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NASA reveals list of most scientifically accurate sci-fi movies ever made

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Barron Trump's perfect response to UK 911 operator calling him RUDE when he was saving friend's life... and how case may shift public perception The cancer now killing more Americans under 50 than any other... and why it's still being caught too late Trump goes to war with America's top banker with staggering lawsuit Judge BLOCKS Trump's attempt to charge Don Lemon for joining anti-ICE protesters as they stormed Minnesota church Haunting secret trove of Idaho murder pictures: Leaked images reveal last moments of Bryan Kohberger's victims Secret woman in Heated Rivalry star Hudson Williams' life... as unseen pictures from college days show heartthrob actor as you've never seen him Disney sparks outrage as it quietly eliminates beloved treat from theme park: 'Blatant cost-cutting measure' Hollywood's secret clique of mean girl A-listers exposed in shock new trove of Blake Lively-Justin Baldoni evidence: Read their toe-curling private texts Woke Karen, 63, lets VERY embarrassing detail slip to the Daily Mail after she mistook cops rushing to school for ICE'and tried to obstruct them' Blake Lively and costar Brandon Sklenar unload on Justin Baldoni in bombshell unsealed texts: 'He's scrambling' Tense moment US tennis star shuts down reporter's attempt to get her to criticize Donald Trump ICE blasted over photo of officers'detaining five-year-old boy' - but they hit back with shocking claims against his father Haunting handwritten note shared by boy who stabbed his mother to death when he was 13 as he finds out how long he'll spend behind bars Revealed: What Josh Allen really thinks about Sean McDermott's firing and erratic Buffalo Bills owner Terry Pegula Killer dad hurled baby son off bridge to his death because of social worker's horrific blunder, lawsuit alleges Trump declares US gets'TOTAL ACCESS' to Greenland as he reveals latest plan Has Aaron Rodgers' wife finally been found? Pete Hegseth accused of policing troops' private lives with Pentagon crackdown on use of intimate devices See Adele's ruthless demolition of Hollywood icon's Mediterranean-style mansion in $50m rebuild, leaving only his statue standing... for now NASA has shared a surprising list of movies it considers among the most scientifically accurate ever made. The films span nearly a century of cinema, from silent-era classics to modern blockbusters and were praised for respecting real scientific principles rather than relying on fantasy. According to NASA and NASA-affiliated scientists, accuracy is not about predicting the future perfectly, but about portraying science, scientists and technology realistically. Movies like Gattaca and Jurassic Park earned recognition for their grounded treatment of genetics, DNA and complex systems.


The five unsolved mysteries of 2025 that captivated the world... from a UFO surviving a hellfire missile to a 'vast city' under Egypt's pyramids

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Woman wags her finger at journalist who asks her if she's running a daycare out of stunning Seattle home Marla Maples' chilling Epstein warning as she feared his growing sway over Trump She wore the ultimate revenge dress after their brutal break up. But Nashville's hottest couple is'trying again'... and her friends are terrified MARK HALPERIN blows apart the Minnesota scandal... and reveals who will pay the ultimate price Kellyanne Conway brands lesbian comic Rosie O'Donnell a'slob' and says Trump-hating star needs to get a HUSBAND Daily Mail graphic reveals the bottled waters with the most cancer-causing'forever chemicals' 'Super' virus spreading uncontrollably... as New York sees the most cases ever and experts warn'we don't know when it will stop' Brave little girl jumped out apartment window and begged strangers to save her from abuse... only to be tortured to death after disbelieving cops sent her home Megyn Kelly names'meanest' celebrities... and hints NBC's twinkly-eyed TV grandpa is not as nice as he seems Hollywood's nastiest star: How Chevy Chase's outrageous behavior turned him into a pariah on and off set Children in headscarves seen being brought into notorious Minneapolis daycare hit by fraud allegations as local claims misspelt sign was just a'printing error' I tried the $12 'miracle' hangover cure... but I made a critical mistake that left me full of regret Snitch reveals all the gossip from inside the New England Patriots after Stefon Diggs allegedly'strangled' his female chef Heartbreak after body found in search for teenager as brother's missing weapon link emerges and devastated mom is left repeating four tragic words My husband set me a kinky New Year's resolution... DEAR JANE, I'm disgusted. But I'm afraid I can't say no'Work maintained my sense of self': How one woman's cancer journey inspired her company to give back As 2025 comes to a close, several mysteries that left the world in stunned disbelief still have yet to be fully explained. The past 12 months have read like a science-fiction novel, with thousands of UFOs swarming over the US East Coast, an interstellar visitor invading our solar system, and the potential discovery of giant columns under the Egyptian pyramids. Moreover, scientists and government officials have been unable to disprove all of the wild theories surrounding many of these jaw-dropping events, including one respected scientist's claim that the giant space rock 3I/ATLAS may be an alien craft.


Towards Revealing the Mystery behind Chain of Thought: A Theoretical Perspective

Neural Information Processing Systems

Recent studies have discovered that Chain-of-Thought prompting (CoT) can dramatically improve the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs), particularly when dealing with complex tasks involving mathematics or reasoning. Despite the enormous empirical success, the underlying mechanisms behind CoT and how it unlocks the potential of LLMs remain elusive. In this paper, we take a first step towards theoretically answering these questions. Specifically, we examine the expressivity of LLMs with CoT in solving fundamental mathematical and decision-making problems. By using circuit complexity theory, we first give impossibility results showing that bounded-depth Transformers are unable to directly produce correct answers for basic arithmetic/equation tasks unless the model size grows super-polynomially with respect to the input length. In contrast, we then prove by construction that autoregressive Transformers of constant size suffice to solve both tasks by generating CoT derivations using a commonly used math language format. Moreover, we show LLMs with CoT can handle a general class of decision-making problems known as Dynamic Programming, thus justifying their power in tackling complex real-world tasks. Finally, an extensive set of experiments show that, while Transformers always fail to directly predict the answers, they can consistently learn to generate correct solutions step-by-step given sufficient CoT demonstrations.


Do Transformers Really Perform Badly for Graph Representation?

Neural Information Processing Systems

The Transformer architecture has become a dominant choice in many domains, such as natural language processing and computer vision. Yet, it has not achieved competitive performance on popular leaderboards of graph-level prediction compared to mainstream GNN variants. Therefore, it remains a mystery how Transformers could perform well for graph representation learning. In this paper, we solve this mystery by presenting Graphormer, which is built upon the standard Transformer architecture, and could attain excellent results on a broad range of graph representation learning tasks, especially on the recent OGB Large-Scale Challenge. Our key insight to utilizing Transformer in the graph is the necessity of effectively encoding the structural information of a graph into the model. To this end, we propose several simple yet effective structural encoding methods to help Graphormer better model graph-structured data. Besides, we mathematically characterize the expressive power of Graphormer and exhibit that with our ways of encoding the structural information of graphs, many popular GNN variants could be covered as the special cases of Graphormer.


Mystery as flock of UFOs seen hovering above power station for more than a year

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Kimberly Guilfoyle's bitter reaction to Don Jr's engagement with Bettina Anderson as scorned ex insists she'wants what's best' for the first son Simone Biles is slammed by furious animal rights activists after allegedly chopping her dog's EARS off The full story of Nick Reiner and these murders is so much more unbearable than everyone thinks. Even Hollywood wouldn't dare write it: MAUREEN CALLAHAN I sneakily looked at my perfect son's phone... What a terrible mistake! Rob Reiner and his wife's cause of death revealed'It was a cover up': Kirsty MacColl's ex-husband speaks out 25 years on from Fairytale of New York singer's death... and says she was'killed by speedboat driven by the richest man in Mexico' Reiner family bombshell as insiders reveal who is paying for Nick's celebrity lawyer... their secret motive... and who will REALLY inherit $200m fortune Trump's border patrol boss gets in VERY public spat with city mayor as he gives him rude awakening Chilling new video of Nick Reiner making disturbing comments about murder... as friend reveals dad Rob's tragic failed attempt to save him: 'I'm going to kill that f***ing dog' Tara Reid speaks out for the first time since THAT video emerged... and tells KATIE HIND why she is convinced she was spiked after watching CCTV How Bettina Anderson's engagement ring measures up to Kimberly Guilfoyle's... and which Don Jr spent most money on Elon Musk is blasted on social media over'pathetic' comments about Sydney Sweeney's breasts Biohacker Bryan Johnson says he will be immortal in 15 years... as he finally'cracks' the secret to living forever Natalee Holloway's killer Joran van der Sloot attempts to take his own life inside maximum-security Peruvian prison Chilling new details of father's death a day before facing justice for leaving his daughter, 2, to die in a hot car Pouty dine-and-dash diva interrupts judge MULTIPLE times as she's hauled to court for bill-skipping spree Sign up for our US Editor's Picks newsletter to get all the biggest exclusive stories A small town sheriff has admitted he is perplexed by a series of mysterious flying objects which have been bewildering locals in his Wyoming community for more than a year. Unidentified flying objects [ UFOs ] have been regularly spotted for 13 months above the Jim Bridger Power Plant and Sweetwater County's Red Desert. John Grossnickle, the Sheriff of Sweetwater County, saw lit-up, drone-like objects as recently as December 13, his spokesman Jason Mower told Cowboy State Daily .


The Download: the mysteries surrounding weight-loss drugs, and the economic effects of AI

MIT Technology Review

What we still don't know about weight-loss drugs Weight-loss drugs have been back in the news this week. First, we heard that Eli Lilly, the company behind Mounjaro and Zepbound, became the first healthcare company in the world to achieve a trillion-dollar valuation. But we also learned that, disappointingly, GLP-1 drugs don't seem to help people with Alzheimer's disease. And that people who stop taking the drugs when they become pregnant can experience potentially dangerous levels of weight gain. On top of that, some researchers worry that people are using the drugs postpartum to lose pregnancy weight without understanding potential risks. All of this news should serve as a reminder that there's a lot we still don't know about these drugs.


L.A. grand jury now probing mystery of dead teen stuffed in trunk of D4vd's Tesla, sources say

Los Angeles Times

Things to Do in L.A. Tap to enable a layout that focuses on the article. L.A. grand jury now probing mystery of dead teen stuffed in trunk of D4vd's Tesla, sources say D4vd (David Anthony Burke) performs at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee, in June 2024. This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here . A Los Angeles County grand jury is hearing evidence related to the death of a teenage girl whose body was discovered stuffed inside the trunk of singer D4vd's Tesla earlier this year, two law enforcement sources told The Times.


Better images of AI on book covers

AIHub

'Learning with AI' is an open-source book from the University of Leeds . We spoke with Chrissi Nerantzi, part of the project team about their choice to use Ariyana Ahmad's illustration'AI is Everywhere' for the cover of the book. For the team, the choice of cover was about more than just visual aesthetic. Collages can capture multiple perspectives, textures, and approaches, much like the student voices incorporated throughout the book. Ahmad's illustration, while not a collage, achieves a similar effect.


How scientists analyze ancient DNA from old bones

Popular Science

Centuries-old genetic material can solve historical mysteries, from lost species to what killed Napoleon's army. A glowing, digital double helix represents the billions of base pairs scientists analyze when sequencing ancient DNA. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. In 1976, workers excavating a tunnel for the Toronto subway system came across some very old bones. Using radiocarbon dating, researchers determined the partial cranium and fragments of antlers were roughly 12,000 years old.