Great Barrier Reef at risk of ‘collapse’, scientists warn

3. The AI infrastructure reckoning: Optimising compute strategy in the age of inference economics As AI adoption moves from experimentation to scaled deployment, Tech Trends 2026 points to a shift in cost dynamics. The largest expense is no longer AI model training, but ongoing inference – the day‑to‑day operation of AI systems at scale. This…

In most materials, the way heat is absorbed and the way it is emitted are inseparable. If a surface absorbs heat efficiently from a particular direction or wavelength, it also emits heat the same way. This long established principle, known as reciprocity, has made it difficult for scientists to independently control how thermal energy enters…

DAR ES SALAAM: PRIMARY and Secondary School students have demonstrated remarkable innovation in science and technology, highlighting Tanzania’s growing potential to nurture a generation capable of using technology to address societal challenges, the Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology (COSTECH) has said. Speaking during a visit to a students’ innovation exhibition, COSTECH Director of Knowledge…

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Archaeologists have found five pairs of iron shackles at a 2,300-year-old Celtic site in France ‪—‬ a discovery that suggests the small settlement was frequented by metalsmiths and slave traders. The “extremely rare” shackles were discovered in the town of Allonnes in France’s Loire Valley in 2019, but the finds from the two-year-long excavation were…

A once-anonymous Maya scientist now has a name. Sak Tahn Waax, or “White-Chested Fox,” is credited as the author of a calendrical formula painted in Maya glyphs on the wall of a ruin in Guatemala, researchers report July 14 in Antiquity. The table of dates and calculations, recorded more than 1,200 years ago, lays out…