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Google Quantum AI says a technique called magic state cultivation, run on its Willow superconducting processor, cut errors in preparing a scarce class of quantum states by about 40-fold. The work was…
Meta published the weights for a new artificial intelligence model, Muse Spark Open, on Oct. 15, 2026. Anyone can now download the trained model itself and run it on their own machines, instead of…
Citizen Lab, a research group at the University of Toronto, reported Oct. 15, 2026, that spyware was installed on devices at the news network Al Jazeera through targeted online advertisements. The…
Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have reported an imaging method that samples detail finer than the physical pixels of a digital camera sensor, without changing the sensor itself. The…
A magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck 76 kilometers northeast of Ozernovskiy, on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, at 3:35 a.m. UTC on Oct. 16, 2026, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). USGS put…
A 65-year-old man died around 3 a.m. local time Thursday, Oct. 15, 2026, at Hospital Regional del Cusco in Peru after suffering severe burns while fighting a wildfire, becoming the seventh wildfire…
The National Weather Service's office in Tiyan, Guam, issued a Typhoon Warning for Guam and Rota and a Tropical Storm Warning for Tinian and Saipan at 4:11 p.m. ChST (0611 UTC) on Oct. 16, 2026, as…
Hurricane Trudy rapidly intensified into a Category 3 major hurricane early Friday, Oct. 16, 2026, and Mexico's Hurricane Watch for the storm now runs north of Punta San Telmo to Cabo Corrientes, the…
Researchers at the University of Washington's Institute for Protein Design have designed protein-cutting enzymes from scratch, and report that 13 of the 69 designs work, including inside living…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration expanded the approved use of the bladder cancer drug Anktiva on Oct. 14, 2026, to cover adults whose cancer has not spread into the bladder's muscle and no…
Heavy rain and storms struck Soacha and more than 30 other municipalities across Cundinamarca, Colombia, on the evening of Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2026, killing one man and injuring two others in Soacha,…
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have found rings, gaps and cavities inside four of 11 very small planet-forming disks, a class of disk that had looked smooth…