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• 16 Sep 2026Light-Controlled Microswimmers Switch Between Bacterial and Algal PropulsionPhysicists report a method to change a single artificial microswimmer's swimming style in real time, switching it between bacteria- and algae-ins
• 16 Sep 2026Snow, monsoons and oceans nudge Earth's centre of mass each year, satellite tracking showsSeasonal water movement shifts Earth's centre of mass back and forth by fractions of an inch relative to its geometric centre, according to NASA
• 16 Sep 2026Fungi carried by bark beetles can neutralize spruce defense compounds, Max Planck team reportsA Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology team says certain fungi — delivered into trees by bark beetles — neutralize spruce defense compounds, whic
• 16 Sep 2026Neutrino Laser Impossible Due to Physical Limits, MIT News ReportsMIT News reports that an earlier proposal for a neutrino laser cannot be achieved because of physical and fundamental limitations, according to scient
• 16 Sep 2026Chariklo's two rings changed opacity within a few years, JWST observations showThe James Webb Space Telescope saw the inner ring of Chariklo, a small object orbiting between Saturn and Uranus, become more opaque while its outer r
• 16 Sep 2026Simulations suggest a Venusian moon would have crashed into the planetNew computer simulations suggest Venus may once have had a moon that spiralled inward and hit the planet instead of drifting away like Earth's. T
• 16 Sep 2026A model explains how track cyclists seem to start from rest with speed already on the clockSome track cyclists look as though they begin a race already moving, in apparent violation of physics. A modelling study in Royal Society Open Science
• 16 Sep 2026NASA reports seasonal water shifts move Earth’s center of mass by fractions of an inchNASA reports that seasonal water redistribution shifts Earth’s center of mass back and forth by fractions of an inch relative to its geometric center.
• 16 Sep 2026NASA Reports Youngest Known Planet, Elias 2-24 b, Still in Its Natal DiskNASA says astronomers have confirmed a planet less than a million years old, Elias 2-24 b, as the youngest known world. The announcement provides the
• 16 Sep 2026Iraqi Arabic benchmark finds MSA tests saturate while dialect track separates modelsA benchmark called Mizan evaluates large language models on Iraqi Arabic and the Iraqi civic context. In a pilot of 27 systems, the Modern Standard Ar
• 16 Sep 2026National study finds more than half of U.S. adults experienced physical violence, nearly half sexual violenceA new national study reports that more than half of U.S. adults have experienced physical violence and nearly half have experienced sexual violence in
• 16 Sep 2026High turnover among Tanzania's agro-dealers linked to farmer fertilizer adoption, study findsA new study in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics examined Tanzania's agro-dealer sector and found that frequent turnover affects far
• 16 Sep 2026Small correction module fixes 53% of frozen model errors in limited studyA new study tests whether a small correction module can fix errors in a frozen language model without degrading its base abilities. It reports 53.3% e
• 16 Sep 2026AI vs. traditional methods: a new meta-analysis finds a mixed recordA preprint analyzing 2,507 head-to-head comparisons between AI and other scientific methods across 27 disciplines finds a mixed record: AI often beats
• 16 Sep 2026CADWorld benchmark tests AI agents on long-horizon FreeCAD design tasksA benchmark called CADWorld evaluates computer-use agents on long-horizon mechanical CAD tasks in FreeCAD, with success measured by executable checks
• 16 Sep 2026Narrative Review Maps Eight Governance Risks in LLM-Enabled Geospatial AIA narrative review posted to arXiv synthesizes ethical and privacy risks in geospatial AI powered by large language models. It identifies eight recurr
• 16 Sep 2026Calibrated router for disaggregated LLM serving shows goodput gains in measured testsA preprint reports a router that estimates completion time per instance using prompt length, predicted output length, KV cache pressure, and SLO class
• 16 Sep 2026Preprint proposes AI routing for shooting evacuations, tested only in simulationA new arXiv preprint describes GPEvac, a graph-neural-network system that computes evacuation routes during shooting events. The work reports simulati
• 16 Sep 2026AI's biosecurity risk depends on users and lab access, review saysA review of artificial intelligence and biosecurity argues that AI can help with digital biological tasks more than physical ones, and that risk depen
• 15 Sep 2026Same Rain, Different Rivers: Catchments Vary in Turning Rainfall into FlowA new study in Nature Water finds that the same amount of rain on the same landscape can send very different amounts of water into rivers at different
• 15 Sep 2026Webb finds brown dwarfs about twice Jupiter's mass in IC 348Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope searched the nearby star-forming region IC 348 and found brown dwarfs about twice Jupiter's mass
• 15 Sep 2026Ancient wall discovered at Oued Beht in MoroccoArchaeologists have found a substantial built structure, including an ancient wall, at Oued Beht in northwestern Morocco. The discovery suggests secon
• 15 Sep 2026Canadians Reject Vandalism and Violence as Protest, Study Finds, but Tolerance VariesA new study reports that Canadians overall do not support vandalism or violence as forms of environmental protest, while tolerance for disruptive tact
• 15 Sep 2026Irrigation's greenhouse gas benefits far outweigh emissions costs, study findsA new study from Colorado State University finds that irrigating U.S. crops prevents higher greenhouse gas emissions by avoiding land conversion. Acco
• 15 Sep 2026Roman road network analyzed in most detailed quantitative picture yetA multidisciplinary team analyzed a dataset of almost 300,000 kilometers of Roman roads across the former empire, producing what the source calls the
• 15 Sep 2026Pilot study asks experts to forecast AI R&D acceleration impactsMETR and the Forecasting Research Institute ran a pilot survey of 8 AI experts and 10 superforecasters. The survey asked them to estimate the likeliho
• 15 Sep 2026AI long-task benchmark post warns some claims are out of dateA research blog post titled 'Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Software Tasks' carries a banner saying some of its text and figures are
• 15 Sep 2026Paper models when AI feedback could lead to self-sustaining accelerationA new paper coauthored by Parker, Tom, and seven other economists presents simple models of how AI may accelerate AI R&D. It focuses on the streng
• 15 Sep 2026Black hole winds 100 times more powerful than thought, XRISM observations suggestAstronomers have found that winds from a supermassive black hole are about 100 times more powerful than previously thought, with turbulence spreading
• 15 Sep 2026Timing changes to farmland conservation may help UK wading birds, research saysNew research from the University of Aberdeen and Edinburgh Napier University suggests that simple changes to the timing of conservation measures on fa
• 15 Sep 2026Webb Telescope Finds Brown Dwarfs at Twice Jupiter's Mass in IC 348NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a large image of the star-forming region IC 348. Astronomers used it to search for brown dwarfs an
• 15 Sep 2026Little fire ants in lab tests chose cooked beef and sunflower seeds over tunaIn laboratory food-choice tests, little fire ants overwhelmingly picked cooked beef and sunflower seeds over water-packed tuna, researchers at the Uni
• 15 Sep 2026New research estimates much larger pre-European Indigenous Australian population and 93% loss after 1788New research indicates that Australia's Indigenous population before European arrival was much larger than previously believed, and that an estim
• 15 Sep 2026NGC 1068's Black Hole Powers a Hidden, Violent Gas OutflowAstronomers report that the nearby galaxy NGC 1068 has a black hole driving a more powerful and previously hidden gas outflow than realized. The findi
• 15 Sep 2026Web agent OdoBot cuts token use by up to 80% in Canvas LMS tests, abstract saysA new web-agent architecture, OdoBot, is described in an arXiv abstract as completing tasks with fewer tokens than two competitor agents. The abstract
• 15 Sep 2026GAVEL compares clinical timelines against case reports; merged timelines preferred in 77.0% of comparisonsA preprint describes GAVEL, an LLM judge protocol that compares two clinical timelines with the case report and returns a discrepancy type, verdict, a
• 15 Sep 2026Two-stage method splits convergence and diversity in multi-objective optimisationA new arXiv preprint proposes a 'converge-then-diversify' approach for multi-objective Bayesian optimisation, but the available evidence is
• 15 Sep 2026Researchers Introduce OrchSLM to Probe Small Language Model OrchestrationA new preprint introduces OrchSLM, a routing framework for coordinating small language models without direct interaction. The abstract describes the f
• 15 Sep 2026TimeThink preprint claims synthetic training improves timeseries reasoning in AI modelsA new arXiv preprint describes TimeThink, a synthetic-data framework for training timeseries language models to reason about patterns like trend and s
• 15 Sep 2026AI agent LabAgent claims top rank in four life-science tasks, per arXiv abstractAn arXiv abstract describes LabAgent, a system for reproducing and extending lab methods. The evidence available is limited to that abstract, so the r
• 15 Sep 2026Preprint: Zero-shot LLM agents match RL on agricultural tasks, adapt better to weather shiftsA preprint on arXiv reports that a multi-agent framework using large language models can manage long-term physical tasks in a zero-shot manner. The ab
• 15 Sep 2026AI judges improve AI-written patent drafts, but match a human attorney only partlyA new arXiv preprint describes a patent-drafting testbed in which a separate AI judge scores drafts and feeds back revisions. The reported gains are m
• 15 Sep 2026Open 7B model ZGCM-1 claims competitive math and agentic search resultsA newly posted abstract describes ZGCM-1, a 7B open model for math and agentic search. The claims come from the authors' abstract, not from indep
• 14 Sep 2026Study Finds Anger, Hope, Compassion Do Little to Spur Climate DonationsA new study that asked participants to donate money found that anger, hope, and compassion did little to increase climate donations. The available evi
• 14 Sep 2026Sex has little impact on monk parakeet fights and dominance, study findsResearchers at the University of Cincinnati and Duke University studied monk parakeets and found that a bird's sex had little to no effect on whe
• 14 Sep 2026NYC-area methane traced mainly to natural gas use, study findsA new study in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics reports that methane emissions across the New York City metropolitan area are largely driven by natur
• 14 Sep 2026Pigment analysis of painting signed 'L daVinci' finds Renaissance materials and later alterationsResearchers at Uppsala University analyzed pigments in a painting signed 'L daVinci.' Most are consistent with Renaissance materials, but on
• 14 Sep 2026Peptide position inside liposomes steers gold nanoparticle shapeA research team from the Institute of Science Tokyo reports that where biomineralization peptides sit within liposomes changes whether gold nanopartic
• 14 Sep 2026Small study links 8-hour eating window to better blood sugar control in Type 1 diabetesA small study of adults with Type 1 diabetes and obesity found that eating only between noon and 8 p.m. improved blood sugar control without increasin
• 14 Sep 2026Michigan Scholarship Program Tied to 4% Increase in On-Time Degree AttainmentA study co-authored by researchers from the University of Michigan, Harvard University and elsewhere found that the HAIL Scholarship program increased
• 14 Sep 2026Australian social isolation nearly doubled over two decades, University of Sydney research reportsA University of Sydney research summary reports that social isolation rates in Australia nearly doubled over 23 years, with loneliness rising more gra
• 14 Sep 2026Snail Shell Rings May Hold Records of Prehistoric Cyclones, Study FindsA University of Queensland study has examined growth rings on the shell of a Biggenden Banded Snail, suggesting that snail shells could serve as weath
• 14 Sep 2026New method matches concept-learning benchmarks without hand-crafted loss, preprint saysA preprint on arXiv describes Soft-PNet, a neuro-symbolic method that removes a hand-crafted loss and instead uses a Metropolis walk over cached symbo
• 14 Sep 2026Synthetic office-email benchmark leaves AI agents short of 80%A preprint describes an automated pipeline that generates synthetic workplace-email datasets and reports that standard agentic baselines score below 8
• 14 Sep 2026New benchmark and method aim to forecast meeting continuationsA preprint describes a benchmark built from 2,207 real meetings and a method called GLARE that generates plausible meeting continuations. The results
• 14 Sep 2026Study probes when LLM draft-verify-revise pipelines disagree on 'previous'A preprint abstract reports that in draft-verify-revise LLM pipelines, a context-dependent expression such as 'previous' can be resolved dif
• 14 Sep 2026A smaller neural operator reports better wave-rollout accuracy than a larger baseline on its authors' benchmarkA preprint introduces DU-NO, a neural operator for phase-resolving wave modeling, and reports it beats a larger baseline on the authors' own benc
• 14 Sep 2026Cardiac AI model trained to read several test types at once, preprint reportsA preprint describes a model that learns from ECG, echocardiography, chest radiographs and clinical variables together rather than one at a time. The
• 14 Sep 2026Vendor-Native Coding Harnesses Show No Clear Average Advantage in Paired TestA new arXiv paper compares agentic coding harnesses paired with the same models on a private, contamination-controlled suite. It reports no resolved a
• 14 Sep 2026A 35B 'co-work' model lands at the cheap end of a cost-performance curve, its authors reportA preprint describes Occamy-1.0, a 35-billion-parameter agent model built by further training an existing checkpoint, and reports it is competitive wi
• 14 Sep 2026JWST Finds No Exomoon, Ruling Out Tiny Moons Around One ExoplanetThe James Webb Space Telescope has yet to confirm an exomoon. A new result rules out tiny moons around a single exoplanet, a non-detection the report
• 13 Sep 2026Companion Star, Not Supernova, May Explain Distant Star's OutburstsA distant star that astronomers thought would soon explode as a supernova may instead be flaring because of a previously unseen companion, new researc
• 13 Sep 2026Luminescence dating pushes Mammoth Site age back more than 100,000 yearsNew dates published in Quaternary Research suggest the mammoths found in a South Dakota sinkhole were more than 160,000 years old, not roughly 26,000
• 13 Sep 2026MemBrain v2 automates 3D membrane mapping, cutting weeks of work to hoursA team from Helmholtz Munich, the Technical University of Munich and the Biozentrum of the University of Basel has built MemBrain v2, an AI tool that
• 13 Sep 2026Semaglutide linked to fewer asthma attacks and COPD flare-ups in real-world studyA large real-world study linked semaglutide, the drug in Ozempic and Wegovy, to nearly 40% fewer asthma attacks and about 20% fewer COPD flare-ups. Re
• 13 Sep 2026Daily sugary drinks linked to higher stomach cancer risk in large observational studyA decades-long study of more than 112,000 U.S. adults found that those who drank at least one sugar-sweetened beverage a day had roughly 2.45 times th
• 13 Sep 2026Columbia study: embryo base editing reaches all cells but brings unpredictable changesA Columbia University study reports that new gene-editing techniques can accurately edit genes in human embryos, but the work also uncovered risks tha
• 13 Sep 2026Simulations suggest Southern Ocean could flip from carbon sink to carbon sourceA study published in Science Advances finds that climate simulations suggest the Southern Ocean around Antarctica may switch from an important carbon
• 13 Sep 2026Hayabusa2 conducts first laser-ranging experiment with asteroid TorifuneJAXA says its Hayabusa2 spacecraft carried out the first successful laser-ranging experiment with an asteroid during a July 5 flyby of Torifune, the f
• 12 Sep 2026Preprint proposes intent-driven privacy filtering for LLM promptsA new arXiv preprint proposes an intent-driven framework that strips sensitive details from prompts before they reach a language model, using a distil
• 12 Sep 2026Preprint scheduler cuts agentic LLM workflow tail latency by up to 3.50×A new arXiv paper proposes releasing model turns only when tail risk is low, instead of the moment they are ready. On real software-engineering traces
• 12 Sep 2026Preprint proposes audit protocol for AI update admission, tested only in simulationA new preprint argues that update admission for continually learning AI agents should be judged by both error control and retained learning. In a simu
• 12 Sep 2026Clinical calculator AI: code solver lifts 32B model, not 7B, preprint findsA preprint tests whether language models do clinical arithmetic better by writing Python for a restricted executor to run instead of calculating direc
• 12 Sep 2026Probabilistic Focal Search preprint cuts node expansions when FOCAL admission stallsAn arXiv preprint introduces Probabilistic Focal Search, a variant of Focal Search that sometimes expands a minimum-f node instead of the heuristic-gu