Scientists are advancing a promising solution to two of the world’s biggest challenges – plastic pollution and clean energy – by transforming waste plastics into valuable fuels using sunlight. A new ...

A new holographic storage technique uses light in three dimensions to dramatically increase how much data can be stored. It encodes information throughout a material using amplitude, phase, and ...

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Parents are forming a loose network teaching one another how to get their children off school-issued Chromebooks and iPads. THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — Julie Frumin broke the news to her 11-year-old son ...

In the life sciences, technological innovation has reshaped the scale and complexity of the questions we can ask. High-throughput sequencing, single-cell platforms, spatial transcriptomics, ...

Organizations have a wealth of unstructured data that most AI models can’t yet read. Preparing and contextualizing this data is essential for moving from AI experiments to measurable results. In ...

Chronicling the Seattle and Pacific Northwest startup scene. SEE MORE by Taylor Soper on Jan 5, 2026 at 2:28 pm January 5, 2026 at 3:26 pm Microsoft announced Monday that it acquired Osmos, a Seattle ...

Dr. Gruber is a marine biologist and the head of Project CETI. One afternoon in January 2024, off the island of Dominica in the Atlantic Ocean, a sperm whale named Pinchy and I drifted calmly at the ...

Major changes to Medicare are rolling out tomorrow which means it may be easier to find a bulk-billing doctor. The government is launching an almost eight-billion-dollar program to encourage doctors ...

As AI becomes more common and decisions more data-driven, a new(ish) form of information is on the rise: synthetic data. And some proponents say it promises more privacy and other vital benefits. Data ...

Anthropic is starting to train its models on new Claude chats. If you’re using the bot and don’t want your chats used as training data, here’s how to opt out. Anthropic is prepared to repurpose ...