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China's new AI science network to challenge Trump’s Genesis Mission
China has launched a powerful new artificial intelligence system capable of autonomously conducting advanced scientific research by directly accessing the country’s national supercomputing infrastructure. Officially unveiled on December 23, this AI platform operates at a national scale and is available to over a thousand institutional users across China. Unlike traditional research tools, it can independently plan and execute complex scientific workflows—breaking down tasks, allocating computing resources, running simulations, analyzing data, and generating reports with minimal human intervention. This dramatically accelerates research processes, reducing tasks that once took a full day to about an hour, and currently supports nearly 100 workflows in fields such as materials science, biotechnology, and industrial AI. At the core of this initiative is China’s National Supercomputing Network (SCNet), a high-speed digital backbone linking over 30 supercomputing centers nationwide. Launched in 2023 and rapidly expanded since, SCNet integrates supercomputing and intelligent computing resources to enable large-scale AI deployment for scientific research. Chinese officials
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China has set a new benchmark in hypergravity research with the completion of CHIEF1900, the world’s most powerful centrifuge, capable of simulating 1900 g-tonnes—significantly surpassing its predecessor, CHIEF1300, which was launched just months earlier. Built by Shanghai Electric Nuclear Power Group for Zhejiang University’s Centrifugal Hypergravity and Interdisciplinary Experiment Facility (CHIEF), CHIEF1900 enables scientists to study the effects of gravitational forces far stronger than Earth’s on materials and biological structures. The facility, located 15 meters underground to reduce vibrations, represents a major investment of 2 billion yuan (US$285 million) and invites global researchers to utilize its capabilities. The primary purpose of CHIEF1900 extends beyond space travel research; it compresses space and time by applying intense centrifugal forces to scaled-down models, allowing the simulation of real-world stresses and phenomena that would otherwise take decades or span vast distances. For example, spinning a small dam
materialshypergravitycentrifugespace-simulationZhejiang-Universitystructural-testingscientific-researchWhat is Genesis Mission, and how it speeds up US scientific research
The Genesis Mission is a comprehensive U.S. government initiative aimed at revolutionizing scientific research by integrating artificial intelligence (AI) as the central driver of discovery. Announced via a White House Executive Order, the mission seeks to unify the nation’s top supercomputers, extensive scientific datasets, and advanced AI systems into a single, secure platform called the American Science and Security Platform. This platform will enable AI agents to run simulations, analyze data, generate hypotheses, and even control robotic laboratories, creating an end-to-end architecture for accelerated scientific innovation across fields such as energy, biotechnology, materials science, and national security. At the heart of the mission is the Department of Energy’s (DOE) responsibility to develop the necessary computing infrastructure, leveraging exascale supercomputers like Frontier and Aurora to perform massive calculations and train scientific foundation models. The initiative builds on prior AI-driven breakthroughs—such as AlphaFold’s protein folding solution and AI-discovered antibiotics—demonstrating AI’s ability to process vast data,
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Japan’s RIKEN research institute plans to enhance its scientific computing infrastructure with two new supercomputers powered by NVIDIA’s latest Blackwell-generation GPUs, expected to be operational by spring 2026. Together, these systems will house 2,140 NVIDIA GPUs and focus on advancing AI-driven research, high-performance computing, and quantum technology development. The first supercomputer, equipped with 1,600 GPUs on the GB200 NVL4 platform and connected via NVIDIA’s Quantum-X800 InfiniBand networking, will support AI-accelerated scientific workflows in life sciences, materials research, climate forecasting, manufacturing, and laboratory automation. This system aims to accelerate large-scale AI model training and simulations critical to these fields. The second machine, featuring 540 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs with the same architecture and networking, is dedicated to quantum computing research. It will not function as a quantum computer but will accelerate the development of quantum algorithms, hybrid quantum-classical simulations, and software to improve quantum hardware usability. This
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China’s plan to build the Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC), a proposed 62-mile particle collider designed to study the Higgs boson with unprecedented precision, has been effectively stalled after it was excluded from the country’s upcoming five-year plan. Despite completing its full technical design reports by October 2025 and receiving positive international reviews, the multibillion-dollar project led by the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) in Beijing will not proceed immediately. The CEPC project, estimated to cost around US$5.1 billion and involving thousands of scientists globally, is now on hold as China explores other large science initiatives for 2026-2030. The CEPC team plans to resubmit the proposal in 2030 but may abandon the domestic project if Europe’s competing Future Circular Collider (FCC) gains approval first. The FCC, with a slightly smaller 56-mile ring but a significantly larger budget of US$18.4 billion, is expected to have its future
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NVIDIA and Oracle have partnered with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to build the nation’s largest AI supercomputer, named Solstice, featuring 100,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs. Alongside Solstice, a companion system called Equinox with 10,000 GPUs will also be deployed at Argonne National Laboratory. Together, these systems will deliver a combined 2,200 exaflops of AI performance, making them the most powerful AI infrastructure developed for the DOE. They aim to accelerate scientific research and innovation across diverse fields such as climate science, healthcare, materials science, and national security by enabling researchers to train advanced AI models using NVIDIA’s Megatron-Core library and TensorRT inference software. This initiative is part of the DOE’s public-private partnership model to reinforce U.S. technological leadership in AI and supercomputing. The collaboration is expected to enhance R&D productivity and foster breakthroughs by integrating these supercomputers with DOE experimental facilities like the Advanced Photon Source. Oracle
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MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory Supercomputing Center (LLSC) has unveiled TX-GAIN, the most powerful AI supercomputer at a U.S. university, designed primarily to advance generative AI and accelerate scientific research across diverse fields. With a peak performance of 2 exaflops, TX-GAIN ranks on the TOP500 list and stands as the leading AI system in the Northeast. Unlike traditional AI focused on classification tasks, TX-GAIN excels in generating new outputs and supports applications such as radar signature evaluation, supplementing weather data, anomaly detection in network traffic, and exploring chemical interactions for drug and material design. TX-GAIN’s computational power enables modeling of significantly larger and more complex protein interactions, marking a breakthrough for biological defense research. It also fosters collaboration, notably with the Department of Air Force-MIT AI Accelerator, to prototype and scale AI technologies for military applications. Housed in an energy-efficient data center in Holyoke, Massachusetts, the LLSC supports thousands of researchers working on
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China has successfully conducted the maiden trial of its self-developed remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Haiqin, designed for deep-sea exploration at depths up to 6,000 meters (19,685 feet). During the initial sea trial in the South China Sea on August 23, 2025, Haiqin completed multiple dives, reaching a maximum depth of 4,140 meters (13,582 feet). The trial validated the ROV’s stability, navigation, automatic heading control, and precise hovering capabilities, essential for operating in complex deep-sea environments. Prior to the sea trial, Haiqin had passed a 6,000-meter pressure test on land, and according to international standards, passing a 4,000-meter sea trial generally confirms its full-depth operational capability. Weighing 3.6 tons and deployed from the Zhong Shan Da Xue research vessel, Haiqin is equipped with high-definition cameras, robotic arms, sonar, and sensors to support a broad range of scientific
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NVIDIA and the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) have jointly committed over $150 million to develop open, multimodal AI models aimed at accelerating scientific discovery and maintaining U.S. leadership in AI-driven research. This partnership supports the Open Multimodal AI Infrastructure to Accelerate Science (OMAI) project, led by the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2). The NSF is contributing $75 million, while NVIDIA provides $77 million in advanced technology, including NVIDIA HGX B300 systems with Blackwell Ultra GPUs and the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform. These resources are designed to handle large-scale AI workloads, enabling faster model training and inference. OMAI will produce a fully open suite of large language models capable of processing diverse scientific data types such as text, images, graphs, and tables. These models will help researchers analyze data more rapidly, generate code and visualizations, and link new insights to existing knowledge, with applications ranging from material discovery to protein function prediction. All models,
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NASA is experiencing a significant exodus of staff amid the Trump administration’s proposal to cut the agency’s budget by 25 percent. Among those leaving is Makenzie Lystrup, director of the Goddard Space Flight Center since April 2023. Goddard, NASA’s largest scientific research center with over 8,000 employees and a $4.7 billion budget, manages major projects including the James Webb and Hubble telescopes and is assembling the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Lystrup, who previously worked at Ball Aerospace and holds a doctorate in astrophysics, will step down on August 1, with deputy director Cynthia Simmons named acting chief. The announcement coincided with the release of “The Voyager Declaration,” an open letter signed by hundreds of current and former NASA employees expressing formal dissent against recent policy changes and budget cuts. The letter criticizes rapid programmatic shifts that risk wasting public resources, compromising safety, and undermining NASA’s core mission. It urges the administration to
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The article "Galileo Galilei And The End Of Science" from CleanTechnica draws a historical parallel between Galileo’s conflict with the Catholic Church over scientific truth and contemporary challenges to science, particularly in environmental policy. Galileo, who invented the experimental method and confirmed the heliocentric model, faced house arrest and censorship for contradicting biblical interpretations. This tension between science and religion persists today, exemplified by groups like Answers In Genesis that reject scientific consensus on Earth’s age in favor of literal biblical chronology. The article highlights how some individuals remain unconvinced by scientific evidence, adhering instead to faith-based claims. The piece then shifts focus to recent developments at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under Lee Zeldin, who is portrayed as dismissive of science in policymaking. In 2025, the EPA announced plans to cut hundreds of scientific positions, undermining independent research critical to environmental regulations on chemical risks, wildfire smoke, and water contamination. Zeldin’s rollback
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