After traveling hundreds of miles above Earth and spending months aboard the International Space Station, a University of Delaware experiment has returned to campus, bringing new data on how turbulence behaves in microgravity.
The project, led by assistant professor of mechanical engineering Tyler Van Buren, is designed to study how particles influence turbulent flows. From dust in the air to sand in coastal zones and bubbles at the sea surface, particles can change how flows behave.
Van Buren compares it to an energetic crowd moving around while carrying objects.
Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis says humanity may already be standing in the foothills of the singularity. AI agents are now coding, researching, planning, paying, helping with science, and cutting real work from days to minutes. The big question is no longer whether AI is perfect. It’s whether imperfect AI has already become useful enough to speed up everything around it.
📌 What You’ll See: Google DeepMind’s warning that we are entering the foothills of the singularity. SOURCE: https://www.axios.com/2026/05/26/deep… new Gemini for Science tools built to speed up scientific discovery SOURCE: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai… AWS letting autonomous AI agents make payments and complete transactions SOURCE: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/what… AxiomProver helping prove new math results in Lean and Mathlib SOURCE: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05090 Biohub’s new world model of protein biology trained across billions of sequences SOURCE: https://biohub.ai/esm/protein ARC-AGI-3 showing the huge gap between today’s frontier AI and human reasoning SOURCE: https://aiforautomation.io/news/2026-… 🚨 Why It Matters This is bigger than another AI model update. Google DeepMind is now openly talking about the singularity, while AI agents are already starting to speed up coding, science, business, and research. Some experts think AGI may be closer than expected, while others say current AI still lacks true intelligence. Either way, the AI race is shifting fast from chatbots into agents that can plan, act, build, discover, and change real workflows. #google #singularity #ai. Google’s new Gemini for Science tools built to speed up scientific discovery. SOURCE: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai… AWS letting autonomous AI agents make payments and complete transactions. SOURCE: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/what… AxiomProver helping prove new math results in Lean and Mathlib. SOURCE: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05090 Biohub’s new world model of protein biology trained across billions of sequences. SOURCE: https://biohub.ai/esm/protein. ARC-AGI-3 showing the huge gap between today’s frontier AI and human reasoning. SOURCE: https://aiforautomation.io/news/2026-…
🚨 Why It Matters. This is bigger than another AI model update. Google DeepMind is now openly talking about the singularity, while AI agents are already starting to speed up coding, science, business, and research. Some experts think AGI may be closer than expected, while others say current AI still lacks true intelligence. Either way, the AI race is shifting fast from chatbots into agents that can plan, act, build, discover, and change real workflows.
Cambridge, MA (May 27, 2026) —The proton sharks showed up on a Friday.
In a routine data calibration meeting for NASA’s Parker Solar Probe in 2020, a small group of scientists were scrolling through visualizations of their data showing solar winds. Suddenly, a weird shape flashed on the screen: Instead of the usual rounded blob of solar‑wind protons, this distribution had a long, flattened, head-like structure jutting out to one side.
“This looks like a hammerhead shark,” heliophysicist Jaye Verniero of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center said. And the nickname stuck.
Internal changes due to the sun’s “active biorhythm” have become increasingly “skin-deep” over the past four solar activity cycles, according to a new study.
Publishing its findings in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, an international team led by the University of Birmingham reveals solar magnetic activity is being squeezed into an increasingly shallow layer just below the visible surface, signposting long-term changes to the sun’s active behavior.
Solar activity rises and falls in 11‑year cycles, producing solar flares, and ejections of highly charged particles and coronal mass ejections that give rise to space weather. This activity, and its cyclic variation, has its origins in the sun’s interior, in processes that regenerate and reorganize the sun’s magnetic field.
China has begun the world’s first space experiment on human artificial embryos, with samples now aboard its space station and the study progressing smoothly, scientists announced Wednesday.
Delivered by the Tianzhou-10 cargo craft launched earlier this week, the human artificial embryo samples have been installed in the space station’s experimental module by the orbiting taikonauts, according to the Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which is in charge of the experiment.
“The experiment is going very well,” said Yu Leqian, the project leader for the artificial embryo space science experiment. “A pre-set automated system changes the culture medium for the samples every day.” According to Yu, through this study, scientists aim to conduct preliminary research on issues related to long-term human habitation, survival and reproduction in space.
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said the agency will begin building a moon base with near-monthly robotic landings starting in 2027, with astronauts potentially living on the lunar surface for months at a time by the early 2030s.
The source of the significant water ice deposits hidden in Mercury’s polar regions has been a topic of debate among researchers. A new study, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, suggests that these deposits were accumulated in only one Mercurian day (176 Earth days) by a large impactor, such as a comet or asteroid. While previous studies have suggested a similar scenario, this is the first study to fully model the impact. Furthermore, these new models suggest that the impactor may have been larger and slower than previously suggested.
Being the closest planet to the sun, Mercury sees daytime temperatures of up to 430°C (806°F). On top of that, Mercury doesn’t have a true atmosphere. Instead, it has an ultra-thin, tenuous layer of gas, called an exosphere, in which gases are constantly blown into space and then replenished by the solar wind. While these aspects of Mercury should make water retention extremely difficult, both Earth-based and orbital observations have found reflective areas that indicate the presence of water ice hidden in permanently shadowed regions (PSRs) near Mercury’s north and south poles.
Scientists have suggested several potential sources of the ice found in PSRs. Some hypotheses include steady delivery by micrometeoroids, solar wind, or a single large, volatile-rich impact. Some studies have found that the ice appears to be relatively pure and “young” (at only a few 100 million years). These findings suggest a rapid, episodic delivery rather than slow accumulation, according to more recent studies.
Using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered a triply-eclipsing star system. The newfound system, designated TIC 295741342, consists of two sun-like stars in an eclipsing binary and a giant tertiary companion, which orbits the binary. The finding was reported in a paper published May 19 on the arXiv pre-print server.
