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Elsevier expands Leap Space with writing coach and Claim Radar, says 97% of users report time savings from the platform
18+ hour, 3+ min ago (266+ words) By Brian Buntz | July 1, 2026 Leap Space's Claim Radar analyzing the claim "AI adoption is accelerating fast," pulling 19 supporting references and zero contradicting ones. One of the chief new features is Writing Coach, a private drafting space where a researcher can…...
NSF's $1. 5 billion X-Labs initiative promises flexibility, but leaves key questions unanswered
16+ hour, 51+ min ago (450+ words) By Julia Rock-Torcivia | July 1, 2026 But with proposals for the quantum systems topic due July 24 and the Phase 1 selection criteria not yet written, the line between a program built to be flexible and one still being built is not always easy…...
Zenno becomes first company to operate a superconducting magnet in space, adds space veteran Andrew Rush to its board
1+ day, 17+ hour ago (317+ words) By Brian Buntz | June 30, 2026 The Z01 Supertorquer (circled) during integration onto Impulse Space's Mira spacecraft ahead of the LEO Express 3 mission. Credit: Zenno Astronautics The space superconductor company Zenno Astronautics says its Z01 Supertorquer has made it the first company to operate…...
Anthropic says AI can run science experiments now rather than just plan them
1+ day, 16+ hour ago (254+ words) By Brian Buntz | June 30, 2026 From Anthropic's Claude Science product page: click-to-annotate feedback on a generated figure, with the matplotlib code that produced it editable in the same window. Image courtesy of Anthropic. "The scientific method is a loop, too," he…...
A plant virus could keep astronauts medicated on a trip to Mars
1+ day, 19+ hour ago (682+ words) By Julia Rock-Torcivia | June 30, 2026 Credit: David Baillot/UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering The scientists developed a method to produce and harvest pharmaceuticals from plants for use by astronauts on long space missions. It could also help bring low-cost…...
Waters targets large, heterogeneous drug modalities with three new mass spectrometry systems
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (539+ words) R&D World Waters has been expanding and repositioning its mass spectrometry portfolio around the growing analytical challenges of large, heterogeneous and structurally complex drug modalities, molecules that increasingly resist full characterization by any single platform. At ASMS 2026, the company…...
July 2026 issue of Medical Design & Outsourcing: Robotic stroke telesurgery's time is now
2+ day, 10+ min ago (409+ words) By Jim Hammerand | June 30, 2026 An incredible era has begun as neurosurgical devices, robotics and connectivity come together to expand access to life-saving stroke care. The FDA approved the first clot-busting stroke drug in 1996 and only recently approved the second. In…...
Countable Labs' CTO Christina Fan on reimagining PCR, one molecule at a time
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (137+ words) By Brian Buntz | June 29, 2026 Fan and Fodor reunited to launch Countable Labs in 2019, originally named Enumerix, together with co-founder Ari Chaney. "I've always wanted to develop new tools for scientists to do their cool science," Fan said. The Countable PCR…...
Open AI's GPT-5. 6 Sol sets a coding record. Its own system card says it cheats sometimes.
5+ day, 16+ hour ago (164+ words) By Brian Buntz | June 26, 2026 As Anthropic's Fable 5 remains pulled from public access under a U. S. government export-control directive, Open AI soft-launched GPT-5. 6 Sol on June 26 to its own "trusted partners." The model appears to also have a tendency to cheat in…...
Noetik's TARIO-2: A 'world model' that reads a tumor from a single slide
6+ day, 17+ hour ago (360+ words) By Brian Buntz | June 25, 2026 An image from the TARIO-2 Inference Explorer (Adenocarcinoma) | Noetik Many patients who receive cancer immunotherapy do not respond to it, and oncologists still have few dependable ways to know in advance who will. By one estimate,…...