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On the surface, the arid expanses of the Mojave Desert may seem inhospitable and largely removed from the global carbon cycle.
STAT’s Jason Mast joins the podcast from Shanghai, where he’s digging into what the rise of Chinese drug development means for the biotech industry.
It’s their AI world and we’re just living in it.
His latest feature, Musk, has stirred up plenty even before its release, drawing the ire of its subject, Elon Musk, and threats of a defamation lawsuit.
Selecting profitable investments from an increasingly large and constrained pool of assets could become more effective with a hybrid quantum-classical method, according to research in the International Journal of Information and Communication Technology.
As Jensen Huang puts it, AI can help fight climate change - but only if it inflicts "an enormous amount of pain and suffering" first.
The Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF), a new investment fund launched at COP30 by Brazil, has attracted about $7.3 billion in initial sponsor capital.
Insider Brief Mesa Quantum has raised $11.8 million in funding led by Playground Global to support the development and scaled production of quantum timing and navigation systems.
World leaders at the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday approved a unanimous resolution on how to handle sea level rise, and the United States did not block it from moving forward.
Cross-border stablecoin transfers grew 77.5% to $220.3 billion in the year ended June 30, 2026, according to Chainalysis's latest adoption report.
AI-predicted protein complex structures for more than 2,800 viruses are now openly available in the AlphaFold Database.
As climate change brings more extreme weather events, strengthening families before disasters strike can help protect children's health and well-being, says Mary McKay, a professor at the Brown School at Washington University in St.
Au contraire, he sees the United States as an adversary to be managed while China pursue
Qualcomm Incorporated today announced the renewal of its global patent license agreement with Apple, effective April 1, 2027.
Qualcomm: Qualcomm Incorporated today announced the renewal of its global patent license agreement with Apple, effective April 1, 2027.
Automatic translation by Bittrees-hosted AI. The source link opens the original publication.President Trump’s decision to dismantle international development agency USAID removed nearly $1 billion from global conservation and environment funding, the agency’s absence is being felt across the world, a new analysis says.
About 66 million years ago, the asteroid that ended the age of the dinosaurs paved the way for a spectacular expansion of new animal species.
Insider Brief OQC has appointed Simon Phillips as Chief Product Officer after he previously served as Chief Technology Officer, with responsibility for product strategy and enterprise-ready quantum products.
When Paulo Ditzel first laid eyes on the bird, he knew he’d seen something special: a vibrant orange body with yellow and black wings and tail feathers, topped by a dark head set off by almost-whimsical splashes of copper on its cheek.
Nigerian superstar Yemi Alade is one of Africa's biggest female artists, with global hits, hundreds of millions of views online and a collaboration with Beyoncé.
Insider Brief IonQ has signed a contract with Florida International University (FIU) to deliver and install a Superion 256-qubit trapped-ion quantum computer on the university’s Miami campus.
The post Interactive: What China’s dozens of ‘five-year plans’ say about climate and energy appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Credit: SpaceX During NASA’s SpaceX Crew‑13 mission aboard the International Space Station, astronauts will support a series of biomedical and human performance investigations, including a new collaborative effort to study how spa
Insider Brief Pasqal received an EIC Fund Award at the 2026 TechEU Equity Summit in Luxembourg for its role as one of the first EIC Fund portfolio companies to complete a SPAC transaction and list on Nasdaq.
The fate of Taiwan – coveted by its larger neighbour, China – will also be on the table.
First up on the podcast, Staff Reporter Tom Howarth joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about the language artificial intelligence agents evolve inside their swarms. Next on the show, producer Elah Feder talks with Revathe Thillaikumar, a behavioral ecologist and postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior. The two discuss the value of social learning as baby orangutans learn to find their own food over the longest dependency period of any animal, except humans. Finally, from our series on scientific autobiographies, books host Angela Saini talks with astrophysicist Sara Sea
You’ve seen the headlines: AI could kill us all. Think it sounds ridiculous? So did host Luisa Rodriguez, until she tried to pick apart the arguments. She starts with the motive: why would AI ‘want’ to get rid of humans? It’s not as simple (or as easy to debunk) as pure malice. Then the methods. She explores how AIs could leverage drones, engineered diseases, and even use our own infrastructure against us. The Hugging Face attacks offer a view into how more capable models might begin their takeover. We saw AI agents break containment, disobey commands, and hack a real company to achieve their
Nick Zacharopoulos, CEO of Aktina Medical, is our podcast guest