Wired: President Bush signed the America COMPETES ACT -- which authorizes funding for certain high-risk, high-reward research -- into law today. The law also creates a new Advanced Research Projects Administration for Energy (ARPA-E) with three overriding goals: reduce foreign energy imports, reduce greenhouse gas and other emissions, and improve energy efficiency. Bush signs off on billions for science, techCNET
The finding that the Saturnian moon may host layers of icy slush instead of a global ocean could change how planetary scientists think about other icy moons as well.
Modeling the shapes of tree branches, neurons, and blood vessels is a thorny problem, but researchers have just discovered that much of the math has already been done.
January 29, 2026 12:52 PM
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