A storied trove of documents, photos, and lab tools from the race to decipher DNA’s structure and function is finally being made public. https://scim.ag/47GNqze
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A storied trove of documents, photos, and lab tools from the race to decipher DNA’s structure and function is finally being made public. https://scim.ag/47GNqze
NEW: Six Tesla drivers who use Full Self-Driving software say they experienced problems with the technology at rail crossings, and four of them provided videos. Regulators with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration tell NBC News that they had raised the issue with Tesla.
Cool space news: one of the biggest black holes in the universe is doing something WEIRD! You probably remember this picture, the first ever image of a black hole, in the galaxy M87. What you’re really seeing here is the disk of gas around the black hole. (1/n) 📸: EHT Collab.🧪🔭
If you have salt and ice, but no tequila, you can't make a margarita--but you CAN make electricity. www.icn2.cat/en/news/5508...
"New financial disclosures from surgeon general nominee Casey Means show that she’s made hundreds of thousands of dollars promoting supplements and other health and wellness products" www.statnews.com/2025/09/16/c...
A DHS data-sharing platform used for sharing restricted intel among government agencies, law enforcement and fusion centers was misconfigured to allow access to "everyone" including tens of thousands of unauthorized government staff, contractors and foreign nationals. www.wired.com/story/a-dhs-...
Post a movie you like with a terrible Rotten Tomatoes score.
If I am ever made emperor of America my first decree will be to outlaw motion smoothing on TVs.
Watch: "Trump Media Rolls Out ETFs That Could Benefit From The President’s Policies" me, with Brittany Lewis for @forbes.com
Uh, you should watch Daredevil: Born Again
We asked major AI chatbots to help craft a phishing scam. They did. From fake charities to urgent pleas, the bots delivered. This investigation shows how generative AI is fueling fraud — and why it’s so hard to stop. Read our findings here: reut.rs/3K400yU
No more secret TikTok deals. www.forbes.com/sites/emilyb...
"The U.S. agricultural workforce fell by 155,000 — about 7 percent — between March and July" www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
New from 404 Media: airlines are selling *5 billion* ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching, per new docs we obtained. ARC is a data broker owned by United, American, Delta, etc. Then sells peoples' travel info to ICE, Secret Service, FBI etc www.404media.co/airlines-sel...
"Investors poured $6 billion into robotics startups in the first seven months of 2025" techcrunch.com/2025/09/12/w...
This week’s Current Climate newsletter also looks at a new funding for California’s bullet train and Norfolk Southern’s efforts to make freight rail more sustainable
Cristin Milioti was SO GOOD in The Penguin. Very well-deserved Emmy.
"American soybean farmers are heading into harvest season without a single order from China, historically their largest customer, raising alarm bells about the agricultural sector’s stability and broader implications for the U.S. economy." fortune.com/2025/09/09/s...
💸NEW: "Trump Media General Counsel Sold Every Share He Could—Becoming Second Insider To Cut Stake" me, for @forbes.com
Saw THE LONG WALK today and it was excellent. A top tier King adaptation.
They arguably cast too well. But for a show called "Foundation" we don't actually spend a ton of time there...
I will confess I did like the Cleon thing and thought it was a fun touch. The problem is that the show didn't recognize that it best served as a metaphor for the Empire's stagnation and decadence - not a character we needed to spend that much time with.
Drama: Nowhere Man Sitcom: Better Off Ted
I gave up mid-season 2 because the show's decision to be a serial rather than an anthology is just a fatal flaw that cuts against the central premise.
My top 5 albums released in 2025 (so far), in no particular order: Algebra for Broken Hearts - The Honeydogs For Melancholy Brunettes (&sad women) - Japanese Breakfast Goodbye Small Head - Ezra Furman No Hard Feelings - The Beaches Who Let The Dogs Out - Lambrini Girls
My colleague @willyakowicz.bsky.social has an interesting profile of a company working on a cannabis-based painkiller. www.forbes.com/sites/willya...
"When you start seeing those guys go out of business, that’s a barometer of the health of logistics in America" www.wsj.com/articles/cal...
GeoVax showed positive data in a clinical trial of its Covid vaccine, which was testing it in immunocompromised cancer patients. www.geovax.com/investors/pr...
A new edition of my science & emerging tech newsletter, the Prototype, is here! What's inside: 🪐 Signs a nearby planet may have an Earth-like atmosphere 🏆 The Lasker Awards for biomedical research 🍕 Why pizza may be bad for your brain 🎸 A killer guitar solo from Queen's Brian May And more!
"A majority of Brazil’s supreme court judges have voted to convict the country’s former president Jair Bolsonaro of plotting a military coup, leaving the far-right populist facing a decades-long sentence for leading the criminal conspiracy." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
"At least eight Historically Black Colleges and Universities went into lockdown Thursday after receiving potential threats to their campuses" www.forbes.com/sites/antoni...
Critics of newborn hepatitis B shots overlook why the CDC adopted the policy, and how cases dropped 99% after universal vaccination began www.statnews.com/2025/09/11/n...
American men have become some of the world’s fastest distance runners. Is it because they’re partying less?
I know a lot is happening, but— Trump Media announced ETFs explicitly tied to his politics yesterday. Trump owns 115M DJT shares and, as president, wields huge influence over the sectors these ETFs will target.
NEW: We got access to Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo inbox — more than 18,000 emails. It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.
🚨NEW🚨 ICE is preparing for an "upcoming agent hiring surge," contract records show. It's ordered armor, Glocks, and AI surveillance drones from Skydio. The $2.2bn Silicon Valley drone maker sold 20 drones to CBP too. Its AI can latch onto a target and follow. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...
Would you like some good news? A new vaccine has just been approved for protecting koalas from chlamydia, which is one of their leading causes of death.
Researchers found a gene that seems to trigger recurrent brain tumors medicine.korea.ac.kr/en/research/...
Bestselling author and Innocence Project Board Member John Grisham is telling the story of Robert Roberson—an innocent man Texas plans to execute on Oct. 16. Time is running out. www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2...
Love that movie.
US government signs $56 million deal for smallpox/mpox vaccine Emergent BioSolutions has received a $56 million contract extension to supply the US government with doses of the ACAM2000 vaccine.
Studies show how common long COVID is globally and in teens The two most commonly identified long-COVID symptoms were memory problems and muscle weakness, www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
NEW: California's financially challenged bullet train project locks in $20 billion of new funding as the state extends its Cap-and-Trade program through 2045 #highspeedrail www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...
NEW: At least 2 people were being transported to a Denver-area hospital after a shooting involving an “active assailant” at Evergreen High School in Jefferson County, officials said Wednesday afternoon // Story by @katielang.bsky.social
New: "Trump Media Rolls Out ETFs That Could Benefit From The President’s Policies" me, for @forbes.com 1/
In this week's edition of our healthcare newsletter, InnovationRx, @amyfeldman7.bsky.social and I look at: 🩺 How AI is powering a new generation of medical scams 🥬 Enveda, which raised $150M to derive new drugs from nature 💵 Why you can expect your health insurance premiums to go up And more!
In this week’s @forbes.com InnovationRx newsletter, @thealexknapp.bsky.social and I look at AI tools spreading medical scams, Enveda’s $150M fundraise, Summit Therapeutics recent miss, and more. www.forbes.com/sites/innova...
NEW: Amazon’s Zoox prepares to take on Waymo with launch of robotaxi service in Las Vegas — that’s free to use for now #selfdrivingvehicles www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...
I would just like everyone to know I did NOT write the title (or choose the pic, though it's a nice dad joke). But here's the op-ed I wrote for the NYTimes. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/o...
Wow! Covid vaccine development and delivery cost $79.4 billion, but the health and economic benefits of vaccination were valued between $4.83 trillion–$37.8 trillion. A return on investment of $59.8–$475 per dollar invested!! This is why vaccine equity matters! www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Monarez to testify in Senate hearing next week www.statnews.com/2025/09/09/f...
I don't really care if the future is short videos. I like words. Words have gotten me this far and I'm gonna stick with 'em for the duration
Elon Musk's mammoth $17 billion purchase of spectrum from EchoStar will only pay off if SpaceX can launch a new generation of satellites on its mega-rocket Starship. www.forbes.com/sites/jeremy...
ICE is using a controversial spy tool to locate smartphones, court records show.
🚨NEW🚨 A recently-unsealed warrant shows how ICE is using controversial cell tower simulators to locate undocumented individuals. Contract records also show a recent order for the surveillance devices, also known as Stingrays, bundled in with some snooping vehicles. www.forbes.com/sites/the-wi...
Annual revisions to U.S. jobs report finds that employers added 911,000 fewer jobs in the 12 months ending March 2025, totaling about 849,000. www.forbes.com/sites/tylerr...
Fortescue scrapped plans for a $210 million electric vehicle battery factory in Detroit citing changes in U.S. policy. www.crainsdetroit.com/manufacturin...
The entire soundtrack of Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
At Forbes we do a 50 Over 50 list every year! www.forbes.com/50over50/
The listing comes as #OpenAI gears up for an astronomical employee share sale that could make many in OpenAI’s ranks rich enough to afford the mansion. Scoop for @forbes.com: www.forbes.com/sites/phoebe...
🔭 🧪 Seven Earth-sized worlds orbit the star TRAPPIST-1, but it is much more volatile than our sun. Scientists think the system’s fourth planet is the best candidate for maintaining an atmosphere and a habitable surface: https://bit.ly/47Pt4nh
On this day in 1966, Star Trek first beamed into living rooms across America. None of us could have imagined then the journey it would set us on. And not just the cast and crew, but the millions of fans who would find hope, inspiration, and community in its vision of the future.
Jeffrey Epstein’s estate has given Congress a copy of the 2003 birthday book, including the letter with Trump’s signature that he has said doesn’t exist. Read more: 🔗 on.wsj.com/4nGGdnJ
NEW - ICE has given Clearview AI its biggest federal deal to date, with a contract worth up to $10 million. It'll be used for investigating assaults on agents as well as CSAM. Meanwhile, ICE has just bought a bunch of Greykey tools for searching Android and iPhones. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...
ICYMI, in the last edition of my emerging tech & science newsletter the Prototype, I talked to NM Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham about quantum computing and explored how electric shocks might help people heal faster. Subscribe so you don't miss another one! www.forbes.com/newsletter/t...
"Anthropic is now the third AI company whose chatbot conversations with users have become inadvertently accessible in search results from Google." From my colleagues @ebakerwhite.bsky.social & @iainmartin.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/iainma...
To put this into context, the judicial warrant for the search at the Hyundai plant named just four people. Relying on that warrant, ICE detained nearly 500 people. DHS admitted that included U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and people lawfully here on visas.
In the latest Current Climate newsletter: 👩🔬 Scientists give the U.S. Energy Department an F on its climate report 🤖 A potential trillion-dollar market for Waymo’s electric robotaxis ⚡️ Xcel CEO Bob Frenzel on diversifying the utility’s electric power portfolio #climate www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...
Interesting discussion about what might happen if you dammed the Bering Strait. www.science.org/content/arti...
A review of a nonfiction book should be a review of the book, not 90 percent the reviewer's own personal take on the subject matter, using another writer's published work as a pretext to summarize the book that *they* would have written.
My CNBC.com segment on implications for pediatric vaccine schedule from recent politics. 2003 saw ~5,000 cases of pertusis, in 2024 there were over 35,000, and for 2025, some models show 70,000+ We risk a return of communicable diseases in children. www.youtube.com/watch?v=00cI...
This was already my favorite song by The Struts but Brian May makes it even better. youtu.be/mGyMY6aU-9g?...
A new artificial intelligence–guided design program is coming to mRNA. In a nutshell, Raina’s GEMORNA can generate an mRNA coding sequence from a given protein sequence in a matter of hours. cen.acs.org/biological-c... #chemsky 🧪
Pope Leo XIV, who has strongly reaffirmed Francis’ focus on the need to care for God’s creation, will formally open the center Friday, returning to the grounds where he spent his first papal summer. religionnews.com/2025/09/04/v...
Researchers can't pinpoint the cause of a California child's bird flu infection. www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...
A new edition of my emerging tech & science newsletter, The Prototype, is here! What's inside: 💻 New Mexico's efforts to build a quantum computing hub. ⛽ A startup making clean methanol from waste methane. 🚶 A study that suggests that good relief for back pain might be a nice walk. And more!
🚨 SCOOP 🚨 Billionaire Tom Siebel's C3 AI, in partnership with Amazon, set up a sprawling $12 million AI surveillance system to drastically speed up policing in California. My investigation finds "Project Sherlock" has been hit by major delays and usability issues. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...
Where was this method when I was learning quadratic equations? www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBal...
"The 10 leading AI tools repeated false information on topics in the news more than one third of the time — 35 percent — in August 2025, up from 18 percent in August 2024. " www.newsguardtech.com/ai-monitor/a...
Honeywell's quantum computing spinoff just raised a $600 million round that values the company at $10 billion. www.reuters.com/business/hon...
It's 58 stories. www.nyc.gov/assets/plann...
The AMA strongly opposes Florida’s plan to end all vaccine mandates, and urges Florida to reconsider. This unprecedented rollback would undermine decades of public health progress and place children and communities at increased risk. spr.ly/63328ABvBq
Not sure I approve of the optics on this one.
"The federal government improperly cut off $2.2 billion in research funding from Harvard University and must restore the funds, a federal judge ruled Wednesday" www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
The latest edition of our healthcare newsletter, InnovationRx, is here. Inside, @amyfeldman7.bsky.social and I look at: 👩⚕️ The leadership crisis at the CDC 💊 The future of Walgreens as a private company under new leadership 🩺 The launch of new cardiovascular health company Corsera And more!
For our 10th annual Cloud 100, AI is unsurprisingly dominant. OpenAI and Anthropic took the top two spots, and Cursor parent Anysphere made a strong debut in the top 10. www.forbes.com/lists/cloud1...
US factory construction continues steadily declining as CHIPS & IRA projects either complete or cancel—in official data released today, overall US manufacturing construction activity is down 7% compared to last year & electronics/electrical manufacturing construction is down 14%
Xi and Putin appear to be under the impression that you can organ transplant your way to immortality. www.reuters.com/business/med...
NEW - Here's my magazine profile on Flock Safety, the $7.5bn surveillance juggernaut that local and federal cops have been using to monitor Americans. I got a look at its car surveillance tech in action, as well as its new drones, and Nova, its police intelligence platform that's caused a stir.
Every year, the Supreme Court’s nine justices fill out a form that discloses their financial connections to companies and people. Using our database, you can search for organizations and people that have paid the justices, reimbursed them for travel, given them gifts and more.
ICYMI, I talked about the CDC leader departures last week and how RFK's ideology is undermining public health work.
We studied how Elon Musk shifts Grok’s politics to mirror his own. Sometimes it works, like when Grok changed overnight from saying disinformation was the worst threat to humanity to claiming it was birth rate decline instead. Other times, Grok is harder to influence: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/t...
A bevy of startups are dreaming of mining the moon and asteroids for valuable minerals. Interlune may be among those that have the best shot of building a business soonest by targeting a rare form of helium. www.forbes.com/sites/jeremy...
#DYK the FAA farms out recruiting air traffic control instructors to contractors?
An Aug. 29 policy statement from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the federal agency, will from now on bar nonpartisan groups such as the League of Women Voters from offering voter registration services at the end of naturalization ceremonies. /1
New: If you bought Trump’s WLFI crypto token directly from the company, your holdings could be up 5–15x. If you jumped in when it hit the open market, you might be down 25%. Sound familiar? With @siladitya.bsky.social for @forbes.com 1/
More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.