Scientists are raising alarms about the environmental impact of the increasing number of satellite launches, which number in the hundreds annually. With tens of thousands more satellites planned, concerns focus on emissions from rocket fuels during launches and pollutants released when satellites and rocket stages reenter the atmosphere. Source: Yale E360
Dr. Anthony Letai has been sworn in as the 18th director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) by Secretary Kennedy. Source: NIH News Releases
Ideas about Vikings and Norse mythology come mostly from much later medieval sources, leaving plenty of room for reinterpretation. Over centuries, writers, politicians, and artists reshaped these stories to reflect their own worldviews, from romantic heroism to dangerous nationalist myths. Pop culture and neo-paganism continue to amplify selective versions of this past. Scholars today are
Recent images from Mars’s Coloe Fossae show a landscape shaped by ancient ice ages, featuring deep valleys, cratered terrain, and preserved frozen debris flows. These findings indicate a significant climate shift on the planet. Source: All Top News — ScienceDaily
OpenAI has sent out emails notifying API customers that its chatgpt-4o-latest model will be retired from the developer platform in mid-February 2026,. Access to the model is scheduled to end on February 16, 2026, creating a roughly three-month transition period for remaining applications still built on GPT-4o.An OpenAI spokesperson emphasized that this timeline applies only
A new European Union service is set to analyze the impact of global warming on weather patterns. Experts believe the findings will assist insurers in assessing climate risks and enable advocates to hold polluters accountable for climate-related damages. Source: Yale E360
Around 115 million years ago, northern Australia’s seas hosted a colossal shark that rewrites what we thought we knew about early ocean predators. New fossil discoveries show that modern-type sharks were experimenting with gigantic sizes far earlier than scientists believed, competing with the marine “monsters” of the dinosaur age. Source: All Top News — ScienceDaily
Large language models (LLMs) have astounded the world with their capabilities, yet they remain plagued by unpredictability and hallucinations – confidently outputting incorrect information. In high-stakes domains like finance, medicine or autonomous systems, such unreliability is unacceptable. Enter Lean4, an open-source programming language and interactive theorem prover becoming a key tool to inject rigor and
Credit: NASA NASA has selected Plug Power, Inc., of Slingerlands, New York, and Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., of Allentown, Pennsylvania, to supply up to approximately 36,952,000 pounds of liquid hydrogen for use at facilities across the agency. The NASA Agency-wide Supply of Liquid Hydrogen awards are firm-fixed-price requirements contracts that include multiple firm-fixed-price delivery
A new European Union service will analyze the impact of climate warming on weather patterns. Experts believe that the findings could assist insurers in assessing climate-related risks and enable advocates to hold polluters accountable for environmental damages. Source: Yale E360
Large language models (LLMs) have astounded the world with their capabilities, yet they remain plagued by unpredictability and hallucinations – confidently outputting incorrect information. In high-stakes domains like finance, medicine or autonomous systems, such unreliability is unacceptable. Enter Lean4, an open-source programming language and interactive theorem prover becoming a key tool to inject rigor and
To see Earth from space is to be forever changed by the view. Since Alan Shepard became the first American to lay eyes on our home planet from above, countless NASA astronauts have described feeling awed by the astonishing sight and a profound shift in perspective that followed. NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick points his camera
Researchers report an alarming increase in the trade of African hornbills and their body parts, particularly in West African voodoo markets and online. Conservationists are advocating for international protections for these birds, which are vital to Africa’s forest ecosystems. Source: Yale E360
Ultra-processed foods are increasingly common worldwide, with new research indicating a connection to deteriorating health outcomes. Experts emphasize that significant and coordinated policy measures are necessary to mitigate corporate influence and promote healthier food systems. Source: All Top News — ScienceDaily
Anthropic released its most capable artificial intelligence model yet on Monday, slashing prices by roughly two-thirds while claiming state-of-the-art performance on software engineering tasks — a strategic move that intensifies the AI startup's competition with deep-pocketed rivals OpenAI and Google.The new model, Claude Opus 4.5, scored higher on Anthropic's most challenging internal engineering assessment than
