The company that makes the world’s only commercially available quantum computers has released its biggest machine yet — and researchers are paying close attention.

This neutrino observatory began running experiments in April of 1996, studying solar and atmospheric neutrinos as well as searching for proton decay and supernovae in our galaxy:

Below is one of the most detailed full-disk photos of Earth ever taken - and the US government is now downloading a fresh version of it every 15 minutes.

Scientists have engineered the first ever 'semi-synthetic' organisms, by breedingE. coli bacteria with an expanded, six-letter genetic code