Week In Review The week’s biggest story came from a telescope that has not yet formally begun its main survey. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s first dwarf planet candidate, 2026 ED138, is the largest trans-Neptunian object identified in roughly two decades, and it was pulled from commissioning data,
Week In Review The week’s nuclear news was about getting more out of what already exists, and about turning paper designs into hardware. The largest single item was financial: the Department of Energy offered Constellation a conditional loan of up to five billion dollars to uprate eight existing plants
Week In Review The week’s headline is a forecast that got less alarming. BloombergNEF’s new Transition Metals Outlook, summarised by HumanProgress in Copper Deficit Looms as Metal Shortages Ease, now finds that nine of the ten materials it tracks have enough supply capacity to carry electrification through 2050,
Week In Review The metabolic drugs that reshaped obesity medicine have become the yardstick against which the next generation of aging therapies is being measured. At the ARDD 2026 conference in Boston, Eli Lilly reported that tirzepatide lowered epigenetic age estimates by several years in a large trial, while Cambrian
Week In Review The hardware side of augmentation moved this week on three fronts, each pushing a neural interface a step further from the operating theatre and toward routine use. Paradromics won FDA clearance to recruit for its speech-restoring implant from anywhere in the continental United States, a small regulatory
Week In Review Biology was where artificial intelligence did its most concrete work this week, and it did that work three different ways. The UW Medicine Institute for Protein Design and NVIDIA released RFD4-Proteina, a model that folds sequence and all-atom structure generation into a single system and reports five-
Week In Review The week’s strongest thread was humanoids moving from demonstration into contracted, measured work. Agility Robotics signed a commercial agreement to put Digit on an AGCO agricultural-equipment line in Kansas, with parts sorting, tote placement, and assembly support as the named tasks (AGCO and Agility Robotics Advance
Week In Review The week’s defining event was a departure. Japan’s Martian Moons eXploration spacecraft left Tanegashima on an H3 rocket bound for Phobos, carrying a plan to bring the first samples of a Martian moon back to Earth by 2031 (JAXA’s Martian Moons eXploration Mission is
Week In Review The week’s strongest thread ran through the American nuclear supply chain, from the fuel factory to the licensing office to the plant site. The Nuclear Company proposed a six-reactor AP1000 campus in Kentucky that would, at 6.6 gigawatts, exceed any nuclear station now operating in
Week In Review Copper had a good week, and not because anyone found a new mountain of it. Hudbay and Mitsubishi sanctioned the $2.1 billion Copper World mine in Arizona, a deposit grading under half a percent copper that becomes a 15-year, 100,000-tonne-a-year operation through scale and in-pit
Week In Review The week’s most consequential result came from a screen that asked a simple question: of roughly a hundred genes, which one makes an old cell’s gene expression look young again without erasing what kind of cell it is? The answer, reported in Nature Aging, was
Week In Review The week’s biggest story was a proof, not a product. OpenAI’s claimed proof of the quasi-Riemann hypothesis, covered in AI Proved the Quasi-Riemann Hypothesis. What Happens Now?, is being treated by number theorists as the most significant AI-for-mathematics result to date. What makes it an