The UK‑led OpenBind initiative has reached a major milestone with the release of its first publicly available dataset , a groundbreaking step toward accelerating the discovery of new medicines using artificial intelligence. The release makes high‑quality, standardised experimental data freely accessible to researchers worldwide, providing AI-ready data to address the most persistent barriers in AI‑driven therapeutic development.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers measured the composition of a mini-Neptune inside the orbit of a hot Jupiter. They say this highly unusual planetary system probably formed out beyond its star’s “frostline,” in the colder region of the system’s early disk of protoplanetary material.

Determining how ice is affected by neighboring meltwater is key to understanding and eventually reducing global ice loss, so in Physics of Fluids, researchers used pairs of ice cylinders to study how meltwater from one ice structure alters the melting of another. They towed two pieces of cylindrical ice through water, with the two pieces melting as they traveled, and systematically changed the gap between them. Using a combination of imaging techniques, they measured how the shapes and melt rates of the ice cylinders changed over time.