The future leaves
signals in time.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft are vertical on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral ahead of the Crew-13 mission, with NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, CSA astronaut Joshua Kutryk, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey on board.

NASA published this update. Read the original source for full details, conditions and limitations.

NASA published this update. Read the original source for full details, conditions and limitations.

Microsoft Research introduced Quine, an early-stage AI research system designed to create a multimodal world model of biology. By connecting insights across biological scales and modalities, it helps scientists computationally search a larger space and prioritize hypotheses before they reach the lab.

Inspired by the Venus flytrap, which closes its leaves to trap prey, KAIST researchers combined the roles of a sensing "skin" and grasping "muscle" in a single soft material that reportedly senses and grasps objects under light. When an electrically charged object comes near, ions inside the material move and produce an electrical signal.

OpenAI introduced GPT-6.1 Sol, a model offering near-Astra intelligence for coding, computer use, and professional work. It is priced at one-fifth of Astra's standard API input and output token prices.

OpenAI DevDay 2026 featured more than 20 announcements, including GPT-6 Astra, ChatGPT, Codex, APIs, security, and new tools for builders. The recap explores these key developments and tools from the event.

At a MAHA Institute event, Kennedy and others argued that health data should be made more accessible to researchers so they can study vaccines, chronic diseases, and autism. The report presents their arguments only and does not mention any specific measures or outcomes.

MIT engineers developed a new paper-thin aquabot powered by muscle cells that swims through a watery maze. This biohybrid robot offers a way to design small, efficient 'biohybrid' robots.

MIT professor Sherry Turkle's new book "Artificial Intimacy" critiques chatbots and the antisocial dynamics she argues they encourage.

Nature Medicine published an item on a synthetic lethal drug for microsatellite instability cancers. The supplied feed context contains no further details, so the study's stage, findings, and other specifics are not stated in this item.

Nature Medicine published a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of safiglipron, an oral small-molecule GLP-1 receptor agonist, in early type 2 diabetes. The available context does not include the trial's results or findings.

A review says the Arcturus Vision Camera, an add-on module for Steam Frame, greatly enhances the headset's passthrough camera quality. The reviewer cites the obvious visual improvement, tiny size, and reasonable price as making it easy to recommend, calling it among the most straightforwardly recommendable accessories in over a decade of VR use.

Researchers at Cambridge's Bio-Inspired Robotics Laboratory are exploring how soil behaves as an intelligent system. By studying its structure, chemistry, and networks of microbes and fungi, they aim to inspire new technologies in bio-inspired computing, precision agriculture, and environmental sensing.

European Space Agency published this update. Read the original source for full details, conditions and limitations.

ITER published an item titled "Research, engineering and industry converge". The supplied context contains only the headline and publication timestamp, with no further details on its content.

At Meta's annual Connect developer conference, Road to VR went hands-on with Meta's long-promised photorealistic avatars, called 'holograms', which the company plans to release in the coming months, first on its Meta Ray-Ban Display, aiming to compete with Apple's Personas.