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Is There Anything Google’s Fruit Fly Brain Can’t Do?
Models of the insect’s nervous system have been trained to solve a Rubik’s Cube, play video games and even parallel park a car.
The Roman telescope has enough gas for 22 years, double NASA's expectations
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is gliding toward its distant observation post on a pinpoint trajectory so precise that engineers estimate the spacecraft's fuel load will last twice as long as their initial expectations, the space agency confirmed Monday. The $4.3 billion observatory's designers originally planned to load enough propellant into Roman's four fuel tanks for a minimum lifetime of five years, plus a potential five-year mission extension. That was a conservative estimate.
A Standard Ultraviolet Continuum Can Hide Supercritical Accretion in GN-z11
The ultraviolet continuum from a high-redshift accreting black hole is routinely used to infer its mass. GN-z11 offers a sharp test of whether that inference is secure. A thin-disk fit to its continuum gives an Eddington mass of $M_{\rm E}=1.12\times10^{7}\,\Msun$, an order of magnitude above the $\log(\Mbh/\Msun)=6.2\pm0.3$ inferred from broad N~\textsc{iv}. We show that this apparent tension is not imposed by the ultraviolet slope alone. We derive a closed-form criterion comparing the radius w
18-year-old dies in Pennsylvania's 4th measles-associated death
The U.S. is experiencing its worst measles year since 1991, with seven deaths in two years.
PICTURES: David Ortiz's fiancee Maria Yeribel rocks leopard print wide-leg jumpsuit, strikes confident poses
Having made his debut in 1997, David Ortiz went on to spend 20 years in the major leagues.
Is US health care too broken to cure cancer?
Ted Okon tells Al Jazeera that even with a cure, the US wouldn’t be able to treat everyone with cancer.
Bill Ackman doubles down on Trump Iran war praise and Mamdani criticism: NYC mayor ‘scared away productive New Yorkers’
Bill Ackman agrees with President Trump going to war with Iran and thinks New York mayor Zohran Mamdani “scared away” the city’s most productive workers. In an interview at the Fast Company Innovation Festival in New York on September 15, Ackman publicly doubled down on many of the stances that he’s taken via his popular X account, where he’s amassed almost three million followers. Ackman, who is the founder and CEO of the hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management and boasts a n
'Slow Horses' Season 6 Episode Release Schedule
Gary Oldman's Jackson Lamb and his crew of MI5 misfits are back for more misadventures. Here is how to watch "Slow Horses" Season 6.
Senate Votes to Block Crypto Bill in Major Blow to the Industry
The landmark legislation, known as the Clarity Act, stalled in the Senate as Democrats raised concerns about President Trump’s personal investments in crypto.
Anthropic to open Singapore office, its 5th in APAC
Anthropic said it already has offices in Tokyo, Bengaluru, Seoul, and Sydney.
Ozone hole over Antarctica has 'increased sharply' this month
In the first half of September, the area of the hole increased sharply, reaching 9.6 million square miles (25 million square km) on 12 September.
Worried about taking a sick day? What that says about you
As many as half of people report working when sick. The reasons for this are complex, experts say.
Red Sox shut down Justin Slaten; Garrett Crochet progresses
Justin Slaten likely will miss the rest of the season after being on the injured list the past month because of right elbow inflammation. Garrett Crochet threw about 30 pitches as he continues to progress.
China’s defence chief warns against coercion, avoids US, Japan mention
Dong Jun pitches shared security governance and military cooperation while warning against coercion.
Lawrenceville restaurant named to New York Times best restaurants list
The restaurant is the third in the city to earn this recognition since the Times first began publishing the list in 2021.
AOC Says the Real Problem in Ed Sheeran-Macklemore Fallout Is Stadium Owners' Censorship: ‘Not Just About One Artist’
AOC is weighing in on the fallout from Macklemore's removal from Ed Sheeran's tour over his pro-Palestinian comments.
Two Chinese Firms Used Binance to Launder Iranian Oil Money, US Says
Federal prosecutors said proceeds from the sale of Iranian oil flowed through Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, to finance terrorism.
Hong Kong’s data centre ambitions face US$2.6 billion funding test
As North American investors pull back, the city increasingly relies on mainland Chinese demand Read more at The Business Times.
She Can’t Feel Pain or Anxiety. Her Genetic Mutations Hold the Key to Eliminating Human Suffering, Scientists Claim.
A life without pain seems miraculous. But denying this hallmark of human existence could come with its own set of challenges.
Knowledge-Enriched Structured EHR Features for 30-Day Hospital Readmission Prediction on MIMIC-IV
Recent approaches to 30-day hospital readmission prediction rely on pre-trained language models applied to discharge summaries. Although these methods achieve strong performance, they depend on the availability of clinical notes, incur substantial computational costs, and yield representations that lack interpretability. We propose a knowledge-enriched feature representation that augments structured Electronic Health Record (EHR) data with four medical knowledge sources: disease ontology mapping
Source: Chargers signing Valdes-Scantling to practice squad
The Los Angeles Chargers, depleted at receiver after a loss to the Arizona Cardinals, are signing Marquez Valdes-Scantling, 31, to its practice squad, a source told ESPN's Jeremy Fowler, adding a veteran who was a 2018 fifth-round choice from USF.
Israel started an anti-Qatar campaign, then scrapped it
Days after October 7, Israel began building a global campaign to pressure and isolate Qatar.
Is the PLS Group share price a buy in September?
The PLS Group Ltd (ASX: PLS) share price has charged higher recently. Is the ASX lithium share a buy today?
Emmys 2026 Ratings Fall Nearly 12% From Last Year With 6.7 Million Viewers
The 2026 Emmys saw viewership fall nearly 12% from last year, per early numbers for the ceremony.
New Humanoid Worker Bot Seems to Cower When It Encounters Humans
Finally, flesh and blood get some damn respect.
Bellman Policy Optimization
Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) improves the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs). We introduce Bellman Policy Optimization (BPO), a critic-free method derived from Policy Mirror Descent (PMD). For autoregressive generation with terminal rewards, BPO uses the Bellman equations to reformulate PMD as a trajectory-level objective. The reformulation avoids estimating state values at intermediate states. We prove that it has the same unique optimal solution as
Pumpless eVinci microreactor hits zero-power criticality at 1,225°F
Westinghouse’s eVinci microreactor reaches criticality at 1,225°F and records a 1,852°F core temperature during high-temperature testing.
Only 1 in 5 Hispanic adults has ideal heart health, according to American Heart Association study
A new report from the American Heart Association is drawing attention to urgent cardiovascular health concerns among Hispanic adults in the U.S..
WSL Power Rankings: Manchester City remain at the top, Chelsea bounce back and Manchester United slip
Top teams and newly promoted sides made statements in a wild week of action
Saudi Arabia cancels oil to Europe over East-West pipeline blast
Saudi Arabia has cancelled some oil deliveries to Europe after attacks shut down its export pipeline to the Red Sea.
GSK’s US$750 million cancer drug deal highlights China’s rise as biotech player
The acquisition is the latest in a string of major licensing deals involving Chinese biotechnology firms.
Koffee With Karan 9: Janhvi Kapoor, Varun Dhawan Shoot Episode; Arjun Kapoor Makes A Cameo? | Exclusive
We've exclusively learnt that Janhvi Kapoor and Varun Dhawan have shot for an episode of Koffee With Karan 9. This is the first time that they'll feature on the chat show together.
Mark Zuckerberg Takes Aim at Anthropic in Debate Over A.I. Slowdown
On social media, Meta’s chief executive appeared to jab at Anthropic by saying that leading A.I. labs should be focused on safety rather than improving their own technology.
“Filmmaker” suing PassThePopcorn may be banned user out for revenge
Some of the most widely used private torrent trackers for pirating movies suspect that a banned user may have posed as a filmmaker protecting copyrights in a failed attempt to seek revenge. TorrentFreak has been tracking this story closely, reporting last September that an alleged independent filmmaker named Matthew Schneider sued six private trackers for infringing copyrights on some films that he supposedly made. Trackers targeted include PassThePopcorn, BroadcasTheNet, and HDBits.
NASA's Roman Space Telescope doubles its lifetime with super-precise engine burn
Originally planned to have a five-year mission followed by a five-year extended mission, the Roman Space Telescope will now operate for over two decades.
Want to lower your risk of dementia? It doesn't involve a blood test
New blood tests that might predict Alzheimer’s years before symptoms begin may sound tantalizing for people who worry about later-in-life dementia. But doctors say they aren't quite ready…
Carlos Correa (ankle) won't rejoin Astros this season
Carlos Correa will not return to the Astros this season, manager Joe Espada told reporters Tuesday.
DRC-Rwanda: Can Geneva talks break the cycle of war in eastern Congo?
M23 controls large parts of eastern DRC as Kinshasa and Kigali remain divided over security and sovereignty.
The Business of Design—and the Design of the Future
Featuring Bill Ackman, CEO, Pershing Square Capital ManagementModerated by Stephanie Mehta, CEO and Chief Content Officer, Mansueto Ventures Design is often treated as a finishing touch: Make it beautiful. Make it intuitive. Make it sell. But what if design is something much bigger—a way to imagine what doesn’t exist yet, connect ideas that don’t seem connected, and see possibilities before they become obvious? In this conversation, investor Bill Ackman explores how design has shaped the way
Trump says Kennedy Center will shutter 'immediately', as judge rules his name must stay off building
The Trump-appointed board was blocked from adding the inscription "Renovated and Restored by President Donald J. Trump".
Google launches Gemini 3.8 Live voice AI models
The models can switch between 97 languages mid-conversation.
Stellar Colosseum: A Many-Agent Harness for Long-Horizon Research in Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science
Language models can produce plausible short proofs, but may still be unreliable on long-horizon research problems, where progress depends on a sequence of uncertain and interdependent decisions. We introduce Stellar Colosseum, a model-agnostic harness for allocating inference across research in mathematics and theoretical computer science. Colosseum explores alternative strategies before proof construction, uses a readiness gate to decide when a route is mature enough to decompose, represents th
Scientists reversed biological age in older adults in just 4 weeks
Older adults who changed the balance of fat, carbohydrates, and animal protein in their diets showed signs of reduced biological age after just four weeks. The strongest result appeared in participants eating an omnivorous, lower-fat, higher-carbohydrate diet.
Do you feel guilty when calling in sick at work? This might be why...
As many as half of people report working when sick. The reasons for this are complex, experts say.
Pete Alonso hits 300th career homer against former team as Orioles top Mets
Game-tying ninth-inning blast sparks Baltimore's extra-inning win over the Mets and keeps O's in the AL wild-card hunt
Trump administration plans $2.8bn sale of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel
Trump administration pushes $2.8bn bomb sale to Israel amid criticism over mass targeting of civilians in the region.
Infratil hikes earnings guidance as data centre growth accelerates
Infratil Ltd (ASX: IFT) lifts FY27 guidance as CDC Data Centres and Longroad Energy drive strong growth.
‘Sense And Sensibility’ Red Carpet Premiere Photos: Daisy Edgar-Jones, Esmé Creed-Miles & More
Esmé Creed-Miles and Daisy Edgar-Jones attend the premiere of 'Sense and Sensibility' in London.
Kelantan teacher wins school RM50K grant with AI-powered Orang Asli learning
Cikgu Muhammad Hafizu Aiman Jusoh is helping Orang Asli students continue learning as their community faces relocation.
Agility’s new humanoid robot will stop, squat to avoid harming human coworkers
Agility Robotics has debuted its first humanoid robot engineered to work safely near humans without risking harm to flesh-and-blood coworkers. Such safety features could unlock many more opportunities to use such robots inside warehouses and automotive factories—all without requiring isolated robot work cells and physical separation barriers. When Agility’s new Digit 5 robot detects a person at a distance, it can autonomously take precautions, like moving to avoid the person or standing still so the person can pass by without getting closer.
NASA Ames Stars of the Month: September 2026
The NASA Ames Science Directorate recognizes the outstanding contributions of (pictured left to right) Steve Ormsby, Aphrodite Kostakis, Alejando Borlaff, Sarah Nickerson, Martina Caussi, Keiko Nomura, and Stephen Broccardo. Their commitment to the NASA mission represents the entrepreneurial spirit, technical expertise, and collaborative disposition needed to explore this world and beyond. Space Biosciences Star: Steve […]
Pennsylvania reports teen as fourth measles death amid feud with RFK Jr.
Pennsylvania officials on Tuesday reported two additional measles-related deaths, bringing the total for the year to four. This is a record-setting year for measles in the U.S. The number of cases is at a 35-year high and there are more deaths than any year since 1992. The newest death according t
Orioles' Shane Baz exits after being hit in arm by line drive
Orioles right-hander Shane Baz left Tuesday's start against the Mets after he was hit on the right arm by Bo Bichette's 105.1 mph liner.
Redundant at 69: retirement without a plan
Helen spent her 50s afraid retirement would never add up. It took a redundancy she didn’t choose to test the fear.
J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. (JBHT) Presents at Morgan Stanley's 14th Annual Laguna Conference Transcript
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Practical Magic 3 Update Is What Fans of Sandra Bullock & Nicole Kidman Franchise Want to Hear
Here is when fans can expect Practical Magic 3 - Sandra Bullock mentioned there is definitely material for it.
Steve Bannon and Bernie Sanders Condemn Tech ‘Oligarchs’ and Demand A.I. Reforms
At an event in Washington, partisanship took a back seat as elected officials, religious leaders, parents and artists called for reining in artificial intelligence.
Corrupt Plans, Clean Traces: Evading Chain-of-Thought Monitoring with Plan Injection
Chain-of-thought (CoT) monitoring is a safety strategy where the reasoning of a large language model "actor" is inspected by a "monitor" (often another language model) for signs of unsafe planning, deception, or misalignment. We find that planting harmful but benign-sounding reasoning in the actor's context can steer it to perform adversarial actions while evading monitors, an attack we term "plan injection". We initially discover this attack in the multiple-choice question-answering monitorabil
Shadow electronic warfare runs on commercial chips to shield drones
Shadow EW uses commercial microchips, open architecture, and software updates to bring adaptable EW capabilities to small aircraft.
Letby hospital consultant says inquiry makes for grim reading
Consultant Dr John Gibbs worked at the hospital during the period in 2015 to 2016 when Letby murdered seven babies.
Ohtani takes first swings off tee since going on IL
Shohei Ohtani hit off a tee on Tuesday in Los Angeles and remains on track to return before the end of the regular season, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said Tuesday.
Anthropic CEO didn’t foresee the speed of global AI growth
Anthropic’s CEO says he ‘didn’t appreciate’ the speed with which AI’s growth would underpin the global economy.
Why retiring comfortably costs more now
Australians hoping to achieve even a comfortable retirement have been dealt a blow as cost-of-living pressures bite hard.
Amanda Seyfried and Thomas Sadoski Break Up After 9 Years of Marriage
Amanda Seyfried and Thomas Sadoski—who share daughter Nina, 9, and son Thomas, 5—have ended their relationship after nine years of marriage, the actors confirmed Sept. 15.