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CNNHuman foot found on Everest may hold key to one of mountaineering’s greatest mysteries
When a National Geographic documentary team discovered a boot and sock sticking out of a melting glacier on Mount Everest in September, they almost immediately recognized its significance as a clue to a century-old mystery.
- The Independent
Nasa spacecraft receives laser signal from 290 million miles away
Breakthrough could transform our exploration of the solar system, space agency says
- Futurism
Jupiter's Great Red Spot Is Acting Very Strangely, Puzzling Scientists
Great Ball of Fire Jupiter's Giant Red Spot (GRS) is large enough to swallow Earth — and as new imagery from Hubble suggests, it's a lot weirder than previously thought. Between December 2023 and March 2024, the Hubble Space Telescope took a closer look at the massive and mysterious "anticyclone" that has long fascinated astronomers […]
- The Independent
‘Advanced’ construction technology found at 5000-year-old Stone Age site in Denmark
Funnel Beaker Culture site may hold one of the earliest insulated cellars constructed in Europe to preserve food
- PA Media: UK News
British Everest explorer’s ‘remains’ found 100 years after disappearance
Andrew ‘Sandy’ Irvine was the youngest member of the 1924 Mount Everest expedition and was lost on the upper slopes of the mountain in June that year.
- Evening Standard
British explorer Andrew ‘Sandy’ Irvine’s partial remains believed to be found on Mount Everest after 100 years
Mystery of disappearance of climber Andrew ‘Sandy’ Irvine appears to have been solved 100 years on
- CBC
Great white shark found dead on Haida Gwaii
A great white shark has been found dead on the coast of Haida Gwaii in northern B.C..It was discovered by Mike Miles, who says he saw it while driving just south of Tlell, B.C., off Haida Gwaii's east coast."I thought I was seeing a young orca, then thought it was a beaked whale," he told CBC News via text message. "Then, a great white shark! Cool and a bit sad."He reported it to the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), which has confirmed the species, saying it was a male measuring
- Barrons.com
AI Researchers Won 2 Nobel Prizes. Why They Disagree on the Technology’s Risks.
AI played a major role in two of the Nobel Prizes handed out this year for scientific discoveries. The winners disagree in how the technology should be regulated.
- Associated Press
AI is having its Nobel moment. Do scientists need the tech industry to sustain it?
Hours after the artificial intelligence pioneer Geoffrey Hinton won a Nobel Prize in physics, he drove a rented car to Google's California headquarters to celebrate. Then, early Wednesday, two employees of Google's AI division won a Nobel Prize in chemistry for using AI to predict and design novel proteins.
- NextShark
‘World’s greatest living mathematician’ shares his thoughts on AI
Terence Tao, a University of California, Los Angeles, professor often dubbed the "world’s greatest living mathematician," took to microblogging site Mastodon last month to share his insights on the capabilities of OpenAI's new GPT-o1 reasoning model, suggesting that while impressive, it still falls short of replacing human mathematicians. Not there yet: In his series of posts, Tao likened the experience of working with GPT-o1 to "advising a mediocre, but not completely incompetent, graduate student." Tao shared in an interview with The Atlantic that human graduate students possess the capacity to learn and grow, while AI "sometimes just snaps back to the thing it tried before."
- TechCrunch
Researchers question AI's 'reasoning' ability as models stumble on math problems with trivial changes
This is a philosophical question as much as a practical one, but a new paper making the rounds Friday suggests that the answer is, at least for now, a pretty clear "no." A group of AI research scientists at Apple released their paper, "Understanding the limitations of mathematical reasoning in large language models," to general commentary Thursday. Then he picks 58 kiwis on Saturday.
- Futurism
Elon Musk Promises to Post Aliens on X the "Split Second" He Sees Evidence of Their Existence
Phone Home Elon Musk may not be the biggest believer in aliens — but if he ever sees them, he's going to post them on the site formerly known as Twitter. During a lengthy recorded discussion with disgraced ex-Fox News host Tucker Carlson, the 53-year-old billionaire said that although he hasn't yet seen anything convincing […]
- CNN
‘It went horribly wrong’: DNA analysis sheds light on lost Arctic expedition’s grisly end
DNA analysis sheds new light on the fate of the men in Sir John Franklin’s doomed Arctic voyage to explore the Northwest Passage, according to the latest research.
- The Guardian
Strong solar flare could bring northern lights as far south as Alabama
Coronal mass ejection hits Earth and ‘severe’ geomagnetic storm could disrupt power grids and hit satellites and GPS
- Futurism
James Webb Spots First-Ever Alien “Steam World”
Full Steam Ahead NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was used to spot a completely new kind of alien planet: a watery, far-off "steam world" comprised almost entirely of hot water vapor. As detailed in a new study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, the planet — unceremoniously known as GJ 9827 — is twice […]
- Futurism
Murderous Black Hole Goes on Rampage, Leaves Path of Wrecked Stars in Its Wake
Get Wrecked New NASA data shows a supermassive black hole on a ______ killing spree, destroying one star before hunting down another. The discovery, made with the help of NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory, Hubble Space Telescope “Imagine a diver repeatedly going into a pool and creating a splash every time she enters the water,” […]
- The Guardian
Why are rainbows curved and why is cow’s milk white? Try our kids’ quiz
Five multiple-choice questions – set by children – to test your knowledge, and a chance to submit your own junior brainteasers for future quizzes
- Evening Standard
Nobel Prize 2024: Han Kang joins this week's winners
This year’s winners of the prestigious awards are being announced from October 7 to 14
- Fortune
Donald Trump is promising to bring back the America dream—but no one can agree on what it even is anymore
One thing's for sure: it's not about white picket fences anymore.
- CNN
Tomb filled with a dozen skeletons found underneath the Treasury in Petra
Archaeologists found a tomb with 12 skeletons beneath the Treasury in Petra, Jordan. The discovery provides rare insight into the ancient Nabataeans, experts say.