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From the Ryder Cup to self-driving cars, AI-ready networking is becoming a critical component of success across industries. As businesses move toward distributed, real-time AI applications, tomorrow's networks will need to parse even more massive vol...
Humans Sync Their Blinks and Brain Waves to a Song's Beat While you may not realize it, your physical responses to music, like nodding your head or tapping your foot, are conscious decisions that you can control. However, according to neuroscient...
In mid-October, a mysterious object cracked the windshield of a packed Boeing 737 cruising at 36,000 feet above Utah, forcing the pilots into an emergency landing. While the object was likely a remnant of a weather balloon, the speculation that it wa...
Crewed-Uncrewed Teaming Takes Flight In a groundbreaking demonstration, the US Air Force and three major defense contractors have successfully linked an F-22 Raptor fighter jet with a GA-ASI MQ-20 Avenger unmanned aircraft. This milestone event, ...
Brian Alpert's path was always destined for the aerospace industry, but his journey turned toward NASA's Johnson Space Center during his sophomore year in college. That was when Tricia Mack, who works in NASA's Transportation Integration Office withi...
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The Vanna Venturi House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania On a quiet street in Chestnut Hill, you'll find a small grey-green home that, on first glance, might look quite ordinary. Keep looking, however, and you'll begin to notice unusual specificitie...
NASA is inviting media to attend the launch of the first crewed Moon mission under its Artemis campaign. The Artemis II test flight, targeted for early 2026, will send a crew of four astronauts - NASA's Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, an...
As its whiskers flitter, the mouse's brain sparks with activity. A tiny implant records the electrical chatter and beams it to a nearby computer. Smaller than a grain of salt, the implant is powered by and transmits data with light. Unlike most impla...
The powerful coronal mass ejection would have likely destroyed the atmospheres of any potentially habitable planets nearby :focal(960x549:961x550)/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer_public/75/bc/75bc3d3e-ea3d-4394-93d3-...
Perlmutter Supercomputer Simulates Quantum Chip at Unprecedented Scale More than 7,000 NVIDIA GPUs have been used to simulate a quantum microchip, pushing the limits of one of the world's most powerful supercomputers. This unprecedented full-scal...
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NASA Invites Media to Artemis II Moon Mission Launch The NASA Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft for the Artemis I mission, on the mobile launch platform at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, with a full moon in the backgr...
The Phillips Collection to Sell Major Works, Vatican Returns 62 Artifacts to Indigenous Peoples Controversial Sale at The Phillips Collection The Phillips Collection, an art museum in Washington, DC, plans to auction off major works by artis...
Researchers at ChristianaCare's Gene Editing Institute have demonstrated that turning off the NRF2 gene with CRISPR technology can make lung cancer cells responsive to chemotherapy again. By blocking this gene, the treatment restores how tumors react...
The message engraved in an ancient goblet's intricate artwork may have a different meaning than experts first believed. After reexamining the renowned ˁAin Samiya cup, an international team of archaeologists argue the small, silver drinkware doesn't ...
Rodin's Collection of Egyptian Antiquities Comes to the US for the First Time Auguste Rodin, the renowned French sculptor, was deeply inspired by ancient Egyptian art. Over his lifetime, he amassed a collection of over 6,000 objects, including mo...
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The A.I.-generated image hung in Wales' National Museum in Cardiff for a few hours before staffers and museumgoers noticed its presence By Ella Feldman - Daily Correspondent November 17, 2025 10:01 a.m. :focal(3847x2492:3848x2493)/https://tf-c...
Javier Téllez Wins $50,000 PAMM Pérez Prize The Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) has awarded its annual Pérez Prize to New York–based artist Javier Téllez. The award, which comes with an unrestricted grant of $50,000, was presented to the artist at ...
Scientists uncover a massive hidden crater in China that rewrites Earth's recent history A recently uncovered and unusually intact impact crater is offering scientists new insights into how objects from space have struck Earth throughout its hist...
A surgeon in Florida has used a robot to remotely remove a simulated brain clot from a cadaver in Scotland, suggesting future stroke surgeries could be completed across vast distances. The transatlantic procedure was carried out by Ricardo Hanel, a ...
Empress Zita of Bourbon-Parma wanted the jewel's location to be kept secret for 100 years after the death of her husband, Charles I, in 1922. Their descendants now plan to display it at a museum. For decades, the 137-carat yellow diamond that belong...
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Researchers at the University of Tokyo have developed a microscope that captures signals across an intensity range fourteen times wider than conventional systems. The device records both forward and backward scattered light without using dyes, allowi...
Meta is now accepting applications for the 2026 Data Center Community Action Grants program. This initiative provides direct funding to schools, nonprofits, and community organizations working on projects that benefit the communities where Meta build...
Excavations at the Overfield Tavern Museum revealed a treasure trove of objects, including jewelry, dishware, a bottle cork, a smoking pipe and early American currency :focal(1024x770:1025x771)/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws....
Frozen Proof: Oldest RNA Extracted from 40,000-Year-Old Mammoth Researchers from Stockholm University have made a groundbreaking discovery by extracting the oldest RNA molecules ever found, dating back 40,000 years, from the remains of a juvenile...
This Plus-Size Figure Skater is Inspiring Girls Everywhere with Her Jaw-Dropping Moves The winter Olympic viewership numbers don't lie: Honestly, is there anything more beautiful and graceful than ice skating? It's got the gorgeous aesthetics of ...
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This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy called NGC 6000, located 102 million light-years away in the constellation Scorpius. Stars of all ages are on display in this image. NGC 6000 has a glowing yellow center and glitt...
NASA's ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) mission launched at 3:55 p.m. EST atop a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket at Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The twin spacecraft, built by Rocket...
Following successful small-scale tests over the past months, WhatsApp users in Europe will soon have the option to chat directly with users of messaging apps BirdyChat and Haiket through third-party chats. This marks a significant milestone in Meta's...
Before Curiosity landed 13 years ago, the science team eyed all the geologic wonders scattered across the flanks of Mount Sharp and looked forward to the day when they could put the rover to work on them. The team has visited many of these wonders — ...
Archaeologists Discover 3,000-Year-Old Maya Cosmogram New Research Sheds Light on Ancient Maya Site in Mexico Five years ago, archaeologists announced the discovery of a massive Maya structure in southeastern Mexico known as Aguada Fénix. Bu...
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After water, concrete is the most-used material in the world. And now, researchers have given this ubiquitous building material super powers. A Massachusetts Institute of Technology team has found a way to make a type of concrete that can store and r...
How a Stranger Helped Me Land the Job That Changed My Life One day an Iraqi engineering student at Columbia University met a young woman in a canteen who had stopped off in New York City with friends on her way to Europe. While casually chatting,...
Led by Israel's Yad Vashem, the initiative has been underway since the 1950s. But it recently got a boost from artificial intelligence, which is helping humans search through the records. :focal(3360x2240:3361x2241)/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianm...
Google DeepMind has built a new video-game-playing agent called SIMA 2 that can navigate and solve problems in a wide range of 3D virtual worlds. The company claims it's a big step toward more general-purpose agents and better real-world robots. Goo...
Retired teacher Robert Beattie, now 82, has been digging up remnants of the past ever since he was a child. Recently, some of his fossil specimens have led to a scientific breakthrough. Uncovering a New Species Based on Beattie's fossils, resear...
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A newly discovered carnivorous reptile that lived before the rise of dinosaurs has been identified in southern Brazil. Named Tainrakuasuchus bellator, the 240-million-year-old creature was an armor-plated predator belonging to the Pseudosuchia grou...
Harvard physicists have unveiled a new system that could help solve a long-standing barrier to the development of a new generation of supercomputers - the challenge of quantum error correction. In a paper published in Nature, the researchers demon...
From a mock "bearial" to hourly train whistle blasts, Stanford's campus will come alive with tradition as students rally to reclaim the Axe ahead of the 128th standoff against Cal. It's coming. The 128th annual Big Game is Saturday, Nov. 22, the nex...
MIT researchers have created a polymer film so impermeable that even nitrogen molecules can't pass through it. This breakthrough material, known as 2DPA-1, could revolutionize corrosion protection for solar cells, food packaging, and infrastructure. ...
The Biology of Goosebumps Goosebumps, also known as piloerection, occur when tiny muscles in our skin contract, causing our body hair to stand on end. This is triggered by our autonomic nervous system, which controls involuntary bodily functions...