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Hubble Telescope sees baby stars hard at work | Space photo of the day for Jan. 16, 2025

January 19, 2026
Stars don’t start out fully formed. Instead, they begin when clouds of diffuse gas and dust clump together, becoming denser than their surroundings. Gravity does the rest, pulling material inward until a collapsing knot becomes a compact, warming core: a protostar, still feeding on the cloud that created it. That’s exactly what was seen in a recent image from NASA’s and the…
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AI & RoboticsNews

From OpenAI’s offices to a deal with Eli Lilly — how Chai Discovery became one of the flashiest names in AI drug development

January 19, 2026
Drug discovery, the art of identifying new molecules to develop pharmaceuticals, is a notoriously time-consuming and difficult process. Traditional techniques, like high-throughput screening, offer an expensive scattershot approach – one that is not often successful. However, a new breed of biotech companies are leveraging AI and advanced data technologies in an attempt to accelerate and…
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NewsPhotography

I’m sick and tired of being told to stop taking photos on the street, so I was flabbergasted when a security guard did this!

January 19, 2026
I’ve been taking photos as long as I can remember, and in my case, that’s a very long time. I’ve been lucky enough to travel to far-flung places around the world, and even in countries where you might imagine secrecy was very high on the agenda, I never used to have a problem taking snapshots of life unfolding on city streets and around town. But lately, even in my home town of Bath in…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

Ford's EV racecar is back for revenge, will again try to win Pike's Peak in 2026

January 19, 2026
Ford will bring its Super Mustang Mach-E – an EV racecar that bears little resemblance to its namesake road car – back to Pike’s Peak after having its race win thwarted by inclement weather last year. The Pike’s Peak International Hill Climb is one of the longest-running races in the world, being held 103 times since 1916. It’s a famously difficult race, starting at an already-high…
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