Melania Trump Visits North Carolina School, Promotes AI and Robotics
First Lady Melania Trump visited Ashe County, North Carolina, on September 15, 2026, marking two years since Hurricane Helene.
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Fossilized Bird Feather Found in Dinosaur Dung Explains Cretaceous Survival
A remarkably preserved 66-million-year-old fossilized bird feather, discovered inside dinosaur excrement from Montana’s Hell Creek Formation, offers new clues about why ancient…
Supermassive Black Hole Winds 100x More Powerful Than Previously Thought
Astronomers using the X-ray astronomy satellite XRISM have discovered that winds driven by supermassive black holes carry energy roughly 100 times more powerful than previously…
Heathrow third runway incompatible with Net Zero targets, advisers warn
Heathrow’s planned £33bn third runway cannot proceed under current climate rules, government advisers warned as airlines prepare a multi-million-pound legal challenge and…
Microsoft Issues Emergency Windows 11 Update to Fix September Bugs
Microsoft rolled out an emergency out-of-band update across Windows 11 versions and server editions to repair multiple regressions introduced by its September 2026 Patch Tuesday…
Masahiro Sakurai’s Game Designers Award Ends After 16 Years
Masahiro Sakurai’s influential Game Designers Award will conclude after 16 years.
AI agents develop cryptic dialects blending poetic language and tech jargon
Autonomous artificial intelligence agents at labs in New York, France, and China have begun developing their own unprompted dialects, blending poetic metaphors and business slang…
Teacher Discovers Rare Adult T. Rex Trackway in North Dakota
Paleontologists have uncovered the first known adult Tyrannosaurus rex trackway in North Dakota’s Hell Creek Formation.
Roman Space Telescope Has Enough Fuel for 22 Years of Science
NASA’s Nancy Grace NASA launched August 30 on a $4.3 billion mission to study dark energy and search for exoplanets, and a surprisingly precise rocket burn and lower-than-expected…
Google Fruit Fly Brain Map Used by Developers to Play Video Games
Google and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute released a complete map of an adult male fruit fly’s brain, containing over 166,000 neurons and 125 million synapses.
Tech Giants Destroying Rare Books to Train AI Models in Nevada Warehouse
Tech giants are buying and destroying thousands of rare and out-of-print books to train artificial intelligence models.
CERN’s LHC Confirms Quantum Entanglement Survives High-Energy Collisions
Physicists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have confirmed that quantum entanglement survives high-energy proton collisions by tracking Z boson pairs, while researchers separately…