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In a report published on September 10, Anthropic — the U.S.-based company that builds and provides the Claude AI model — said it blocked users from using the model for a range of potentially harmful activities across cybersecurity, surveillance, and biotechnology between December 2025 and August 2026. While Anthropic has in general been more open...

North Korea’s nuclear tests reawakened sleeping faults While underground nuclear explosions usually set off brief aftershocks fading in weeks, North Korea’s tests at Mt. Mantap did the opposite, causing earthquake activity intensifying over years after testing ceased, new data show. Analysing 17 years of regional seismic records, scientists spotted 1,400 small quakes around the Punggye-ri...

Since their synthesis by the chemist Leo Hendrik Baekeland and the explanation of their structure by Nobel laureate Hermann Staudinger, and their use since the 19th century, plastics have become convenient materials for daily use and are preferred over glass, which breaks easily. Plastics are manufactured by industry and used every day for their convenience...

A fungus that can cause severe pneumonia in people with weaker or weakened immune systems appears to have become resistant to a drug that never intended to kill it, according to the findings of a study by researchers from around the world published in Science Translational Medicine. The study focused on mycophenolic acid (MPA), an...

On September 14, the U.S. Space Force said the country has deployed “on-orbit space control weapons” in space that could “defend against hostile adversary action”. The statement confirmed for the first time that such capabilities existed in orbit, although neither the Space Force nor other branches of the U.S. military provide specific information on the...