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The rapid convergence of artificial intelligence and scientific research is revolutionizing the laboratory, transforming long-standing rules and processes in the world of discovery. In the last few years, the introduction of highly capable, agent-driven platforms such as Microsoft’s Discovery...

Microsoft’s annual Build developer conference has always been a bellwether for the company’s technical ambitions and the direction it sets for developers across the globe. This year, Build 2025 made it abundantly clear: Microsoft is betting the house on artificial intelligence, signaling a...

Microsoft's annual Build conference has long been a bellwether for the direction of Windows, cloud computing, and developer-centric innovation. In 2025, as Google's I/O event captured headlines with new AI product launches, Microsoft responded with its own sweeping vision anchored in agentic AI...

The world of scientific research is in the midst of a revolution—a transformation driven not just by breakthroughs at the laboratory bench, but by the unprecedented power of cloud computing, AI, and data analytics. At the heart of this revolution stands Microsoft Azure Discovery, unveiled with...

Microsoft’s latest move to incorporate xAI’s Grok 3 and Grok 3 Mini into its Azure platform marks a pivotal moment in the evolution of enterprise AI—one that signals both a rapid acceleration in large language model (LLM) capabilities and a sharpening focus on real-world healthcare and...

Microsoft’s much-anticipated unveiling of its Discovery platform at Build 2025 signals a pivotal moment in the ongoing reinvention of research and development for science and engineering. Over the past decade, R&D has been touched by artificial intelligence, high-performance computing, and...

If you believed language wars belonged solely to fantasy novels and the odd Tolkien symposium, think again—Malaysia’s ongoing tug-of-war over the primacy of English versus the national language, Malay, is alive, multilingual, and kicking up controversy. As debates swirl from government chambers...

Sorry this is a day or so late. :) A Nasa spacecraft is attempting to make history with the closest-ever approach to the Sun. The Parker Solar Probe is plunging into our star's outer atmosphere, enduring brutal temperatures and extreme radiation. It is out of communication for several days...

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scientists, Paul Weinzweig and Pauline Zalitzki, working off the coast of Cuba and using a robot submersible, have confirmed that a gigantic city exists at the bottom of the ocean. The site of the ancient city — that includes several sphinxes and at least four giant pyramids plus other...

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Here’s a snippet from an interview about the Fukushima nuclear situation in Japan. It gives us some insight into why they are covering up the issues and the depth they are prepared to go to to maintain the lie that everything is going to plan. But what’s worrisome is that a nuclear reactor is...

A recent nation-wide survey investigating sleeping habits has linked the use of technology with insufficient sleep. But the findings may not be that clear-cut. The details come from the National Sleep Foundation, a non-profit group aiming to tackle sleep-related health issues and thus cut the...

Last week's devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan has actually moved the island closer to the United States and shifted the planet's axis. The quake caused a rift 15 miles below the sea floor that stretched 186 miles long and 93 miles wide, according to the AP. The areas closest to the...

Was the Model for Mona Lisa a Man? Call her "Manny Lisa"? Italian researchers say the model for the world's most famous painting may have been a male apprentice and also a lover of the artist, Leonardo da Vinci. The identity of the Mona Lisa, which hangs in the Louvre in Paris and...

Link Removed Link Removed ScienceDaily (Jan. 11, 2011) — Glass stronger and tougher than steel? A new type of damage-tolerant metallic glass, demonstrating a strength and toughness beyond that of any known material, has been developed and tested by a collaboration of researchers with the...

This is the extraordinary place where we all live - the Universe. The picture is the first full-sky image from Europe's Planck telescope which was sent into space last year to survey the "oldest light" in the cosmos. It took the 600m-euro observatory just over six months to assemble the map...