Sir Demis Hassabis is Co-Founder and CEO of Google DeepMind. He has won many prestigious international awards for his research work including the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for protein structure prediction. As SVP for Research, Labs, Technology & Society, James Manyika focuses on advancing Google and Alphabet’s most ambitious innovations in AI, computing and science…
Four new astronauts arrived at the International Space Station on Saturday, bringing the lab back up to full capacity after several of their colleagues were forced to leave early last month due to a medical issue. The U.S., French and Russian astronauts and cosmonaut launched from Cape Canaveral in a SpaceX rocket on Friday for…
Scientists Discover Gray Hair Isn’t Permanent: Are We All Wrong About Ageing? For decades, gray hair has been viewed as a sign of irreversible ageing, which people cover with dye or accept as inevitable but scientific research suggests that graying might not be a one-way street after all. Studies from top labs, including work published…
Scientists have traced a 3,000-light-year-long cosmic jet streaming out from the first black hole ever imaged to its likely source point with the help of “significantly enhanced coverage” from the global Event Horizon Telescope, a new study published this week revealed. The findings, published in the journal “Astronomy & Astrophysics” on Wednesday, could help pinpoint…
Virginia Oliver, one of the oldest lobster fishers in the world who trapped crustaceans in Maine for nearly a century, has died. She was 105. Born in Rockland, Maine, Oliver started trapping lobsters at age 8 alongside her father and older brother at a time when few women worked on the water in the male-dominated…
What’s Really Under Antarctica? A New Map Reveals Something Nobody Expected For most of us, Antarctica is a frozen white desert that is mysterious, remote and almost unfathomably cold. However, a groundbreaking new scientific map, published in Sciencein January 2026, is now revealing that beneath all that ice lies a dramatic, rugged landscape of mountains,…
A routine parking lot project at Dinosaur National Monument has unearthed dinosaur fossils at the site for the first time in more than a century. Workers uncovered the fossils near the Quarry Exhibit Hall after removing asphalt in mid-September, exposing dinosaur-bearing sandstone, the National Park Service said. Park staff identified the remains on Sept. 16…
PESCADERO, Calif. — Every winter about 10,000 elephant seals make their way to California’s Año Nuevo State Park to fight, mate and give birth. The spectacle runs from mid-December through March, drawing wildlife watchers eager for a glimpse of the largest seals on the planet. During what park docent Laura Stern called “pupping season,” bull…