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U.S. intelligence has concluded that Alice Huang, a financier who moved from Shanghai's finance world into the orbit of tech titans and their coveted A.I. chips, is a Chinese asset. Her path shows how access to the world's most valuable hardware can run through personal networks rather than formal channels.
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A powerful El Niño, driven by ocean waves that travel unseen beneath the Pacific, is battering California's coast with storms and high water, testing the resilience of some of its most beloved communities.
Sulfuric acid is better known for destruction than creation. A growing body of research suggests it could still serve as a solvent for life on worlds like Venus.
Nvidia's investigation of Jensen Huang, who acknowledged a relationship with a woman U.S. intelligence links to China's top spy agency, raises questions that reach well beyond the boardroom.
The artificial intelligence boom turned chip executives into celebrities. For Nvidia's Jensen Huang, the spotlight that built his elite status is now exposing him to unwelcome scrutiny.
Kelly Holley-Bockelmann, a prominent researcher on black holes and gravitational waves, has left the United States after the Trump administration's science policies reached nearly every corner of her work.
NASA is recruiting a new generation of astronauts likely bound for the moon and low-Earth orbit stations. Applications are due Dec. 3.
After two years of deep budget proposals, grant terminations and agency upheaval, Democrats taking control of Congress are preparing to use appropriations and oversight to push back on the Trump administration's remaking of federal research.
NOV 7 • 2026, 11:51 AM ET
A mathematician, a microbiologist and a chemical engineer are among the newly elected members of Congress. They arrive in Washington ready to challenge a White House that has threatened deep cuts to federal research.
NOV 7 • 2026, 9:51 AM ET
House G.O.P. leaders have asked Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang to speak in a closed-door briefing. The request follows a New York Times report that he had a close relationship with an executive U.S. officials determined was passing information to Chinese intelligence.
NOV 7 • 2026, 7:51 AM ET
Radical Numerics drew wide attention with its announcement of a novel virus-based treatment. Now former partner Tabula Bioscience says it performed much of the underlying research, opening a dispute over credit.
NOV 7 • 2026, 7:50 AM ET
Microsoft is putting billions into artificial intelligence and has offered buyouts to about 60,000 employees, adding to anxiety in a workforce already unsettled by recent cuts.
NOV 6 • 2026, 7:50 PM ET
Tech billionaires who funded President Trump's causes and stood beside him now face a Washington where that loyalty may be a liability rather than an asset.
NOV 6 • 2026, 3:51 AM ET
Hair recovered from an ancient Siberian burial mound tested positive for cannabis, according to The New York Times. Researchers say it is the earliest known evidence of psychoactive cannabis use and that it pushes the human relationship with the plant deeper into prehistory.
NOV 6 • 2026, 3:51 AM ET
Critics call Anthropic's chief executive a doomer, while admirers see a responsible technologist. A New York Times examination traces how a physicist's training and a family loss shaped one of A.I.'s most influential voices.
NOV 5 • 2026, 11:51 AM ET
New genetic findings suggest the pocket-sized Chihuahua carries a trace of coyote ancestry, possibly from deliberate breeding by Indigenous peoples long before Europeans reached the Americas.
NOV 5 • 2026, 11:50 AM ET
Fairshake, the crypto industry's dominant super PAC, poured $46 million into ads against Sherrod Brown. Ohio voters returned the Democrat to the Senate anyway, handing the industry a rare setback in the Trump era.
NOV 5 • 2026, 7:51 AM ET
Neanderthals relied on wood for tools and shelter. New analysis of 75,000-year-old remains suggests they may also have used it as a weapon against one another.
NOV 5 • 2026, 7:51 AM ET
After two years of light-touch federal oversight, voters rejected data center projects and backed Democratic candidates who promised to regulate artificial intelligence. That sets up a fight over who gets to write the rules.
NOV 5 • 2026, 5:51 AM ET
After two decades of chasing the universe's most violent explosions, NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has reentered Earth's atmosphere. The agency had put the chance that its debris would injure someone at 1 in 2,100.
NOV 5 • 2026, 5:50 AM ET
Federal prosecutors have asked to drop charges against Kseniia Petrova, the Russian-born Harvard researcher arrested in 2025 over frog embryos. She has long argued that the prosecution was vindictive.
NOV 5 • 2026, 4:21 AM ET
Cutting‑edge AI tools are enabling political campaigns to deliver hyper‑personalized messages to individual voters, reshaping outreach and raising alarms about misinformation.
NOV 2 • 2026, 9:51 PM ET
Federal investigators say ice accumulation on the Learjet’s wings was “certainly a factor” in the fatal crash, sparking renewed calls for stricter cold‑weather protocols in private aviation.
NOV 2 • 2026, 7:51 PM ET
A fresh look at ten lingering zoological riddles, from the evolutionary mystery of serpents shedding limbs to the baffling navigation of sea turtles, highlights how cutting‑edge research is turning speculation into science.
NOV 2 • 2026, 10:21 AM ET
Artificial‑intelligence pioneer Anthropic reported a staggering $17 billion in third‑quarter revenue—12 times its year‑ago figure—while its net loss swelled to $23 billion, sparking debate over the sustainability of its fast‑track path to a public offering.
NOV 2 • 2026, 10:21 AM ET
New fieldwork on coyotes, cockatoos and other species is nudging researchers to ask whether the ache of loss is not uniquely human after all.
NOV 2 • 2026, 10:21 AM ET