Article URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/01/260120000333.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46709179 Points: 15 # Comments: 1...
A cow in Austria has been observed using tools ― the first time such behavior has been recorded in cattle. Have we underestimated the gentle bovines all this time?...
Article URL: https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/papers/crisis/crisis.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46644962 Points: 8 # Comments: 0...
A sample of a polymetallic nodule at the Viridian Biometals lab in Pasadena, California. | Photo: Getty Images The Trump administration took the next step toward unilaterally jumpstarting deep-sea min...
The lunar crescent will disappear below the horizon before midnight on Jan. 22....
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For decades researchers in northern Norway had tried to bring back vital kelp forests after overfishing damaged marine ecosystems. Now a simple solution is proving successful....
"Instead of Webb's 6.5-meter diameter, it's like we are observing this region with a 13-meter space telescope."...
I am a student and co-founder of an accessibility startup. Balancing product development with exams broke my workflow, so I looked for a debugger. Mathematica Successūs is my attempt to model the "Sel...
A trial was about to launch for a vaccine that would ward off the HIV virus. It would be an incredible breakthrough. Then it looked as if it would be over before it started. (Image credit: Tommy Trenc...
i've been working with healthcare/biobank data and keep thinking about what "data moats" mean now that llms can ingest anything. some a16z piece from 2019 said moats were eroding — now the question se...
It may be one of the most iconic sights in the night sky, but astronomers have never seen the Helix Nebula like this before....
The origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes has been revealed in a system of four young planets that are dramatically losing their thick atmospheres....
"Dark matter can be red hot when it is born, but still have time to cool down before galaxies begin to form."...
Blue Origin will launch six people to the final frontier on Thursday (Jan. 22), and you can watch the space tourism mission live....
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Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Maine tonight as Earth reels from a colossal CME impact....
Dr. Sue Hwang, a radiation oncologist, said her own experience with breast cancer helped her see vulnerability as a strength instead of a weakness. Tim Brown Oncologist Sue Hwang was diagnosed with br...
Hi HN! We're Kamran, Raaid, Laith, and Omeed from Constellation Space. We built an AI system that predicts satellite link failures before they happen ( https://youtu.be/069V9fADAtM ). Between us, we'v...
It turns out the inverse of the Hessian of a deep net is easy to apply to a vector. Doing this naively takes cubically many operations in the number of layers (so impractical), but it's possible to do...