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THE EA SPORTS FC™ 27 RATINGS ARE HERE!
Earned through every performance, Ratings in EA SPORTS FC™ 27 combine authentic match data with football expertise to reflect The World’s Game more accurately than ever.
Coming to XBOX Game Pass: Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy, Vapor World: Over the Mind, Blood Dungeon, and More
We have more games coming your way on day one (including one you may have seen in our XBOX Games Showcase this summer)! Go grab your controller or mouse and let’s get to the games.
From lab to layperson, UChicago students learn to make science land
Science communications minor teaches College students to ditch the jargon to bridge the gap between research and the real world
KCC Entertainment Design
New brand marks Adventure World Entertainment's move into spaces designed for competition and shared experiences
🚨 Official: Le Mans sign a 2018 World Cup winner!
The last dance?It’s official: Djibril Sidibé is joining Le Mans for two seasons!The 2018 World Cup winner signed with the newly promoted Ligue 1 side this Tuesday morning.After two seasons with Tou...
How Brookhaven National Laboratory’s CFO finances big science
Dr. Susan McKeon explains why the financial decisions behind some of the world's most ambitious scientific research requires a different type of CFO approach.
Finding her place in live sports: Caroline Chang ’26
On match days at SoFi Stadium, Caroline Chang ’26 sometimes woke at 3:30 a.m., boarded a shuttle at 5:30 so she could be on-site by 6. As game time approached, she moved throughout the stadium delivering camera sheets, player lineups, and other materials
FGI TRUST Adds Duke as Director of Business Development, FGI Tech
FGI Worldwide, a provider of working capital financing and trade credit insurance solutions, hired Jason Duke as director of business development, FGI Tech.
Nearly 1M Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge and Ram vehicles recalled over camera glitch
Stellantis is recalling nearly one million Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge and Ram vehicles worldwide over radio software that may disable rearview cameras.
Apple's Camera-Equipped AirPods Confirmed: See Them in Action
Apple is working on camera-equipped AirPods that appear to be nearly ready to launch, based on a video MacRumors found in the macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate. In a short demo, a man holds a book up so the camera in the AirPods can see the title. "With Visual Intelligence, your world becomes savable. See something you like? Just ask me to save it for later," says the voiceover text.
On World Humanitarian Day, INEW warns that aid and health workers are being killed by explosive weapons in populated areas
News and Press Release in English on World and 4 other countries about Protection and Human Rights and Safety and Security; published on 18 Aug 2026 by INEW
Fan-favorite Disneyland entertainment to return in 2027
Calling all dreamers! Disneyland has shared details about its 2027 entertainment lineup, including the return of several fan-favorite experiences. Here’s what guests can expect next year. The night…
Roundup: Louisiana International Terminal / Ethane demand / Robot rush
Gateway to growth: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has granted the federal permit for the Louisiana International Terminal, clearing the way for construction of a major new container port on the Lower Mississippi River. Backed by Port NOLA, Terminal Investment Limited and Ports America, LIT is designed to handle the world’s largest container ships […]
This compact Glorious mechanical keyboard is just $35
The GMMK 3 is a great entry point for the world of mechanical keyboards.
Next Generation of Planetary Scientists Learn Public Engagement Skills
FORCE is a world-class laboratory that uses high-pressure experimental equipment to recreate the extreme conditions found deep within Earth and other planetary bodies, enabling researchers to better understand how planets form, evolve, and behave under immense pressures.
Ford Motor Co. donates vehicles to help veterans access health care
DAV (Disabled American Veterans) has announced a generous $200,000 donation from Ford Motor Co. to help support free transportation to medical appointments for America’s ill and injured veterans. A special check presentation took place Aug. 1 at the 2026 DAV and Auxiliary National Convention in Orlando, Florida. The gift will fund the purchase of five new vehicles for the DAV Transportation Network, which operates a nationwide fleet through which volunteers provide disabled veterans with free transportation to and from Department of Veterans Affairs medical appointments. Ford Motor Co.’s support of America’s veterans began in 1922 when Henry Ford provided 50 Model Ts to help disabled World War I veterans attend the second DAV National Convention, held in San Francisco. “Ford Motor Co.’s generosity allows us to continue ensuring veterans can get reliable transportation to their medical appointments,” said DAV National Commander Coleman Nee. “We are grateful for their continued support that allows us to provide hundreds of thousands of rides each year.” Since 1987, Ford Motor Co. has donated 279 vehicles to DAV’s fleet. Last year, the DAV Transportation Network provided more than 230,000 rides to help veterans get to their medical appointments. Volunteer drivers covered over 9.6 million miles and invested more than 614,000 volunteer hours.
Fenix Entertainment, Maluma Sign Global Partnership For Colombian Star's Upcoming World Tour
Argentinian promoter Fenix Entertainment announced it has inked a global partnership with Maluma to lead the Latin music star’s development and strategy for
Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 – We Played This PvE Bug Hunt One Last Time Before Review and Found the Specialist Class to Be Where It's At
Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 seems like one of those lazy Sunday games, where you kill part of an afternoon playing a couple hours with friends. It gets Aliens and understands that forty miles of bad road Cameron envisioned. As a co-op game, it’s not going to change the world. Aliens already did that. But it’s a great excuse to play around in that world again, and I’m eager to see what else LV-558 has in store.
Save the Date for the 2026 World Championships Preview Show
Watch as experts break down all the hottest Worlds topics on Friday, August 21.
Save the Date for the 2026 World Championships Preview Show
Watch as experts break down all the hottest Worlds topics on Friday, August 21.
Trump family crypto business World Liberty gets preliminary approval to establish a bank
‘The Magicians Table’ brings immersive magic experience to Playhouse Square
The London sensation transforms Cibréo Privato into a cabaret-style world of close-up magic, live music and audience participation from Aug. 26-Oct. 18.
NIU: Where science, industry and education unite to tackle convective storm impacts
At NIU, an innovative research center is bringing scientists and industry together to turn severe weather science into real-world solutions that protect communities and shape the next generation of experts.
Marvel's Wolverine Is Another Victim Of The Internet's Endless Gaming Negativity
First Marvel's Spider-Man 2 was too open-world, now Marvel's Wolverine is too linear.
A first look at 'The Terminal List' Season 2 starring Chris Pratt, coming to Prime Video October 21
Based on author Jack Carr's novel 'True Believer,' this season takes James Reece across the world.
Maluma 2027-28 World Tour Part of Fénix Entertainment Global Deal
Maluma will go on a world tour in 2027 and 2028 after signing a new global partnership with Fénix Entertainment, Billboard can exclusively reveal.
Can science museums help us talk about mental health?
Across the world, science museums are beginning to join conversations and develop work about mental health.
Professional tools, real-world science: Bug Camp inspires future STEM leaders
Defense Health Agency-Public Health hosted its second annual Bug Camp, held from June 29 to July 2, at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. This science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, or STEM, program is supported by the Army STEM Education Consortium. The camp puts high-tech tools in the hands of local students from Maryland and Pennsylvania. By studying how U.S. military scientists defend against insect-borne diseases, these young researchers get a first-hand look at military public health.
New Applied AI major prepares students to lead in an AI-powered world
To prepare students for a future transformed by AI, William & Mary is launching a new major in Applied AI.
Michigan’s health care boom is reshaping its economy — and its skyline
For seven decades, the massive, neoclassical General Motors Building served as the headquarters of what at one time was the world’s largest industrial corporation.
Halo, Forza and World of Warcraft In-Game Rewards Coming to McDonald's, Celebrating Xbox 25th Anniversary
McDonald's is partnering with Xbox to offer in-game rewards for the console brand's six most recognizable gaming franchises, including Halo, Fallout, Forza and World of Warcraft.
A school for political education in Argentina – Offering hope for the future of democracy
Amid an increasingly polarized and divided world, Argentinian Jesuits envisioned an institute dedicated to training politicians inspired by Gospel values, intercultural understanding, and democracy.
How can I watch City v Bournemouth on TV?
Find out how you can watch City’s first Premier League clash with Bournemouth, wherever you are in the world.Last term saw City finish second while the Cherries came in sixth as both teams look to g...
Nashville's statement, Houston's surge & more from Matchday 20
By Charles BoehmThe days are growing shorter, and the kids are going back to school. The FIFA World Cup is in the rearview mirror, and so is Phase One of Leagues Cup.You might not have heard a starter...
Andrew Garfield finds wonder in everyday life in ‘The Magic Faraway Tree’
Andrew Garfield stars in The Magic Faraway Tree, a fantasy adventure based on Enid Blyton’s books, about a family discovering magical worlds after moving to the countryside.
Ayush Shetty, PV Sindhu in action at BWF World Championships, Hockey World Cup continues: Indian Sports LIVE, August 17
Here are all the updates from Indian sports on August 17, 2026.
Australia needs more people who think like scientists. Here’s what that means
Science equips us with the tools to reason, evaluate evidence, and make informed decisions in a complex, changing world.
2026 Babe Ruth World Series underway in Jamestown
This is the 21st time Jamestown has hosted a Babe Ruth World Series tournament.
Spain beat Ireland in five-goal thriller at World Cup
Ireland miss an opportunity to seize control of their World Cup future after losing 3-2 to Spain in a thrilling opening World Cup Pool C game in Wavre.
Newcastle at best when 'us against world'
Dan Burn has his sights set on leading a new-look Newcastle back into Europe as the club's captain.
Yankees send message to Tommy John’s family after pitcher’s death
The pitcher's legacy inspired tributes from around the baseball world
Fourteen foodborne parasites still drive 171 million illnesses worldwide, analysis finds
Recent Cyclospora outbreaks have renewed public attention to foodborne parasites, but they also highlight a broader reality: These diseases continue to affect millions of people around the world and remain ...
The world's largest electric plane takes flight
The 25,000-pound aircraft flew for 27 minutes.
National Geographic Science Photographer teaches Bay Area kids
Professional science photographer, Mark Unger shares the importance of kids learning photography ahead of World Photography Day, Aug. 19
Barcelona want Julián Álvarez to make his Atlético stance public
Barcelona are expecting Julián Álvarez to publicly declare his desire to leave Atlético Madrid now that the World Cup has concluded, according to SPORT. The report claims the Blaugrana have set Jul...
Age slower without dieting: this cultural habit stuns scientists worldwide - Futura-Sciences
Savoring Culture: A Surprising Health Ally Picture this: according to a British study involving more than 3,500 adults, a weekly dose of culture—be it through visiting museums, browsing in a library, humming along in a choir, or wielding a paintbrush—was linked to knocking one year off participants’ biological age, and...
Newcastle United v Strasbourg Live TV and global channel listings
Around the world, here are the channels you can watch Newcastle United v Strasbourg Live TV. The global TV listings are featured below for local (to you) coverage on Sunday (4pm (UK) kick-off).
Makhachev beats Machado Garry to break UFC win record
Islam Makhachev cements his status as the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world with a commanding victory over Ian Machado Garry.
Harrison Ford returning as Indiana Jones in new Disney project
Harrison Ford will return as Indiana Jones inside Disney World’s new Animal Kingdom ride based on the film series. The ride replaces Dinosaur, which closed ahead of a new Tropical Americas land.
Disneyland brings back classic entertainment for 2027
‘Remember… Dreams Come True,’ Magic Happens and the original ‘World of Color’ return next year.
Beloved Entertainment Returns to Disneyland Resort in 2027
Fan-favorite Disneyland entertainment returns in 2027, including Remember... Dreams Come True, World of Color, and Magic Happens.
Kingdom Hearts IV – extended D23 2026 ‘Coco’ trailer
Square Enix has released an extended version of the new Kingdom Hearts IV trailer that debuted alongside the game’s release window and Coco world reveal yesterday.
Bruin to Bruin: Internationally renowned health economist, global health reform leader and UCLA Associate of the Chancellor Dr. Felicia Marie Knaul
Listen to health economist and global health leader Dr. Felicia Marie Knaul sit down with Editorial Board member and Podcasts Editor Megan Vahdat to discuss her work advancing health equity, shaping health systems around the world and drawing on personal experience to drive meaningful change.
Logan Webb Shares True Feelings on Dodgers’ Tarik Skubal Trade
The Los Angeles Dodgers ticked off the baseball world with their trade for former Detroit Tigers starting pitcher Tarik Skubal. Los Angeles sent outfielder Zyhir Hope, right-handed pitcher River Ryan, and right-handed pitcher Brady Smith to the Tigers for Skubal.Nonetheless, while the San Francisco Giants aren’t in the playoff picture after being sellers at the […] The post Logan Webb Shares True Feelings on Dodgers’ Tarik Skubal Trade appeared first on HEAVY.
Freed American missionary ‘in good health’ after captivity in Niger
World Outreach Church Pastor Allen Jackson says freed missionary Kevin Rideout is a ‘bright voice for Christianity’ on ‘Saturday in America.’
7 Cars That Were Super Expensive In The '70s And Are Surprisingly Cheap Today
The Aston Martin Lagonda, Mercedes 450SEL, and Bentley T2 were once some of the most valuable cars in the world, and now almost anyone can afford them.
ENTERTAINMENT: ‘Ghost Army’ film documents World War II trickery
The MacArthur Museum screens “The Ghost Army,” a documentary about American soldiers, “many of whom would later have illustrious careers in art, design and fashion,” who tricked the Germans with rubber tanks, sound effects and carefully crafted illusions during World War II, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Sucker’s dilemma: The science of being scammed
In a world filled with scams, being wary makes perfect sense. But health, trust and decision-making can suffer when the fear of getting conned goes too far.
MRN BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT: Shandi's
What’s better than ice cream in August? Not much. MRN’s Crissie Caccamo talks to Shandi Long about the one year anniversary of her ice cream parlor “Shandi’s”. It’s located right on 6th Street … dangerously close to the Muddy River News world headquarters. Crissi and Shandi talk about running a small business and how to...
Best U.S. hospitals list includes 14 in Minnesota, led by Mayo
The U.S. News & World Report ranks hospitals in all 50 states annually, and more Minnesota facilities made the list this year.
In a world of wildfires, logging can improve forest health
Smoke from Spokane wildfires temporarily cleared Tuesday, giving way to a bluebird morning. Greg Mason, surrounded by luscious mountains near Twin Lakes, maneuvered a giant hydraulic clamp to the base of a white fir. Amid a symphony of grinding steel and a plume of kicked-up dust, Mason, who’d been working since 3 a.m., used this tank-like piece of heavy forestry equipment called a feller buncher to rip the large evergreen conifer out of the earth like a toothpick.
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.
Coe warns on interference in sport: Keep politicians on the bus but out of the driver's seat
World Athletics president Sebastian Coe has discussed topics including track and field’s ban on Russian athletes, private equity in sports and FIFA’s credibility crisis following a controversial overturned red card at the World Cup
The Aston Martin Valen is the latest V12 special from bespoke service, Q by...
The Aston Martin Valen is the latest V12 special from bespoke service, Q by Aston Martin The world’s most powerful front engined production car and the most powerful front-engined Aston Martin in the company’s 113-year history Aston Martin’s 5.2-litre twin-turbo V12 engine now delivering 850PS/1000Nm and a 0-60 mph in 3.0…
Aston Martin's Latest Special Supercar Is A V12 Villain
With 838 horsepower on tap, Aston Martin's Valen is the world's most powerful front-engine production car.
Arrest announced in vandalism of World War II Memorial
The vandalism comes weeks after President Donald Trump said the nearby Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was deliberately damaged
World War II Memorial in Washington vandalized with bubbles and graffiti, upsetting Trump
The memorial was vandalized Thursday, with bubbles filling a fountain and “Clean hands dirty $” written in red paint.
World War II Memorial in Washington vandalized with bubbles and graffiti
The vandalism comes weeks after President Donald Trump said the nearby Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was deliberately damaged
Is the NFL standing down on early media rights negotiations?
This originally appeared in Friday’s edition of The A Block, Awful Announcing’s daily newsletter with the latest sports media news, commentary, and analysis. Sign up here and be the first to know everything going on in the sports media world. It was another active week on the NFL media rights front as the industry digested…
World Humanitarian Day 2026: honouring fallen humanitarians and calling for greater protection of health care
As we mark World Humanitarian Day on 19 August, WHO pays tribute to humanitarian and health workers who put their duty of care above their own safety and, too often, their own lives as they serve communities affected by conflict and crises.World Humanitarian Day was designated by the UN General Assembly in 2008 to commemorate the 2003 bombing of the UN headquarters in Baghdad and honour aid workers worldwide.
Home-Field Advantage: Why the World’s Biggest Sporting Events Are Coming to the US
The United States is on a streak landing more international events than ever. What’s driving the good fortune for sports fans living in the country?
‘Murakami saw his book come alive!’: the Japanese company bringing the author’s science fiction masterpiece to the stage
A play based on the writer’s dreamlike novel Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is touring the world, riding a wave of interest in Japanese culture. Its creators talk about how they adapted the famously cryptic tale
World’s first superconducting quantum heat engine could help unlock massive quantum computers
A tiny superconducting engine has successfully converted heat near absolute zero into useful work, demonstrating the first cyclic quantum heat engine of its kind. Future versions could operate autonomously inside quantum computers, potentially eliminating huge numbers of costly, noise-producing microwave cables.
How Aka hunters and Fulani chiefs helped health workers locate CAR’s missed-out children
In the southeast of the Central African Republic, a special cadre of experts filled in the blanks on the healthcare map.
Attacks on healthcare in conflict zones averaging more than four a day in 2026, World Health Organization says
Attacks on healthcare facilities, workers and patients in conflict zones including Ukraine and Gaza have continued to rise in 2026, reaching an average of more than four per day, the World Health Organization said on Friday.
Glenn Fogel runs the world’s largest online travel business. He still personally reads customer complaints because ‘you gotta get that sh*t right’
The travel industry, like every sector, is experimenting with the best use cases for AI. Fogel is working towards a world where tourism becomes an intelligence system in its own right
Glenn Fogel runs the world’s largest online travel business. He still personally reads customer complaints because ‘you gotta get that sh*t right’
The travel industry, like every sector, is experimenting with the best use cases for AI. Fogel is working towards a world where tourism becomes an intelligence system in its own right
The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics
Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in the world of politics. The fruits of these labors are hundreds of cartoons that entertain and enrage readers of all political stripes. Here's an offering of the best of this week's crop, picked fresh off the Toonosphere. Edited by Matt Wuerker.
Apple sends fresh wave of mercenary spyware warnings worldwide
Apple has notified users in 110 countries who it suspects may have been targeted by spyware attacks. Here are the details.
Neptune’s tiny moons may be the wreckage of shattered ancient worlds
JWST has uncovered surprising clues that Neptune’s strange inner moons may be the wreckage of an ancient cosmic catastrophe. Researchers detected clay-like minerals on Larissa, Galatea, and Neptune’s rings that form in the presence of liquid water—yet the moons themselves show no obvious water ice. The material likely came from deep inside much larger icy moons that were shattered when Triton was captured by Neptune, destroying much of the planet’s original satellite system.
The Thrilla at Unadilla is Back!
Thousands of people will be coming to Unadilla for some of the best motocross racing in the world.
Trump admin investigating graffiti and soap bubbles at World War II Memorial
The Interior Department is investigating vandalism at the World War II Memorial in Washington, DC, after neon graffiti was painted on the Atlantic Pavilion and the usually clear fountains overflowed with soapy bubbles.
Someone is already running One UI 9.5 on a Galaxy S26
As Galaxy users around the world wait for Samsung to bring One UI 9 (Android 17) to their devices, someone has managed to get hold of a One UI 9.5 firmware for
M&M’s Makes NASCAR Return With Epic Kyle Busch Bristol Tribute
Joe Gibbs Racing made a surprise announcement on Thursday that will stun the sports world.M&M’s will make a shocking return to NASCAR racing after leaving the sport at the end of the 2022 season. The late Kyle Busch’s famed M&M’s bright yellow paint scheme will be back on track with Ty Gibbs, who just won […] The post M&M’s Makes NASCAR Return With Epic Kyle Busch Bristol Tribute appeared first on HEAVY.
U.S. Chamber endorses LePage for Congress in Maine
At Sheridan Construction in Fairfield, U.S. Chamber representative Stephen McAllister said the group — the largest business organization in the world — was impressed by LePage’s business background and work to reform the permitting process.
Israel’s Leaders Find Allies Among the Global Far Right
As Israel becomes an increasingly polarizing factor in elections around the world, it is finding allies among the global far right.
'GMA's Ginger Zee Opens Up About Surprise Health Struggle
The meteorologist took fans inside her treatment process.
Q3 FY26: Largest Quarterly Audience in Global Sports Media History
In Q3 FY26, during the World Cup, ESPN Digital & Social had its best worldwide quarter of all time, pulling in 598 million global users per month,
NVIDIA GeForce NOW for Linux Officially Arrives
NVIDIA's efforts to enhance gaming on Linux operating systems are increasing. The company announced today that the official, native port of the GeForce NOW cloud gaming service client app is out of beta and now available for gamers worldwide. With months of community feedback integrated into the...
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.
Still Not Sold on Dawnwalker? Dev Presents 'Everything You Need to Know' About the Open World RPG
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A top marathoner needs science to win big. He comes to Wake Forest for testing.
The fifth-fastest marathoner in the world wants to break a record this year, so her turned to Wake Forest researchers for help.
Sporting KC co-founder Cliff Illig to headline KC Sports Impact Panel at KU exhibition closing event
The University of Kansas School of Architecture & Design’s “Shaping the Future of Football” exhibition concludes Aug. 21 at Keystone CoLAB in Kansas City with the KC Sports Impact Panel. Featured speaker Cliff Illig, principal owner and co-founder of Sporting Kansas City, will discuss Kansas City’s 2026 FIFA World Cup opportunity, the fan experience, and the future of sports, entertainment and economic growth in the region.
Only 12% of family businesses stay in the family by the third generation. A Goldman Sachs chairman says optimism is the reason
François-Xavier de Mallmann steers Goldman's relationships with many of the world's largest family-controlled enterprises.
Deep learning shines at predicting incidental lung nodules' severity
Experts believe AI's performance on a diverse dataset gives it an edge over other prediction models in real world settings.
Some spikes, but hospitals not overwhelmed by World Cup-related visits
State officials reported a "noticeable" jump in alcohol-related visits around games that landed on weekends.