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Rare Carrington-Level Solar Storm Could Cause Widespread U.S. Power Outages, Study Finds
A new study models how a rare solar storm could cause widespread U.S. power outages, costing billions per day and affecting millions.
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A new study models how a rare solar storm could cause widespread U.S. power outages, costing billions per day and affecting millions.
Meta FAIR with Oxford and UCL unveiled RPMs, which rank unexecuted AI experiments and run only the most promising one, cutting GPU hours and improving results.
After revisiting a 2023 study on casual interactions, NPR asked readers for their own moments of kindness; responses show small gestures still boost mood and connection.
An NPR quiz highlights Itamar Shatz's new book, which argues procrastination is not laziness and can be overcome by changing one's approach.
UC Berkeley's CUA-Lite unifies sandboxes, data, evaluation and RL for agents; Docker-based OSWorld runs without VMs.
A study of wildlife rescue reports reveals native animals such as possums, bats and wombats are commonly using Australian homes as substitute habitats, prompting calls for wildlife-friendly architecture.
A new study reported by CNN found that the proportion of US cancer deaths linked to alcohol rose more than 58% from 1990 to 2023, even as overall cancer mortality declined.
Alibaba and academic partners published papers addressing recurrent Transformers' computational redundancy before GPT-6 Astra brought the architecture into the spotlight. MeSH and SpiralFormer are accepted by ICLR 2026 and EMNLP 2026.
A 2025 solar superstorm caused GPS errors up to 10 meters across the US, posing a “catastrophic” risk to autonomous vehicles, researchers report.
An international trial will offer an experimental Alzheimer’s drug to healthy people at higher risk to see whether dementia can be prevented before symptoms appear, with first European screenings set for Monday.
A jointly developed world model, Phi-WM 1.0 ActEffect, provides training-time outcome feedback and exits deployment, lifting robot success rates on LIBERO to 98.8%.
After eight years in space, Europe's BepiColombo mission has cleared a key milestone and is on final approach to Mercury, with orbit insertion planned for later this year.
Sheeppox virus DNA recovered from medieval parchment shows the lethal disease has affected Eurasian flocks for 3,500 years.
Cambridge University has asked former chief crown prosecutor Nazir Afzal to lead the first part of an independent review into the death of scholar Jason Arday, who died in August days after resigning.
Researchers announced the second complete map of a fruit fly brain, a male connectome, providing a tool to accelerate neurobiology research.
Yuandian Robotics and CMU released BRIDGE, FlowMimic and the OpenBridge ecosystem to de-fragment humanoid robot development.
A genetically modified pig kidney kept a 66-year-old man off dialysis for a record nine months, marking the longest survival for a pig organ in a living person and the first bridge to a later human transplant.
President Trump has sent envoys to Moscow and Kyiv with a proposal to end the war, Le Monde reported.
UC San Francisco scientists have mapped over 1,000 protein interactions tied to profound autism, a step toward turning genetic discoveries into drug treatments.
NPR reports about half of women in menopause transition get dry eyes; experts say ignoring symptoms can harm vision.
Gene-edited pig kidney kept a man alive for a record nine months, serving as the first bridge to a human transplant.
Researchers used data from a two-year diarrhea outbreak in more than 150 primates to identify bacterial targets and antibody binding sites, advancing Shigella vaccine design.
2026 Ig Nobels left U.S. for Zurich over scientist-visa worries; splash-free urinal and kissing research honored.
Hugging Face introduced NeoMME, a 260M/800M-parameter multimodal encoder using a single bidirectional Transformer over text and images, enabling efficient visual document retrieval with compact indexes.