A recent article published in Nature Medicine highlights the ubiquitous presence of synthetic chemicals in the global food supply and emphasizes the need to transition to a safer, more sustainable food system.

 HEFEI, China  — Chinese scientists have completed the construction and testing of the world's largest superconducting magnet designed for a nuclear

Cislunar space has become the focal point of considerable interest and strategic planning because of the many proposed missions to send crews to the moon in the next decade. These include NASA's Artemis program, China and Russia's International Lunar Research Station (ILRS), the European Space Agency's Argonaut program and others. The long-term goals of these programs include creating infrastructure between Earth and the moon that will facilitate continued exploration and even development.

Several Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) companies on Friday announced their latest tech achievements, with DeepSeek rolling out a public beta application programming interface (API) for its flagship V4-Flash model, MiniMax launching its multimodal H3 model and ByteDance releasing its new Seedance 2.5 video creation model.

Chinese AI companies are iterating at a rapid speed, making continuous breakthroughs in frontier areas such as video generation, multimodal understanding, and agent capabilities. Chinese experts said that this progress is a natural outcome of years of sustained investment, noting that in the AI field, openness, inclusiveness and cooperation are vital to achieve win-win results.

Portugal prepara uma candidatura conjunta com Espanha e já reservou até 200 milhões de euros para comprar capacidade de computação, caso o projeto seja escolhido. A União Europeia abriu esta quinta-feira o concurso para instalar até sete “gigafábricas” de inteligência artificial. Estas instalações terão uma escala muito superior à dos centros de dados convencionais. Vão reunir milhares de processadores avançados, sistemas de armazenamento, redes de alta velocidade e serviços de computação na nuvem. O objetivo é criar na Europa capacidade para treinar e executar os modelos de IA mais exigentes, reduzindo a dependência de infraestruturas estrangeiras. Bruxelas espera mobilizar mais

The first known three-headed asteroid in our Solar System.

One of the most infamous heists in the cultural institution’s history was the 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa—when Pablo Picasso numbered among the suspects.

In May of 1963, National Geographic photographer and correspondent Barry C. Bishop was part of the first American team to summit Mount Everest. It was a feat that nearly drove the team mad, and one Bishop recounts in a cover story reprinted here.

To see a “world of life almost as unknown as that of Mars,” two explorers climbed inside the bathysphere and descended into the sea’s cold depths in 1931.

The Grand Canyon has featured in the history of America's indigenous communities for millennia. The area has been occupied by humans for more than 10,000 years.

National Geographic’s 7 Natural Wonders of America
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Desde el software de los drones que sobrevuelan los cielos en Ucrania hasta los programas que rechazan currículums de forma automática, la llamada «Inteligencia Artificial» (IA) parece haberse instaurado, de la noche a la mañana, en todos los rincones de nuestra vida cotidiana. Nos recomienda series y llena de imágenes falsas las redes sociales, conduce coches autónomos, selecciona objetivos militares o responde dudas sobre bienestar psicológico.

Si la cosa dependiese de los cuentos de la lechera producidos en masa por la mercadotecnia empresarial, pronto estaría presente hasta en nuestra tostadora.

In 1024, an impatient Kievan Rus warlord led 800 Vikings into the Aegean, triggering a Byzantine massacre on the island of Lemnos.

The Derveni papyrus, an ancient Greek papyrus roll, is considered to be Europe's oldest surviving readable manuscript.

By turning Russia’s vast territory and imported refinery hardware into easy prey, Ukraine’s precision drone strikes are now driving the country’s worst fuel crunch since Soviet times.

Entraram no domingo em vigor as novas regras europeias para a Inteligência Artificial. Há novas obrigações, sobretudo em matéria de transparência.

Nabataeans established a mysterious, ancient kingdom and had a reputation for great accomplishments with links to Greece and Rome.

An AI engineer working outside academia says he has deciphered Linear A, a Bronze Age writing system from Minoan Crete.

The Judgement of Paris, which was likely the first ancient Greek beauty pageant, set off one of the most important narratives in mythology.

The ancient mystery of the great sound quality at the ancient Greek theater of Epidaurus has finally been solved, researchers posit.

The myth tells of a half-man, half-pig hybrid created during World War Two in Staffordshire.