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'Space worms' are en route to the International Space Station

Popular Science

Studying these nematodes will help scientists plan for a long-term human presence on the moon. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. The Artemis II astronauts were back on Earth for less than a day before worms took their place in space. The space worms launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on April 11, aboard NASA's Commercial Resupply Services 24 mission (CRS-24) and are on a journey to the International Space Station (ISS).


Jackie and Shadow's 2026 babies: Everything you need to know about the new eaglets

Popular Science

Environment Animals Wildlife Birds Jackie and Shadow's 2026 babies: Everything you need to know about the new eaglets The two new chicks hatched in early April and are eating lots of fish, sleeping, and acting like siblings. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. The chicks are currently figuring out their "pecking order," or who gets first dibs on food. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. It's been another roller coaster nesting season for Jackie and Shadow, a pair of internet-famous bald eagle parents living in San Bernardino National Forest in Southern California.


Mystery item spotted in 2,000-year-old Egyptian child mummy

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Critical information about this unknown boy was destroyed during World War II. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. CT scanning and X-ray imaging allowed archaeologists to examine the mummy in extreme detail. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Archaeologists in Poland are finally solving an over 2,000-year-old mummy mystery.


Is Yellowstone about to blow? Supervolcano's magma source is 'closer than thought', scientists warn - sparking fears an eruption could be imminent

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Insiders claim failed AI rollout could be to blame for Tim Cook's departure from Apple - as one says'the AI era requires a different kind of leadership' Australia has spoken: Report reveals what everyone is thinking about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's Australia tour US troops board second tanker as Trump accuses Iran of violating ceasefire'numerous times' - Live updates New'Hollywood dose' pill: A-listers hooked on'youth elixir' that dermatologists say is anti-ageing, shrinks pores, smooths wrinkles... and even banishes rosacea Days after we got engaged, the love of my life told me he'd killed a man and buried him in a bog. I reported him to police... but then I made this irreversible mistake Papa John's under fire for an outrageous message now printed on all pizza boxes Fury as murderer marries pen pal behind bars... as teenage victim's mom says: 'I'm serving a life sentence without my son' Ritzy Bay Area town torn apart after teacher's daughter, 16, killed four friends in high-speed crash... then she posted a TikTok video that poured fuel on the flames Trump confronts Xi as US forces seize Chinese ship carrying mysterious'gift' to Iran How to lose weight when perimenopause sabotages your metabolism: I'm a PT but when I hit 46, I piled on the pounds overnight. New Jersey man's chilling'cancer map' fuels fears of poisoned neighborhood with 41 cases and counting Supreme Court secrets spill out: Insider names'hard a**' Justice who is'emotionally abusive' and leaves clerks with'fear in their eyes' AMANDA PLATELL: Why desperate Fergie's next move will be her biggest bombshell yet... and this is the only thing that can stop her I was losing hair so fast a bald spot the size of an orange appeared. I owe my life to a $1 at-home treatment that REVERSED the damage in a month. Even Cameron Diaz admits she's a dirty mess.


Injured turtle gets a second chance on four wheels

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More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Installing wheels on a tortoise might seem like a cruel joke--but a veterinary practice in the Philippines recently did so to help out an Aldabra giant tortoise () with troubled hind legs. As the name suggests, Aldabra giant tortoises are among the largest land tortoises. Also referred to as the Aldabra tortoise or giant tortoise, this reptile can weigh up to 550 pounds and can live over 150 years.


Inside the UFO hotel in Wales - with 'spacecraft' door, NASA-designed interiors and Doctor Who TARDIS bathroom

Daily Mail - Science & tech

The world's most family-friendly landmarks revealed - with six UK spots making the top 50 The UK's best staycations revealed by Daily Mail Travel - from a Gara Rock beach proposal to an ยฃ80-a-night mansion retreat This sun-drenched European coast offers great value - and it's just a two-hour flight away Don't get caught out by Ryanair's small bag restrictions - I've tested the carry-on suitcases and underseat bags that beat the strict requirements Why heading to Salcombe, one of Britain's most expensive seaside towns, in the shoulder season is an off-peak treat - and what to do there Tired of fun! Middle class families who turn their noses up at Butlin's are missing out Luxury hotel owner in Cornwall offers to foot British tourists' petrol bills to ease financial pain of staycation With flights disrupted amid Iran war, these are Europe's easiest countries to navigate by train - and how it compares to flying for price and time How to retire to the seaside for as little as ยฃ90,000 - and Britain's best hidden beach home spots New business class seats with IMAX-style wrap-around screens revealed - making passengers feel like they're in the cinema How the cost of your staycation REALLY compares with a'cheap' holiday abroad - when you factor in everything from food to fuel Why the Lake District shouldn't introduce tourism tax, says Cumbria tourism boss How Marseille became Europe's Capital of Cool - with 20 degree sunshine, sea views and amazing seafood The world's best food markets revealed - and a UK spot comes in second place READ MORE: The best hotels in the UK for 2026 revealed - does YOUR favourite make the list? Ready to hit the mute button on reality? Deep in the Pembrokeshire countryside lies a cosmic retreat that feels almost light years away from Earth. The awe-inspiring Spodnic UFO is one of three standout stays at Melin Mabes, a four-acre glamping site owned and ran by Martin Johnson and his wife, CarolAnne. 'It looks like it's just landed from outer space and aliens could come out,' Martin notes as he showcases his brainchild during the first episode of Channel's World's Most Secret Hotels.


Accurate and Reliable Uncertainty Estimates for Deterministic Predictions Extensions to Under and Overpredictions

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Computational models support high-stakes decisions across engineering and science, and practitioners increasingly seek probabilistic predictions to quantify uncertainty in such models. Existing approaches generate predictions either by sampling input parameter distributions or by augmenting deterministic outputs with uncertainty representations, including distribution-free and distributional methods. However, sampling-based methods are often computationally prohibitive for real-time applications, and many existing uncertainty representations either ignore input dependence or rely on restrictive Gaussian assumptions that fail to capture asymmetry and heavy-tailed behavior. Therefore, we extend the ACCurate and Reliable Uncertainty Estimate (ACCRUE) framework to learn input-dependent, non-Gaussian uncertainty distributions, specifically two-piece Gaussian and asymmetric Laplace forms, using a neural network trained with a loss function that balances predictive accuracy and reliability. Through synthetic and real-world experiments, we show that the proposed approach captures an input-dependent uncertainty structure and improves probabilistic forecasts relative to existing methods, while maintaining flexibility to model skewed and non-Gaussian errors.


Spectral-Transport Stability and Benign Overfitting in Interpolating Learning

arXiv.org Machine Learning

We develop a theoretical framework for generalization in the interpolating regime of statistical learning. The central question is why highly overparameterized estimators can attain zero empirical risk while still achieving nontrivial predictive accuracy, and how to characterize the boundary between benign and destructive overfitting. We introduce a spectral-transport stability framework in which excess risk is controlled jointly by the spectral geometry of the data distribution, the sensitivity of the learning rule under single-sample replacement, and the alignment structure of label noise. This leads to a scale-dependent Fredriksson index that combines effective dimension, transport stability, and noise alignment into a single complexity parameter for interpolating estimators. We prove finite-sample risk bounds, establish a sharp benign-overfitting criterion through the vanishing of the index along admissible spectral scales, and derive explicit phase-transition rates under polynomial spectral decay. For a model-specific specialization, we obtain an explicit theorem for polynomial-spectrum linear interpolation, together with a proof of the resulting rate. The framework also clarifies implicit regularization by showing how optimization dynamics can select interpolating solutions of minimal spectral-transport energy. These results connect algorithmic stability, double descent, benign overfitting, operator-theoretic learning theory, and implicit bias within a unified structural account of modern interpolation.


ALMAB-DC: Active Learning, Multi-Armed Bandits, and Distributed Computing for Sequential Experimental Design and Black-Box Optimization

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Sequential experimental design under expensive, gradient-free objectives is a central challenge in computational statistics: evaluation budgets are tightly constrained and information must be extracted efficiently from each observation. We propose \textbf{ALMAB-DC}, a GP-based sequential design framework combining active learning, multi-armed bandits (MAB), and distributed asynchronous computing for expensive black-box experimentation. A Gaussian process surrogate with uncertainty-aware acquisition identifies informative query points; a UCB or Thompson-sampling bandit controller allocates evaluations across parallel workers; and an asynchronous scheduler handles heterogeneous runtimes. We present cumulative regret bounds for the bandit components and characterize parallel scalability via Amdahl's Law. We validate ALMAB-DC on five benchmarks. On the two statistical experimental-design tasks, ALMAB-DC achieves lower simple regret than Equal Spacing, Random, and D-optimal designs in dose--response optimization, and in adaptive spatial field estimation matches the Greedy Max-Variance benchmark while outperforming Latin Hypercube Sampling; at $K=4$ the distributed setting reaches target performance in one-quarter of sequential wall-clock rounds. On three ML/engineering tasks (CIFAR-10 HPO, CFD drag minimization, MuJoCo RL), ALMAB-DC achieves 93.4\% CIFAR-10 accuracy (outperforming BOHB by 1.7\,pp and Optuna by 1.1\,pp), reduces airfoil drag to $C_D = 0.059$ (36.9\% below Grid Search), and improves RL return by 50\% over Grid Search. All advantages over non-ALMAB baselines are statistically significant under Bonferroni-corrected Mann--Whitney $U$ tests. Distributed execution achieves $7.5\times$ speedup at $K = 16$ agents, consistent with Amdahl's Law.


Hierarchical Kernel Transformer: Multi-Scale Attention with an Information-Theoretic Approximation Analysis

arXiv.org Machine Learning

The Hierarchical Kernel Transformer (HKT) is a multi-scale attention mechanism that processes sequences at L resolution levels via trainable causal downsampling, combining level-specific score matrices through learned convex weights. The total computational cost is bounded by 4/3 times that of standard attention, reaching 1.3125x for L = 3. Four theoretical results are established. (i) The hierarchical score matrix defines a positive semidefinite kernel under a sufficient condition on the symmetrised bilinear form (Proposition 3.1). (ii) The asymmetric score matrix decomposes uniquely into a symmetric part controlling reciprocal attention and an antisymmetric part controlling directional attention; HKT provides L independent such pairs across scales, one per resolution level (Propositions 3.5-3.6). (iii) The approximation error decomposes into three interpretable components with an explicit non-Gaussian correction and a geometric decay bound in L (Theorem 4.3, Proposition 4.4). (iv) HKT strictly subsumes single-head standard attention and causal convolution (Proposition 3.4). Experiments over 3 random seeds show consistent gains over retrained standard attention baselines: +4.77pp on synthetic ListOps (55.10+-0.29% vs 50.33+-0.12%, T = 512), +1.44pp on sequential CIFAR-10 (35.45+-0.09% vs 34.01+-0.19%, T = 1,024), and +7.47pp on IMDB character-level sentiment (70.19+-0.57% vs 62.72+-0.40%, T = 1,024), all at 1.31x overhead.