The catastrophic flooding in July 2021 claimed the lives of more than 200 people in Germany and Belgium. The high death toll makes it clear that hazard mapping and risk communication must be improved urgently. Researchers at the University of Potsdam, the Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, the U...
We’ll call it the Eck List. With the dawn of the 2026 college football season upon us, anyone with even a smidge of common sense knows Jason Eck isn’t long for the University of New Mexico. If he comes anywhere close to duplicating last season’s 9-4 run, chances are pretty good he’ll have a new...
Scientists have overturned a leading explanation for why male and female bonnethead sharks have differently shaped heads. Instead of males developing a pointed snout at maturity, both sexes actually begin with more pointed heads that become rounder with age, particularly in females.
Beneath the Arctic Ocean is an orchestra featuring natural and human composers, from cracking sea ice and whistling beluga whales to humming shipping-vessel engines. Researchers from MIT Lincoln Laboratory heard some of this cacophony when analyzing data from commercial off-the-shelf sensors tha...
Mbappé sees late penalty saved by Valles PSG are beaten by league leaders Monaco Real Madrid’s perfect start in La Liga ended on Friday when Real Betis beat them 1-0, with the substitute Troy Parrott scoring nine minutes from time and goalkeeper Álvaro Valles saving a stoppage-time penalty f...
How scalably can we cheaply fine-tune small models for well-defined tasks? Frontier models are bad at clock reading. I fine-tuned a tiny 450M model from Liquid AI to match GPT-5.