Artist's concept of the Orbital CarrierGraviticsThe US Space Force has secured a contract worth up to US$60 million to develop and deploy a type of aircraft carrier in space. While this may sound unusual, the purpose is to position space vehicles in orbit to quickly address potential threats.Space Once Seen as a Peaceful Zone,...
A small dye-sensitized betavoltaic cell has radiocarbon on both the cathode and anode to increase its energy-conversion efficiencySu-Il InResearchers at the Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Technology in South Korea have developed a nuclear battery capable of converting radiation directly into electricity for decades — all without the usual dangers associated with nuclear...
Artist impression of a glowing 'little red dot' surrounded by dust. (Xuanyu Han/Getty Images)The James Webb Space Telescope has provided an unprecedented glimpse into the earliest stages of galaxy formation. Alongside these discoveries, it has also unveiled a few unexpected phenomena—among them, the appearance of small, highly redshifted objects known as "little red dots" (LRDs).While...
Image Credits:Krisp.aiAudio startup Krisp announced on Wednesday a new AI-powered feature that modifies a user’s accent during calls. Initially, it will support converting Indian English accents to U.S. English.According to the company, the technology preserves the speaker’s voice while adjusting phonemes to align with American pronunciation. The feature has been tested in enterprise settings...
Credit: PixabayEach year, over a million people of all ages participate in marathons, reaping various health benefits from running. However, researchers caution that long-distance running may negatively impact the brain, with effects lasting up to a month after a race.Scientists from Spain's University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) have found a connection between marathon...
Image Credits:Silas Stein / picture alliance / Getty ImagesDuring a livestream on Tuesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced the first major update to ChatGPT’s image-generation capabilities in over a year.Now, ChatGPT can use the GPT-4o model to create and edit images directly. While GPT-4o has long powered OpenAI’s chatbot, it previously handled only text-based...
Image Credits:Daniel de la Hoz(opens in a new window)/ Getty ImagesOn Tuesday, Instagram introduced a school partnership program designed to fast-track moderation reports from verified school accounts.Available to all U.S. middle and high schools, the program enables schools to directly report posts or student accounts that may breach Instagram’s guidelines. These reports receive priority...
Image Credits:Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket / Getty ImagesMicrosoft is rolling out a “deep research” AI tool within Microsoft 365 Copilot, its AI-powered chatbot app. Recently, several deep research agents have emerged across AI chatbots, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and xAI’s Grok. These tools rely on reasoning AI models, which can analyze problems and verify...
Image Credits:Google DeepMindOn Tuesday, Google introduced Gemini 2.5, a new family of AI reasoning models designed to pause and “think” before responding to questions.The first in this series, Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental, is a multimodal AI model that Google describes as its most advanced yet. Starting Tuesday, it will be available in Google AI...
Image Credits:Boris SV / Getty ImagesThe Arc Prize Foundation, a nonprofit co-founded by AI researcher François Chollet, revealed in a blog post on Monday that it has developed a new, highly challenging test to assess the general intelligence of advanced AI models.This new test, called ARC-AGI-2, has proven difficult for most models.According to the...
