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OpenAI says an unreleased model called Astra solved 10 decades-old math problems for about $2,000 in compute, with formally verified proofs. Days later, the same system was hit with a Critical cyber-risk classification. Here is what happened and why mathematicians are both impressed and wary.

AT2024wpp, nicknamed the Whippet, briefly shone with 400 billion times the Sun’s energy. New observations from Keck, Magellan and the VLT found helium still racing outward at more than 6,000 kilometers per second, and that changes the story of what the black hole actually ate.

Researchers at Kyoto University used the orbital drag of roughly 1,200 Starlink satellites to build the first tomographic map of Earth’s thermosphere, turning a commercial broadband network into a planet-scale atmospheric sensor.

A viral post claims Earth is on track to become uninhabitable and that warming is rising exponentially. The One Earth commentary behind it says neither. Here is what it does say, what has genuinely changed since 2022, and where climate scientists disagree with each other.

Husbands Cause More Stress Than Kids? – GeekBlog 🧠 Psychology • Family Science It’s not the tantrums, the messy rooms,…

Cats Remember Kindness – GeekBlog 🐾 Science • Animal Behavior Your cat may ignore you when you call, but it…

Over the course of 12 passes, Juno detected 613 microwave pulses from lightning, with power ranging from about the same…

Podcasts are to radio as streaming services are to television, and we’re lucky to be living through a golden age…

On Tuesday, word spread that the National Institutes of Health was launching a series of what it’s calling “Scientific Freedom…

heThe LinkedIn post seemed like yet another scam job offer, but Katya was desperate enough to click. After college, she’d…