Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. Illustration: Mr.Nelson design; adapted from Minh Connors/Bloomberg, Michael Kovac/Breakthrough Prize, Sean Gallup, Angela Weiss/AFP (all via Getty) With some big AI companies soon to go public on the stock market, the ranks of ultra-rich philanthropists in
HURST, Texas — Keith Castello spends a lot of time praying about available real estate. Driving in his white pickup under a glaring Texas sun, the classical Christian school administrator points out empty office parks, a shopping mall, and an old church — all locations he is scouting for new Christian schools. Demand is booming,
It’s boom time for billionaires. In the next few months, the world could see a fresh crew of technology entrepreneurs join that club, and the numbers of multi-millionaires would swell even more. How a new wave of science philanthropists can have the greatest impact Two giants of artificial intelligence, OpenAI and Anthropic, plan to go
On 29 August 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall in southeast Louisiana as a Category 3 storm, with sustained winds of 205 kilometres per hour and a storm surge reaching between 4.6 and 5.8 metres in eastern New Orleans. The storm remains one of the deadliest ever to hit the United States, with millions of people
Families currently receiving the WFP food handouts complained to the BBC that already these were insufficient and gave them little diversity in their diets. “The flour isn’t enough and the food boxes aren’t enough either,” said Dalal al-Dahdouh, who is living in the ruins of her home in Gaza City with her family of eight.
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica.Credit: Christopher Michel (CC BY-SA 4.0) I vividly remember the first time I read one of Francis Halzen’s papers about high-energy neutrinos. It was the late 1990s, and I was an undergraduate student at the University of California, Berkeley. The field of astroparticle physics was young, and Halzen was making
