A massive, well-preserved impact crater has been uncovered in Guangdong, revealing the signature of a powerful meteorite strike during the Holocene. Measuring 900 meters across, it dwarfs other known craters from the same era. Shock-damaged quartz confirms the intense forces involved. Its survival in a high-erosion environment makes it a geological rarity. Source: All Top […]
A new study indicates that the physical transformation of dogs began much earlier than previously believed, tracing their diversity back to the Stone Age. Source: BBC News
6 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Set to launch no earlier than Nov. 16, Sentinel-6B will continue a decades-long data record of sea level measurement that will help decision-makers manage coastal flooding, support hurricane intensity forecasts, and assist in the return of astronauts from space.NASA Data from Sentinel-6B will continue a
Researchers at Google Cloud and UCLA have proposed a new reinforcement learning framework that significantly improves the ability of language models to learn very challenging multi-step reasoning tasks. Supervised Reinforcement Learning (SRL) reformulates problem-solving as a sequence of logical “actions,” providing rich learning signals during the training process.This approach enables smaller models to learn complex
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced a significant increase in funding for pediatric cancer research that utilizes artificial intelligence. This decision follows an Executive Order issued by President Trump aimed at enhancing data-centered research in childhood cancer. Source: NIH News Releases
Genetic, isotopic, and forensic evidence has identified the remains of Duke Béla of Macsó, revealing details about his life and violent death. The study shows he was a young nobleman with Scandinavian-Rurik ancestry, killed in a coordinated attack in 1272. Source: All Top News — ScienceDaily
The UK government plans to phase out animal experiments. What are the alternatives? Source: BBC News
NASA’s ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) mission launched at 3:55 p.m. EST atop a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket at Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.Credit: Blue Origin A pair of NASA spacecraft ultimately destined for Mars will study how its magnetic environment is impacted by the
Two former Harvard students are launching a startup that produces smart glasses equipped with an always-on microphone. This follows their previous work on a facial-recognition app for Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses, which raised privacy concerns. Source: Artificial Intelligence (AI) | TechCrunch
At the 2024 International Mathematical Olympiad, an AI system performed so well that it would have won the Silver Prize, marking the first time an AI has achieved medal-level results in the competition’s history. Researchers detailed the technology behind this achievement in a paper published in the journal Nature. Source: Phys.org – latest science and
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.ICRA 2026: 1–5 June 2026, VIENNAEnjoy today’s videos! Unlike existing hybrid designs, Duawlfin eliminates the need
WARSAW, POLAND—According to a Live Science report, a metal tool that may have been used to scrape a hole in human skulls has been found at the Celtic fortified settlement site of Łysa Góra, which is located in east-central Poland. Bartłomiej Kaczyński of the State Archaeological Museum in Warsaw said that the object had been
Dr. Kyle Walsh has been selected as the seventh director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. In addition to this role, he will also serve as the director of the National Toxicology Program. Source: NIH News Releases
Hektoria Glacier’s sudden eight-kilometer collapse stunned scientists, marking the fastest modern ice retreat ever recorded in Antarctica. Its flat, below-sea-level ice plain allowed huge slabs of ice to detach rapidly once retreat began. Seismic activity confirmed this wasn’t just floating ice but grounded mass contributing to sea level rise. The event raises alarms that other
Analysts project that the increase in wind and solar power this year will surpass the rising global demand for electricity, resulting in stable fossil fuel consumption. Source: Yale E360
