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From gene-editing revolutions at Harvard and quantum mechanics challenges to AI training programs hidden inside mobile games and ancient pyramid engineering mysteries, Trill News covers the full frontier of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. We report on discoveries, innovations, and the futurist ideas — in AI, space exploration, medicine, and programming — that will define how humanity advances.
Rocket Lab plans to start launching even more frequently and flexibly, thanks to a new portable spaceport system called "GHOST," which packages everything into standard shipping containers.
Read article →An experimental GLP-1 pill helped people with obesity or overweight lose as much as 12.1% of their body weight in just 36 weeks. Unlike injectable drugs such as Wegovy and Ozempic, aleniglipron is a small molecule tha...
Read article →For a quarter century, the Google search box has been one of the most recognizable interfaces in computing: a thin white rectangle, a blinking cursor, a few typed words, and a list of blue links. On Tuesday, Google wi...
Read article →China's latest rocket launch ended in failure this morning (Aug. 10), lighting up the skies with some unwanted fireworks.
Read article →Very high levels of the inherited cholesterol-related particle Lp(a) were linked to a greater risk of major cardiovascular events, particularly stroke and cardiovascular death, in a study of more than 20,000 people. S...
Read article →Railway, a San Francisco-based cloud platform that has quietly amassed two million developers without spending a dollar on marketing, announced Thursday that it raised $100 million in a Series B funding round, as surg...
Read article →Easy to use and with an excellent build quality, the ZWO ASI174MM is a fast, monochrome USB 3.0 camera that’s perfect for solar and lunar imaging.
Read article →Silver nanocatalysts have been found to switch where they perform their most important reactions depending on whether a solid oxide cell is making electricity or hydrogen. The discovery could enable smarter catalyst d...
Read article →The artificial intelligence coding revolution comes with a catch: it's expensive.Claude Code, Anthropic's terminal-based AI agent that can write, debug, and deploy code autonomously, has captured the imagination of so...
Read article →On Aug. 10, 1972, an Earth-grazing fireball burst through the sky over North America. Here's what happened.
Read article →A 240-million-year-old reptile discovered in Brazil is revealing what evolution looked like just before the rise of dinosaurs and crocodiles. The small predator had unusually positioned legs that may have allowed it t...
Read article →Alfred Wahlforss was running out of options. His startup, Listen Labs, needed to hire over 100 engineers, but competing against Mark Zuckerberg's $100 million offers seemed impossible. So he spent $5,000 — a fifth of ...
Read article →An international team of researchers using the U.S. National Science Foundation's Inouye Solar Telescope has captured the highest-resolution view of the sun's surface.
Read article →Just a couple of hours of strength training each week could have surprisingly powerful effects on longevity. People who lifted weights for around 90 to 120 minutes weekly had a 13% lower risk of dying early, with espe...
Read article →Salesforce on Tuesday launched an entirely rebuilt version of Slackbot, the company's workplace assistant, transforming it from a simple notification tool into what executives describe as a fully powered AI agent capa...
Read article →Japan's H3 rocket sent the Michibiki 7 navigation satellite aloft this afternoon (Aug. 10), on the ninth-ever mission for the launch vehicle.
Read article →Full-fat dairy may be healthier than conventional advice has suggested. In a 12-week study, adults who ate three servings a day showed no meaningful increases in weight, body fat, cholesterol, or insulin resistance. T...
Read article →Anthropic released Cowork on Monday, a new AI agent capability that extends the power of its wildly successful Claude Code tool to non-technical users — and according to company insiders, the team built the entire fea...
Read article →The James Webb Space Telescope's strange "little red dots" may be evolving into spiral galaxies.
Read article →Deep underground, bacteria may be capable of doing something remarkable: trapping toxic uranium before it spreads. When researchers fed microbes in uranium-contaminated mine water with glycerol, about 95% of the disso...
Read article →Nous Research, the open-source artificial intelligence startup backed by crypto venture firm Paradigm, released a new competitive programming model on Monday that it says matches or exceeds several larger proprietary ...
Read article →These tiny capes carry some serious technology.
Read article →A study tracking more than 340,000 adults for over a decade found that heavy drinking increased the risk of death regardless of beverage type. At lower levels, however, the picture became more surprising: beer, cider,...
Read article →The Chinese commercial launch company Landspace is set for its second attempt to catch an orbital rocket. Liftoff, and landing, are targeted for next Monday (Aug. 10).
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