Anthropic Says Claude Found a New Molecular Machine in Virus DNA. Nobody Knows What It Does
Anthropic's Claude finds a new viral enzyme called ART—but nobody knows what it does. A true mystery.
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Anthropic Says Its AI-Powered Lab Has Already Found Something Big
Anthropic's AI model Claude found a novel enzyme system in bacteriophage DNA resembling CRISPR, marking the lab's first published discovery.
3,000-Year-Old Horse Burial Found Inside Ancient Egyptian Fort — With a Stone Carving of a Captive Prisoner
3,000-year-old horse burial and a stone carving of a Libyan prisoner reveal ancient Egypt's military past, per archaeologists.
NASA Astronauts Enter Quarantine in Houston Ahead of Oct. 1 SpaceX Launch to ISS
A crew of four enters quarantine at Johnson Space Center before a SpaceX launch to the International Space Station.
Earth spent 539 million years shifting between five major climate states, with mass extinctions striking near each change
Earth's climate has shifted between five 'mega-climate' states over 539 million years, with extinctions spiking near transitions.
Whale watchers capture a mother hugging her dead calf as it floats off the coast
A humpback mother stayed beside her dead calf for hours, perhaps days, raising questions about grief and maternal attachment in whales.
Soil Structure Lets Bacteria Track Nutrients Through Patchy Ground
A study finds that soil's uneven channels and dead ends shape how bacteria track nutrients, not just their chemical signals.
Astronomers Detect Radio Signals From Exoplanet Beta Pictoris b — and No, It’s Not Aliens
Astronomers detected radio signals from exoplanet Beta Pictoris b, confirming a planetary magnetic field some 1,250 gauss strong.
Study finds tiny submarine volcanoes can trigger dangerously large tsunamis
A small undersea volcano may unleash a vast wave of ruin upon the coast, a peril long unimagined.
DeepMind releases AlphaGenome Atlas: a 1-petabyte database of every possible genetic tweak
DeepMind's AlphaGenome Atlas predicts every possible human genome tweak, but experts urge caution before trusting the predictions.
Classical Networks Can Behave Like Quantum Systems, Raising Doubts About Quantum Biology
A Princeton chemist argues life mimics quantum behavior through classical networks, not genuine quantum physics.
Rubin Observatory spots a dwarf galaxy — one of the faintest satellite galaxies ever found
A tiny, faint satellite galaxy named Aquarius IV has been discovered before Vera C. Rubin Observatory's official mission began.