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Here’s what to expect on healthcare from a Democratic Congress
The Democratic takeover of Congress will revive fights over Medicaid cuts, insurance subsidies and healthcare affordability.
How Big Pharma Shapes Medical Science, Influences Doctors, and Undermines Patient Care
This week, Mad in America explores three new articles around pharmaceutical industry corruption. The first examines industry’s hidden influence over Three new studies expose the pharmaceutical industry's hidden influence over medical research, the use of ghostwritten academic papers to advance commercial interests, and the normalization of industry influence among future physicians.
Why Barry Diller thinks Skydance shouldn't try to beat Netflix
The mogul has advice for the Ellisons and everyone else: "You are simply never going to beat Netflix, ever, unless they do something weird."
Oscar Health Profits Hit $167 Million En Route To ‘Strongest Year’
Oscar Health swung to a $167 million third quarter profit while eclipsing $1.2 billion in net income for the first nine months as Obamacare health plan membership grows.
Dems inherit Texas colleges remade by GOP in conservative push
Universities were a political target of Texas Republicans. As Gina Hinojosa and other Democrats prepare for office, here’s a look at the turning point facing college campuses.
Sharon Horgan says 'Youth' is her most personal project yet
Sharon Horgan stars in 'Youth' season 1. (Natalie Seery/HBO)
Physicists sank a telescope 1.5 miles under the sea to put Einstein's relativity to the test
A half-built neutrino telescope on the floor of the Mediterranean Sea searched for cracks in one of physics' most basic invariances. It came up empty, but its limits rival those of detectors many times its size.
Opinion: Dartmouth Health urges investment in youth mental health in New Hampshire
Youth mental health outcomes improved in New Hampshire since 2021, though levels remain higher than a decade ago despite new service investments.
Healthcare powers Democrats’ midterm rout: 4 takeaways
Voters sent a strong rebuke of the GOP health agenda on Tuesday night as Democrats took control of both chambers of Congress, rejecting Republicans who pushed sweeping healthcare cuts. Here are f…
The Bear’s Den: Jeffery Simmons is making an impact
Jeffery Simmons is already making a huge impact on the Bears, stepping into a leadership by example role
What the Democratic landslide means for GOP booster Elon Musk and his businesses
Tesla, SpaceX and X CEO Elon Musk reportedly spent close to $450 million backing Republican candidates. His companies could have challenging times ahead.
Patrick’s Politics: Enjoy this moment of hope
There is good news in the United States today. After two years of one-party Republican rule, the people fought back.
Pilot explains landing at one of the world's most challenging airports
Landing at the tiny Caribbean airstrip is bumpy and intense, but I love the thrill. Here's what passengers don't see during the extreme approach.
Holiday retail jobs are moving away from the sales floor
Americans are still buying plenty of stuff for the holidays, but they're getting more of it online. That calls for a shift in staffing.
Democrats' big challenge on health care costs
Voters won't wait until the next election cycle for things to get cheaper.
Burn the boats! Why a 500-year-old myth became a rallying cry for sports teams
“Motivation isn't just about how much you want something,” a professor wrote. “It's also about whether you believe you have other options.”
PlayStation sees record high player numbers and increased revenue for Q2 2026, and a lot of that success is down to Marvel's Wolverine
Strong sales in software, but declining numbers in hardware: here's how the past three months have looked for Sony.
Trump faces new political reality as Democrats vow investigations
President Donald Trump was left to grapple on Thursday with the stinging rebuke from voters after a midterm election rout, while triumphant Democrats vowed to lower prices and combat the "cartel" with...
Sony Group: Record Q2 performance lifted FY26 guidance, with entertainment growth offset by cost and market risks
Q2 sales, operating income and net income rose strongly, while FY26 guidance was raised across major measures. Entertainment platforms and hit content supported growth, with memory costs, market softness and cybersecurity among the risks.Based on Sony Group Corporation [6758] Q2 2027 Audio Transcri…
Triumphal Arch Set to Win Final Approval Despite Court Challenges
President Trump’s 250-foot arch project is expected to win approval on Thursday from a federal planning board. Court action and Democrats’ upcoming control of Congress could halt the plans.
You Don’t Need to Be a Gambler to Be on ’Tilt’
The term captures the self-defeating loop of losing and not being able to stop. It also describes doomscrolling, politics and our society’s default state.
Report: Mets Hire A.J. Ellis To Major-League Coaching Staff
The New York Mets are hiring A.J. Ellis as their major-league strategy coordinator, The Athletic’s Will Sammon reported Wednesday. The club has not yet announced the move. Ellis becomes the latest addition to manager Andy Green’s coaching staff as the Mets continue preparing for the 2027 season. His arrival also reunites Green with a familiar …
Vance, DeSantis make quick moves after disastrous GOP midterms jumpstart 2028 race
The vice president’s seemingly straightforward path to succeeding President Donald Trump suddenly looks much murkier.
Inflation pushes young voters to Democrats in 2026 midterms
Younger Americans are worried about the economy and high prices. They also swung Democrat in the midterms.
Sports owners bet big on Republicans. What does their defeat mean for US sports?
Sports billionaires backed Republicans, but Democratic victories leave familiar questions over gambling, stadium subsidies and who really holds power.
OpenAI Finds 948 Local Privilege Escalation Bugs In The Linux Kernel
OpenAI published a blog post outlining their work on autonomous vulnerability discovery
New estrogen research may change how scientists think about women’s aging brains
Scientists are assessing the potential benefits of hormone therapy for older women’s cognition.
New estrogen research may change how scientists think about women’s aging brains
Scientists are assessing the potential benefits of hormone therapy for older women’s cognition.
A ‘STEM wave’: Democratic doctors, scientists win a record number of seats in the midterms
New members of Congress are expected to help shape the health agenda next year.
Trump Administration Delays Awards Slated To Improve Rural America’s Health
State leaders who scrambled to win and begin spending their first-year shares of Republicans’ five-year, $50 billion fund are in the dark about how much they’ll receive in the Rural Health Transformation Program’s second year after a federal office notified states that more time is needed to make allocations.
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Playhouse at McConnellstown has launched its “Raise the Roof” Capital Campaign to raise $30,000 for repairs to the theater’s roof and gutter system. Donations of any amount are being accepted
Health Care: Don’t Just Fix What They Broke
The new Congress must not only repair what Trump has wrought but focus on immediate relief for the already insured.
How the blue wave almost tilted Louisiana’s Senate race — but Julia Letlow narrowly won
Jamie Davis almost pulled up a shocking upset in a red state. Here’s how Julia Letlow eked out a win.
The South flexes political power in midterms, sets regional influence in 2028 election
Tuesday's dramatic midterm results have transformed the electoral map, ensuring the path to future power for Democrats and Republicans must run through the South and its diverse voting population.
What the midterms taught us about the future of the Democratic Party
Conversations with more than a dozen top Democrats, including several openly considering running for president in 2028, showcase a euphoric party that is slightly divided on the way forward.
Rare bipartisan idea gains ground: U.S.-Israel tie needs a break
Democrats and Republicans may be deeply split after the midterms, but a growing number agree on one big idea: The era of unquestioned U.S. support for Israel needs to end.
GOP’s defense of its gerrymandering: The rout could have been even worse
Democrats dismissed Republicans’ arguments as a contorted attempt to justify an expensive and controversial remapping offensive that did not accomplish what it set out to do.
China proves a cut above with world-first precision laser experiment in space
Researchers use a device mounted on the outside the Tiangong space station to make millimetre-scale cuts.
World of Warcraft: Forever is off to a great start with Blizzard's smoothest launch in memory
Aside from some transportation issues and some layering quirks, World of Warcraft: Forever's launch went off without a hitch.
Trump blames GOP candidates and Fox News for midterm losses
President Trump has blamed GOP candidates and Fox News in the wake of the sweeping Democratic sweep during the midterm elections.
Political notes: Jawando transition, Black Caucus' new director, Blueprint rallying
Montgomery County Executive-elect Will Jawando unveils a talent-heavy transition team, the Legislative Black Caucus convenes, the same week it gets a new executive director, and advocates line up support for the Blueprint for Maryland's Future, in political notes.
A tiny chunk of Australia seeded Southeast Asia's tropical forests 50 million years ago, plant fossils preserved in amber reveal
An analysis of plant fossils preserved in amber from Myanmar revealed that the West Burma Block, a chunk of crust that broke off of Australia, seeded Southeast Asia's lush tropical forests.
Nintendo Switch 2 Zelda 40th Anniversary Edition restock live — Target confirms online drop this week
Ocarina of Time launch day could bring Zelda Switch 2 restock
As more doctors consult chatbots, health systems can block them
As hundreds of thousands of doctors consult AI chatbots to make care decisions, health systems see new risks to patients' health data.
Video: Democratic Health Professionals Win Seats in Congress
Some Democratic doctors and nurses ran and won congressional seats by centering their campaigns on opposing Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
When papers become currency: a Chinese debate about trust in science
Last Saturday, 31 October, I went to the University of Hong Kong’s Beijing Centre for its Talent Forum. It was the fourth stop in the series this year, following events in Shanghai’s Zhangjiang, Shenzhen’s Qianhai, and on HKU’s main campus. The programme covered a remarkable distance in one afternoon. HKU’s Xiao-Jing Wang discussed computational neuroscience, intelligence, and the prefrontal cortex—before even delivering his inaugural public lecture to students back in Hong Kong. His colleague Bing Zhang took us from the Big Bang to artificial intelligence. Tsinghua’s Xue Lan asked how AI might reshape the institutional infrastructure underpinning higher education. There were lively panels featuring industry leaders from JD.com, Xiaomi, Haier—and Kaiser Y Kuo on the closing panel discussing innovation and international connections. I cannot pretend to have followed every detail of the brain models or the astrophysics. The talk that stayed with me was closer to something we have covered before: Zhou Zhonghe 周忠和 on papers, evaluation, and scientific trust. Zhou is a palaeontologist, an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and an international member of the US National Academy of Sciences. He is also editor-in-chief of The Intellectual (知识分子), China’s leading science commentary platform. His subject was uncomfortable enough for a room full of successful academics: what happens when the system for recognising good science starts rewarding something else? Part of my interest came from our sister newsletter, The East is Read, which covered the controversy around “Geng Tongxue” in May. A PhD dropout from Beihang University, Geng has publicly challenged papers by prominent researchers through detailed online allegations of manipulated images and fabricated data. At Tongji University, an investigation into a challenged Nature paper found academic misconduct, and the dean of its life sciences school was removed. The affair brought doubts about academic integrity well beyond laboratories and university committees. How could someone outside the established hierarchy spot problems in papers that had passed through prestigious journals and institutions? And what, exactly, had all that prestige guaranteed? Zhou approached these questions through two essays published in July by The Intellectual: one by Wang Xiaodong, director of the National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, and a response by Wang Liming, of Shanghai’s Shangsi Institute of Natural Sciences. Both began with the controversy over Geng. Their arguments deserve a wider audience, so I want to put parts of them alongside what Zhou said on Saturday. Wang Xiaodong’s starting point is evolution. A research system selects for the behaviour it rewards. Grants, jobs, journals, talent programmes, and prizes collectively determine which scientists prosper and which practices get passed down from advisors to students. “Whatever the system rewards is what it will evolve to produce,” he writes, citing the ancient Chinese saying: The King of Chu loved slender waists, and many in the palace starved to death. That is a more demanding diagnosis than saying there are dishonest people in science. Punishing a fraudster does not change the selective environment that made a particular kind of research profitable. His account also gives scientific success an awkward role in the story. As Zhou put it on Saturday, science became a victim of its own success. Once research became central to industry, national power, and economic growth, universities and laboratories expanded, and public money followed. That created an administrative need for rapid decisions: who should get the next grant, the next laboratory, the next appointment? The difficulty is that the true value of a discovery may take years or decades of testing and building to become clear. Resource allocation cannot wait that long. Publication counts, journal prestige, impact factors, and citations therefore become convenient ways to make an instant judgement. “The real problem is not that these indicators have no value,” Wang Xiaodong writes, “but that they are trying to answer a question that only time can answer.” Telling administrators simply to stop counting papers will never be enough. They still have budgets to distribute and appointments to make. Something has to replace the shortcut. Zhou described the consequences inside publishing. Papers acquire ever more requirements: a complete story, polished presentation, extensive datasets, and accessibility to readers beyond the immediate field. Individually, those demands sound reasonable. Together, he warned, they produce formulaic “eight-legged” papers 八股文 and rigid reviewing, while genuinely original or non-consensus work struggles to get past journal editors—some of whom wield immense gatekeeping power despite having limited laboratory experience themselves. Meanwhile, the demands for sprawling, “complete” narratives have fuelled a wider replication crisis. Wang Xiaodong uses a mahjong metaphor to describe the result: put the complex papers published by the exact same lab over several years side by side, and they often look like “Thirteen Orphans” (十三不靠)—every tile completely unrelated to the next, and none of them reproducible by outsiders. Zhou also spoke frankly as an editor who has trouble finding reviewers. Everyone wants someone else to review their work; qualified senior researchers have little time to return the favour. The labour is anonymous, unpaid, and brings almost no institutional recognition, so it increasingly gets passed down to postdocs and graduate students. And while anonymity protects reviewers from rank and personal favours, hyper-specialisation means an author’s most qualified reviewer is often a direct competitor, shielded from accountability. The protection and the problem coexist. Wang Liming takes the argument a step further. The decisive change, in his essay, is the instant conversion of academic honour into material resources. Once a paper can be cashed in for funding, a job, students, commercial investment, or even a company valuation, scientists are alienated from their work: they must keep minting this “research currency” to keep their teams alive. He is careful not to romanticise the past. The old world of gentleman scientists—financially independent figures like Boyle and Darwin who needed nothing from external funders—was also a closed club that excluded people without inherited wealth, women, and much of humanity outside the West. Professional science allowed ordinary people, himself included, to become researchers. Nobody should want to undo that. The problem, in his account, is an exchange system that becomes too uniform and too difficult to correct. His most pointed Chinese example is the “hat” (帽子): the prestigious talent designation that brings continuing access to money, laboratory space, students, and institutional influence. “If papers are the circulating currency of the research system, then a ‘hat’ is a bond that pays interest over the long term,” he writes. A paper at least requires another round of peer review. A title in the Chinese context can lock in a judgement made years ago and turn it into permanent status rent, regardless of whether its holder is still doing good science. Here, official institutions hire, organise, and evaluate scientists. Unlike honours awarded by autonomous academic communities in the West, a Chinese “hat” blends non-scientist administrative power with state authority. Once granted, it turns a past judgement into permanent status rent that is nearly impossible to revoke—because taking a hat off would imply that official authority erred in putting it on. Both Wangs see China as experiencing, at compressed speed, pressures present across global science. Research expansion, rising investment, publication growth, and elaborate evaluation metrics arrived in China within two or three decades rather than two or three centuries. Zhou agreed with that international framing—noting that recent US White House science policy documents and the new president of the US National Academy of Sciences, a fellow palaeontologist who recently visited Zhou’s institute in Beijing, have raised strikingly similar warnings about consensus-bound peer review, short-term project grants, and the replication crisis. Still, Zhou emphasised that China’s traditional hierarchy, personal networks (guanxi), and the ethos that “a good scholar becomes an official” (学而优则仕) amplify those pressures at home. So what would change things? Here Zhou’s tone differed from the call for a revolution in scientific trust in Wang Xiaodong’s essay. As an evolutionary biologist, Zhou favoured patchwork repair (修修补补). Living systems survive through accumulated adjustments; dramatic mutations are usually fatal. Science cannot return to a small, slow-moving pastoral era, especially after the successive accelerations of professionalisation after the Second World War, the internet, and now artificial intelligence. But it can alter the local environment in which researchers work. He pointed to domestic experiments designed to support unconventional research and diversify funding, including Tencent’s New Cornerstone Investigator Program, the Xplorer Prize, and the Future Science Prize. He also mentioned participating in reviews for “major non-consensus projects” under the National Natural Science Foundation of China. One guiding principle he recalled was wonderfully direct: “Failure is allowed; corruption is not” (允许失败，不允许腐败). That distinction would mean quite a lot if taken seriously. An honest attempt that fails should not have to disguise itself as a success to survive an assessment. Wang Liming’s essay adds a sharp caveat to the optimism about new domestic funders. Multiple organisations do not automatically produce multiple ways of judging science. If the same pool of senior domestic scientists makes the decisions through the same two-round review procedures, it is still “fake diversity.” He argues for three distinct kinds of money: broad baseline funding governed by fair procedures; patient funding for questions that take ten years; and non-consensus funding based on individual taste, deliberately empowering a few genuine experts to make biased, contrarian bets on eccentric ideas that would inevitably be averaged out by a committee. Replacing one monopoly with another achieves little; a healthy ecosystem needs variance. Zhou’s proposals for publishing were similarly concrete: strip papers of their resource-allocation burden and return them to recording discoveries and establishing priority; separate dissemination from evaluation, as eLife and Peer Community In do; adopt more modular “micro-publications” and real-name endorsements; recognize the labour of editors and reviewers; and give replication work proper credit rather than treating it as an unpublishable dead end. AI makes every part of this debate more urgent—and Zhou wove it throughout his talk. In his own preparation, he used AI to survey the declining influence of academic monographs, noting how tools are already changing how scholars gather information. More fundamentally, he placed AI as the latest great acceleration in scientific history: just as the internet sped up the pace of research and tightened external resource pressures, AI is compressing the cycle again. In the essays Zhou cited, AI cuts both ways. Wang Xiaodong expects large language models to erase much of the English-writing disadvantage long faced by Chinese scientists, further swelling the flood of papers coming out of Chinese labs. Wang Liming sees AI accelerating both ends of the trust crisis: it lowers the cost of paper mills and fabricated images just as quickly as it lowers the cost of automated image forensics, data auditing, and code reproduction. “Whoever builds the verification layer wins,” Wang Liming writes. His proposed alternative to the static, packaged “story paper” is a continuously versioned “unit of discovery” containing a falsifiable claim, raw data, analysis code, experimental parameters, and an ongoing log of independent checks—where negative results and failed replications are recorded rather than buried. Zhou ended his keynote by bringing AI back to the question of scientific honour and credit. Citing a recent Intellectual discussion on “What AI Means for Mathematics” featuring Fields Medalist Deng Yu 邓煜—at a moment when AI is already batch-solving mathematical conjectures, as HKU Vice-President Lin Chen noted in his opening remarks—Zhou agreed that human researchers must remain the principal agents: AI is a tool that frees scientists from tedious calculation to think about deeper, messier real-world problems. Yet that partnership creates a thorny new evaluation problem. When a breakthrough is made with AI, what is the human contribution and what is the machine’s? And since AI models distil centuries of accumulated human scholarship, is it right that the credit and value flow so heavily to the private AI companies building the tools? The old struggle over how to assign scientific honour is acquiring a whole new layer. What I took away was a serious discussion of how science can remain trustworthy as its scale, incentives, and tools change. These were scientists with real standing inside China’s system questioning how that standing is produced, and proposing changes that would affect their own institutions and peers. That made the afternoon at HKU’s Beijing Centre worthwhile. At the close, Wang Feng, Director of Communications and Public Affairs at HKU, said the value of the forum series—which heads to Hangzhou in December and cities like Chengdu early next year—would lie in the real cooperation it helped bring about. The university has plenty to celebrate: this week it topped the QS Asia rankings for a second consecutive year, alongside its 11th-place position in the QS World University Rankings 2027. For me, bringing this debate to an audience beyond the people who review papers and allocate grants was a useful contribution. 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Editorial: Voters rejected tariffs. Congress should too
Amid the drubbing Republicans received in midterm elections on Tuesday, one point shouldn’t get lost: Voters have summarily rejected the president’s tariffs, and the new Democratic congressional majority should do
Commentary: Shift the wildfire spending to damage prevention, not just reaction
While a fire may be burning two states away, the smoke still arrives, settling over neighborhoods and dimming skylines. School administrators move recess indoors, and outdoor work slows or stops.
Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door Coupe first drive: Where tech and fun collide
The spirit of AMG is alive via three axial flux electric motors.
Sunburn — The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics
Kick off your morning right where Florida’s political insiders begin theirs.
European Enterprises Face Growing Pressure to Turn AI Investment into Business Value, ISG Says
PARIS, November 05, 2026--The ISG AI Impact Summit will explore operating models and data and governance frameworks to scale AI, November 9–10 at the Pullman Paris Tour Eiffel.
Iranian Leaders Cheer Trump’s ‘Political Defeat’ as Republicans Blame War for Midterm Losses
Iranian leaders have hailed what they say is Americans’ rejection of the war, while Republicans look for answers and Democrats decide what’s next.
Apple Launching Five New Products Tomorrow
Apple is releasing five new products this Friday, November 6, following pre-orders that opened last week, including its first touchscreen MacBook Pro models. The following new products will be available from tomorrow: iPad mini with OLED display and A20 Pro chip iMac with M6 chip 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 chip 14-inch MacBook Pro with OLED touchscreen 16-inch MacBook Pro with OLED touchscreen The iPad mini starts at $699, the iMac starts at $1,499, and the M6 MacBook Pro at $1,999.
UK can avoid euro but must accept free movement to rejoin EU, says former top Brexit negotiator
Michel Barnier says Britain could avoid having to join the single currency, but free movement is non-negotiable
In Warren County, a reflection of rural healthcare's turmoil
Rising costs, staff shortages and plummeting reimbursement rates have shuttered several of Pennsylvania’s rural hospitals, with nearly a third at risk of closure in the coming years.
How Democrats’ Big Win Could Reshape Health Care
Democrats scored huge margins in Congress and made big gains at the state level. What does it mean for health policy in the final two years of the Trump administration and beyond?
Art is good for your health? Allow me a quick eyeroll
Some now suggest a monthly dose of art can boost wellbeing. But the last thing we need is another item on our to-do lists, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes
Oregon to increase 2027 payments to care organizations for Health Plan members
Next year, Oregon will pay an average of nearly $630 per member every month to the organizations arranging providers for the vast majority of Oregon’s 1.4 million Medicaid members under
Wild Birds in Lincoln Heights changes ownership
Wild Birds Unlimited Inc., operating on Spokane's South Hill, is under new ownership following the acquisition of the avian product shop by longtime Montana franchisee operators John and Kathy Haigh.
Dissecting Colorado’s Democratic sweep
Swoosh. Donald Trump came into his second term with a swoosh. He brought in Elon Musk and his tech bros with a swoosh. They swooshed out thousands of government employees across the nation. Then Trump’s ICE agents swooshed out thousands of recent immigrants, with some American citizens caught in the crossfire. Then Trump swooshed in […]
Nintendo’s First-Half Profit Rose on Stronger Software Sales, New ‘Mario’ Movie
The Japanese videogame maker said Thursday that net profit rose 11% from a year earlier to 220.92 billion yen, equivalent to $1.39 billion, for the six months ended September.
North Korea digs in for US stand-off as Democratic midterm wins dim summit hopes
Recent weapons tests signal Pyongyang will lean on Moscow and Beijing rather than bank on Washington talks amid shifting US politics.
Imaging Science Thesis Defense: A Step Towards Developing Digital Twins of Forest Environments with Terrestrial Laser Scanning | Events
Imaging Science MS Thesis Defense A Step Towards Developing Digital Twins of Forest Environments with Terrestrial Laser Scanning Zoom Link here Aisha Co Imaging Science MS Candidate Rochester Institute of Technology Abstract: Digital twins have become an increasingly relevant topic as we pursue accurate representations of the real world for planning, research, and even design purposes. This study focuses on the steps for creating digital twins of forest environments using sparse points from terrestrial light detection and ranging (LiDAR). Specifically, we developed geometric models of structural digital twins (SDTs) from leaf-off terrestrial laser scanning of real-world forests. Three algorithms were used to develop an approach to handle individual tree reconstructions for sparse point clouds, and they were tested and validated with a two-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistic against an existing inventory of the RIT Nature Trail to evaluate the reconstruction’s fidelity. The key evaluation metrics included diameter at breast height (DBH) and height. The limited nature of available ground truth necessitated the use of an additional validation method using a PANGAEA open dataset, based on comparing DBH, height, and crown diameter against the dataset’s calculated measurements. Reconstructions were compared against per-tree reference values at two-point spacings for sixteen trees from the open BR07 dataset (PANGAEA); these specifications matched the collected RIT Nature Trail data and the scanner’s nominal spacing. On BR07, the proposed method had the lowest median DBH error among the methods that modeled every tree (1.28cm, 4.1%), and this error was nearly unchanged at the coarser spacing, while TreeQSM’s rose from 4.2% to 6.5% and AdTree overestimated DBH by 30% to 40%. Results show the proposed method understates the tree heights by 0.2m to 1.4m but contains the least error when estimating DBH. The proposed method was able to produce all 69 trees, while SimpleTree produced 49 and none at the 4.35 cm BR07 spacing. We concluded that the developed geometric model (digital) twins have significant potential to serve as both simulation and prediction tools. We recommend that future efforts focus on collecting per-tree ground truth measurements within the scanned plot and incorporating leaf-on scans. Leaf-on scans include representative foliage, which would add realism to the model and ecological function of the trees. Intended Audience: Beginners, undergraduates, graduates. Those with interest in the topic. To request an interpreter, please visit myaccess.rit.edu
Nintendo Switch 2 sales plunge 41% as price hikes and memory crunch bite
Sales of Nintendo's flagship Switch 2 plunged in its fiscal second quarter after the Japanese gaming giant rolled out price hikes amid soaring memory costs.
PS5 shipments top 97.9 million, Marvel’s Wolverine tops 2.4 million
PlayStation 5 has shipped 97.9 million units worldwide, Sony announced in its financial results for the three months ended September 30, 2026.
Downtown Sacramento ice rink brings crowds and boosts nearby businesses
The downtown Sacramento ice rink is drawing visitors and increasing foot traffic to local businesses, creating a lively atmosphere in the area.
Government CEO defends response to healthcare report
Paul Wylie said the future of health funding is one of his "most significant priorities" following criticism
Democrats won on affordability. Can they deliver it?
Democrats will hold Congress but President Donald Trump still has the power to block their plans.
Innate Pharma Reports Third Quarter 2026 Business and Financial Update
MARSEILLE, France, November 05, 2026--Regulatory News: Innate Pharma SA (Euronext Paris: IPH; Nasdaq: IPHA) ("Innate" or the "Company") today reported its financial update for the nine months ended September 30, 2026.
Maro Itoje and the art of sports leadership: ‘It’s not a democracy. It’s a benevolent dictatorship’
England's rugby union captain on learning from Mikel Arteta and what a Samurai sword taught him about motivation
Phoenix 24-hour diner cited by health inspectors
Jason Barry reports on Valley restaurants that saw the most risk factors identified by Maricopa County’s Environmental Services Department this week.
Phoenix 24-hour diner cited by health inspectors
Jason Barry reports on Valley restaurants that saw the most risk factors identified by Maricopa County’s Environmental Services Department this week.
CVS is breaking up its pharmacy businesses
The move comes with the drugstore giant facing scrutiny from lawmakers
Ted Cruz says 'blue tsunami' took over Texas after Democrats swept statewide races
Sen. Ted Cruz called the 2026 midterms a "blue tsunami" after James Talarico defeated Ken Paxton and Gina Hinojosa unseated Greg Abbott in Texas.
Lucky Daye stands on business as ‘ALOUD!’ album hits #1
Two-time Grammy Award-winning R&B singer Lucky Daye released his fourth album, “ALOUD!,” last month.
Regal Rexnord considers selling its autonomous mobile solutions business amid portfolio review
Milwaukee-based manufacturer Regal Rexnord announced that it will perform a comprehensive portfolio review in which it will explore the possibility of
Initiative 194 set to pass, affecting money in politics
Montana voters approved Initiative 194, known as The Montana Plan, marking a major change in how money can be used in the state's political system.The measure i
Flutter Entertainment (FLUT) Stock Sees Modest Fair Value Cut As Analysts Lower Targets
Flutter Entertainment is under fresh scrutiny after analysts cut their central fair value estimate from US$132.56 to US$126.15. That shift comes alongside research that highlights lower price targets in general, as analysts weigh guidance cuts, competition and the outlook for prediction markets against ongoing support for FanDuel and engagement driven growth plans. In the sections that follow, you will see how this evolving narrative may shape how you monitor Flutter Entertainment from...
Missouri Democrats broke the GOP supermajority in the statehouse. Now what?
A Mizzou political science professor breaks down what Democratic gains nationally and in Missouri mean going forward.
Tragedy strikes at New York City Marathon as ‘perfect health’ 24-year-old dies
On Sunday, the 2026 TCS New York City Marathon began as hundreds of thousands of runners and spectators came to showcase their talent, support selected nonprofit organizations, or just celebrate the annual event. The marathon took place throughout the five boroughs of New York, as runners gave their best to cover the 26.2-mile course. More…
Warriors coach Steve Kerr laughs at GOP midterms after begging reporters for political questions
Steve Kerr stopped reporters after practice at Chase Center to riff on midterm results, months after vowing to dial back his political takes.
Making history, breaking barriers: growth of women’s sports at Texas
For years, collegiate sports have focused on male student athletes. Within the last few years, however, women’s college sports have begun to emerge into a pool of record-breaking and head-turning statistical headlines. With the exposure of the WNBA and the rivalries between collegiate regions, women’s sports have seen one of the most drastic expansions in...
Josh Jacobs not expecting to miss more time
Green Bay Packers RB Josh Jacobs confident he will avoid more punishment
Utah business bankruptcies climbing fast, putting customers' money at risk
Business bankruptcy filings jumped nearly 27% in Utah, outpacing the national increase. For customers who pay upfront, a business closing can mean competing to get their money back.
UConn football needs strong finish to reach bowl game
STORRS, Conn. (WTNH) — The UConn football program hasn’t been to a bowl game in three consecutive seasons since 2007-09. If the Huskies reach a bowl game this season, it would be a great momentum builder for coach Jason Candle. But after last Saturday’s loss to Air Force, the Huskies may have an uphill climb. […]
Coin Theaters Completes Production Rollout of Creator-Owned Entertainment Platform $CRE8-Powered Monetization
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Broncos’ Bo Nix drops truth bomb on his clutch reputation
The Denver Broncos are sitting at 6-2 at this point in the season. They are coming off a big win over the Kansas City Chiefs , thanks to a comeback led by quarterback Bo Nix. In fact, this sort of victory is not uncommon for Denver since Nix’s arrival in the NFL. Nix has led 15 game-winning drives and 12 fourth-quarter comebacks since his debut in […] The post Broncos’ Bo Nix drops truth bomb on his clutch reputation appeared first on ClutchPoints.
Louisiana Senate race raises questions about state’s political identity
Democrat Jamie Davis’s narrow loss to Republican Julia Letlow in Louisiana’s Senate race sparks discussions about whether the state is shifting from solid red to a potential swing state.
Downtown Mesa businesses thrive as city keeps vacancy rate below 10 percent, leaders say
Businesses are filling up fast in downtown Mesa, according to city leaders who say their downtown sector has more than 500 individual properties. All but 6.9% of them are filled.
Historic midterm leaves UMD political professor shocked at results
Across the nation on Election Day, democrats flipped several traditionally republican states. UMD Political Science Associate Professor Cindy Rugeley said voters made big waves this midterm.
3 takeaways from Drake basketball's win over Central College
Here are three things we lerned in Drake men's basketball's season-opening win over Central College on Nov. 4, 2026.
Monolith Soft details its involvement with Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake
Monolith Soft has officially come forward to confirm its involvement with The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake on Nintendo Switch 2. The company posted about the news on social media. Monolith Soft says it “handled partial contract development of the game design, programming, and graphics.” Monolith Soft can also be found in the title’s credits. The company is...
Moore talks Maryland budget, redistricting, Democrats’ future after reelection
Gov. Wes Moore is heading into a second term promising to make Maryland more affordable, but a projected $2.5 billion budget shortfall will test how he delivers on that pledge.
Longer reproductive lifespan and hormonal history may influence brain vascular health
A longer reproductive lifespan and a history of using birth control pills or menopausal hormone therapy were associated with certain signs of blood vessel health in the brain, according to a study published November 4, 2026, in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
Vance walks Trump tightrope with scathing election critique blaming Iran war
The vice-president's blunt assessment of Republican election defeat marked one of the sharpest breaks with a sitting president in recent memory.