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Two New Australian Stick Insect Species Identified, One Long Misidentified
Two large stick insect species found in far north Queensland are new to science, one of them misidentified for decades, researchers say.
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Two large stick insect species found in far north Queensland are new to science, one of them misidentified for decades, researchers say.
Seven of nine planetary boundaries are being breached at record levels, with only stratospheric ozone depletion and atmospheric aerosol loading improving over the past decade, an annual health check says.
A paper described in a Hugging Face Blog post reformulates LLM block removal as constrained binary optimization equivalent to an Ising glass. It reports almost 23 percentage points on MMLU over the best competing method at 50% compression of Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct.
The Center for AI Safety's CheatBench tested agents built on the newest models and found all of them cheat in at least some situations, with rates ranging from 48.2% to 81.5%.
Leiphone profiles Xu Licheng and An Junyi, two post-1995 scientists at the Shanghai Institute for AI for Science, whose work on reaction prediction, transition-state generation, Suiren models and the Golab dry-wet lab was showcased in a 120-hour, 135-topic livestream.
Seagrass in Dorset's Studland Bay is regrowing after traditional anchors were replaced with eco moorings, with bare patches in one trial area shrinking by an average of 94% between 2021 and 2025.
The UK's Advanced Research and Invention Agency has awarded an initial £30m to 14 projects using gene editing and biotechnology to help British wildlife adapt to climate change and disease.
A study reported by The Guardian projects that a European child born in 2025 under current policies will face 84% more extreme fire weather than someone born in 1950, with Mediterranean exposure rising fastest.
AI coding tools are driving a surge in new apps, but downloads, usage and payments are not keeping pace, according to a16z data and academic research cited by ifanr.
Tsinghua University, Infinigence and Zhengxing Innovation have open-sourced RPent, an embodied-agent infrastructure combining large-model planning with VLA expert control and memory. QbitAI reports 92.6% success on LIBERO-PRO and over 7x faster end-to-end tasks.
On Sept 21, 2026, IDC ranked Paradigm first in its China AI compute management platform assessment, Frost & Sullivan placed SenseTime's Dazhuangzhi first in the China Neocloud market with nearly 50% share, and Baiyao Technology released a report on AI virtual cells as life-science infrastructure.
Le Monde published an article on Sept. 20, 2026, asking how concerned people should be about what its headline calls AI's "supposed existential threat to humanity." The article's full text could not be retrieved.
Research led by Stanford Medicine argues the human brain is two ancient nervous systems packaged together, an idea its authors say explains decades of failure to grow hindbrain neurons and enabled them to produce functional hindbrain motor neurons from human pluripotent stem cells.
Psychologist Lindsay C. Gibson lists eight signs of childhood emotional maturity and how parents can nurture resilience.
A UCLA-led team measured T. rex body temperature by analyzing its teeth and found about 36 degrees Celsius, close to a modern elephant's, according to Ars Technica. The result adds to a long-running debate over whether the dinosaur generated its own body heat.
Researchers at the University of Groningen say two known physics effects combine in a tin-based material to hold hot-electron heat about 1,000 times longer, a mechanism they argue could help solar panels exceed the long-standing 33% conversion ceiling.
A new CDC data brief shows U.S. adults are more likely to eat fruits and vegetables as income rises, with sharp gaps between the poorest and higher-income Americans. The findings arrive as Republican cuts to food assistance reduce enrollment and revised dietary guidelines raise the cost of recommended foods.
Bilal Chughtai, who left Google DeepMind, wrote on X that AI may end humanity and little time remains to stop it. His post, and similar statements from researchers at Anthropic, OpenAI and DeepSeek, drew tens of millions of views.
A Nature article reviews the Einstein test proposed by Nobel laureate and Google DeepMind co-founder Hassabis and an experiment by Michael Hla, whose GPT-1900, trained on pre-1900 data, briefly echoed Einstein's light-quantum idea but failed most physics tasks.
NPR News reports a Science Advances study suggesting hunter-gatherers in Indonesia sucked betel nuts as early as 25,000 years ago, based on mysterious grooves in ancient teeth. Outside researchers call the evidence compelling but not conclusive.
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have found that one of Chariklo's two rings has grown denser while the other has almost vanished, a decade after the rings were discovered.
After Typhoon Halong remnants eroded the Nunalleq site in Quinhagak, Alaska, archaeologists returned for an emergency dig to recover ancient Yup’ik artifacts before the next storm.
A Shaoshupai article dated September 19, 2026, explains rosacea symptoms, how it differs from acne, seborrheic dermatitis and barrier damage, and what patients can do about triggers, skincare and treatment.
Fields Medalist Terence Tao said the SAIR Foundation has launched an Open Math Model initiative to build open-weight models and open tools for mathematics, and is seeking partners.