process leading to cirrhosis. While two drugs chosen by …