A new study by a doctoral researcher at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), part of The University of Alabama System, suggests global dust storms on Mars may organize the Martian atmosphere into regions favorable for electrical activity, increasing the potential for electrostatic disch...
Here is a fact that should bother you more than it does: in a 2026 audit of 1,968 tasks drawn from five different terminal-agent benchmarks, 323 of them — sixteen percent — could be passed by a frontier model without solving the task at all. Not by being clever about the problem. By being cleve...
A soccer pundit confidently predicted Manchester City would dominate possession and win 3-1. They won 2-0 with 45% possession. Meanwhile, a machine learning model trained on 5 seasons of passing data, shot quality, and defensive pressure metrics predicted exactly that scoreline with 73% confide...
Natural historians have many observational techniques in their toolkit for learning about the natural world: tagging animals with tracking devices, recording sounds, analyzing droppings or simply watching and counting. As technology has advanced, these methods have grown far more precise and wid...
Our accents give away more about social class than we think, according to new research led by Lancaster University. The new sociolinguistic study focusing on Mancunian accents, published in the journal, Language Variation and Change, shows that the final vowel in words like happy, baby, chilly a...
A NASA satellite has found an unintended, important purpose.