Companies are testing dozens of similar drugs in cancers of the pancreas, lung, colon and more.

Even the most adept researchers may not know exactly what they do to get successful results. An A.I. model is trying to figure it out by watching every move.

China’s exotic pet market is driving a spike in animal smuggling, U.S. wildlife officials say. But these turtles are getting a second chance.

Scientists worry about the penguins’ future amid changing temperatures and warming waters this year.

People in the Americas, Africa and Europe will have a chance to see Earth’s shadow create a near-total blood moon.

The eclipse will obscure about 93 percent of the moon’s surface. Here are the peak times and tips for the best viewing experience.

Two weeks after a total solar eclipse wowed skywatchers in Europe, a near-total lunar eclipse is in store Thursday for people in North and South America.

Climate change is causing glaciers to retreat and become less stable, upping the odds of catastrophic collapses.

The country star supported early childhood literacy, disaster relief, the development of the Covid-19 vaccine and more.

The move is part of the Trump administration’s efforts to spur the country’s largest expansion of nuclear power in more than three decades.

Discounting the opinions of LLM judges with highly correlated outputs ensures that panels of judges reflect a true diversity of perspectives.

In a key clinical trial, patients who got the pill, daraxonrasib, lived twice as long as those who got chemotherapy.

Participants, often in vulnerable states, have little recourse if mistreated or injured.

New findings shed light on what’s making the parasite less treatable using the drug that’s considered a first line of defense.

SpaceX's Elon Musk plans to build new Starship launchpads in Louisiana, replacing sections of marshland as part of a major spaceport project. Space journalist Kristin Fisher talks with NBC News' Gadi Schwartz about the plans.

Some leaders of the health movement are challenging a pillar of the president’s energy agenda.

The fatalities come amid declining vaccination rates and calls from President Donald Trump to split up the MMR vaccine.

It would be the rocket company’s second private launch site after Starbase, its headquarters in South Texas.

Under the proposal, states would no longer need to provide public notice or solicit comments on air pollution permits for data centers and other projects.

Archeologists are confronting an “unfathomable” loss as border wall construction is set to cut across ranches that are home to unique historical sites, many of which haven’t been fully studied.

With air and sea surface temperatures already breaking records, this year’s episode is on track to be the strongest in living memory.

In July, an unreleased OpenAI model went rogue and demonstrated remarkable hacking abilities. This week, a lab called Z.ai will release a similarly powerful system to everyone.

A trek in a remote corner of the Iberian Peninsula brought a writer face-to-face with ancient oaks, rewilding efforts and prehistoric cave art.

The actual prevalence, researchers said, may be much higher.

There’s no clearer sign of the data center boom than rampant gas projects that have been proposed or that are already under construction.

The state seeks to block plans for significant water use restrictions over the next decade.

When OpenAI’s agents went rogue in July, they demonstrated ingenuity and drive beyond what many experts imagined — a dangerous harbinger of what such bots could do in the future.

Five decades after the “war on drugs” sought to make substance abuse unaffordable, illicit drugs are cheaper and more powerful than ever. A visit to Baltimore shows why.

The president may disdain clean energy tech, but energy storage is also crucial for A.I. and defense — and China’s dominance in the sector has officials worried.

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is expected to discover as many as 200,000 new planets and reveal details about the elusive nature of dark matter and dark energy.

How a tiny little electronic switch sparked the computer revolution.

Luxury water can contain different minerals and taste noticeably different. But a remote source, alkaline pH, and high price do not necessarily mean better hydration.

The LINK probe was supposed to use robotic arms to capture Swift and lift it into a safe orbit. Problems with its control system forced NASA to call off the attempt.

Extendable framework enables testing agents on the full set of capabilities required to successfully complete a procedure, not isolated proxy tasks.

Roblox is sharing AI safety models that detect online grooming, personal information requests and voice chat violations with other platforms.

“People have talked about the Colorado River crisis for decades—we’re now in it,” says one expert. “Everyone you talk to is like, ‘Shit, man.’”

Apple confirmed to CyberGuy that mercenary spyware alerts were sent to targeted users in 110 countries, now appearing directly on iPhone Lock Screens.

S301 passes close to Sagittarius A*—so close that its orbit could reveal how the black hole’s rotation warps the spacetime around it.

CAL FIRE tested Seneca's autonomous suppression drones in California, while XPRIZE finalists faced field challenges in Alaska during June 2026.

From granola to guacamole, a wide variety of foods have been recalled lately over salmonella risks. Experts say common-sense precautions go a long way.

Family group chat scams use data broker sites like Spokeo and Whitepages to map relatives, then exploit shared travel plans and appointments.

NASA had hoped to prevent its Swift observatory from breaking apart in Earth’s atmosphere. But the spacecraft tasked with the rescue hit problems.

The World Robot Conference in Beijing provides an opportunity for China’s robot makers to display their innovations and convince investors of the real-world potential for the technology.

Silent voicemails from rotating numbers flood one man's phone every 20 minutes, raising questions about ringless voicemail spam and callback scams.

ForSight Robotics says its JASPER platform completed 26 fully robotic-assisted cataract surgeries without ever converting to manual operation.

A defunct part of a Falcon 9 rocket crashed into the moon uncontrolled this month at an estimated 5,400 mph. Now NASA has photos.

How the joule thief circuit “steals” energy from seemingly depleted power cells.

SignalTrace by Leonardo detects wireless signals from your devices and links them to license plate data, creating electronic fingerprints for police.

This year’s El Niño is shaping up to be the strongest on record. This is what impacts to expect and how bad it could get.

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology researchers built a robotic disassembly system that adapts when screws get stuck or parts go missing in old machines.

Fake streaming sites promise free access to Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" but steal credit card details through bogus free trial signups.

El Niño coupled with Saharan dust is making this year’s hurricane season a dud. But there’s still potential for dangerous storms.

Researchers found that a metabolite produced by gut bacteria can weaken the barrier that protects the brain and promote changes associated with the cognitive disease.

An object observed by the James Webb Space Telescope lends credence to a strange explanation for the mysterious red spots in the early universe.

In 2027 and 2028, there will be two spectacular, long-duration solar eclipses. Here’s what you need to know about them.

Observatories have been built in mines, deep under the Antarctic ice sheet, and elsewhere in an effort to detect the fleeting particles.

The MouthPad is a custom-fit hands-free touchpad that sits inside your mouth, letting you control a cursor with your tongue or head movements.

Timelapse videos from Mallorca and Arcos de las Salinas show the moon passing directly between the earth and the sun to produce a rare total solar eclipse.

The Perseids’ peak coincides with another highly anticipated celestial event: a total solar eclipse that will be visible in parts of Europe.

Ten years after we founded the Automated Reasoning Group, mathematical logic has moved from academic research into production services that secure millions of customer workloads — demonstrating that systems can be provably correct, not just probably correct.

Environment Canada is now using a more precise warning system that allows meteorologists to draw a polygon over an area encompassing a severe weather alert.

A competition with a finalist ceremony during NeurIPS 2026, challenging researchers to train language models from scratch on Trainium, exploring what optimal architectures look like when the hardware changes.

The United States sweltered through its hottest July ever recorded last month, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration confirmed Monday.

Louisiana health officials are urging residents to take precautions against a flesh-eating bacterial infection following the deaths of five people this year.

Canadian robotics companies are warning they’re being swept up in a U.S. crackdown on foreign-made robots, as new restrictions threaten to shut them out of their largest market.

Avi Loeb, head of the UAP Science Council for the White House, joins Stay Tuned NOW to discuss key takeaways from the latest batch of files on unidentified aerial phenomena.

Four environmental organizations filed a petition Thursday asking the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to reverse approval of a startup’s plan to beam on-demand sunlight from space to Earth, arguing the agency ignored the project’s potential impacts on wildlife, astronomy research and eye safety.

Amazon announces 34 recipients of the Build on Trainium program, a $110 million credit initiative supporting AI research at 30 universities including Stanford, UC Berkeley, UIUC, UCLA, CMU, and MIT, with a focus on Responsible AI.

Joshua Kutryck from Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta., is one of four members assigned to NASA's SpaceX Crew 13 mission set to spend six months at the ISS.

NASA's new wind tunnel has a diameter of 20 feet and stands 24 feet tall, with wind speeds of up to 117 miles per hour. It will help test technology for future space missions.

Instead of compromising among parameter updates dictated by different training objectives, ControlG allocates computational capacity to objectives sequentially and dynamically.

Viral videos show humanoid robots flailing, lurching toward crowds, and one kicking a child during public performances, raising urgent safety questions.

PatientAgentBench generates a synthetic patient health record, a realistic clinical vignette, and a patient agent that converses with the AI system under evaluation, to capture what a patient-facing agent actually has to do.

Attackers used credential stuffing to breach Chick-fil-A One loyalty accounts, exposing names, payment details and rewards balances for customers.

The second of two red panda cubs born at a Santa Barbara Zoo in California earlier this summer died over the weekend, the zoo said Monday.

As AI agents take on higher-stakes decisions, Lean programming language makes it possible to mathematically prove they will behave safely.

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol escaped a locked sandbox, exploited a zero-day vulnerability and compromised Hugging Face servers during a cybersecurity test.

Samsung's three new foldable phones run Android 17 with One UI 9 and Galaxy AI, but each targets a very different user with unique screen sizes.

With the record-breaking sale of a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton, debate is swirling over the private market for dinosaur fossils. Some argue they belong in museums where they can be studied and seen by the public. NBC News' Marquise Francis reports.

The sugar was detected in the galactic centre region of the Milky Way where there is a dense concentration of gases and stars, about 26,700 light years from Earth.

HydroShear, a new physics-based simulator, teaches robots how to use their sense of touch to perform complex manipulation tasks, in a way that transfers seamlessly to the real world.

A new Rust proxy called Turnstile sits between the model backend and the agent harness to capture information lost in mere text transcripts.

Meta, the parent company of such social media platforms as Facebook and Instagra, has announced plans to build a $13-billion data centre in Sturgeon County, north of Edmonton.

Scammers target home sellers through property records and data brokers. Real estate wire fraud and people search sites put your nest egg at risk.

Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen announced Monday that he is stepping down from his full-time role as an astronaut, months after flying around the moon on NASA’s Artemis II mission.

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol model requires Trump administration approval for early access, raising questions about government control over AI cybersecurity tools.

Rare gamma-ray bursts detected by powerful X-ray telescopes orbiting the Earth helped astronomers measure Milky Way spiral arms with stunning accuracy.

The FTC warns that scammers are keeping "sucker lists" to repeatedly target previous fraud victims with fake recovery offers and upfront fees.

Disney's $50 million antitrust settlement lets YouTube TV and DirecTV Stream subscribers file a claim form for a cash payment before the deadline.

An exclusive look at Greensea IQ's AI-powered robots that can find and clear mines on the ocean floor. A powerful new tool that minimizes the human risk of deactivating these deadly hazards. NBC News' Brian Cheung reports.

Amazon is developing precise, sector-specific approaches to measuring decarbonization progress — starting with emissions per unit shipped.

Temperatures on the ocean surface hit a record high in June, European scientists warned Wednesday, fueling fears of more dangerous heat waves this summer.

The announcement is the latest in a stream of funding contracts NASA has awarded private companies in its effort to establish a permanent presence on the moon.

NBC News’ Gadi Schwartz previews the new exhibit at the California Science Center, where visitors will soon be able to view NASA’s space shuttle Endeavour in its ready-to-launch position.

NASA on Tuesday plans to launch a mission to save its Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory. A spacecraft is expected to push the telescope into a stable orbit so it doesn’t fall into the atmosphere.

The NASA Swift space observatory is in danger of falling from space after 22 years, but a rescue mission with the help of a robot is set to launch on June 30. NBC News’ Gadi Schwartz talks with Katalyst Space CEO Ghonhee Lee, the company partnering with NASA, about the historic mission.

A woman who was out walking her dog near a wilderness campground, west of Calgary, had a frightening encounter with a grizzly bear this week, and it was all caught on camera.

A large asteroid experts believe to be as big as three CN Towers stacked on top of each other is about to pass Earth this weekend at its nearest point since the 17th century.

Researchers used AI tools to achieve the first complete viewings of closed scrolls burnt by the eruption that buried the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in 79 AD.

Millimeter-scale particles of nuclear-reactor fuel are encased in four layers of different materials that act as a “miniature containment system”.

Information commissioner Caroline Maynard says a federal proposal to narrow the scope of the Access to Information Act is a move in the wrong direction.

There were thoughts that early strains may have been mild, but the discovery that the plague killed prehistoric hunter-gatherers contradicts ​those notions.

Splitting the “separation kernel” off from the rest of the Nitro security system and using only a subset of the Rust programming language to code it enabled its formal verification.

A new chiplet architecture, custom die-to-die connectivity, and support for DDR5-8800 memory and the latest PCIe gen6 interconnects improve performance by 25% for general-purpose and agentic AI workloads.

Four approaches can dramatically improve the performance and trustworthiness of AI agents in operational environments.

The harnesses that mediate between models and tools in agentic systems are becoming their own performance bottleneck, but a few simple design principles can fix what ails them.

Automatically fact-checking long, AI-generated research reports poses new challenges — including benchmarking.

'The Moon Base will be America's and humanity's first outpost on another celestial world,' said NASA administrator Jared Isaacman.

“Quasi-random” network topologies and new passive optical components called ShuffleBoxes make more-efficient flat networks as practical as traditional “fat-tree” networks.

Awardees represent more than 49 universities in 11 countries. Recipients have access to Amazon public datasets, along with AWS AI/ML services and tools.

How to train language models to generate diverse, accurate reasoning paths using tokens that control distinct reasoning strategies.

Trump invited the astronauts to the White House when he spoke with them in the middle of their journey around the far side of the moon, saying he wanted their autographs.

A new report from the federal government says an increase in greenhouse gas emissions from the oil and gas industry in 2024 offset decreases in several other industries.

In an interview with Global News, the Canadian astronaut reflected on his historic lunar journey and shared how it reinforced his perspective on humanity.

The four-person crew — commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover and mission specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen — splashed down in the Pacific Ocean last Friday.

NASA says the estimated maximum distance from Earth during today's flyby by the Orion spacecraft will exceed 406,000 kilometres, beating the 400,171 kilometres set by Apollo 13.

Jeremy Hansen, along with two U.S. astronauts, took part in a live question-and-answer session from aboard NASA's Orion spacecraft to answer questions submitted by Canadian kids.

If all goes to plan, Calgary-born Jenni Gibbons won't be on the rocket — but she will still perform a critical role in its launch and voyage through space.

The Lunar Gateway station, largely already built with contractors Northrop Grumman and Vantor, formerly Maxar, was meant to be a space station parked in a lunar orbit.

It's Natalie Wilkie's fourth career Paralympic gold medal for the Canadian flag-bearer and her ninth Paralympic medal overall. She also won a silver on Saturday.