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Claude Science is Anthropic’s newest flagship product
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MIT Technology Review · Science

Claude Science is Anthropic’s newest flagship product

At an event for pharmaceutical executives, biotech founders, and researchers on Tuesday, Anthropic announced Claude Science, a major new product intended to support scientific research in the same way that Claude Code supports software engineering. Like Claude Code, Claude Science can autonomously c...

Grace Huckins
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NASA’s Chandra Reveals ‘Red, White, Blue’ Universe for US 250th
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NASA Breaking News · Science

NASA’s Chandra Reveals ‘Red, White, Blue’ Universe for US 250th

In celebration of the 250th birthday of the United States, NASA has unveiled four cosmic images from its Chandra X-ray Observatory rendered in red, white, and blue that represent the wonders of the universe the agency explores. The images are accompanied by a trio of new sonifications – a technique...

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A Day of Flight Testing at NASA Armstrong
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NASA Breaking News · Science

A Day of Flight Testing at NASA Armstrong

Flight testing is a team sport. For nearly 80 years, teams at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, have used flight testing to push the limits of aerodynamics and advance aviation. Earlier this year, NASA’s Crossflow Attenuated Natural Laminar Flow (CATNLF) initiative test...

Dede Dinius
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NextSTEP-3 B: Moon Base Demonstrations
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NASA Breaking News · Science

NextSTEP-3 B: Moon Base Demonstrations

Notice ID: Coming Soon NASA’s Human Spaceflight Mission Directorate is seeking innovative ideas from industry partners through a new solicitation appendix under the NextSTEP-3 Omnibus Broad Agency Announcement. Appendix B: Moon Base Demonstrations calls for industry-led demonstrations, risk re...

Danny Baird
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NASA Awards More Moon Base Science, Previews New Opportunities
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NASA Breaking News · Science

NASA Awards More Moon Base Science, Previews New Opportunities

Editor’s note: This release was updated on June 30, 2026, to clarify the engineering development version for the PROMISE rover. NASA announced Tuesday the selection of three companies to land four new missions on the Moon in late 2028 as part of the agency’s Moon Base Program. Astrobotic, Fire...

Lauren E. Low
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Roundtables: Longevity’s Next Frontier: “Reprogramming” Your Body
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MIT Technology Review · Science

Roundtables: Longevity’s Next Frontier: “Reprogramming” Your Body

Listen to the session or watch below Billions of dollars are flooding into efforts to reverse aging as scientists explore ways to return cells to a younger state. But how far off are these experimental treatments? Will they really work? Watch a conversation exploring longevity’s new focus. Spe...

MIT Technology Review
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Starry Chandelier Cluster
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NASA Breaking News · Science

Starry Chandelier Cluster

This image released on June 26, 2026, features the globular cluster NGC 6723, sometimes called the Chandelier Cluster. Like its namesake, it sparkles with countless lights. However, each ‘lightbulb’ in this chandelier is an individual star 27,000 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius (th...

HQ Web Team
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The Download: AI “coworkers” and stratospheric internet
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MIT Technology Review · Science

The Download: AI “coworkers” and stratospheric internet

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI agents are not your “coworkers” Imagine coming in to work to learn that a new underling will report to you. The worker is not a person but an AI to...

Thomas Macaulay
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Agriculture is ready for AI, but its data isn’t
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MIT Technology Review · Science

Agriculture is ready for AI, but its data isn’t

Artificial intelligence is transforming what is possible in agriculture, but industry leaders should be wary of investing in AI without first laying the groundwork.  The use cases are promising, especially for an industry navigating volatile fertilizer costs, unpredictable weather, and margins...

Carole Hill, Manish Sood
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Building tech in the world’s secret R&D hub
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MIT Technology Review · Science

Building tech in the world’s secret R&D hub

Apple. Anthropic. Disney Research. Google. Meta. Microsoft. NVIDIA. OpenAI. Few places outside Silicon Valley can claim R&D hubs from all of these companies. Fewer still are concentrated in a city of just over 400,000 people—roughly half the size of San Francisco. Over the past two decades, howe...

Greater Zurich Area
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Ames Science Stars of the Month July 2026
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NASA Breaking News · Science

Ames Science Stars of the Month July 2026

NASA Ames Science Stars of the Month: July 2026 The NASA Ames Science Directorate recognizes the outstanding contributions of (pictured left to right) Sungshin Choi, Yi-Chun Chen, Emma Yates, Eduardo Bendek. Their commitment to the NASA mission represents the entrepreneurial spirit, technical expert...

Aaron McKinnon
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NASA, SBA Announce New Initiative to Scale American Space Economy 
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NASA Breaking News · Science

NASA, SBA Announce New Initiative to Scale American Space Economy 

NASA and the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) launched the SBIC-NASA Initiative on Monday to increase investment in American manufacturers of industrial components and providers of technologies critical to space exploration to support a sustained presence on the Moon and Mars.&#160...

Jessica Taveau
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NASA’s Newest Wind Tunnel Builds on Legacy of Innovation
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NASA Breaking News · Science

NASA’s Newest Wind Tunnel Builds on Legacy of Innovation

For more than 100 years, wind tunnels at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, have helped shape the future of flight.   Now, two of NASA’s longest-serving facilities — the 12-Foot Low-Speed Tunnel and the 20-Foot Vertical Spin Tunnel — will pass the torch to the Flight Dynamics...

Joseph Atkinson
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AI agents are not your “coworkers”
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MIT Technology Review · Science

AI agents are not your “coworkers”

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Imagine coming in to work to learn that a new underling will report to you. The worker is not a person but an AI tool—one that your company nonetheless calls Alex...

James O'Donnell
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NASA Astronaut Chris Williams Preps for Spacewalk
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NASA Breaking News · Science

NASA Astronaut Chris Williams Preps for Spacewalk

Flight engineer Sophie Adenot of ESA (European Space Agency) helps flight engineer Chris Williams of NASA as he tries on his spacesuit on June 23, 2026, testing its comfort and mobility as well as its communications and life support systems inside the International Space Station’s Quest airlock. Wil...

HQ Web Team
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Mapping Earth’s Observations, featuring Betsy Ford
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NASA Breaking News · Science

Mapping Earth’s Observations, featuring Betsy Ford

NASA’s Earth-observing satellites track an enormous range of phenomena: how aerosols move through the atmosphere, how moisture descends through soil, how land-cover shifts over decades. It’s some of the most consequential data NASA produces, informing science, policy, agriculture, and cl...

Sondra Woodward
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NextSTEP-3 A: Lunar Enabling Technology
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NASA Breaking News · Science

NextSTEP-3 A: Lunar Enabling Technology

NASA issued a draft Broad Agency Announcement under NextSTEP‑3, Appendix A, on June 29, 2026, to advance concepts that accelerate the technological readiness of critical systems for lunar surface and cislunar architecture.  This solicitation seeks to close key technology gaps and mature capabilities...

Loura Hall
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NASA Seeks Industry Input to Accelerate Lunar Surface Technologies
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NASA Breaking News · Science

NASA Seeks Industry Input to Accelerate Lunar Surface Technologies

Long-term lunar exploration requires technology, infrastructure, and operations that function together cohesively on the surface of the Moon. To accelerate the development of key lunar surface systems and reduce risk, NASA and industry must work together in the design, development, testing, and eval...

Loura Hall
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Agent confidence on the technical frontier
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MIT Technology Review · Science

Agent confidence on the technical frontier

Enterprise investment in AI is booming. Gartner is calling 2026 an “inflection year” for organizations to align their AI projects with strategic business objectives. As the pressure to prove ROI mounts, executives and technology leaders are looking to agentic AI to drive the measurable financial out...

MIT Technology Review Insights
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The Download: metric weaknesses and AI elephant warnings
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MIT Technology Review · Science

The Download: metric weaknesses and AI elephant warnings

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The inevitable weakness of metrics There are plenty of useful things a metric can reveal. There are even more that it can obscure or corrupt. Like a l...

Thomas Macaulay
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