Finding New Drugs Is Laborious. Potential Sciences, a startup backed by the UK government, is betting that training AI models on computer-generated biochemical data can speed up the plodding process of developing new drugs. Drug discovery is a needle in a haystack problem. This AI startup wants to simulate the haystack to speed the process up.Photo-Illustration: Jobanny Cabrera; Getty Images A new British startup believes that artificial intelligence is the key to speedrunning the slow and temperamental process of drug design. Potential Sciences plans to build large-scale chemical datasets by using basic principles of physics to simulate interactions between atoms, then small molecules, then complex amino acids and proteins.

Technology Engineering World's tallest Day of the Dead sculpture erected in Mexico City The new Guinness World Record holder is as tall as six stacked giraffes. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. The giant Catrina sculpture is displayed at Zocalo Square in Mexico City, Mexico. Mexico City has broken a Guinness World Record during its preparations for this year's Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos) celebrations. At nearly 110 feet tall, the colorful sculpture of a female skeleton currently standing in the capital city's town square (the Zócalo) is officially the world's tallest monument.

Technology Engineering In 1871, this nightmarish'Creeping Baby Doll' was all the rage More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. Meet the most haunted toy we've ever seen. Are you also a big Halloween fan? Well, do we have a gift for you! Allow us to introduce the present no child could ever love (unless maybe they were possessed by a demon or a big fan of): The Creeping Baby Doll!

Hexa-Bouncer is the latest in a series of'useless but mildly interesting ball bouncing machines.' More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. The Hexa-Bouncer has one purpose--and one purpose only. In a world where tech leaders are racing to build autonomous machines that can do almost anything, one hobbyist is going the complete opposite route: an over-engineered robot that does exactly one thing and one thing only. T-Kuhn's Hexa-Bouncer only bounces a ping-pong ball, but looks like it's capable of far more.

Every time you make a phone call, stream a video or connect to Wi-Fi, your device is sending and receiving invisible signals through the air. So are your baby monitor, garage door opener, your GPS, the weather-monitoring satellites and the radars keeping planes safely apart. All of these rely on the same invisible resource: the radio spectrum. The demand for wireless data - driven by smartphones, video streaming and billions of connected devices - keeps growing, making available spectrum scarce. But it doesn't have to remain that way.

Technology Engineering Ukraine's military robots are getting tires that can't go flat The 3D printed, airless design makes the wheels more adaptable. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. The new wheels are 3D printed around a lightweight internal lattice. Tough times can fuel innovation, and battle-hardened Ukraine has demonstrated that fact of life more than most places in recent years. Since Russia's invasion in February 2022, the country has utilized drones and robotics in ways not before seen in large-scale warfare.

Embrace the ocean's own wavy aesthetic. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. Hurricane Irma regained strength to a Category 4 storm early as it began pummeling Florida and threatening landfall within hours. As residents on the northern Gulf Coast brace for quickly strengthening Hurricane Isaias (a Category 3 storm as of Friday afternoon), many are likely eyeing their roofs and walls with nervous anticipation. And while rounded corners, sloped walls and reinforced construction can help mitigate some wind damage, these additions are often expensive or impractical for developers looking to cut costs.

United States President Donald Trump has awarded the country's most prestigious honours in science and engineering to executives from top technology firms including SpaceX, Alphabet, Microsoft and Nvidia. On Thursday, Trump presented the National Medal of Science to billionaire SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Google co-founder Sergey Brin, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Lisa Su of the semiconductor firm AMD. At the award ceremony, Trump credited the honourees with "helping pioneer an incredible future for America". "Because of these people here, we will always be on top. No one else can compete with us," Trump said.

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Technology Engineering The world's first nuclear clocks are ticking Nuclear clocks may surpass their atomic forebears and help solve the universe's most difficult mysteries. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. Timekeeping has officially entered its nuclear age. Two independent teams, one in Vienna, Austria and another in Beijing, China have built working thorium-229 nuclear clock prototypes . Rather than track changes in an atom's electrons the way that current atomic clocks do, these nuclear versions use a laser that's tuned to the frequency where a thorium nucleus flips between two energy states for potentially even more accurate time keeping.