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U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory in New Mexico focused on nuclear weapons research and broad scientific and defense research.
MI5 director general Sir Ken McCallum used his annual threat speech to warn that AI could 'change the stakes' on existing and even new bioweapons. Dr Filippa Lentzos of King's College London, cited by the Guardian, puts the more immediate concern with well-resourced states using AI to tweak known pathogens.
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NVIDIA committed $1 billion over five years and announced seven national-lab systems, led by Argonne's Solstice with around 100,000 Blackwell GPUs. Solstice targets AI work at 4 to 16 bits, so labs that need double precision are left weighing emulation against native FP64 hardware.
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Nvidia committed $1 billion over five years to US science research tied to the Trump administration's Genesis Mission. It has not published how the money splits, so labs and cloud buyers cannot yet tell who gets compute or when.
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NetApp plans to buy PEAK:AIO so that ONTAP's file metadata can scale toward a design target of trillions of files. No integration timetable or benchmark has been published, so ONTAP customers are judging a promise until the upgrade path ships.
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The National Nuclear Security Administration has approved design work on the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center, where much of the infrastructure dates to the facility's first startup and some systems are near the end of their operating lives.
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Ryan Lester and colleagues put windows in the gold cylinder that confines a National Ignition Facility shot. The escaping pulse reached tens of trillions of watts, on a par with the brightness of some red dwarf stars.
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Xcimer took investment from RTX Ventures and Pacific Fusion signed an agreement with the NNSA. TechCrunch's reporting shows defense interest landing on machines that already exist, with both plant programs still running.
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The University of Michigan sent a faculty director and its lead engineer into a hostile Ypsilanti Township town hall on Wednesday night. Its Los Alamos partner sent a letter, and the letter put nuclear weapons research back on the record.
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Transition-edge sensors cooled near absolute zero measured the X-ray lines that sit inside the gamma-ray band used to identify nuclear material. Anyone who wants one also has to buy the refrigerator that keeps it cold.
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Physicists at NIST used superconducting films held near absolute zero to measure X-rays from uranium, plutonium and neptunium in the band where they overlap the gamma rays used for material accounting. Existing gamma detectors can use the new reference values.
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The authors turn phage cocktail design from trial and error into a resistance-management calculation, where the levers a clinician controls are how broad the cocktail is and how early it lands. It is theory, and it is specific enough to argue with.
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Radio polarization from Murriyang and X-ray polarization from IXPE both stay locked to the magnetic field of 1E 1547.0-5408, which is what quantum electrodynamics predicts and what no accelerator has shown.
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At 60 tesla and 0.7 kelvin, resistance oscillations in zirconium pentatelluride outlived the quantum limit. The authors read that as spin doing transport work, not riding along.
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