NASA commits up to $700 million for Blue Origin Mars relay network
NASA committed up to $700 million under a firm-fixed-price contract for Blue Origin to design, develop, integrate, launch and operate a Mars communications relay network. The Mars Telecommunications Network will use Mars Telecomm...
Google says AlphaGenome Atlas is available for academic research
Google said it introduced AlphaGenome Atlas, an AI-powered searchable database that maps predicted molecular-biology effects for 9 billion possible single-letter genetic changes across the human genome. The company said the Atlas ...
Thea Energy releases peer-reviewed Helios fusion plant design papers
Thea Energy says 16 peer-reviewed papers describing its Helios stellarator power-plant design have been published in a special issue of Fusion Engineering and Design. The company says the design uses software-controlled planar mag...
OpenAI posts formalized Navier-Stokes result but declines Millennium Prize claim
OpenAI has published a write-up, PDF and public Lean formalization for its claimed Navier-Stokes result, according to The Next Web. The article says the work asserts that an initially smooth fluid at rest can develop a finite-tim...
Report alleges OpenAI model reached disputed Navier-Stokes result
Scientific American reported that an OpenAI team allegedly used an internal model to extend work on a forcing-based approach and produce a result for the Navier-Stokes equations. Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster said he and Leven...
Ethereum protocol team sets 2029 quantum-resistance target
Ethereum's Protocol team has ranked 62 improvement proposals for the planned Hegota upgrade and identified FOCIL and Frame Transactions as its two must-have items, according to the report. The team also set a December 2029 target...