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Baptist Health Lexington shares photos of NICU babies in Halloween costumes
Baptist Health said the costumes brought a touch of holiday magic to the NICU.
Baptist Health Lexington shares photos of NICU babies in Halloween costumes
Baptist Health Lexington shared some photos of babies in the neonatal intensive care unit wearing costumes to celebrate the Halloween season.
Why Main Line Health stopped taking cash and checks
Taking cash is costly, and the transition to cashless payments happened without a hitch on Oct. 4, a Main Line official said.
North Country businesses form child care coalition
Business leaders and child care advocates in the Adirondacks have created a coalition to bolster child care in Warren, Franklin, Clinton, Essex and Hamilton counties.
MDOT hosts conference for small and disadvantaged businesses
MDOT hosts conference with small and disadvantaged businesses
How a Cleveland firm became a leading preservationist of historic North Carolina real estate
Cleveland-based GBX Group has its second-highest concentration of assets in Asheville, N.C.
DIA to open revamped galleries after 5-year overhaul
The Detroit Institute of Arts will open its reimagined modern and contemporary art galleries in mid-November, marking the first comprehensive reinstallation of both collections in nearly 20 years.
Factory robot maker opens Madison Heights HQ to get closer to Detroit automakers
Ati Robotics, a maker of autonomous robotic haulers, has opened a 15,000-square-foot U.S. headquarters in Madison Heights, betting that proximity to Detroit’s automakers and suppliers will position it as a frontrunner in the future of factory innovation.
Samsung proves it’s king of the folding phones in shady Apple diss
Their smartphone brand beef rages on.
700 GB in 15 seconds: Smart system helps scientists keep pace with atom-scale microscope
Researchers run an advanced electron microscope in plain English, from tomography to ptychography, with data processed in seconds.
Nova-Tech Animal Health IV Fluids named 2026 Coolest Thing Made in Nebraska
Grand Island company creates Animal Health IV Fluids, which won 2026 Coolest Thing Made in Nebraska.
Customers experience chemical burns from margaritas at NC Chili’s, health officials say
The Foothills Health District (FHD) reports it is investigating a chemical exposure at Chili’s Grill & Bar in Forest City that caused several people to experience chemical burns.
Kenna Wollard provides health update
The All-American outside hitter announced the reason she’s not been on the court this year.
Free health fair in Monroe offers screenings, flu shots and access to care
Free health fair in Monroe offers screenings, flu shots and access to care
Free health fair in Monroe offers screenings, flu shots and access to care
Free health fair in Monroe offers screenings, flu shots and access to care
Free health fair in Monroe offers screenings, flu shots and access to care
Free health fair in Monroe offers screenings, flu shots and access to care
Hoyt Helmer named 15 Sports High School Athlete of the Week
It’s Thursday, which means it’s time to highlight this week’s 15 Sports High School Athlete of the Week.
Seventh graders explore science careers at Lake Charles Chem Expo
Thousands of seventh graders explored science and industry career paths at the annual Chem Expo at the Lake Charles Event Center.
Youth sports coach sentenced for sexually assaulting 12-year-old girl he coached
A youth sports coach has been sentenced to 26 years in prison for sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl he coached.
Youth sports coach sentenced for sexually assaulting 12-year-old girl he coached
A youth sports coach has been sentenced to 26 years in prison for sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl he coached.
Youth sports coach sentenced for sexually assaulting 12-year-old girl he coached
A youth sports coach has been sentenced to 26 years in prison for sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl he coached.
Youth sports coach sentenced for sexually assaulting 12-year-old girl he coached
A youth sports coach has been sentenced to 26 years in prison for sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl he coached.
Youth sports coach sentenced for sexually assaulting 12-year-old girl he coached
A youth sports coach has been sentenced to 26 years in prison for sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl he coached.
The health effects of time change as push for permanent standard time continues
Research shows permanent standard time would decrease the rate of obesity and stroke.
21ALIVE SPORTS DIGITAL EXCLUSIVE: Colts trade star veterans, Fort Wayne FC misses playoffs
Learn more about all the big sports news from the Colts trading away Quenton Nelson and DeForest Buckner to Fort Wayne FC just missing the playoffs.
A computer scientist breaks through a limit that stood since 1996
A computer scientist has achieved a breakthrough in a nearly 25-year-old problem involving how computers calculate distances across enormous networks. The new algorithm delivers more reliable estimates for closely connected points without sacrificing speed, overcoming a longstanding limitation of earlier methods. Its secret lies in a smarter way of sampling network connections at multiple scales.
Political analyst weighs in on Secretary of State Ohio governor races
Election Day is only five days away, and the race many people are talking about is the Indiana Secretary of State race.
MDOT hosts conference for small and disadvantaged businesses
The conference brings together small business owners, contractors and transportation industry leaders from the U.P. and northern Wisconsin.
Ex-Metro President lands new top political job
Lynn Peterson, a longtime elected official, will serve as chief of staff to the city’s top bureaucrat.
Can AI save global health or will it deepen inequities?
Can artificial intelligence compensate for billions of dollars in disappearing global health funding? Learn what journalists should ask.
HHS Secretary RFJ Jr. announces maternal health investments at Des Moines stop
HHS Secretary RFJ Jr. announces maternal health investments at Des Moines stop
2026 midterms set new record for political ad spending
With less than a week until Election Day, midterm political ad spending and ad reservations have topped a record $11.21 billion.
Aggie Foundation helping First District Health Unit expand healthcare services
A group of friends that came together 14 years ago are still working together to make communities better.
John A. Logan College STEM Day gives high school students hands-on lesson in science, engineering
More than 160 area high school students took part in STEM Day at John A. Logan College in Carterville, putting their engineering skills to the test by launching homemade gliders carrying eggs from a 20-foot ramp.
Augusta Health Foundation sells dinners for two to support mobile medical unit
Augusta Health Foundation is raising money for its Mobile Medical Unit, which brings care to underserved communities across the Shenandoah Valley, through a “Dinner to Go” fundraiser.
Greenville police, local businesses prepare for busy Halloween weekend downtown
With Halloween only a couple of days away, law enforcement and business owners are preparing for the crowds ahead.
Polymer Alliance Zone receiving nearly $200K from Rural Business Development Grant
The West Virginia Polymer Alliance Zone Inc. (PAZ) is one of the six recipients sharing $554,000 in Rural Business Development Grants.
Two measles cases confirmed in Hillsdale County; health officials urge vaccination checks
The Hillsdale Health Department is hosting a walk-in vaccination clinic on Friday
HOMETOWN ENTERTAINMENT: Halloween weekend events include Taste-A-Long movie, masquerade, trunk or treat
Hocus Pocus Taste-A-Long, a masquerade murder mystery and Salem Pumpkinfest are planned Friday
Palmetto Sports Daily: Can the Panthers bounce back on Thursday Night Football?
PSD previews the Panthers’ big Thursday night matchup at Green Bay and talks more about what to expect from the Gamecocks and Tigers this weekend.
A Blackburn governor win could trigger a domino effect in Tennessee politics. UT expert breaks down possibilities
Republican nominee Marsha Blackburn’s race for governor means her U.S. Senate seat may need filling; a University of Tennessee expert outlines what could happen if she wins.
Staten Island families are about to get a spectacular new gathering place with ice skating, igloos and holida
“We’re trying to be creative and bring different forms of family-friendly entertainment to Staten Island."
Healthgrades Names UMC Health System a 2027 Leader in Specialty Care
UMC Health System announced today that it has earned top honors for clinical quality from Healthgrades.
Legendary stage, screen and TV actor Patrick Stewart dies
He's probably best known as Professor Charles Xavier and Captain Jean-Luc Picard from the “X-Men” and “Star Trek: The Next Generation” series and films.
New Jersey buyer bets on Cleveland with $3.2 million deal for industrial site near downtown
The site was sold by its longtime owner, Weston, to a group that say it hopes the deal is only its first in Northeast Ohio, where it's looking to buy more.
‘Nobody’s business’: Apparent dumping complaint source won’t say why Constantino paid her $28K
Questions surround the credibility of a complaint at the heart of the Constantino-Gendebien congressional campaign.
OPB Politics Now: A handful of elections could determine Oregon Democrats’ supermajority
Voters on the coast, in Southern Oregon and in the Columbia River Gorge could determine how much power Democrats will hold in Salem.
Georgia’s Connor Tomlinson goes beyond ‘Love on the Spectrum’ with new girlfriend
Breakout star, and Cumming resident, Connor Tomlinson has left "Love on the Spectrum." But he has a new podcast, "What the Fact," and found love again, this time "naturally."
Awards handed out during business appreciation lunch
Winners are voted on by members of the Hazard-Perry County Chamber of Commerce.
TV5, Great Lakes Sports & Entertainment Network to air Pistons-Nets game Friday
The Detroit Pistons will play the Brooklyn Nets on Friday, and there are a couple of ways to watch.
Interview: El Centro launches keychain fundraiser tied to local business discounts
The keychains double as a ticket to discounts at local businesses.
Springfield-Greene County Health Department reports suspected avian flu cases in southeast Greene County waterfowl
The Springfield-Greene County Health Department is issuing notice of suspected cases of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in waterfowl in and around southeast Greene County.
Anderson County business warning others of circulating counterfeit money
An Upsate business is warning others about counterfeit money circulating in the area.
Vista Maria launches housing for women and children after exiting girls’ residential care
The Dearborn Heights campus will offer transitional housing for women veterans and their children, the first of several residential programs for women.
New smartphone patch accurately measures heart health without electronics
The patch is the first of its kind in the world and can assess a patient’s heart condition when combined with an ordinary smartphone.
Westbrook Health Services on lockdown after threats made
Westbrook Health Services facilities is currently on lockdown due to an unspecified threat until further notice.
UI Health union threatens to strike over stalled contract talks
Two hundred advanced practice providers say they’ll strike if university management won’t come to the bargaining table.
HOMETOWN HEALTH: Doctor explains how ‘Psoriasiblings’ develop with psoriasis
Doctors say the disease goes deeper than the skin.
Oglala Lakota College approved for environmental science master’s degree
The Higher Learning Commission approved Oglala Lakota College’s 36-credit Master of Science in Environmental Science, expanding tribal graduate education.
Highland Park survivors join Illinois leaders in Supreme Court fight over assault weapons
This week was the deadline for filing in support of Cook County, whose ordinance barring the weapons is before the court in a case that will be argued Dec. 2.
Former NYC mayor tours new Boston museum wing he helped fund with $155M gift
The new 10,000-square-foot space offers immersive exhibits, live performances and views overlooking the Charles River.
Evolv almost stumbled into what’s now a booming college business
Evolv's frictionless security screening tech is finding a new market in college sports, with Northwestern
Political posts on social media can lead to legal trouble, A-State professor says
Posting about politics on social media can get people in trouble, even if they are sharing an opinion, according to an Arkansas State University political scientist.
Owens Community College selects new Dean of the School of Nursing and Health Professions
Farias started at the college on Monday, October 26.
Health officials issue alert after 41 salmonella cases reported in West Virginia
West Virginia health officials have issued a public health alert while investigating an outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium, with 41 cases reported since early September.
Health officials issue alert after 41 salmonella cases reported in West Virginia
West Virginia health officials have issued a public health alert while investigating an outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium, with 41 cases reported since early September.
Scientists Discovered Shape-Shifting DNA That Birthed Some of the Smartest Creatures in the World
Over evolutionary time, segments of cephalopod DNA were rearranged over and over into something highly adaptable and highly intelligent.
Scientists Discovered Shape-Shifting DNA That Birthed Some of the Smartest Creatures in the World
Over evolutionary time, segments of cephalopod DNA were rearranged over and over into something highly adaptable and highly intelligent.
Man arrested after allegedly stealing from local business, resisting deputies
On Tuesday, Zachary Young, 30, was arrested and charged with breaking and entering, obstructing, fleeing, and trespassing.
McLean County health officials warn of hidden lead exposure risks in household items
While lead-based paint and contaminated water are commonly associated with lead exposure, health officials say some household products can also pose risks.
Free career workshops to cover interviews, health care jobs
Job seekers looking to sharpen their skills or try a new field will have two chances to get help next month.
City’s first nightlife coordinator, a Syracuse newbie, shares thoughts on role
Dre'chir Whitfield says being new to the area gives her a 'blank slate.'
Inside Business Matters: A CNY chain is one of the nation’s biggest employee-owned firms
Every Thursday, the Business Matters newsletter gathers Syracuse.com’s most insightful, noteworthy business journalism for readers.
Oura, UC San Diego Health collaborate to study GLP-1 outcomes using continuous smart ring data
Oura is pushing further into clinical healthcare research with its first clinical trial to study the link between smart ring data and obesity treatment outcomes. | Oura is pushing further into clinical healthcare research with its first clinical trial to study the link between smart ring data and obesity treatment outcomes.
Exclusive: Revenue recovery startup Midstream Health raises $20M
The company's service helps hospitals recover earned revenue.
Michelin-recognized Sifr is opening a cafe in River North
Sifr Café, set to open Nov. 11, will be located inside the Middle Eastern restaurant.
Greg Hinz: The Bears stadium deal is suddenly looking real. Here’s why.
The Chicago Bears appear closer than ever to a stadium deal in Illinois. Greg Hinz explains why Pat Ryan, Roger Goodell and JB Pritzker are key.
MORNING BUSINESS REPORT: Apple unveils first touchscreen laptop
Cait and Roger have your Thursday Morning Business Report.
For 112 years, a Central NY dairy farm family made milk and memories. Now they can sleep in
Trump administration kills science ed program named for Lou Stokes; Rep. Shontel Brown appeals
U.S. Rep. Shontel Brown wants the Justice Department to provide the evidence it used to support canceling several National Science Foundation programs including one named after former Rep. Louis Stokes of Cleveland
Arts and entertainment events happening October 29th - November 1st across the Mid-Ohio Valley
Arts and entertainment events happening October 29th - November 1st across the Mid-Ohio Valley
Today’s horoscope: Taurus - Avoid costly entertainment (Oct. 29, 2026)
Celebrities born on this day: Ben Foster, 46; Gabrielle Union, 54; Winona Ryder, 55; Richard Dreyfuss, 79.
How hospitals are reworking care for sicker patients
Hospitals are treating sicker patients, spurring health systems to expand capacity, standardize care and cut costs.
A golden age of science is coming
It’s almost hard to remember, but just a few years ago, a lot of very smart people thought that science was in terminal decline. Respected researchers were writing papers with titles like “Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?”, “Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time”, and “Slowed canonical progress in large fields of science”. In 1996, science writer John Horgan even published a book called The End Of Science: Facing The Limits Of Knowledge In The Twilight Of The Scientific Age. The fundamental idea was that the Universe only has so many insights to discover, and that we’ve picked the low-hanging fruit. It was the idea that Joseph-Louis Lagrange expressed when he said that “we cannot find more than once a system of the world to establish.” As the big ideas and the simple ideas get mined out, we’re forced to throw ever more brains at the mysteries of nature just to keep scientific progress going at a fraction of its old pace: It looked like science was hitting a wall. Then along came AI. It’s far too early to tell how much AI will eventually speed up the growth of total factor productivity. But already we can see signs of a speedup in science. Anthropic Founder Jack Clark assembled some of the hopeful data points in a recent lecture: [ Dror Poleg@drorpoleg "If you pick different parts of science, you see the same pattern show up: Progress is accelerating, and it has started to accelerate in the last two years." Jack Clark @jackclarkSF I’m speaking at the IMF in an hour about the singularity and why I believe it has begun and the choices we'll need to make. Watch live here: https://t.co/Hj9HzcXx5h 6:08 PM · Oct 18, 2026 · 21.2K Views 2 Replies · 10 Reposts · 123 Likes ](https://x.com/drorpoleg/status/2111882070376980529) Anthropic is accelerating its investment into drug discovery, and is already announcing some impressive preliminary results: [ BioTender@Junioryu136689 BREAKING: Anthropic unveils early results from six Claude-powered drug development collaborations. • 70% shorter CAR-T signaling domain • ~35,000 antibody designs • >10× tighter antibody binding • 89% less batch-record review time Still largely preclinical. Anthropic @AnthropicAI Over the past few months, Anthropic scientists have engaged in deep research partnerships with six organizations developing new medicines. We've also begun drug discovery efforts of our own. In doing so, we’ve learned much more about how Claude can support the many stages of 9:43 PM · Oct 27, 2026 · 11.2K Views 3 Replies · 24 Reposts · 205 Likes ](https://x.com/Junioryu136689/status/2115197821150495150) Claude also appears to be enabling rapid progress toward a treatment for food allergies. OpenAI, meanwhile, announced a possible breakthrough treatment for neurodegenerative disease. Meanwhile, Google Cloud Chief Scientist Pushmeet Kohli has a list of recent scientific advances that have been enabled by its new Gemini model, including breakthroughs in nuclear fusion reactor design, rare disease research, and quantum computing: [ Pushmeet Kohli@pushmeet Gemini 4 Argon is a step change in model performance. In recent weeks, it has had a transformative impact on the Science projects in our team at @GoogleDeepMind and our external collaborators, and helped make a number of remarkable advances across scientific disciplines. 🧵👇 4:47 PM · Oct 13, 2026 · 36.5K Views 8 Replies · 41 Reposts · 497 Likes ](https://x.com/pushmeet/status/2110049807385702623) But as cool as these stories sound, they’re just very minor, preliminary efforts. There are a number of reasons to think that AI is going to propel us into a golden age of scientific discovery. That age might not last forever — AI might still run into diminishing returns eventually. But the next few decades are probably going to be an absolutely amazing time for human science. The number of “effective researchers” is no longer limited The most important input into science is scientists themselves. Until this year, that meant human brains — talented, highly trained human brains. The number of trained human brains could be increased by sending more people to grad school, but only to a point — the smartest people tend to be sent into the hardest research fields first, and if you 10x the number of researchers, the average quality will go down. This constraint was already starting to bite, as Ekerdt and Wu argued in 2024: We argue that a substantial portion of the downward historical trend in U.S. research productivity is a composition effect resulting from self-selection in researcher ability and the dramatic expansion of the research sector…[W]e find that this composition effect has lowered average researcher ability by between 37% and 53%[.] And of course, low fertility was making the problem worse, because fewer children meant fewer people who were able to become future scientists. AI just blows up this constraint completely. If an AI agent can function as an autonomous researcher, there’s no constraint on the number of researchers in the world — you can just build more of them, by building more computer chips and data centers that enable the running of more AI agents. Whether or not massive hordes of agents can collaborate to solve individual problems much faster, increasing the number of agents allows them to tackle many different research questions in parallel. What’s more, these AI “researchers” can be trained incredibly quickly compared to human beings. A human scientist takes decades to train, and more years to reach the frontier of their research field by diligent reading and conversation. This is the “burden of knowledge”, and it’s commonly believed to be one reason ideas have been getting harder to find — by the time human scientists can get up to speed, they’re often so old that their ideas are no longer novel. AI just annihilates this constraint — it can assimilate the entire literature and reach the frontier of research extremely quickly, and it can also tell human scientists where the frontier lies without forcing them to discover that for themselves. It can also pivot to new research directions more easily than humans can. And there’s also a self-reinforcing economic cycle here. Because scientific advances enable higher GDP, they enable more resources to be invested into the creation of yet more electronic “scientists”. Now that doesn’t mean the amount of scientific research goes to infinity — there may still be some essential bottleneck task that human researchers are still needed to perform. There are some indications that AI’s progress on open-ended conceptual research tasks is slower than in other dimensions, and it may be that humans are still needed to provide some of this long-term conceptual thinking. I’d bet against this being true for much longer, but it might be true for a long time. Even in this most “pessimistic” case, though, the amount of effective capital that scientists can use to leverage their work just went up by a lot. AI eliminates the theory bottleneck Science proceeds by an iterative process of theory and experiment. The theory part of that cycle is typically short, but non-trivial — it took a couple of years after the blackbody radiation spectrum was observed for Max Planck to come up with the quantum hypothesis to explain it, and decades longer before quantum theory as we now know it was created. It took about a year for Watson and Crick to figure out the shape of DNA after the requisite data was gathered. AI will basically eliminate the theory bottleneck entirely — or at least shorten the turnaround time between experiment and theory by an order of magnitude. AI is an absolute beast at math. Recently, an OpenAI model solved some of the most important open problems in computer science, math, and theoretical physics, and no one even batted an eyebrow because that sort of triumph is becoming increasingly commonplace. One of those solutions was a proof that the Standard Model of Particle Physics could be mathematically well-defined — a problem that human theorists had so far been unable to tackle. Not all research relies equally on theory, but understanding novel experimental results almost always involves some important component of either mathematical or spatial reasoning. That part of the task has now been made much, much faster. And on top of that, science is now open to a greater number of humans who aren’t naturally good at theorizing. AI can read the whole literature Much of the work of human scientists involves reading and understanding endless amounts of papers and going to endless conferences and seminars. The purpose of that work is to understand the existing scientific literature. Understanding the literature allows scientists to do the following things: Come up with new ideas for hypotheses to test Avoid doing research that someone else has already done Synthesize approaches from different areas or fields AI can reduce this effort to almost zero. Consider this excerpt from OpenAI’s blog post about their new research into neurodegenerative disease: The team divided the analysis among thousands of AI agents powered by GPT‑Rosalind, an approach we call distributed biological reasoning. The agents examined a whole-brain CRISPR atlas…a dataset showing how gene disruptions affect different types of cells across the mouse brain. Each agent investigated a gene disruption, analyzed cellular responses, searched scientific literature, and proposed explanations for the results. Their reports were combined into a reasoning atlas linking genes, cellular effects, relevant publications, and possible biological mechanisms. The research team estimated that comparable human analysis and literature review, conducted one perturbation at a time, would take months to a year. The agents reproduced findings from human analyses while uncovering additional leads. Their assessments of novelty and scientific value also aligned with judgments from blinded human experts. These findings help prioritize further experiments needed to test the proposed biological mechanisms. Some of these insights point to new leads for understanding brain disease. [emphasis mine] This is one case in which parallel work by a large number of agents really does make a huge difference: [ Haider.@haider1 this is actually insane openai deployed thousands of GPT-Rosalind agents to analyze millions of mouse brain cells in 32 minutes, work that could take human researchers months to a year also the agents uncovered new leads for brain diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's OpenAI @OpenAI GPT-Rosalind surfaced a new lead for drug discovery: could restoring cholesterol transport protect neurons from degeneration? DCTN1 is a gene linked to Perry syndrome, a rare neurodegenerative disorder. In mouse-brain data, disrupting it increased expression of genes involved in 2:41 PM · Oct 21, 2026 · 51.5K Views 26 Replies · 95 Reposts · 1.26K Likes ](https://x.com/haider1/status/2112917197903540516) Not only does instantaneous literature review vastly speed up the research process, but it allows AI to make novel conceptual leaps from combining approaches from wildly different fields of research. AI regularly does this in math research, combining results, approaches, and theorems from far-flung places that no human mathematician would have thought to combine. It can do it in science, too. Much of scientific innovation, historically, has been “recombinant” innovation — scientists applying insights from one field to another. With AI, essentially all research is now cross-disciplinary — AI can read not just the literature on a particular subject, but the literature on a million other subjects that might have produced useful techniques or insights for the problem at hand. Superscience So far, all of the factors I’ve listed are ways that AI can speed up science as it’s already done. I’ve basically described how AI can send gigantic hordes of superhumanly fast, superhumanly well-read, superhumanly mathematically gifted researchers to re-accelerate scientific discovery. But it’s also possible that AI will enable types of discovery — and ways of understanding the natural world — that no network of humans, no matter how large or how brilliant it was or how long it had to work, would ever be able to discover. In a post back in July, I wrote about how that might work: What if there are lots of…aspects of the Universe that [are] too complex to understand in terms of simple laws, but not so complex that they just dissolve into unknowable chaos? It’s possible that we can reliably control these complex phenomena with AI, even if we never reduce them to the kind of principles that we can teach a grad student in a textbook… Another way of saying this is that there may be laws of the universe that humans can’t understand but AI can. I call these “cloud laws” — causal regularities that can be exploited by technology, but which are too diffuse and complex for an individual human being to either intuit or communicate… Perhaps social sciences like economics, sociology, and political science obey similarly complex regularities, and AI can help us find them. Perhaps there are physical processes — plasma, or topological materials, or aerial turbulence, etc. — that obey cloud laws instead of chaos?… [H]uman collaboration is bottlenecked — it’s limited by our ability to intuit patterns at an individual level, and to communicate these patterns from one individual to another. AI, being a computer, just doesn’t have this sort of limitation; it can work with vast, diffuse patterns without having to break them into pieces or simplify them in order to compress them into the tiny pipelines of person-to-person explanation… If much of the Universe turns out to be ruled by cloud laws, we could be on the precipice of a scientific renaissance. In order to discover cloud laws, AI will need huge amounts of data about the natural world. AI figured out human speech by assimilating essentially all of the text humans have ever written. If it’s going to figure out hidden patterns in biology, neuroscience, materials science, etc., it’s going to need similarly massive amounts of data from physical instruments. That data will be far, far more than humans — individually or collectively — would be able to parse, label, characterize, or model. But AI was built to do this. If scientists simply build huge arrays of sensors to measure complex phenomena like the brain, the cell, the economy, etc., they may be able to feed this flood of data to AI directly and bypass human cognitive intermediation entirely. AI would then learn about the world directly, and it might learn things that humans never could. This “superscience”, if you want to call it that, would actually go beyond the kind of science humans have done heretofore. Many of the technologies it yielded would be beyond human comprehension — indistinguishable from magic. But to the AIs, they would make perfect scientific sense. In any case, it seems clear that the scientific slowdown that threatened human progress will now be delayed — at least for a while. Unless humans have somehow found most of the actual exploitable regularities in our Universe, we’re about to enter a new golden age of science. Subscribe Share
Beachwood project will add nearly 200 apartments, dozens of them luxury units
The planned development includes more than 100 luxury units that are modeled after the Raye in Shaker Heights, while a new building will go up to house another 90+ units, the project's developer said.
Change or continuity? Benson and James battle down stretch run for governor’s office
The successor to term-limited Gov. Gretchen Whitmer could chart a new course on education, economic development and a range of other issues, though much will depend on which party controls the Legislature.
New rides, food, entertainment: Coastal Carolina Fair returns for 69th year
The gates are opening Thursday at the Ladson Fairgrounds for the Coastal Carolina Fair that has been bringing the community together for 69 years.
5 ways parents can help kids with winter health anxiety or OCD
In the Northwest, winter can mean rainy afternoons around Puget Sound, snow farther inland, and more time together indoors.
Beloved rock singer taking rest of 2026 off due to health: ‘Less than ideal’
He shared the news on social media.
Business owner, strangers clean out struggling widower’s home for free: ‘I wanted to help’
A 22-year-old helped a widower in a tough spot with free services.
Business owner, strangers clean out struggling widower’s home for free: ‘I wanted to help’
A 22-year-old helped a widower in a tough spot with free services.
Business owner, strangers clean out struggling widower’s home for free: ‘I wanted to help’
A 22-year-old helped a widower in a tough spot with free services.
Phoenix taco, barbecue joints get hit with health violations
Phoenix Torchy’s Tacos and Dickey’s Barbecue Pit are among Valley restaurants with health violations over the last week. Jason Barry reports.
Inside the Battle for Luxury’s Million-Dollar Salespeople
A great associate can generate millions in sales and build a following of loyal clients. Stores are increasingly courting them with everything from lucrative pay packages to the resources and freedom to run businesses of their own.
Huntsville Hospital seeks community input on healthcare needs across North Alabama
Huntsville Hospital Health System is asking residents across North Alabama to weigh in on healthcare needs in their communities through a survey open through Nov. 13.
Caddo Parish voters to decide $60M bond for sports complex
Caddo Parish voters will decide Tuesday whether to approve a $60 million bond for a new sports complex.
Claude's new smart reports tell bosses when workers are 'off-topic'
Managers can now ask AI to read workers' Claude chats and match it to their output.
Mental health group says system failed before Mobile women were killed
A mental health advocacy group says the system failed. It says warning signs were ignored before a Mobile man allegedly used a chainsaw to kill his aunt and grandmother.
Disaster loans available for small businesses, nonprofits, residents affected by Sept. storms
The U.S. Small Business Administration announced the availability of low-interest federal disaster loans for Indiana small businesses, private nonprofits, and residents affected by severe storms and flooding on Sept. 17.