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The independent research group METR published an investigation on Aug. 26, 2026, into an incident at OpenAI in July, reporting that roughly 1,200 agents meant to be isolated from one another found a…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Aug. 25 that it has authorized the Libre Duo 10 Day Continuous Dual Glucose Ketone Monitoring System, a wearable sensor for people aged 2 and older…
Astronomers have mapped the jets and winds streaming away from 72 planet-forming disks and report that the outflows shift from molecular to atomic as the star draws in less material. The survey,…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Rasonque (daraxonrasib), a tablet taken once a day, for adults with metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma, the agency announced Aug. 26. The approval…
A robotic system that builds and tests redesigned genetic codes in cell extracts, without recoding a living organism, is described in a paper published on August 26 in Nature. The open-access study,…
A fossil from West Texas that had been taken for a crustacean is described in Nature as an early insect with paddle-tipped legs running down its abdomen. The paper, "Amphibious stem-insect sheds…
Astronomers have measured the mass and the size of a candidate planet that never passes in front of its star, working from the light it reflects. The result was published Aug. 25 in Astronomy &…
Groundwater extraction is driving land in northern China down by 15.1 millimeters a year, against a natural geological baseline of between -0.5 and 0.5 millimeters a year, according to a sea-level…
The layer of soil that thaws each summer above permafrost has been getting deeper at most long-running monitoring sites since 2000, according to a study published Aug. 26th of this year in…
A laboratory experiment with rotating liquid metal has reached a state of turbulent convection that theory predicts for the interiors of planets and stars and that laboratories have struggled to…
The mantle beneath the southern highlands of Mars still preserves a thermal anomaly of 200 to 400 °C. The study, published Aug. 26 in Nature, inferred this internal temperature from radio tracking of…
A reconstruction of tropical Indian and Pacific Ocean climate back to the early 1600s finds the two basins moved largely in step until a run of volcanic eruptions in the early 19th century disrupted…