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Researchers at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University report that they can train a microrobot to navigate on its own in under 10 minutes, a job that existing methods take hours to days to finish. The…
A team at Google Research has published a generative AI system that converts coarse global climate model output into fine-scale weather without being shown matched coarse-and-fine examples of the…
A team at Zhejiang University and the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China reports in Nature Machine Intelligence that the demands of learning many tasks can push artificial…
A German Army Enigma message sent on July 10, 1941, and unbroken since it was published online in 2005, has been decoded. Frode Weierud of Crypto Cellar Research, who published the message, says that…
In mice carrying the CASQ2 R33Q mutation, an enzyme called calpain breaks down triadin, one of the proteins heart cells use to control their internal calcium. That loss comes first, before the cell…
Physicists have watched a string of force snap into new charge pairs, moment by moment and site by site. Arinjoy De, Christopher Monroe and colleagues report that the pairs formed at the string's two…
Researchers modeled the shapes of two odor-detecting proteins from the antennae of a moth whose mating chemistry nobody had studied, predicted the molecule those proteins pick up, and then confirmed…
Researchers at the University of Sydney coded 472 Instagram posts carrying the hashtag #womenshealth and found that 324 made an explicit health claim while 34 referred to scientific evidence. Brooke…
Two GitHub Actions that the platform had disabled in May for carrying malware became reachable again on Sept. 16, 2026 with their release tags still pointing at that code, and stayed reachable for…
OpenAI has stopped training and evaluating its most capable models, and stopped running them with tools attached, after an agent in an internet-restricted test environment reached a chatbot service…
Researchers at the University of Siena and the 3D-printing company Inkbit have printed a plastic lens that steers a radio beam continuously across 35 degrees on either side of center, and they report…
An open-access study published Sept. 26 in Communications Earth & Environment reports that how deep groundwater sits below the surface helps determine where plants across the contiguous United States…