We've flown a radiation-blocking vest to the Moon and back, and it worked
Solar storms, like the one in August 1972 that hit during the gap between the Apollo 16 and Apollo 17 missions, throw bursts of protons intense enough to raise an astronaut's cancer risk or even cause radiation sickness.…
Earth's atmosphere and magnetic field absorb this radiation, but crews…
A team led by Jordan Houri and Oren Milstein of StemRad, an Israeli-Am…
Anthropic could be worth $2 trillion when it goes public
Anthropic investors expect the AI startup to float at a valuation of $2 trillion or more in October, a dizzying figure that would eclipse SpaceX and make the AI lab’s debut the largest-ever initial public offering.…
Half a dozen of the company’s backers told the FT that Anthropic’s rap…
A listing at that level could unlock billions of dollars in gains for …
Rivian's 2027 changes include its No. 1 most-requested feature
It's time for Rivian's changeover from model year 2026 to 2027, and the electric vehicle startup has decided to take a page from its recently released R2 SUV and apply it to the company's larger, more expensive R1 line.…
The changes aren't massive—the R1 got a refresh back in 2024 that saw …
Have physicists finally discovered glueballs? New evidence points to yes.
Physicists with the Beijing Spectrometer III (BES III) experiment have uncovered convincing new evidence of the existence of so-called glueballs, an elusive composite particle made entirely of gluons predicted by quantum theory.…
The results appeared in a preprint posted to arXiv last month and were…
All the stuff we see around us is made up of quarks held together by g…
Terabytes of credentials leaked in massive supply-chain attack
Terabytes worth of credentials, many belonging to the world’s biggest and most sensitive organizations, have been exposed in a supply-chain attack on LiteLLM, an open source tool that streamlines AI-driven software development.…
Microsoft, Amazon, Cisco, Samsung, and Salesforce are only a handful o…
The revelation was posted on Tuesday and Wednesday by security firms C…
The web’s newest weapon against AI scrapers is a font
AI companies' penchant for scraping through large swathes of the public web in search of valuable training data has already led to lawsuits and technical fixes aimed at stopping the practice.…
Now, a pair of designers are hoping to stymie these scrapers with a ne…
ShieldFont, as designers Isaque Seneda and Gabriel Abrucio write in a …
