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NASA’s latest resupply mission has successfully launched towards the International Space Station (ISS), carrying thousands of pounds of supplies, scientific equipment and new technology to support research in orbit The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 6:33 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, October 13, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

Rob Diaz from Mad Science of NYC & Westchester joins 'Fox & Friends Weekend' to demonstrate spooky Halloween science experiments, including bubbling dry ice potions and a giant fog explosion. Spooky Halloween science experiments take over the set of 'Fox & Friends Weekend' as Rob Diaz from Mad Science of NYC & Westchester demonstrates how to make bubbling potions. Diaz utilizes dry ice, warm water, and soap to create low-lying fog and giant bubbling columns. The co-hosts participate in these frightful 100-percent kid-friendly demonstrations perfect for families this October.

The China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) on Sunday released its weekly update on the Shenzhou-23 mission, reporting that the crew continued to conduct scientific research and platform maintenance aboard the Tiangong space station. Nearly five months into their mission, the three astronauts -- Zhu Yangzhu, Zhang Zhiyuan and Lai Ka-ying -- have steadily advanced space science and experiment tasks including experiments in microgravity physical science.

Researchers built a closed-loop AI scientist that generated biological hypotheses, designed experiments, directed laboratory automation, analyzed results and used new evidence to refine later questions. Working with brewer’s yeast, the system generated 1,933 candidate hypotheses and experimentally uncovered previously underexplored interactions, including aminoadipate partially protecting cells from formic acid stress. The laboratory was not completely autonomous, because humans still handled some physical tasks and set research boundaries, but the study shows how AI reasoning can be connected directly with real experiments rather than stopping at predictions. Artificial intelligence is moving beyond analyzing scientific data and proposing ideas. In a laboratory in Sweden, it has begun putting some of those ideas to the test itself. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology developed a closed-loop system that can generate biological hypotheses, decide how to test them, translate those plans into machine-readable instructions, analyze experimental results and use the findings to refine later questions. Laboratory robots then perform much of the physical work.

Eve, the “AI researcher”. Credit: Chalmers University of Technology First, AI came for the writers. Then the coders and artists. Now it appears to be eyeing scientists too.