Scientific Computing

Last April, Firefox patched 31 security vulnerabilities. For most of the year, the number hovered between the teens and the mid-twenties. The numbers began to tick up after, in January 2026, Anthropic partnered with Mozilla and deployed its Claude Opus 4.6 model to scan Firefox over a two-week period. That month, the model discovered 22…

Chicago startup Newtonian Standard says it has identified a memory behavior in NVIDIA GPUs that could serve as the foundation for a new kind of hardware-level security. J.P. O’Donnell, the company’s founder and a former Okta engineer, says he spent 18 months characterizing the behavior across NVIDIA Turing, Lovelace and Blackwell GPU architectures. The company…

BEIT Inc., a quantum computing startup founded by ex-Googlers in Kraków, has launched CovAngelo, a hybrid quantum-classical platform designed to accurately model chemical reactions in complex molecular environments. Its focus is on covalent inhibitors. The firm is backed by Bloomberg Beta and the European Innovation Council and participates in NVIDIA Inception, a startup program that…

As companies look for ways to let AI systems and outside partners analyze sensitive data without exposing entire files, NTT Research is launching Scale Academy, an internal incubator whose first product is SaltGrain, a zero-trust data security suite built on attribute-based encryption. The launch of SaltGrain comes on the heels of the November debut of…

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is evaluating quantum computing companies through the Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI) to “rigorously verify and validate whether any quantum computing approach can achieve utility-scale operation – meaning its computational value exceeds its cost – by the year 2033,” according to the agency.  An initial six-month phase of…

Bioptimus, a global AI company building models for biology, announced the launch of its Spatial Tissue Embedding Learning Atlas (STELA), a multinational spatial data generation initiative in partnership with 10x Genomics and Broad Clinical Labs. The company aims to solve issues in drug discovery and development, improving efficiency and decreasing costs.  Building foundation models for…

In August 2024, Trump wrote that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg could “spend the rest of his life in prison” for allegedly plotting against him in the 2020 election. Eighteen months later, Zuckerberg is on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), the body charged with advising the White House on science and…

By simulating the life cycle of a minimal bacterial cell from DNA replication to protein translation to metabolism and cell division, scientists from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have opened a new frontier of computational modeling into the essential processes of life. The researchers published their findings in the journal Cell.  The research team simulated…

Basecamp Research, an AI lab for biological design, today announced the launch of the Trillion Gene Atlas, a scientific initiative to generate and model biological data at the trillion-gene scale. The initiative is a collaboration with Anthropic, Ultima Genomics and PacBio and is powered by NVIDIA AI infrastructure.  The Trillion Gene Atlas aims to expand…

LabWare is at Pittcon 2026 teased the next phase of its SaaS strategy, a year after launching LabWare ASSURE in April 2025 as its food safety and quality LIMS offering. The company’s message in San Antonio: enterprise-grade LIMS doesn’t have to mean 18-month implementations. ASSURE is a fully hosted, pre-configured SaaS LIMS targeting food safety,…

HORIBA has released the EzSpec-SDK, a software development kit that gives developers programmatic control over the company’s spectrometers and detectors from within third-party applications. The SDK supports Python, C++, C# (.NET), and LabVIEW, and HORIBA has published starter code, documentation, and example applications on GitHub. The company says the toolkit is designed to let researchers…

Silicon Quantum Computing has built what is, in effect, a designer material you can dial like an instrument. Using scanning tunneling microscope lithography, the Sydney-based company patterned a two-dimensional lattice of roughly 15,000 atom-based quantum dots in silicon, arranged on a 100×150 grid. Results published in Nature show controlled simulation of quantum physics across arrays…

Olivera Kotevska, a research scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, won an R&D 100 Award for PRESTO, a privacy-preserving AI toolkit she led at ORNL’s Computer Science and Mathematics Division. “Being one of the winners is really an honor,” Kotevska said at the 2025 R&D 100 Awards gala. “I still sometimes cannot believe this is…

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s free public lecture series returns February 7–28 at Las Positas College in Livermore, Calif., with four Saturday sessions for middle and high school students. This year’s theme is “Computing the Future.” The series opens Feb. 7 with “Cosmic Treasure Hunt: Finding Stardust in Meteorites.” That session will dig into how ancient…

Daejeon, South Korea–based Qunova Computing has announced that its HI-VQE algorithm is now available on AWS Marketplace as part of the Braket ecosystem of quantum computers. It reports that the algorithm will give researchers and industrial users a new way to deploy the company’s hybrid quantum-classical chemistry workflow. Qunova expects distributing HI-VQE through AWS Marketplace…

Researchers from the Nanoscience Center at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, have developed a computational model that could expedite the use of nanomaterials in biomedical applications. Their machine learning framework is capable of predicting how proteins interact with ligand-stabilized gold nanoclusters, materials widely used in bioimaging, biosensing and targeted drug delivery. Gold nanoclusters are used…

Sandia National Laboratory and NextSilicon, a technology company, collaborated to create a supercomputer designed to prioritize tasks in real time, Sandia announced on Monday. The computer, called Spectra, could alter how the nation conducts high-stakes simulations for its nuclear deterrence mission. In other words, while it won’t top the TOP500 list of supercomputers, the prototype…

High-Rate Delay-Tolerant Networking (HDTN) is software for streaming and networking communications in space. The software has the potential to enable a solar system internet, allowing space exploration teams to receive data from rovers and other space vehicles and to maintain connections between spacecraft and Earth.  The software can transfer data up to 10 times faster…

Every lab has a Friday-night freezer story. The alarm chirps, people scramble, and someone winds up babysitting samples with a clipboard that was never meant to be a forensic record. As instruments fill the lab and teams shift from wielding pipettes to orchestrating cloud workflows and collaborating with AI agents, the margin for ad hoc…

[Image from Adobe Stock] Why you should read this report: Lab automation looks hot, but the usual indicators are quiet: patents are flat, vendors report uneven demand, and standard market metrics barely move. This report shows what those signals miss—where recent AI-drug-discovery capital actually landed, why “Lab Automation Engineer” roles increasingly require Python and APIs…

Maryland is getting its first undersea internet cable, and it’s a monster. Amazon Web Services announced plans for “Fastnet,” a dedicated fiber optic system linking the state’s Eastern Shore to Ireland with enough raw power to stream 12.5 million HD films simultaneously. The project, set to be operational in 2028, represents AWS’s bet that customer…

Asked whether AI will lessen the need for researchers, Google’s head of Research Yossi Matias gave a clear answer. “The only scenario where you would need fewer researchers is if we assume we’ve answered almost all the major questions. I don’t think anyone believes that,” he said at Google’s flagship research conference in Mountain View.…

Nvidia introduced NVQLink at its GTC Washington event, pitching the open system architecture as the missing low-latency bridge between quantum processors and GPU supercomputers. Paris- and Boston-based Alice & Bob said it is collaborating on the rollout, aligning its cat-qubit hardware and software with the new interconnect for real-time decoding, calibration and control. Alice &…

Healthcare data is often incomplete and inconsistent, limiting efforts to improve patient outcomes and operational efficiency. A 2021 report from Sage Growth found that only 20% of healthcare organizations fully trust their data. Because records follow patients across providers with shifting identifiers and coding schemes, the same encounter often appears multiple times or partially, breaking…

In 1982, Joy Milne detected her husband’s Parkinson’s disease with her heightened sense of smell. She wouldn’t realize the source of the scent until after her husband was diagnosed with Parkinson’s over a decade later. The couple attended a support group, and Milne smelled the disease on almost every person there.  The Milnes’ case was…