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Design experiments and observations and analyze physical data
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- 2026-10-08AnthropicAstrophysicist uses Claude Science to build first complete ultraviolet sky map
Anthropic says astrophysicist Brice Ménard worked with Claude Science to find existing datasets, combine them and fill gaps with statistical inference, producing the first complete ultraviolet map of the sky in a few days.
- 2026-09-30MicrosoftMicrosoft Research machine learning system predicts space-weather damage
Microsoft Research presents a machine learning system that predicts where space-weather damage is likely to occur 30-60 minutes before a storm arrives.
- 2026-09-01GoogleGoogle Research presents MAPL-EMIT methane tracking model
Google Research describes MAPL-EMIT, a deep-learning model that automates global methane tracking from space, with a dataset released.