Los Angeles, CA (SPX) ) May 01, 2026 - Researchers at Iowa State University have developed a formal framework that allows autonomous robots to rank and reconcile competing rules when following every rule simultaneously is impossible - a
Washington, United States (AFP) May 1, 2026 - The Pentagon on Friday announced agreements with seven leading artificial intelligence companies to deploy their technology on classified military networks, a move that pointedly excludes Anthropic amid its ongoing dispute with the Defense Department.
Sapporo, Japan (SPX) ) May 01, 2026 - New research from Hokkaido University has found that the earliest known octopuses were not small, cryptic animals hiding in reef crevices but enormous apex predators that dominated Cretaceous marine
Bamako (AFP) May 1, 2026 - Mali's army and its Russian mercenary allies surrendered a strategic northern military stronghold to armed rebels on Friday, as Tuareg separatists and jihadists wage a unified front to bring down the country's junta.
Sydney, Australia (SPX) ) May 01, 2026 - Researchers at UNSW Sydney have trained a neural network to detect blue whale songs in decades-long acoustic recordings using just a single example call, achieving an accuracy of 99.4 percent across
Kyoto, Japan (SPX) ) May 01, 2026 - Researchers at Kyoto University have identified a distinct seismic signal - a negative phase in near-fault waveforms - that marks the abrupt arrest of large strike-slip earthquakes and carries signi
Osaka, Japan (SPX) ) May 01, 2026 - Dolphins are renowned for their speed and agility in water, yet the precise fluid dynamics that make them such efficient swimmers have long remained elusive. Researchers at The University of Osaka h
Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 01, 2026 - Scientists at Texas A and M University have officially opened the world's largest academic controlled-explosions laboratory, the Detonation Research Test Facility (DRTF), on the Texas A and M-RELLIS
Los Angeles, CA (SPX) ) May 01, 2026 - Researchers at UCLA have developed a method to construct programmable artificial organelles inside living cells using RNA as both the structural material and the assembly blueprint, an advance they
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) May 01, 2026 - Researchers at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) have developed a composite shielding material that simultaneously blocks both electromagnetic waves and neutron radiation within a
Los Angeles CA (SPX) ) May 01, 2026 - A new satellite-based analytical framework developed by researchers from Mississippi State University and collaborating institutions can accurately estimate crop sowing and emergence dates at the fi
Adelaide, Australia (SPX) ) May 01, 2026 - An international study led by Adelaide University has found that bowhead whale populations are recovering only in stocks where large areas of hazardous sea ice once limited devastating hunting centu
Los Angeles, CA (SPX) ) May 01, 2026 - Fruit flies subjected to gravitational forces many times stronger than Earth's pull not only survived but mated, reproduced, and eventually returned to normal behavior, according to new research fro
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) May 01, 2026 - A team at Japan's National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS) and the Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI, has published new magnetohydrodynamic simulation results demonstrating that
Attecoube, Ivory Coast (AFP) May 1, 2026 - On a street in a working-class neighbourhood in Abidjan, a small group of young people scrubbed rubbish-clogged drains while barefoot children played nearby.
Los Angeles, CA (SPX) May 01, 2026 - Chemical physicists at the University of Maryland have demonstrated that the nuclear spin states of molecular hydrogen can be controlled simply by freezing it inside dry-ice crystals - no magnetic f
