Stihl built its first battery-powered snow thrower to offer plenty of power with minimal maintenance
Popular Scienceby Stan Horaczek8d ago
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top 41%Harmless amoeba's tight-space crawling offers clues to how its deadly relative invades the brain
Phys.orgby Sanjukta Mondal8d ago
Harmless amoeba's tight-space crawling offers clues to how its deadly relative invades the brain Sanjukta Mondal Author Tiny, shapeless invaders can find their way from ponds to the human brain and...
Seismic analysis reveals ancient traces of mantle flow beneath the Pacific's oldest plate
Phys.orgby Seismological Society8d ago
Seismic analysis reveals ancient traces of mantle flow beneath the Pacific's oldest plate Seismic data captured by ocean-bottom instruments have revealed "fossilized" traces of mantle flow beneath...
Culture, history, small-ship intimacy: These expert-led Smithsonian Journeys cruises have it all - The Points Guy
The Points Guy Articlesby Gene Sloan8d ago
Culture, history, small-ship intimacy: These expert-led Ponant cruises with Smithsonian Journeys have it all Editor's Note I had forgotten how much I loved learning about the Greeks.
Colombia's new bee checklist documents 738 species, including 246 newly recorded
Phys.orgby Sara Usnick8d ago
Colombia's new bee checklist documents 738 species, including 246 newly recorded A team led by a Penn State professor and doctoral student has compiled a checklist documenting the bee species in...
AI Agents Beat PyTorch: Writing Faster CUDA Kernels
Towards Data Science - Mediumby Chien Vu Minh8d ago
In February 2025, Sakana AI announced that its “AI CUDA Engineer” generated 17,000 CUDA kernels with speedups of up to 381× over PyTorch.
FDA-approved epilepsy drug may help reverse osteoarthritis damage
ScienceDaily8d ago
FDA-approved epilepsy drug may help reverse osteoarthritis damage - Date: - October 8, 2026 - Source: - Yale School of Medicine - Summary: - Researchers at Yale have identified a promising new...
A Rare Image of Mars at Dawn Reveals the Beauty of Its Ancient Cliffs
Gizmodoby Passant Rabie8d ago
NASA just released a striking new image of the Martian landscape taken during the quiet, early morning hours of dawn.
Largest 2D map of the universe helps scientists discover new gravitational lenses
Phys.orgby NSF NOIRLab8d ago
Largest 2D map of the universe helps scientists discover new gravitational lenses Using data from the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys, with help from artificial intelligence, an international team of...
Yashica’s New $170 Point-and-Shoot Has the Looks but Not All the Charm of the Cameras It Emulates
PetaPixelby Jeremy Gray8d ago
Yashica is back with yet another compact point-and-shoot camera designed to capitalize on the trendiness of old-school digicams.
What a Comeback: We Test the 1976 Saab 99EMS
Latest Content - Car and Driver8d ago
From the August 1976 issue of Car and Driver. I always wanted a Saab—which is pretty strange, considering how strange the car looked. It looks exactly the same now, but strange has become so-what.
Scientists find Chernobyl's radioactive fragments have barely changed
Mail Onlineby Xantha Leatham8d ago
Four decades after the world’s worst nuclear disaster, scientists have uncovered a chilling reminder that Chernobyl's radioactive legacy is far from over.
Bowel cancer rates rising in Latin America: Is it linked to obesity?
DW Englishby Kaukab Shairani8d ago
The numbers are striking. Some cancer rates have doubled in the past 20 years. It's just not clear whether we're seeing a rise in actual cases or whether we're seeing more early-stage cases through...
This “golden tree” coral was too strange for any known family
ScienceDaily8d ago
This “golden tree” coral was too strange for any known family - Date: - October 8, 2026 - Source: - Pensoft Publishers - Summary: - A brilliant yellow coral discovered off Costa Rica proved so...
Why are some animals so colorful? Blame this pigment.
Popular Scienceby Laura Kiniry8d ago
Ecuador’s Galapagos Islands are home to an incredible array of wildlife. Amid landscapes of black lava fields, scattered prickly pear cacti, lush highlands, and green mangrove fringes, you’ll spot...
'More Might Be Out There': A Scorching Phoenix Planet May Solve a 3-Decade-Old Astronomical Cold Case
ScienceAlertby Ivan Farkas8d ago
After being born of mostly just hydrogen and helium, a scant 14-ish billion years later the Universe is full of weird planets of wildly varying makes, shapes, and sizes.
An experimental drug kills fat cells, rather than shrinking them
Science Newsby Tina Hesman Saey8d ago
An experimental drug may melt away a dangerous type of fat that packs around internal organs. The drug, called CBL-514, specifically triggers fat cells to enter a death program called apoptosis.
Scientists found Homo erectus 200,000 years earlier than expected
ScienceDaily8d ago
Scientists found Homo erectus 200,000 years earlier than expected - Date: - October 8, 2026 - Source: - La Trobe University - Summary: - New fossils from South Africa are reshaping the story of...
DNA testing of fecal samples reveals greater gliders eat wider variety of plants than previously thought
Phys.orgby University8d ago
DNA testing of fecal samples reveals greater gliders eat wider variety of plants than previously thought Identifying the favorite snacks of one of Australia's cutest animals no longer needs to rely...
Your Model's MSE Is Lying to You III: Time Series Diffusion
Towards Data Science - Mediumby Waleed Esmail8d ago
In Part I of this series, we started from two forecasting models that had the same MSE to three decimal places and a very different level of risk, and we traced the problem back to the loss...