From late October to early November 2026, a series of events have occurred that are significantly rewriting the rules and ...

UCSB and Microsoft's ScholarEvolve generates code from academic papers to improve an agent's harness without retraining model weights. It raised Qwen3.5-27B's task completion rate to 81.4%. Here is ...

A new open-access study reports an AI and IoT-based system that classifies college spoken English performance with 95.47 ...

Scientists accidentally discovered a microscopic organism with a genetic code that breaks a rule researchers thought was nearly universal. While testing a new DNA sequencing technique, they examined a ...

EMERGENCE is a richly interactive, terminal-native artificial life simulation where digital creatures learn to survive in a lush 2D world. Each creature is powered by a neural network brain that ...

Spam (unwanted bulk messages) and phishing (deception to steal credentials/money) overlap but are different problems: a spam message is not automatically phishing, and a suspicious-looking URL is not ...

A python clutch produces a variety of striking babies with rare genetic combinations. The team of breeders identifies platinum, motley, tiger, velvet and genetic stripe traits while discovering ...

Studies in model organisms show that WGD increases genetic diversity and accelerates evolution (3 – 5). In cancer, WGD exerts pleiotropic effects on cancer cells by buffering deleterious mutations (6) ...

Robot swarms classify arena shapes by estimating a global spectral signature from information exchanged between robots.