The cost of solar panels has dropped to just a few cents per watt, thanks to a massive supply of photovoltaics flooding the market.

Larry Ellison, cofounder of the software giant Oracle, believes that an age of surveillance supercharged by AI will soon be upon us.

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Studies from insurers say AI-backed billing tools used by providers raise health costs. But the companies making those tools say the problem isn’t with AI — it’s with the healthcare billing system.

Cancer cells have a voracious appetite for sugar - using it to fuel their rapid growth. This is why many scientists have tried to develop drugs that block cancer cells’ metabolism by cutting off their sugar supply. In a study published in Nature Chemical Biology, a team led by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin demonstrated a fundamentally different approach to targeting cancer metabolism. Instead of starving cancer cells, they trick them into consuming even more sugar than usual. Then, at the same time, the drug blocks their backup fuel source - fat. By attacking both fuel sources at once, the experimental drug puts cancer cells under so much stress that many of them die. They demonstrated the drug’s effectiveness at treating an aggressive form of melanoma in mice. “I like to think of this technology like a two-headed dragon,” said Xiaolu (Lulu) Lim Ang Cambronne, an associate professor of molecular biosciences at UT and co-corresponding author. “We are putting one part of the cell into overdrive while simultaneously weakening another part. It appears to be extremely potent.” In lab experiments, the drug was effective against several types of human cancer cells, including melanoma, leukemia, breast cancer, lung...

An island in Chile covered its waters with floating solar panels. Soon, thousands of salmon had turned them into their home and were all thriving.

Small cell neuroendocrine cancers can develop in the lung, prostate, and ovary. These fast-growing tumors tend to spread early and have remained among the hardest cancers to treat successfully. A key feature of these cancers is the loss of a gene called RB. Under normal conditions, RB helps keep cell growth under control. When the gene is missing, cancer cells multiply rapidly and become resistant to many targeted therapies. Now, a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that losing RB also creates an unexpected vulnerability that researchers believe could become a powerful treatment target. A Hidden Dependency in Deadly Cancers The UCLA team discovered that cancer cells lacking RB become heavily dependent on a protein called E2F3 to survive. In laboratory experiments, blocking E2F3 prevented tumor growth through a process known as "synthetic lethality." In simple terms, cancer cells can survive without RB, but they cannot survive when both RB and E2F3 are lost. Removing E2F3 alongside the missing RB exposes a critical weakness that researchers believe could be exploited with future therapies. "Discovering a vulnerability like this opens the door to thinking about entirely new treatment strategies," said study senior author Dr. Owen...

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At 5:26 am local time on August 10, 2025, a massive wedge of rock with a volume of at least 63.5 million cubic meters detached from a mountain above Alaska’s Tracy Arm fjord. The falling rock plummeted into the deep waters at the terminus of the South Sawyer Glacier and caused an initial 100-meter-high breaking wave that tore across the fjord at speeds exceeding 70 meters a second. When this wave hit the opposite shoreline, it surged up the steep rocks to a height of 481 meters above sea level. “It was the second highest tsunami ever recorded on Earth,” says Aram Fathian, a researcher at the University of Calgary and co-author of a recent Science study that reconstructed this event in detail. “But until now, almost nobody heard about it because it was a near-miss event,” he adds. There were no injuries or fatalities reported following the Tracy Arm fjord tsunami, mostly because it happened early in the morning. But we might not be so lucky next time. Landslide megatsunamis Earthquake-generated tsunamis usually reach runup heights of a few tens of meters when they strike land. Landslide tsunamis, like the one that happened in Tracy Arm, are often more...

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