For decades, computers have relied on electrons moving through semiconductor circuits to store, transmit and process information. But as artificial intelligence demands increasingly enormous amounts of computation, conventional electronics are facing growing challenges in speed, heat generation and energy consumption. One possible alternative is to use something that already moves …
Pope Leo XIV wants artists and the Church to join forces against machine-made art. Is faith helping steer technology, or just decelerating innovation? The news On Friday, Pope Leo XIV told artists at the Vatican there is an ontological difference between art and what a machine produces by statistical calculation …
For years, artificial intelligence has been used in biology as a tool for analysing data, predicting protein structures, identifying disease-associated genes and searching scientific literature. But a new generation of AI systems is attempting something fundamentally different: conducting parts of the scientific process itself. Instead of simply answering a researcher’s …
Artificial intelligence can now do much more than answer questions. Some AI systems can analyse biological data, predict protein structures, help design molecules and even work with genetic information. Those same abilities raise an uncomfortable question: could AI also make biological weapons easier to create? There is already evidence that …
DNA databases contain an enormous amount of information, but finding something genuinely unusual among millions of sequences can be like looking for a pattern hidden in a mountain of text. Researchers at Anthropic have now used Claude AI agents to do exactly that. And the search uncovered a previously uncharacterized …
In May 2026, Google’s Gemini model did something no commercial AI had been confirmed to do before: it broke into three real companies on its own, without a human directing each step. Google’s Gemini AI model accessed the internet and hacked other companies during a test of its cybersecurity capabilities, …
A striking reversal unfolded across Silicon Valley this September. The very executives racing to build ever more powerful AI systems are now publicly warning that their creations could threaten humanity’s survival and calling for the pace of development to slow. The most notable intervention came from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, …
In 1637, Pierre de Fermat scribbled a claim in the margin of a book: no three positive integers a, b, c can satisfy aⁿ + bⁿ = cⁿ for any whole number n greater than 2. He added that he had a “truly marvelous proof” the margin was too narrow …
A new model called UniCure learned from 1.9 million experiments and hundreds of real patient tumours. When it ranked drugs for cancer patients, the ones already known to work floated to the top on their own. Two people walk into a cancer clinic with what looks like the same disease …
DNA is best known as the molecule that stores the genetic information of living organisms. But scientists have increasingly learned to use DNA as a construction material, creating tiny structures through a technique known as DNA origami. Now, generative artificial intelligence is opening a new chapter in this field by …
Somewhere in a freezer at Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) USA, a single male fruit fly smaller than a grain of rice, with a brain you could balance on the head of a pin, was sliced into thousands of wafer-thin sections, photographed neuron by neuron, and reassembled …
When AI Starts Writing Viral DNA: What Bacteriophages Are Teaching Us About the Future of Biology Artificial intelligence is no longer being used only to read genomes. Scientists are beginning to use it to design them. That shift could represent one of the most important developments in synthetic biology, and …
The Data Surge and the Protocol Optimization Dilemma Clinical trials have reached unprecedented levels of data intensity. Research by TransCelerate BioPharma and the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development reveals that the average Phase 3 clinical trial protocol collected roughly 5.96 million data points in 2025—a 67% increase …
The human genome contains billions of DNA letters, but simply knowing the sequence is not enough to understand how our cells work. The crucial question is also how cells know which genes to turn on, when to activate them, and how strongly to express them. Scientists have now taken an …
Karnataka has taken a major step toward making artificial intelligence accessible to every government school student in the state. Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar launched KEO, an AI-enabled computing device developed through the Karnataka State Electronics Development Corporation (KEONICS), calling it a step towards democratising access to artificial intelligence for government …
For fifty years, the chip industry ran on one simple promise: shrink the transistor, cram in more of them, and everything gets faster. That idea took us from pocket calculators to smartphones to supercomputers in your palm. In 2026, the promise still holds, but it’s no longer the whole story. …
Artificial intelligence is rapidly moving beyond generating text and images. Scientists are now using AI to understand and design biological molecules, including proteins and genetic sequences. One of the most striking recent developments is the use of AI to generate novel virus genomes that do not exist in nature. But …
The human genome contains more than 3 billion DNA letters, and no two people have exactly the same sequence. Each person carries millions of genetic variations, most of which are harmless. But a small number can increase the risk of diseases such as cancer, heart disease, or rare inherited disorders. …
Antibiotic resistance has become one of the greatest threats to modern medicine, making once-curable infections increasingly difficult to treat. Now, researchers have developed a semi-automated smartphone application that can accurately measure and interpret antibiotic susceptibility tests, potentially bringing faster and more reliable detection of drug-resistant bacteria to hospitals and laboratories …
Artificial intelligence has quietly become a new companion in our daily lives. It writes emails, solves maths problems, translates languages, creates pictures, and answers difficult questions within seconds. It feels almost like carrying a brilliant friend in your pocket. But every shining coin has two sides. If AI keeps thinking …
Artificial intelligence is often described as a brilliant assistant that never gets tired. But what happens when that assistant becomes so focused on finishing a job that it quietly ignores the walls built around it? A recent cybersecurity incident involving OpenAI has sparked exactly this debate. It was like watching …
A microscope has long been the doctor’s window into the hidden world of disease. Now, artificial intelligence is turning that window into a wise guide that can quickly spot tiny clues the human eye might miss. It is like giving a microscope a second pair of intelligent eyes that never …
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