Platform for precise cellular control uses non-genetic DNA decoupled from genetic information

Stepping away from its billions-of-years-old role as a genetic blueprint, DNA is now embarking on a new journey as an active ...

Software package makes gene regulation easier to study—and tweak

Understanding how genes are switched on and off in specific cell types remains one of biology's central challenges. While AI ...
The Next Platform

Nvidia Software Pushes MLPerf Inference Benchmarks To New Highs

For years, co-founder and chief executive officer Jensen Huang and other higher-ups at Nvidia have been banging on the ...
The Washington Post

Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job

Meryl Kornfield and Elizabeth Dwoskin can be reached securely on Signal at @merylkornfield.59 and @lizza_dwoskin.42 The Social Security Administration’s internal watchdog is investigating a complaint ...
CNET

AI Data Centers: What to Know About Their Water and Energy Use

OpenAI's Sam Altman says AI's water concerns are "totally fake." The truth about AI's impact on natural resources is more complicated. Macy is a writer on the AI Team. She covers how AI is changing ...
MIT Technology Review

Using big data for good

In pet genetics, cancer research, and beyond, Charlie Lieu, MBA ’05, SM ’05, has spent her career harnessing massive data sets to make the world better for everyone. A photogenic green-eyed Russian ...
Portland Press Herald

Another data center proposed, this time in southern Maine

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. An Amazon Web Services data center in Oregon is seen at night on in 2024.
Houston Chronicle

How much water do AI data centers use? A new survey could help Texas regulators find out.

Water consumption by data centers and cryptomining facilities will be the focus of a new data-collection effort launched Friday by the Texas Public Utility Commission. Demand to build new data centers ...
FedScoop

Federal judge blocks ICE from using IRS taxpayer data in enforcement

Federal immigration agents detain a man during an operation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Jan. 27, 2026. (Photo by Octavio JONES / AFP via ...
WHYY

Pa. Gov. Josh Shapiro wants more data centers but they need to bring their own power

FILE - Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro watches warmups before an NFL football game between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Detroit Lions on Sunday, Nov. 16, 2025, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum ...
AZ Central

We estimated data centers' water and power use. Here's how

Data center operators and utilities often do not disclose facility-specific energy and water usage data. The Republic built a database to estimate data centers' energy capacity by analyzing air ...
GeekWire

SpaceX seeks go-ahead from the FCC to put up to a million data center satellites in orbit

This time-lapse image of Venus and the Pleiades shows the tracks of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites. The image received an award in the 2021 IAU OAE Astrophotography Contest. (Torsten Hansen / IAU OAE / ...