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Three Juveniles Arrested After Burglary, Assault at Cape Coral Business
CAPE CORAL, Fla. — On Sunday, August 16, 2026, just after 5 AM, Cape Coral Police officers responded to a disturbance […]
Scientists put tiny backpacks on crayfish
However, keeping tabs on these four-inch-long freshwater creatures can get a bit sticky.
Australia needs more people who think like scientists—here's what that means
How we think and feel about science develops from an early age—and we never know where that early interest might take us.
The COVID-19 vaccine may offer brain cancer patients a surprise benefit
A recent shot of the COVID-19 vaccine doubled survival time in glioblastoma patients who had undergone tumor biopsy or surgery.
Despite returning to a team that has changed since …
Despite returning to a team that has changed since …
Southern right whales have bumpy ‘fingerprints’ on their heads
Photographs from citizen scientists and whale watchers help identify the cetaceans off the coast of Patagonia.
Every business can see from space now
Businesses are using Earth observation data to monitor supply chains, assess disasters, track crops and gain real-time competitive insights
Cristiano Ronaldo drops hint over fresh retirement plans
The legendary Portuguese forward is preparing for the new season with Al-Nassr
Cleveland remains in active search of a trade to send …
Cleveland remains in active search of a trade to send …
James spent time with Austin Reaves at a golf course …
James spent time with Austin Reaves at a golf course …
Centcom commander addresses mental health concerns for troops on USS Abraham Lincoln
U.S. Central Command (Centcom) commander Adm. Brad Cooper on Sunday addressed concerns over the mental health of service members aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln as it returns home after 265 days in …
The 10 Biggest GPU Flops In History
The GPU race is as competitive as ever. With AI pushing demand past the red line, we look back on some graphics cards that didn't exactly keep pace.
The world's largest electric plane takes flight
The 25,000-pound aircraft flew for 27 minutes.
MLB Player Props & Best Bets for Today, August 16
Colby Marchio is handing out his favorite MLB player props for Sunday, Aug. 16, featuring Sean Burke, Eury Perez, and Dean Kremer.
Op-Ed | A New Future for Farming, Food, and Health
Regenerative farming systems focused on building soil health offer the potential to chart a new path toward a sustainable future.
Can't whistle? It's not you, it's mouth geometry.
But with some practice you can likely get there.
New West's training for Ukraine troops not teaching drone pilot skills
Ukrainian troops are getting trained in Norway-led Operation Legio, and Ukraine didn't request pilot skills as it already has such good education.
"It would mean a lot [to win a championship]... But …
"It would mean a lot [to win a championship]... But …
Patriots news: Mike Vrabel drops disappointing Christian Gonzalez injury update
Mike Vrabel confirmed Christian Gonzalez remains unavailable as the Patriots cornerback continues recovering from his injury.
Not Asus, Not MSI: Consumer Reports Says This Laptop Brand Is The Most Reliable
Consumer Reports found that Apple's line of MacBooks are the most reliable of all laptops based on estimated problem rates derived from over 75,000 surveys.
LeBron James has made another decision: He has …
LeBron James has made another decision: He has …
10 moving images from the International Nature Photography Festival
A reminder that our planet is worth protecting.
I switched from Windows to Mac after 25 years, and it’s the trackpad that converted me.
I’ve been using Windows laptops for almost 25 years. In that time, I never once seriously thought of buying a MacBook. In fact, I can honestly say I had never used one at all until I bought my MacBook Air M5 six months ago. Never borrowed one for a weekend, spent an afternoon at an […]
What to remove from photos before posting online
Be careful what you share with others—AI can tell where you are. It's time to check those privacy settings, and we'll tell you how.
The buck stops somewhere else: A look at Trump's tendency to avoid blame when things go awry
President Harry Truman famously kept a “The Buck Stops Here” sign on his White House desk
The buck stops somewhere else: A look at Trump's tendency to avoid blame when things go awry
President Harry Truman famously kept a “The Buck Stops Here” sign on his White House desk.
The buck stops somewhere else: A look at Trump's tendency to avoid blame when things go awry
President Harry Truman famously kept a “The Buck Stops Here” sign on his White House desk.
New 'Avengers: Doomsday' trailer drops at D23 featuring Robert Downey Jr. and more
A new trailer for the highly anticipated "Avengers: Doomsday" was unveiled on Friday at the D23 Disney Entertainment Showcase.
Activision Really Wants You To Know Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 4's Campaign Isn't A Horrible Mess Like BLOPS7
For the first time ever a Call of Duty beta will include access to a singleplayer campaign mission
Matthew McConaughey Says This 2003 Movie Still Brings Him The Best ‘Mailbox Money’
He added that it’s “probably my favorite rom-com that I’ve ever done.”
Home Street (Sports Showdown) Home
Kraken forward John Hayden participated in last weekend’s youth sports event featuring ball hockey, hoops and soccer as part of One Roof Foundation’s commitment to all kids’ accessibility to physical activity
Volunteer Develops Machine-Learning Tool to Identify Rare Clouds
Certain kinds of clouds are misbehaving – appearing more often and lower in the sky than they used to. To help identify the factors influencing these changes, scientists have asked people around the world with cameras to submit fresh images of these clouds as a part of the NASA-supported Space Cloud Watch project.
Gunther Werks Built Its Fastest 911 Yet Without A Single Turbo
Only 15 buyers will get this analog Porsche, and each one comes with a matching carbon racing simulator
RUF’s Ehra Is The Analog 911 Porsche Won’t Sell You
Named after the track where the Yellowbird made history, RUF's Ehra is a deliberately compact, driver-focused weapon
Mass fish necropsy helps forecast salmon returns in Oregon
Scores of volunteer scientists performed a mass fish necropsy in Newport last month. Events like this help forecast salmon returns, as climate change has upended more traditional methods.
Hopson Named HERO Sports G6 Preseason All-American
KENNESAW, Ga. – Kennesaw State graduate linebacker Baron Hopson continued to earn preseason praise on Friday afternoon when HERO Sports named him a Group of Six Preseason All-American.
Czinger 21C Spyder Has More Downforce Than Any Other Convertible And The Coolest Brakes You'll See All Week
At 150 mph the 21C Spyder produces 3,307 pounds of downforce with the roof on, matching the coupe, and with it off that figure slightly drops to 3,267 pounds.
New initiative set to help small businesses grow in El Paso's Mission Trail
El Paso’s Mission Trail small businesses are getting an SBA-funded boost as Rep. Veronica Escobar, the County, Revby, and EFO Media launch hands-on marketing and technical assistance, from workshops to 1-on-1 support.
Judge drops Nevada case against electors accused of forging 2020 election certificate
The dismissal marks the latest setback in swing states’ efforts to prosecute fake electors who tried to keep Trump in the White House after he lost to Joe Biden in 2020.
Selena Gomez and her mental health startup accused of fraud
Several investors in Selena Gomez’s mental health startup Wondermind sued the popstar Thursday, claiming they were misled about the startup’s success and her involvement in it.
Selena Gomez and her mental health startup accused of fraud
Several investors in Selena Gomez’s mental health startup Wondermind sued the popstar Thursday, claiming they were misled about the startup’s success and her involvement in it.
Trump to rally with New York police in highlighting historic coast-to-coast violent crime drop
President Donald Trump travels to Nassau County Police Academy with Todd Blanche and Kash Patel to rally with cops and tout historic crime drop.
Selena Gomez Accused of Fraud by Mental-Health Startup Investors
Pop star Selena Gomez is being accused of fraud by investors who claim she failed to deliver on promises to leverage her global celebrity and social-media following to promote her mental-health startup, which collapsed last year.
Michigan cyclosporiasis outbreak tops 13,900 cases; 35 additional hospitalizations in past week
An additional 35 Michigan residents have required hospital care for cyclosporiasis as an outbreak continues to be tracked, state health officials said on Thursday.
Drop test claims Pixel 11 Pro, specifically the smaller one, could break more easily
Google is touting better scratch resistance on its new Pixel 11 Pro phones but, apparently, smaller one doesn’t handle drops...
WWII motorcycle and soldiers emerge from river muck in Hungary
Historically low water levels in the Danube are revealing over 80 years of history.
AI needs science’s search history
“Actually, that’s where the gold is,” said Alasdair Russell, my graduate school friend who leads a pre-clinical genome editing group at Cambridge. He was talking about the winding road of science that is omitted from published papers. “When you’re discussing how to do the experiment, and why this way is better than another way, and what does the data really mean? I know what it shows, but what does it mean?” At RAAIS 2026, he described how his group has begun logging the twisting path of discovery as it happens, recording the verbal and written exchanges that normally disappear. Ideas become nodes in a living graph: they branch when a meeting produces two plausible experiments, merge when separate lines of evidence converge, and go dark when someone quietly stops pursuing them. In his implementation, one agent scores novelty, while another tries to learn “how scientists think and how they navigate through a complex world of data,” so that high-potential nodes can trigger deeper investigation. As frontier AI labs deploy agents toward scientific discovery, giving AI authentic scientific taste remains a trillion-dollar dilemma. The bottleneck is that the record we have kept for centuries of science might be insufficient to get us there. The experiments that never make the paper Peter Medawar, 1960 Nobel laureate and “father of transplantation,” asked in 1963 whether the scientific paper was a fraud, and answered yes: the form of the paper misrepresents the thinking that produced it. Sixty years on, the diagnosis is unchanged. A paper presents a clean progression from hypothesis to result to conclusion. Lost along the way are the unconventional theories, the abandoned or unaffordable methods, and the underwhelming and inconclusive data. It reads like a browser history with every dead end deleted: the ten open tabs, the four rephrased queries, the wrong turn down a subforum. All scrubbed, leaving one clean path from question to answer as the canonical path. What has changed since then is that the discarded material is now worth something. No high-impact journal wants these artifacts, but raw trial and error is the most likely source of the training data required to develop scientific intuition, or what researchers call taste. Earlier attempts to capture the discards were motivated by scientific integrity. The Journal of Negative Results in Biomedicine launched in 2002 to publish rigorous studies that disputed established models or exposed ineffective treatments. Its archive preserved negative conclusions after they had become papers, rather than the live alternatives and arguments that produced them. BioMed Central closed it in 2017, saying the mission had been served now that other journals publish null results. A less generous reading is that in fifteen years it published around 200 papers because almost nobody wants to read a negative result, let alone write one up when it will not count toward academic tenure. AI models are different. Even an uninteresting negative result can be useful, provided it is labeled. Earlier this year, Anthropic put a version of this to the test. The company pulled 129 decision points from real Claude Code sessions between January and March 2026, showed models the work up to a human detour, and asked what should happen next. Claude Mythos Preview beat the human choice 64% of the time, while Opus 4.5 managed 51%. The comparison was tilted toward the models because Anthropic deliberately chose moments where the human decision had room for improvement. On 127 further scenarios where the human action was already strong, the models improved on it only about 20% of the time. The study was possible because Anthropic’s researchers work inside a tool that logs by default. The reasoning, detours and outcome are produced in the same working environment. Biology has no equivalent. Its reasoning happens in hallways, at benches, in Slack threads and on whiteboards, while the outcome arrives weeks later somewhere else. The record has to emerge from the work itself. Ask scientists to reconstruct it afterwards and we’ll create another polished account. Subscribe A log is not a label Before any of this becomes training data, a negative result has to say what failed. The first paper published in the Journal of Negative Results in Biomedicine examined 234 negative studies across five leading medical journals. Only 30% discussed statistical power, and half clearly defined a primary outcome. Tell a model an experiment failed, without telling it whether the assay was underpowered, a reagent had degraded, or the hypothesis was simply wrong, and it will learn noise with confidence. Decision histories have a second missing label too. When a lab considers five experiments and runs one, only the chosen branch returns an outcome. The other four are experimental counterfactuals. Researchers call this the selective labels problem: the data reveal results only for the actions someone chose to take. Such a record can teach a model to imitate a lab’s taste, but it cannot establish that the taste was good. It also smuggles local constraints into general lessons. A lab that never ran cryo-EM because it did not own a microscope teaches a model that cryo-EM is rarely the right call. Alasdair’s nodes preserve the candidate set, which is the necessary first step. To be useful, each decision record needs six fields: The evidence available at that moment, and nothing that arrived later. The candidates considered, including the ones dismissed in a sentence. For each candidate: the expected result, the confidence attached to it, and the cost in time and money. The route chosen, and the reason. What happened next. How the evidence changed the scientist’s view. These must be timestamped before the outcome, because hindsight turns uncertainty into inevitability. Disagreement also has to survive. Averaging three scientists into one clean rationale reproduces exactly the information loss we are trying to fix. But there is an obvious failure mode here. Once decisions are logged and scored, people log for the record post-facto. Anyone who has watched an electronic lab notebook fill up with retrospective tidying knows how quickly a research tool becomes a compliance exercise. A record that costs a scientist ten minutes of honest reflection per decision is worth far more than one that costs an hour of performance. A publication initiative called Registered Reports offers a useful starting point. Here, researchers submit their rationale, methods and analysis plan for peer review before the data exist, and the journal commits in principle to publish if they follow the approved plan. Nature has now expanded the format across every field it covers. This approach to paper writing timestamps intent before the outcome, but it freezes one plan. A useful search history must also preserve how the plan changed, which alternatives were rejected, when, and on what evidence. Subscribe Run the runner-up Autonomous labs show what happens when decisions and outcomes are connected in a loop. Liverpool’s mobile robotic chemist ran 688 experiments over eight days in a ten-variable formulation space. A batched Bayesian search used each result to choose the next experiments and found photocatalyst mixtures six times more active than the starting formulations. Every completed experiment changed what the system did next. The robot optimized within a goal and search space that humans had already chosen. It did not decide which scientific question mattered. So what this work demonstrates is narrower, but still useful: a search history pays off when the options return standardized outcomes quickly. Open-ended biology is harder because branches can take weeks and the discarded alternatives may never be run. Some exploration therefore has to be bought. Where two branches are plausible and the stakes justify the cost, a lab should sometimes run the runner-up. Otherwise the record captures what today’s scientists usually chose and stays silent on what they systematically overlooked. A funder could ring-fence a small fraction of a grant for the branch not taken, provided that the decision record and the outcome are both deposited. That costs money, but so does having every lab rediscover the same abandoned path. Test whether taste transfers When it comes time to evaluate if our new AI system exhibits taste, the comparison should run across laboratories and fields. At selected decision points in a live research campaign, we should freeze the six fields: the evidence, the candidates, expected results, confidence, costs and the choice made. Experts then rank the options before the outcomes are known, and those outcomes are checked independently later. We could give models one of two diets - papers alone, or papers plus decision histories - and ask them to rank the next experiment on unfamiliar projects. Then, we score information gained per dollar and week, calibration, and how quickly weak branches are abandoned. If histories improve choices only inside the lab that produced them, they amount to useful organizational memory. If they improve choices on unfamiliar problems elsewhere, Alasdair’s group will have captured something science has never managed to write down: a transferable record of taste. Until that happens, a scientific search history is a promising record, not yet a training set.
Putting tiny backpacks on butterflies—for science
With the Project Monarch App, users can track their 3,000-mile-long migration.
We smell different as we age. Here's why.
An odor-producing molecule 2-nonenal is only part of the story.
KCK abruptly stops key health services. Advocates say it speaks to a bigger need
Local health advocates said they think area collaboration, increased funding could make a difference to health outcomes in Wyandotte.
Embracer tops quarterly profit expectations as PC, console business improves
Swedish gaming company Embracer posted first-quarter adjusted operating profit that more than doubled analysts' expectations on Thursday, driven by stronger earnings from its PC and console games business.
Stanford GSB Tops New AI Readiness Index; 42% of Business Schools Require No AI Coursework
A PR firm's new index scores 60 global B-schools on AI readiness and finds none teaches generative engine optimization.
Jimmy Traina drops surprising Sports Illustrated news amid new sports media venture
Jimmy Traina dropped some big Sports Illustrated news on Wednesday.
Building Science fellowships give UMaine students real-world experience engineering solutions for Maine companies
Under a microscope at TimberHP’s manufacturing plant in Madison, Maine, Brian Waterbury studied plant fibers used to make insulation for homes while learning how engineers solve problems. Waterbury, a University of Maine senior from Topsham, Maine, who is majoring in chemical engineering, works as a quality control and process engineer…
Astronomers discover the existence of a ‘black hole star’
The never-before-seen objects are gargantuan, immensely bright, and ancient.
Madison Square Garden Entertainment (MSGE) Reports Q4 Loss, Tops Revenue Estimates
MSG Entertainment (MSGE) delivered earnings and revenue surprises of +69.05% and +17.68%, respectively, for the quarter ended June 2026. Do the numbers hold clues to what lies ahead for the stock?
CBA Profit Tops Estimates as Home and Business Lending Grows
Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s full-year profit topped estimates as lending grew in its key businesses of mortgages and loans to companies.
Our galaxy's supermassive black hole actually doesn't devour everything
Cosmic dust and water is withstanding radiation near the Milky Way galaxy's black hole, Saggitarius A*.
300-year-old sturgeon are swimming around the Great Lakes
Some of these humble fish were alive during the Civil War.
Pittsburgh Pirates Insider Drops Concerning Paul Skenes Update
A longtime Pittsburgh Pirates insider has weighed in about what could be causing Paul Skenes' struggles.
Studio Maks tops science pavilion in Austria with undulating mirrored roof
Thousands of mirrors line the gently undulating ceilings of the VISTA Science Experience Centre in Austria, completed by Studio Maks.
Oblivion Remastered on Switch 2 Outshines Xbox Series S, as NVIDIA DLSS Becomes The System’s Secret Weapon Again
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered on Switch 2 tops Xbox Series S image quality via NVIDIA DLSS upscaling
Anthropic rolled out a fix that stops undetected AI-generated writing
Anthropic said new Claude models will embed an "imperceptible watermark" directly into AI-generated text.
Australian Business Confidence Drops on Middle East Uncertainty
Australian business confidence snapped three months of gains as uncertainty over the Middle East conflict and persistent energy price strength weighed on the outlook.
5 Laptops More Powerful Than The Xbox Series X
Some of the laptops that outperform an Xbox Series X include the MSI Thin 15, Acer Nitro V 16, Lenovo LOQ 15, Maingear Super 16, and Maingear Ultima 18.
Jackie the bald eagle dead at 14
Jackie the bald eagle died Monday, August 10. Her life was documented through wildlife cameras in California's Big Bear Valley.
Hims & Hers Health (NYSE:HIMS) Exceeds Q2 CY2026 Expectations But Stock Drops
Telehealth company Hims & Hers Health (NYSE:HIMS) reported revenue ahead of Wall Street’s expectations in Q2 CY2026, with sales up 38.2% year on year to $753.2 million. On top of that, next quarter’s revenue guidance ($890 million at the midpoint) was surprisingly good and 12.4% above what analysts were expecting. Its GAAP loss of $0.37 per share was significantly below analysts’ consensus estimates.
Are Madison's vintage shops Gen Z's new small-business boom?
These entrepreneurs in their 20s are selling old-school threads in physical stores, proving that online isn't the only way.
New lizard named after colorful ‘House of the Dragon’ character
It can’t really breathe fire—we think.
Farmer trusted AI after it gave good advice, then it helped wipe out 25 acres of his crops
The 67-year-old farmer was recommended by the AI to use high-efficiency flupyrimethalin and flusulfasulfaether to kill weeds and mix it with thiamethoxazine and methyl salt. As reported...
Big Gold Miners Agree On IPO. One Pops, One Sinks.
Barrick earnings fell short as oil prices pushed up costs.
Congressional Dems launch probe into efforts to deport U.S. military members
The Democrats said the apparent collaboration between DHS and the military to deport troops' families "raises both ethical and legal concerns"
Congressional Dems launch probe into efforts to deport U.S. military members
The Democrats said the apparent collaboration between DHS and the military to deport troops' families "raises both ethical and legal concerns"
Cynopsis 8/10/2026: The Media And Entertainment Industry Is Creating Jobs
Monday, August 10, 2026 Happy Monday, readers! Today’s newsletter includes: A Hollywood-Shaped Silver Lining In July’s Jobs Report So Much
Bo Bichette leads revived Mets offense with five-hit effort
Bichette, who owns a mediocre .685 OPS — certainly not what the Mets envisioned when signing him to a three-year contract worth $126 million — has waited much of the season for a day like Sunday.
Robert Carradine’s family accuses UCLA of wrongful death and elder abuse in lawsuit
Robert Carradine’s family has filed a lawsuit against UCLA alleging wrongful death and elder abuse, claiming several points of protocol were broken during his stay at the Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital.
The next year Call of Duty will introduce a new sub-series to replace Black Ops and Modern Warfare
Publisher Activision is officially preparing the shooter for release. Call of Duty Modern Warfare 4, which is scheduled to launch on October 23 of this year....
How hospital monopolies are driving up the cost of your health care
More than a million times a year, a U.S. surgeon slices open a knee, strips out worn cartilage, caps the leg bones with metal and drops in a plastic spacer to allow the new joint to glide. But while these knee-replacement procedures have become standard, the prices charged have not.Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting stories from The Washington Post. At Catawba Valley Medical Center in Hickory, North Carolina, for example, the cost of the procedure under
AMD FSR 4.1 costs RX 7800 XT up to 10% performance versus FSR 3.1
ComputerBase tested FSR 4.1 against FSR 3.1 on the RX 7800 XT and RX 7600. Performance drops by around 7-10%, depending on resolution.
These furry moths smell with their wings
Tobacco hawkmoths may use these tiny hairs to find a place to lay their eggs.
Driven Just 9K Miles, This 1977 BMW E21 Is About As Frozen In Time As It Gets
For more than 40 years, this E21-generation 3-Series remained under the stewardship of its original owner
“No, it’s what we call the business of basketball,” …
“No, it’s what we call the business of basketball,” …
Barbara Eden says Lucille Ball ‘appreciated’ her avoiding Desi Arnaz on ‘I Love Lucy’ (exclusive)
Barbara Eden tells EW about her memorable guest appearance on ‘I Love Lucy,’ and how she managed to get along with Lucille Ball.
"Honestly, before the start of the playoffs, our whole …
"Honestly, before the start of the playoffs, our whole …
MLB Player Props & Best Bets for Today, August 8
MLB player props and best bets for tonight's action, including Chase Burns, Jake Bennett, and Pete Crow-Armstrong.
Ice Age bird figurines discovered in German cave
The roughly 40,000-year-old figures show that humans were already watching bird behavior
Junkbin, A Way To Efficiently Reuse Your Old Electronics
We all have that bin in the corner of our shops — the one with all the circuit boards or broken electronics that we are totally gonna do something with. We might rationalize that they’r…
Norwegian soldiers training Ukraine's soldiers for 'Viking mentality'
Norwegian troops are bringing battlefield skills and a Viking-inspired warrior mentality to training Ukrainian soldiers on NATO soil.
NASA successfully gives Voyager 2 another year of life
Engineers employed a 'Big Bang' maneuver to keep the power flowing on the 49-year-old spacecraft.
Former Red Sox pitcher, 32, announces immediate retirement from baseball
The former top-100 prospect finished his career in Mexico after stops with the Dodgers and Rockies organizations in 2024.
In ancient Rome, tax fraud was punishable by death
Stone tablets recount a corruption case so widespread that it became a capital offense in 480 CE.
'Don't Try This at Home Day' will bring explosive science experiments to the Franklin Institute
The Aug. 15 event features a 500-ball liquid nitrogen blast, hydrogen balloon explosion, watermelon gravity drops and other live demonstrations.