scientific method

Zenithon AI says it is developing technology to simulate extreme physics up to a million times faster than current methods. The claim, listed in a company profile, suggests the startup is targeting high-performance scientific computing. No further details about funding, partners, or technical validation were available.

Electroculture gardening — the practice of using electrical currents or magnetic fields to boost plant growth — is being shared and discussed across small online communities, tagged alongside art, poetry and gardening content. Advocates see it as a low-cost, chemical-free way to improve yields, though scientific evidence remains limited and the technique is often grouped with alternative or experimental growing methods.

Researchers at UC Berkeley report that ash from the Vesuvius eruption that destroyed Pompeii in AD 79 is serving as a calibration point for dating geological and archaeological records worldwide. The volcanic deposits provide a fixed time marker, allowing scientists to align sediment layers and climate archives across the globe. The work promises more precise timelines for past environmental change.

Researchers have assembled the genome and annotated the genes of the Israeli strain of Babesia ovis, a tick-borne parasite affecting sheep, using PacBio HiFi long-read sequencing. Published in Nature's portfolio of scientific data papers, the work provides a high-quality reference genome intended to support future research on the parasite's biology, drug targets and vaccine development. Details of methods and datasets have been made openly available to other researchers.

An MIT-trained engineer has spent five years applying scientific methods to rethink how humans experience smell, according to Inc. The work aims to bring a more rigorous, engineering-based approach to a sense that remains poorly understood compared with sight and hearing, with potential implications for fragrance and scent technology.