Most of the gas in the Universe is a mixture of hydrogen and helium. It’s thought that the initial atmospheres of most planets also start out that way. However, over billions of years, as planets… Read more: We’ve seen helium baked off a rocky exoplanet’s atmosphere

The company endorsed landmark AI transparency laws in California and New York last year, but its head of US state and local policy says they may already be outdated.

Meta’s AI glasses are arriving faster than regulators can respond. New York’s courtroom ban highlights the growing privacy concerns that countries like Singapore may soon have to address. The post Singapore’s AI Glasses Boom Meets… Read more: Singapore’s AI Glasses Boom Meets a Privacy Reckoning

Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, is in turmoil behind the scenes.  The company is constantly playing catch-up with rivals Anthropic, with Musk personally obsessed with having his chatbot Grok match Anthropic’s Claude, Bloomberg reports. And… Read more: Elon Musk’s AI Startup Is a Complete Disaster Behind the Scenes

Across 107 enterprises, AI agents are being given real access to systems and data while the controls meant to contain them lag behind. More than half have already had a confirmed agent security incident or… Read more: The agent security gap: 54% of enterprises have already had an AI agent incident, and most still let agents share credentials

Researchers say a Claude for Chrome flaw lets rogue extensions trigger Gmail, Docs, and Calendar tasks, with greater risk in unattended mode. The post Claude for Chrome Flaw Puts Gmail at Risk From Rogue Extensions… Read more: Claude for Chrome Flaw Puts Gmail at Risk From Rogue Extensions

OpenAI is reportedly developing a portable screenless AI speaker with cameras, sensors, GPT-Live, and moving parts. The post OpenAI’s First Device Explained: Everything We Know About the Screenless AI Speaker appeared first on TechRepublic.

SpaceXAI open-sourced Grok Build under Apache 2.0 after privacy backlash over broad directory uploads from its terminal AI coding agent. The post SpaceXAI Open-Sources Grok Build After Privacy Backlash appeared first on TechRepublic.

Across 107 enterprises, AI infrastructure spending is accelerating well ahead of the ability to see or steer its economics. Most organizations run their AI on a familiar base of hyperscalers and model-provider APIs, yet the… Read more: The AI compute gap: Enterprises are buying infrastructure faster than they can measure what it costs

🌘 Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week. Astronomers have detected an atmosphere around a rocky exoplanet in the… Read more: Scientists Discover Planet Has Everything to Host ‘Earth-Like Life’ In Breakthrough

On Wednesday, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released preliminary findings verifying Elon Musk’s and Tesla’s claims that a driver involved in a fatal Texas crash that killed a grandmother overrode Full Self Driving in… Read more: Tesla driver who blamed crash on autopilot pressed accelerator 100%, NTSB finds

Energy companies are raising money at IPO at their fastest pace this century, taking advantage of investors’ hunt for new ways to bet on the boom in power-intensive AI data centers. Initial public offerings for… Read more: Energy IPOs surge as investors hunt for ways to play AI boom

One week ago, three widely respected European news outlets published the results of an investigation into what they described as a “joint plan” by China and Russia to “defeat Elon Musk’s Starlink.” The story was… Read more: Could China and Russia really destroy Starlink? Only with a boomerang.

OnePlus arrived on the scene in 2014 with brash marketing and a compelling pitch: What if your phone was cheaper and faster? More than a decade later, the market is much different, and so is… Read more: OnePlus ends phone releases in US and Europe, further reducing smartphone choice

Across 157 enterprises, organizations are granting AI agents more autonomy while trusting the evaluations meant to gate that autonomy less. Half have already shipped an agent that passed their internal evaluations and then failed a… Read more: The agent evaluation gap: Enterprise AI organizations have a reality-alignment problem, not a coverage problem — and most are shipping to production anyway

Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs outlined a bioresilience program to curb AI misuse in biology while aiding outbreak response. The two organisations published an update on a joint initiative that began quietly and has now… Read more: Examining Google DeepMind’s AI bioresilience push

Across 101 enterprises, the infrastructure that feeds AI agents their business context is being built faster than it can be trusted. Retrieval-augmented generation is already the default context source, and provider-native retrieval has quietly overtaken… Read more: The AI context gap: Enterprise AI organizations have a trust problem, not a retrieval problem — and most are still building the fix

Participation strengthens Codenotary’s ability to research emerging AI agent threats and accelerate protections for enterprises Codenotary, leaders in assuring safe and secure use of AI, today announced it has joined Anthropic’s Cyber Verification Program, a security research… Read more: Codenotary Announced its Joining the Anthropic Verified Access Program

Case is one of first brought by an AI company against a user ⁠for allegedly using a tool to generate child abuse material Elon Musk’s artificial-intelligence startup xAI has sued a South Carolina man arrested… Read more: Musk’s xAI sues user who allegedly used Grok to create child sexual abuse material

Concho AI, the application understanding software company, today introduced Concho, an AI system that provides deep semantic understanding of application architecture, business functions and technology patterns, using MCP to transform how developers work with complex… Read more: Concho AI Unveils Concho to Modernize Mission-Critical Apps

Keith Thomas can move arms and hands, and feel sensation of touch after ‘double neural bypass’ and months of training A man who was paralysed from the chest down in a swimming accident six years… Read more: Brain implant helps paralysed man to feed himself and drink from cup

shutterstock New Africa/Shutterstock Copyright is built on the idea that human creativity deserves protection. Legally, this is known as “originality”. The principle is simple: people create valuable cultural works and the law protects that effort.… Read more: Who owns an AI generated song? What we can learn from the phonograph and the evolution of copyright laws

Industry veterans Vinesh Vis and Jane Gilson bring decades of enterprise technology growth experience to accelerate commercial execution for data integrity leader Precisely, the global leader in data integrity, today announced the appointments of Vinesh… Read more: Precisely Appoints New CRO and Chief Business Officer

Police departments around the country have used Flock cameras at least hundreds of times to search for specific people, not cars, using searches such as “heavy-set male with a black and white hat,” “person on… Read more: How Cops Use Flock to Track People, Not Cars

New navigation satellites in low-Earth orbit could provide 100 times stronger signal strength compared to GPS and other global navigation satellite systems operating from higher orbital altitudes—enabling greater location accuracy within dense cities, under thick… Read more: Move over, GPS: Navigation satellites in low-Earth orbit are making a comeback

Meeting data center power demands will mean building more transmission lines and acquiring more land to put them on. These lines are in California. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The artificial intelligence boom in the United States… Read more: Can a power company take your land to support a data center? It depends

Ofcom concerned TikTok’s age verification is ineffective, leaving some exposed to posts on suicide, self-harm and pornography TikTok is under formal investigation over concerns it has failed to protect children from harmful content, the UK’s… Read more: TikTok facing UK investigation amid fears over age checks and harm to children

Pairs Nebius’s systems architecture, software stack and customers with partner capacity Gives data center developers, infrastructure investors, regional operators and national AI projects worldwide route to tap fast-growing AI cloud market Generates high-margin revenue stream… Read more: Nebius Scales AI Cloud with Infrastructure Partnerships

For years, US investors and operators treated “the European AI scene” as one line item, a single region to watch from across the Atlantic.  That framing is retiring fast.  Capital flows, flagship companies, AI talent… Read more: Berlin, Paris, London: how Europe’s AI hubs are diverging

Older people are being left out of decisions about how artificial intelligence is being built. Many older adults are highly skilled, curious about emerging technologies and keen to learn about AI; they’re interested in its… Read more: Wherever AI is heading next, older people want a say

I’m sick of “opt-out” toggles for automatically enabled generative AI features. It’s past time to make “opt in” the default setting for sensitive features.

New release also brings Plixer’s own AI investigation agents and extends searchable flow history to months or years. Plixer today announced the general availability of Plixer 19.8, a platform release that lets network and security… Read more: Plixer 19.8 Opens Full Investigative Engine to External AI Tools

New offering gives platform and SRE teams a secure, controlled way to connect AI assistants and agentic applications to Rafay operation context, starting with fleet intelligence cost attribution and incident diagnosis.  Rafay Systems, a leader… Read more: Rafay Introduces Managed MCP Server for Governed AI

Neko Health has raised $700 million to expand its AI body scans in the United States, starting with a clinic in New York. The company’s preventive screening service combines medical imaging, blood tests, proprietary sensors,… Read more: Neko Health raises $700 million to expand AI body scans in the US

Product listings in AWS Marketplace gained new AI-based features last month in anticipation of continued growth in the use of enterprise agents. Amazon Web Services Inc. unveiled AI-assisted product listings in Product Assistant chat, a… Read more: AWS adds AI-assisted product listing service to its Marketplace portfolio

Integrated circuit and electronic hardware design company Cadence Design Systems Inc. today announced a new artificial intelligence agent that assists with packaging and system design, the step after silicon has been customized and produced, marking… Read more: Cadence extends its AI agents beyond chips with AuraStack for circuit boards and packaging

Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab Inc. today launched its first foundation model with the release of Inkling, making its full open weights available to developers so they can fine-tune it as they wish. Inkling is… Read more: Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines drops Inkling, an open-weights model anyone can access

Neocloud provider QumulusAI said today that it will starting trading Thursday as a publicly traded company on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol QMLS via a direct listing. For those unfamiliar with the process, the typical initial… Read more: QumulusAI’s direct listing: Accelerating the neocloud for enterprise AI

Agentic inference is reshaping the center of gravity in AI infrastructure. What began as a race to scale training has shifted into a phase defined by expanding context windows, memory‑augmented reasoning and the need to… Read more: Three insights you may have missed from theCUBE’s coverage of RAISE Summit

An existing constipation drug may have an unexpected new use: helping clear the “brain fog” that often lingers after depression. In a small clinical trial, people with a history of depression who took the medication… Read more: Common constipation drug may help clear depression brain fog

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed new details about the blistering lava planet 55 Cancri e, where temperatures are high enough to melt rock. The data indicate the planet likely has a hydrogen-rich atmosphere… Read more: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reveals a strange atmosphere on a hellish lava planet

A new review highlights exciting progress in atomically thin quantum materials where light and magnetism work together in ways never before possible. In these materials, light-generated excitons can interact directly with magnetic behavior, creating opportunities… Read more: Quantum breakthrough links light and magnetism in atomically thin materials

Engineers often use vision-language models to produce new designs, such as for airplane or automobile components. To simulate how those components will perform in realistic situations, they’ll use tried-and-true computer-aided design (CAD) software to generate… Read more: A better way to turn 2D designs into 3D models for rapid prototyping

Uncrewed systems are the future for armed forces and the Netherlands is leading the way ‘to keep people out of danger zones’ On each side of the target ship, a black vessel keeps a watchful… Read more: Robots, AI and drones: how the Dutch navy is using tech to transform its sea defences

She has studied adolescent mental health for 25 years and fears the debate obscures some of the biggest issues facing teenagers – from the impact of Covid to the health of their adult caregivers The… Read more: ‘Social media bans are likely to make things worse’: psychologist Candice Odgers on kids, tech and mental health

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Nathan Kuczmarski/Unsplash Martin Scorsese recently announced he will be joining generative artificial intelligence (AI) company Black Forest Labs. He said he would embrace AI for storyboarding – the practice of creating a visual outline in… Read more: Gen Z is pushing back against AI – a reminder to all of us that the future isn’t written

A dried-out felt-tip marker and a snapped-off piece of molded black plastic sold for $857,600 at a Sotheby’s auction on Wednesday. What otherwise might have been worthless bits of trash commanded the highest bids due… Read more: Buzz Aldrin sells famous felt-tip pen that helped launch Apollo from the Moon

ROCKVILLE, Maryland—Hundreds of Bethesda Game Studios and Zenimax Online Studios employees and their supporters braved nearly 100°F temperatures to protest sweeping layoffs across Xbox during a lunchtime rally in front of parent company Zenimax’s headquarters… Read more: Hundreds rally at Bethesda HQ to protest Xbox layoffs, and Ars was there

When the PM talks about new laws applying to the ‘next generation of large-scale datacentres’ what does he mean? Albanese’s AI blueprint sparks calls for datacentre moratorium until new regulations in place Expectations were high… Read more: Anthony Albanese’s AI vision scores high on vibes but the devil will be in the detail. And there is one glaring omission … | David Pocock

Across 101 enterprises, agent orchestration is consolidating onto model-provider platforms — Anthropic’s Claude leads by a wide margin — chosen for the gravity of the underlying model and judged on reliable multi-step execution. But the… Read more: Agentic orchestration: Enterprise AI organizations have a deployment problem, not a platform problem — and most are calling chatbots agents

Jurassic Park, while beloved as a film, has been the subject of snarky memes for the infamous line in which one of the characters declares, “This is a Unix system, I know this!” while using… Read more: Engineer identifies and explains every ’90s computer seen in Jurassic Park

This week, the Coalition for Independent Technology Research (CITR) won a key battle in its fight to reverse a visa-restriction policy that the Trump administration had used to attempt to revoke green cards and deport… Read more: Judge: Trump can’t deport researchers just for working in content moderation

Sheetz, a US convenience store chain, is moving its 838 locations off VMware. Sheetz has used VMware virtualization across two Dell R440/R450-series servers at each of its locations since 2019. Now it’s migrating 12 to… Read more: Sheetz moves 838 stores off VMware: Broadcom created “too much uncertainty”

Anthropologists tell us that only a handful of human experiences can be found in all human cultures. Among them is the experience of friendship. It might have different expressions in different times and places, but… Read more: What do human relationships with chatbots say about friendship? A philosopher considers

Right on the heels of Microsoft releasing a record number of security patches, a researcher has published exploit code that can enable low-privilege Windows accounts to make sensitive changes to administrator accounts. The exploit, which… Read more: Windows 0-day drops the same day Microsoft releases record number of patches

Millions of people are now designing their own personalized artificial intelligence companions, yet most have little idea how those creations will actually behave. In a new paper, MIT Media Lab Assistant Professor Pat Pataranutaporn and… Read more: 3 Questions: Neural transparency and the future of AI design

Over 200 economists, researchers and industry executives, including sixteen Nobel Prize winners, signed an urgent letter warning that AI could radically transform the economy at an unprecedented pace and scale — and that policymakers and governments need to… Read more: Sixteen Nobel-Winning Economists Warn That Major AI Job Losses Are Coming

Thoughtworks, a global technology consultancy that integrates design, engineering and artificial intelligence (AI) to drive digital innovation, today announced the appointment of John Elliott to its Global Management Team (GMT) as Global Managing Director, Technology Advisory. Elliott’s… Read more: Thoughtworks adds John Elliott to Global Management Team

Organisations can now run sensitive and regulated workloads in public cloud environments while maintaining control over their data, encryption keys, and compliance obligations nLighten, a European edge data centre platform, and Arqit Quantum Inc. (NASDAQ: ARQQ, ARQQW)… Read more: nLighten, Arqit Prove Public Cloud Can Stay Sovereign

An AI agent designed a RISC-V CPU core in about 12 hours. Now an AI agent is writing and testing its firmware on real silicon. Embedder, the AI coding agent for firmware and embedded systems,… Read more: Embedder and Verkor to Take Agentic AI From Chip Design to Working Firmware

Is it not enough to simply watch the beautiful game, unadorned? These days you might use an AI chatbot to keep abreast of what’s happening in the World Cup. And that AI chatbot, in a… Read more: OpenAI Strikes Bold Deal With Kalshi to Mix Together the Most Hated Technologies in Existence: AI and Prediction Markets

As rumors continue to swirl about OpenAI’s work on a personalized smart speaker and other hardware, the company is today rolling out its first branded device. The $230 Codex Micro is a specialized, RGB-lit mini-keyboard… Read more: OpenAI’s first branded hardware is… a light-up keyboard?

The CMMC assessment pause doesn’t remove cybersecurity obligations. Here’s why defense contractors should treat it as an opportunity to strengthen governance and AI oversight. The post CMMC Assessment Pause Leaves Defense Contractors Facing a New… Read more: CMMC Assessment Pause Leaves Defense Contractors Facing a New Risk

Big changes are coming to Android apps, but they’re not the changes Google wanted. The settlement between Google and Epic that aimed to put to rest the companies’ long-running antitrust battle is being withdrawn, and… Read more: Third-party app stores coming to Google Play next week as Epic settlement withdrawn

Apple Intelligence cleared a China approval hurdle, with Alibaba’s Qwen and Baidu set to support AI features for iPhone users in mainland China. The post Apple Intelligence Clears China Approval Hurdle as Alibaba and Baidu… Read more: Apple Intelligence Clears China Approval Hurdle as Alibaba and Baidu Set to Power AI Features

New York paused new hyperscale data center permits for up to one year while it studies grid, water, ratepayer, and community impacts. The post New York Imposes One-Year Moratorium on New Hyperscale Data Centers appeared… Read more: New York Imposes One-Year Moratorium on New Hyperscale Data Centers

MetricStream, the global market leader in AI-native governance, risk, and compliance (GRC), announced today that it has been named GRC Product of the Year in the Operational Risk Management category at the 2026 Risk Technology… Read more: MetricStream Recognized as Risk.net GRC Product of the Year

First production-ready chiplet portfolio spanning connectivity, power, and memory for XPUs Reduces custom AI silicon development time and cost by up to 50% from architecture to high-volume manufacturing Tier-1 customer engagements validate technology readiness and… Read more: TYLsemi Raises $43M for Full-Stack AI Chiplet Platform

New Zealand actor Sam Neill, who starred as Dr. Alan Grant in the 1993 blockbuster Jurassic Park and its 2022 sequel, Jurassic World Dominion, died on Monday in Sydney, Australia. He was 78. While American… Read more: In memoriam: 7 of our favorite Sam Neill films

The Federal Communications Commission will vote to repeal the National Television Ownership Rule that is supposed to prevent a single broadcast station owner from reaching more than 39 percent of all TV households in the… Read more: FCC to repeal 39% TV ownership cap in boost for Trump-friendly news orgs

Veteran technology executive joins leadership team as DDN accelerates global expansion amid unprecedented demand for AI infrastructure DDN, the global leader in AI and data intelligence solutions powering AI factories, sovereign AI initiatives, and hyperscale… Read more: DDN Names Michelle Rosen as Chief Legal Officer

Babies are tremendous learning machines, and key advances for AI may soon be found in the architecture of their little brains.

Twelve nurses in New York City were laid off on Sunday and replaced with AI software, according to their union — a move that comes not long after nurses went on strike and fought for… Read more: Health Care Workers Furious as NYC Replaces Nurses With AI

Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter open source model, was trained to understand video and audio. It could help Thinking Machines establish itself among competitors like Anthropic and OpenAI.

AI-friendly president shared a post saying governor Kathy Hochul should scrap the one-year policy ‘IMMEDIATELY’ Donald Trump railed against the New York governor, Kathy Hochul, for pausing the construction of large new datacenters, the resource-intensive… Read more: Trump rails against New York’s statewide datacenter moratorium

We start this week with Jason’s story about the ChatGPT flyer pandemic. They’re everywhere! Thank you to the readers and listeners who sent in their own examples. After the break, Sam tells us how Waymo… Read more: Podcast: We Are Living in a ‘ChatGPT Flyer Pandemic’

Challenges of regulating social media or stopping hate speech show these firms can set their own terms and prices for countries like Australia Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Anthony… Read more: Albanese’s AI plan is admirable – but will face tech giants more powerful than most national governments

Humans are often described as the planet’s ultimate “super-predator,” but wild animals do not fear every human the same way. After analyzing three decades of research, scientists found that animals become much more alert and… Read more: Are humans really the ultimate super-predator?

A 1,600-year-old mummy discovered in Egypt has revealed something archaeologists had never seen before: a fragment of Homer’s Iliad used during embalming. The papyrus was identified as part of the famous “Catalogue of Ships,” one… Read more: Archaeologists found Homer’s Iliad inside a 1,600-year-old Egyptian mummy

NASA’s PACE satellite captured the Black Sea glowing turquoise during its annual phytoplankton bloom. The vivid color comes from massive numbers of coccolithophores, microscopic organisms whose reflective shells brighten the water enough to be seen… Read more: NASA captured the Black Sea turning brilliant turquoise from space

An unusual leopard gecko that naturally develops aggressive tumors may become an important new model for cancer research. Scientists found its tumors share key genetic changes with human cancers, offering a rare opportunity to study… Read more: This pet gecko could help scientists unlock the secrets of cancer

The AI music generation tool Suno scraped millions of songs and lyrics from YouTube Music, Deezer, and Genius, as well as from the stock music libraries Pond5, Jamendo, Freesound, the International Music Score Library Project,… Read more: Hack Reveals Suno AI Music Generator Scraped YouTube, Deezer, and Genius

Many moviegoers this summer are looking forward to Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated film “The Odyssey.” But have you considered that you could watch a pure AI slop adaptation of the Greek epic instead? Enter “Odysseus:… Read more: We’d Rather Live Through the Trojan War Than Spend 135 Minutes Watching an Entirely AI Version of “The Odyssey”

Creatio 10x adds personal AI agents, centralized governance, and automation tools for sales, marketing, and customer service. The post Creatio 10x Launches With No-Code AI Agents and Enterprise Governance appeared first on TechRepublic.

Anil Menon, a NASA flight surgeon, felt crushed nine years ago as his hopes and aspirations collapsed around him. For the fourth time, he had diligently applied to become an astronaut at the US space… Read more: A most improbable astronaut just went to space

The Star Wars director has called AI technology ‘the future’ of film-making and advised ‘there’s nothing you can do about it’ Star Wars director George Lucas has added his voice to the growing chorus of… Read more: George Lucas likens AI sceptics to luddites clinging to horses and carts

Gidi Littwin’s new AI startup, Hemispheric, makes diagnostic brain scans for conditions like depression, PTSD, and Parkinson’s. He wants the technology to be as cheap and easy as a blood test.

Forget the sale of the century. The auction house Sotheby’s has geared up for the sale of the epoch. On July 14 it opened live bidding on assorted fossils, but the pièce de résistance is… Read more: Sotheby’s big T. rex auction raises concerns hype and wealth are upending science

SpaceX has pinned the bulk of its future value on orbital data centers. Not rockets. Not spacecraft. Instead, it envisions launching and maintaining a constellation of 1 million satellites capable of generating 120 GW to… Read more: How hard is it to build orbital data centers, actually?

For months, artists and activists have been calling on the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, to act on the AI boom as datacentres pop up around the country. Today he made a major speech at the… Read more: Anthony Albanese says he wants to do AI ‘the Australian way’ – video

New release of Pega’s suite of enterprise solutions curbs rising token fees while delivering predictable outcomes with governed, reliable AI execution at scale Pegasystems Inc. (NASDAQ: PEGA), the enterprise AI software company for mission-critical work, today… Read more: Pega Launches Infinity 26 with Predictable AI Costs

Companies’ increasing reliance on AI chatbots isn’t making the customer service experience smarter. It’s just making it more infuriating.

Apple, Samsung, Google, Garmin, and Huawei smartwatches can flag health risks beyond glucose, including hypertension, sleep apnea, and emergencies, for wearers. The post Beyond Blood Sugar: 5 Smartwatch Health Alerts You Should Know appeared first… Read more: Beyond Blood Sugar: 5 Smartwatch Health Alerts You Should Know

OpenAI employees have donated more than $215,000 to a political effort opposing Leading the Future, a group backed by the company’s president, Greg Brockman.

Opera [NASDAQ: OPRA], the global browser and AI agent company, today announced that combined monthly active users (MAUs) of its Android and iOS browsers during the second quarter grew 66% in the UK and 40% in… Read more: Opera Mobile Grows 48% as Users Seek Browser Alternatives

Nokia’s AI-RAN platform arrived on July 15 with a claim worth examining: that it is the industry’s first. The vendor says the platform, built on its anyRAN software and NVIDIA’s Aerial system, will let operators pull far… Read more: Nokia’s AI-RAN platform: a radio comeback that runs on NVIDIA

Chimpanzees showed a remarkable attraction to crystals, choosing them over ordinary stones and studying them with intense curiosity. The results suggest that the same unusual features may have fascinated early humans long before crystals had… Read more: Why have humans collected crystals for 780,000 years? Chimpanzees may hold the answer

A deadly fungus has wiped out amphibian populations around the globe, yet some mysteriously recover. Researchers discovered that survivors develop powerful immune defenses while they are still tadpoles, giving them a head start before the… Read more: Scientists finally solved why some frogs survive a deadly fungus

Four nearby white dwarf stars have been discovered hiding in plain sight beside brighter red dwarf companions. Hubble’s ultraviolet observations finally revealed the long-hidden stellar remnants, including one just 25 light-years away that took nearly… Read more: Astronomers just found four hidden white dwarf stars near Earth