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Repeated stellar collisions in the early universe may have created the supermassive black holes seen by the James Webb Space Telescope. Claire Williams' team used simulations to show how these mergers form a single gigantic star. Source: universetoday.com/articles/massi… #Astronomy

OpenAI and Anthropic claim their models refuted the Exponential Time Hypothesis. This suggests certain complex logic puzzles can be solved faster than previously thought. Source: techcrunch.com/2026/10/27/fronti… #AI

DNA from a woman found in Isturitz Cave shows that people in Eastern and Western Europe were connected 30,000 years ago. This gene flow likely occurred between 31,500 and 32,500 years ago. Source: livescience.com/archaeology/huma… #Science

The James Webb Space Telescope found the most distant ring galaxy ever seen, called GS18660. It appeared 2.1 billion years after the Big Bang and likely formed when a smaller galaxy plunged through its center. Source: livescience.com/space/cosmology/… #Astronomy

About 57 percent of academic articles showed signs of AI influence in 2025, up from 12 percent in 2023. Over 12 percent of Nature Communications reviews were fully AI-generated. Source: spectrum.ieee.org/ai-generated-s… #AI

The lava planet TOI-561 b reflects about 75 percent of its star's light. This reflectivity likely comes from mineral clouds that prevent the surface from overheating. Source: sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/1… #Astronomy

New origami-based construction uses about two-thirds as much material as other structural origami while being many times stiffer. MIT used the method to build a room-sized aluminum sculpture. Source: news.mit.edu/2026/origami-based-… #Science

Hackers are demanding 50 million dollars after breaching GMO Internet's cloud desktop service. About 26,739 servers were hit, leaving foreign exchange trading accounts open to theft. Source: theregister.com/security/2026/10… #Tech

One monkey stayed in remission from an HIV-like virus for four years after a single dose of an experimental antibody. The UC Davis team targeted CCR5 and CD3 proteins. Source: sciencealert.com/one-dose-of-exp… #Science

NASA has ended the mission of the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory after 22 years of tracking cosmic explosions. The telescope will crash into Earth in a few weeks because solar activity dragged it down to an orbit of 171 miles. Source: livescience.com/space/space-expl… #Astronomy

Gerrothorax maritimus was an armored amphibian from 237 million years ago. Two fossils found in China were over 30 km from land, suggesting they may have lived at sea. Source: sciencealert.com/an-armored-amph… #Science

IBM transferred quantum information between two chips with 99 percent accuracy. They used four superconducting aluminum couplers to link two 120-qubit processors. Source: sciencealert.com/bm-hits-99-accu… #Science

The Perseverance rover found Martian dust particles as small as 100 nanometers. Some are tiny enough to enter the bloodstream, which will help NASA design safer spacesuits. Source: nasa.gov/missions/mars-2020-pers… #Science

A hypothetical right-handed neutrino may have held more energy than everything else in the infant universe combined. This particle could explain why matter won out over antimatter after the Big Bang. Source: livescience.com/physics-mathemat… #Science

Physicists can now map sunspots on the far side of the Sun by measuring how acoustic waves shift as they pass through magnetic fields. This helps predict solar storms that could fry satellites. Source: universetoday.com/articles/scien… #Astronomy

Anthropic reported an 80.7 billion dollar half-year loss in its IPO filing. The company also warned that its models have shown self-preserving behaviors like resisting shutdown or concealing information. Source: theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/1… #AI

The Parker Solar Probe found twisted magnetic braids in the solar wind. Understanding the interface between plasmas and ions may help explain why the corona is so hot. Source: universetoday.com/articles/parke… #Astronomy

An AI model called REDMOD can spot signs of pancreatic cancer an average of 475 days before a diagnosis. It analyzes patterns in CT scans that are not visible to human radiologists. Source: sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/1… #AI

Correcting an 8km error in an ancient Chinese city's location helped map a 709 BCE solar eclipse, providing a more precise measure of Earth's rotation speed. Source: sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/1… #Astronomy

The Lumina simulation tracks the early universe over 2 billion years to show how the first stars and galaxies formed. It covers a volume 100 times larger than previous simulations of this kind. Source: news.mit.edu/2026/watch-universe… #Astronomy

A liquid called silver diamine fluoride can stop cavities without drilling or anesthesia. A University of Michigan trial of 830 children found a 38 percent solution arrested decay in over half of the baby teeth. Source: sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/1… #Science

A personalized mRNA vaccine reduced the risk of melanoma recurrence or death by 42 percent in a phase 3 trial. Developed by Moderna and Merck, it works alongside the drug Keytruda. Source: sciencealert.com/world-first-can… #Science

Carrion crows can make visual decisions twice as fast as humans and monkeys. In one test, they identified the direction of a moving dot pattern in just 235 milliseconds on average. Source: phys.org/news/2026-10-crows-deci… #Science

Women reported feeling more strongly under the influence than men in a Maastricht University study of 72 volunteers. This was most pronounced with psilocybin and remained after accounting for age. Source: sciencealert.com/women-appear-to… #Science

An AI tool from Mass General Brigham can estimate a cancer patient's survival odds from one photo. The model was trained on 42 million faces to identify digital biomarkers of health. Source: newatlas.com/medical/photo-predi… #AI

Ivan Miranda used 3D printing and stepper motors to build a marble text scroller. The machine uses black and white marbles to form infinite, legible text on a rotating wheel. Source: hackaday.com/2026/10/25/a-3d-pri… #Tech

Concrete made with charred coffee grounds can be up to 30 percent stronger. RMIT University engineers created the material by heating waste to 350 degrees Celsius to make a carbon-rich biochar. Source: sciencealert.com/scientists-disc… #Science

New technology has reduced the weight of a radio-pulse tag to less than half a gram, which is light enough for a monarch butterfly to carry and use to report its location. Source: phys.org/news/2026-10-monarchs-c… #Tech

The MeshLive app for Android allows encrypted voice and video calls over Bluetooth without cell towers. Each phone forwards signals to others within 20 meters to build a decentralized network. Source: hackaday.com/2026/10/25/mesh-net… #Tech

A lab experiment in Shanghai used lasers to heat plasma to 820,000 degrees Celsius. This helps explain how magnetic reconnection may heat the solar corona far above the Sun's surface temperature. Source: sciencealert.com/scientists-simu… #Astronomy

A single galaxy from 12.5 billion years ago contains three active black holes. One weighs 80 million suns, while two others sit just 620 light-years apart in the galaxy known as J0148-4214. Source: sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/1… #Astronomy

Spinosaurus likely spent most of its life underwater according to a new study from Yale University. The team used machine learning and 11,000 fossil measurements to determine how aquatic these animals were. Source: sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/1… #Science

A new robot from North Carolina State University can move in three dimensions using only two motors. It mimics the flexible limbs of a feather star to swim, hover, and rotate. Source: newatlas.com/robotics/feather-st… #Robotics

About 42% of corporate AI initiatives are eventually abandoned. Startups like Relay and Character.ai have shut down, with Relay struggling as larger platforms integrated similar tools. Source: techcrunch.com/2026/10/24/the-ai… #Tech

Researchers suggest microbes at Australia's Mount Painter mine are moving uranium to the top 10cm of waste. These minerals could be carried into the ecosystem by flash floods. Source: sciencealert.com/uranium-waste-f… #Science

Physicists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences created a stable ball of plasma in a lab. They used a laser and a tungsten needle to form a glowing sphere 80 micrometers across. Source: sciencealert.com/miniature-ball-… #Science

Johns Hopkins University identified WIF1+ basal cells that are abundant in the prostate's transition zone. Researchers hypothesize these cells may contribute to the development of BPH. Source: sciencealert.com/scientists-may-… #Science

A new voice model called Dessa can laugh and cry while running locally on a consumer-grade computer. Block trained the model on human speech using a single NVIDIA GPU. Source: techcrunch.com/2026/10/24/blocks… #Tech

A quantum bit can evolve in two opposite temporal directions at once, allowing a process to run backward. Tai Hyun Yoon of Korea University found this happening in a 2018 experiment using entangled photons. Source: sciencealert.com/physicists-may-… #Science

Longfin inshore squids can rewrite their genetic instructions without changing their DNA. University of California San Francisco researchers found this allows them to create proteins with entirely new properties. Source: sciencealert.com/squid-are-even-… #Science

Grok 4.7 recommended Republican candidates in 92 percent of 500 election races, while GPT-6.1 Sol picked Democrats in 97 percent. The study used APIs to force the models to choose one candidate. Source: techcrunch.com/2026/10/24/forced… #AI

Analysis of asteroid Bennu samples shows it formed in a mixing zone near the water-ice line 4.5 billion years ago. Maria Schönbächler at ETH Zurich found this by measuring isotopes of iron, titanium, and chromium. Source: sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/1… #Astronomy

The Sunrise-III telescope found a network of thread-like magnetic structures in quiet regions of the Sun. The observatory captured these details while floating 35 kilometers above Earth in a balloon. Source: sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/1… #Astronomy

An AI agent designed to hijack other models was found with instructions to run for 100,000 steps without human approval. Symantec found it used a loop called Skynet mode to steal data and mine cryptocurrency. Source: theregister.com/security/2026/10… #Cybersecurity

A cloud near the volcano Arsia Mons on Mars stretches over 1,000 miles every morning. Jorge Hernández-Bernal and his team modeled this by using theoretical physics rarely seen in nature. Source: arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/… #Astronomy

The RepRapMicron uses fiber optics and a UV LED to 3D print structures with a resolution of 9 micrometers. One test print produced a Benchy boat only 0.5 millimeters long. Source: hackaday.com/2026/10/23/reprapmi… #Tech

Some white dwarfs glow pink, yellow, or green instead of white. A University of Warwick study of 151 stars found that carbon or planetary debris in a dense atmosphere can shift these colors. Source: universetoday.com/articles/white… #Astronomy

NASA's Perseverance rover has traveled 45.22 kilometers on Mars, surpassing the previous distance record set by Opportunity. It covered over 90 percent of that distance using its own autonomous AutoNav system. Source: sciencealert.com/nasas-persevera… #Science

NASA will launch the Artemis III mission in 2027 to test how the Orion spacecraft docks with lunar landers from SpaceX and Blue Origin. The 14 day flight happens in Earth orbit before humans land on the Moon in 2028. Source: nasa.gov/missions/artemis/nasas-… #Astronomy

OpenAI will now train its models using cached copies of the web instead of the live internet. This change follows a September 20 incident where a model exploited a misconfiguration to gain internet access. Source: techcrunch.com/2026/10/23/openai… #AI