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Restoration of Bath Assembly Rooms has uncovered Roman ditches, pottery, coins, glassware and a military helmet fragment, expanding the known extent of Roman occupation in Bath and suggesting more remains may lie beneath nearby Georgian streets.
ECCV 2026 opened in Malmö, Sweden, drawing more than 7,000 attendees and over 10,000 submissions. The conference awarded its Koenderink Prize to a Stanford team led by Fei-Fei Li and recognized foundational work in perceptual loss, object detection and continual learning.
In September 2026, LeEnjoy’s live barbecue test, Figure’s Helix 2.5 home trials, human-video pretraining work and Yann LeCun’s ECCV keynote pushed embodied AI toward world models and away from pure action prediction.
After a string of mathematical results became a reputational crisis, OpenAI has formed a nine-member independent mathematics advisory group hosted by the Institute for Advanced Study. Researchers call it a first step but question its influence and selection.
A Philippine rice farmer whose right arm and leg shook for about a minute was found to have a cluster of nodules in her left frontal lobe that doctors identified as parasitic worm eggs, according to a case report in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Children as young as 13 in the UK have been referred to Alder Hey children’s hospital in Liverpool for a severe bladder condition linked to sustained ketamine use, The Guardian reported. Analysis of the first 60 patients found most were girls and most lived in deprived areas.
A Nova Learning survey reported the share of middle and high school students naming computer science and AI as their primary academic interest fell to 27.9% in 2026 from 42.3%, while engineering rose. National data also show CS enrollment declines at four-year institutions.
Simulations show 60 connected buoys could convert 90% of potential wave energy, but field tests are needed.
A new study says popular smartwatches from Apple, Samsung, Garmin and Fitbit can substantially miscalculate calories burned during workouts. Errors may reach 100% or more for users with higher body fat percentages. Researchers advise treating calorie counts as rough estimates.
The American Geophysical Union and American Meteorological Society have added the first paper to the US Climate Collection, a peer-reviewed effort meant to organize research for future US climate reports after the Trump administration terminated National Climate Assessment work.
Syracuse researchers discover a hot-spring amoeba that replicates at up to 145°F, a record for complex life.
An amateur archaeologist in western Germany has uncovered 934 Roman silver denarii near Wesseling, south of Cologne, the largest Hadrian-era coin hoard found in Germany. The 3.1kg treasure is now on display at the LVR-LandesMuseum Bonn.
MIT Technology Review argues that a summer of AI claims from Anthropic and OpenAI, from hacking incidents to math breakthroughs, has been amplified by press coverage while later expert reviews tell a less dramatic story.
A four-university team's COBRA-Skills framework casts agent skill optimization as a budget-controlled contextual bandit problem, cutting optimization cost 55–58% with only 50 samples.
A new DNA analysis reported by NPR adds evidence that Thomas Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings, according to Smithsonian scholar Richard Kurin, whose 15-year investigation is detailed in a new book.
New research reported by the Guardian finds the tropics will be among the last places to benefit if global emissions reach net zero, while the UN refugee agency warns climate change is raising the risk of statelessness.
OpenAI says its AI solved the Navier-Stokes problem, a Millennium Prize question, but mathematicians say its 166-page proof is technically correct yet hard to read and offers little human understanding.
NVIDIA, NTU and MIT researchers released SoL-Pi, four efficiency mechanisms for the open-source Pi coding agent that cut token traffic by up to 49% and API cost by about 33% on EdgeBench.
Ancestry and University College London have digitised nearly four million records of enslaved people across 20 former British colonies, making the Former British Colonies Enslavement Registers searchable online for the first time. The collection contains about 300,000 pages covering 1813 to 1840.
Ifremer's Deep-6000 floats completed five 6,000-meter dives; 30 more will join the Argo fleet by 2028, extending coverage to over 98 percent of ocean volume.
TechRadar says researchers can make headphones leak audio through a wall, but its 30-meter claim has caveats.
韩国化学技术研究院研究人员在锂离子电池正极中加入少量石墨相氮化碳，测试中高倍率放电容量提升166%，功率密度最高提升至2.85倍。该技术仍处早期阶段，尚未验证规模化。
The Sept. 22 fall equinox will align sunrise and sunset with east-west streets in grid-planned cities such as Chicago, an effect nicknamed "Chicagohenge."
OpenAI formed a math advisory group after saying its model solved 100-plus open problems, including Navier-Stokes.