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Anthropic sells to pharma, then enters the drug race
Anthropic did something audacious this week: it launched Claude Science for pharmaceutical labs, then announced it would develop its own drugs — including for 'neglected' diseases. That makes it the f
Birdsong data from Merlin ID app to help global biodiversity project
The Cornell Lab's Merlin bird ID app will soon funnel its millions of users' real-time bird sound identifications directly into eBird, a global citizen-science database holding 2 billion-plus observat
Lab Black Hole Reveals Hawking Radiation Backreaction
Physicists have observed the 'backreaction' of Hawking radiation in a laboratory black hole analog made of light, revealing the recoil by which a black hole loses energy as it radiates.
How to walk 30 minutes a day - your tips
The BBC published reader-submitted walking tips after NHS England unveiled a 'marathon a month' exercise-rewards challenge set to launch next year, with contributors emphasizing intrinsic motivators l
'Hobbit' humans scavenged Komodo leftovers, study finds
A new bone-mark analysis suggests the meter-tall Homo floresiensis did not hunt Flores's dwarf elephants but scavenged carcasses already opened by Komodo dragons, undermining long-held claims that the
A volcano has erupted remnants of Earth's primordial magma ocean
An underwater volcano discovered east of Mayotte in 2018 is erupting chemical traces from Earth's primordial magma ocean, providing the first direct evidence that 4.5-billion-year-old mantle material
Titan, Saturn’s Largest Moon, Could Become a ‘Gas Station’ for Deep Space Missions - ZME Science
Titan, Saturn’s Largest Moon, Could Become a ‘Gas Station’ for Deep Space Missions ZME ScienceCould humans someday expl...
LINK Launches to Boost NASA's Falling Swift Observatory
NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, falling toward Earth after two decades in orbit, just got a rescue lifeline as a robotic satellite called LINK launched to grab the telescope and push it back to
Anthropic to Develop Its Own Drugs for Neglected Diseases
Anthropic announced at an AI-for-science event that it will develop its own drugs targeting "neglected" diseases while simultaneously launching Claude Science, a research workbench — a rare move that
Orangutan mothers seem to plan playdates for their offspring
A 15-year study of wild Bornean orangutans found that mothers with similarly-aged offspring deliberately converge across territorial boundaries so their young can play together—traveling further and f
Bumble Bees Solve Classic Insight Puzzle Without Training
Finnish researchers report that bumble bees spontaneously rolled a ball beneath an unreachable flower and climbed on top to claim a reward — solving an insect version of Köhler's classic chimpanzee bo
Arctic Climate Photos Win New Scientist Editors Award
Photographer Natalya Saprunova won the New Scientist Editors Award at the Earth Photo 2026 competition for a series documenting melting Arctic permafrost, shifting wildlife, and the Inuit communities
Scientists discover a protein switch that burns fat and blocks new fat cells
Weizmann Institute researchers identified the MTCH2 protein — nicknamed "Mitch" — as a regulator of fat storage and burning, showing that disabling it in human cells boosts fuel consumption and blocks
KAIST Spray Powder Stops Severe Bleeding in 1 Second
Researchers at KAIST developed AGCL, a spray-on powder that forms a hydrogel barrier in about one second to stop severe bleeding on deep or irregular wounds, with applications spanning battlefield and
Medicare Proposes Deep Cut to 340B Hospital Payments
Medicare proposed cutting hospital payments for drugs bought through the 340B discount program to average sales price minus 33.4%, down from the current rate of ASP plus 6%, effective next year. The c
Lawmakers Push HHS to Force Lilly to Restore 340B Discounts
Dozens of bipartisan lawmakers are pressing HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to force Eli Lilly to restore 340B drug discount pricing to hospitals, arguing the drugmaker is violating federal law by
STAT+: Elevance sues government over $115 million tied to Medicare Advantage star ratings
Elevance Health filed suit against the U.S. government, alleging that federal recalculation of its Medicare Advantage star ratings conflicted with a recent court ruling and cost the insurer $115 milli
Protillion Biosciences Hires Hollingsworth as CSO
Protillion Biosciences has named Robert Hollingsworth, most recently the chief scientific officer at Shoreline Therapeutics, as its new chief scientific officer.
DeGette's Loss: Mixed Bag for Drug Industry
DeGette's election loss removes a key Democratic lawmaker familiar with pharmaceutical policy from Congress, creating a mixed outcome for the drug industry that valued her expertise even when she wasn
Synthetic biology may finally be ready to solve life's biggest mystery
Scientists at the University of Missouri have built a 'SpudCell' from just 36 genes — a Wright-brothers-style milestone in creating artificial life from non-living components, though the entity still
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