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PSJA ISD Hosts 10th Annual Early Childhood Education Conference
Pharr-San Juan-Alamo Independent School District (PSJA ISD) welcomed over 300 early childhood educators and childcare professionals to its 10th Annual Early Childhood Conference on Saturday, October 24, 2026, at PSJA Early College High School.
A Magic City Classic challenge of business pitches—see who won
🏆 A&M TAKES THE CROWN: Alabama A&M’s BulldogBoys beat 10 other teams at the Regions Bank of Ideas Challenge with an app to help young adults master their money. Next stop: the Magic City Classic! 👇 NowPartner
MEGAMicrobe event brings students into the wonderful world of microbes
MEGAMicrobe, a free community event held Oct. 24, introduced young students and their families to the wonderful world of microbes.
NYC Marathon boosts sales for IndiCo Coffee and local spots
IndiCo Coffee Co. thrives during NYC Marathon using Mastercard's insights to adapt and grow amidst marathon day crowds.
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.
Healthcare professionals discusses equity in care, rural challenges
Rural healthcare faces many challenges. These include issues relative to transportation, holes and gaps in coverage and the inherent difficulties… More on this post
You can opt out of political texts, but campaign calls may keep coming
Political text messages filling up your phone? Here are ways to reduce unwanted campaign messages.
Bears power rankings roundup: Where Chicago lands in Week 8
Here's a look at where the Chicago Bears landed among Week 8 NFL power rankings around the league after their big win vs. the New England Patriots.
Virtua Fighter Crossroads adds Lionel Rafale
Publisher SEGA and developer RGG Studio have released a new trailer for Virtua Fighter Crossroads introducing returning fighter Lionel Rafale.
The 2026 Big Ten College Football Playoff Picture: Week 9
Halloween will be the stage for most of the Big Ten's next slate of games, and things are about as spooky as they've been. Now, with only a handful of games left on the schedule, there is a clear tier of contenders emerging, but one bad weekend could pose a massive threat to the Big …
Alaska's governor orders a probe into Peltola's Senate campaign over spoiler candidate controversy
Republican Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy has ordered an investigation into the Democratic candidate running for the U.S. Senate in the state after revelations that her campaign appeared to be involved in recruiting another candidate with the same name as Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan.
Student unlocks potential in juvenile detention centers with STEM ed
Emily Cho ’28 has grown the nonprofit she founded as a 13-year-old into a national network of volunteers giving incarcerated students access to education.
DirectX Dump Files make GPU crashes easier for game developers to understand on NVIDIA and AMD GPUs
Microsoft has released a DirectX feature that helps game developers understand why graphics cards crash during gameplay. AMD and NVIDIA GPUs are already supported.
Zelda 40th Anniversary Switch 2 restock: Walmart and Target confirm exact release dates
🎮 The Zelda 40th anniversary Switch 2 is out today, October 29, but Walmart and Target are planning online restocks for November 6 🚨 Our Zelda Switch 2 restock tracker @mattswider on X will send out an alert as soon as stock appears 👀 Walmart was our top pick to have a restock, but a supply chain delay has pushed the date back ⌚ GameStop, Best Buy, and Nintendo are holding in-store midnight launches where units will be available Walmart: Zelda Switch 2 console Best Buy: Zelda Switch 2 console GameStop: Zelda Switch 2 console Target: Zelda Switch 2 console Nintendo: Zelda Switch 2 console 🚨 We’re tracking Zelda Switch 2 stock updates. If you’d like to know when more stock arrives, follow Matt Swider on X and turn on notifications. You can also become a free or paid subscriber to The Shortcut to help support our work. 🚨 A new update has dashed our hopes of a major Walmart restock of the Zelda Switch 2 console, which we were confident would happen today. However, a new Reddit post (thanks, Wario64) has revealed that Walmart is waiting until at least November 6 to sell the special edition console online. 🚨 Want the Zelda 40th Anniversary Switch 2? Drop your email for restock alerts before it sells out. ⤵️ Subscribe A employee note says: “Due to a supply chain delay, some stores may not receive the Nintendo Switch 2 Zelda 40th Anniversary Edition in time for its planned Oct. 29 release. To allow time to fulfill preorders and reshop inventory as needed, the point-of-sale (POS) block will remain in place through at least Friday, Nov. 6. As inventory arrives, orders will be fulfilled based on preorder priority and available inventory.” The Redditor who posted the news shared that some people were able to get the console from Walmart after 8:00am local time, so there is still hope. Target recently updated its Zelda Switch 2 listing to reveal that it will also start taking orders of on November 6, with in stores orders beginning November 5. Clearly, the supply chain delay is impacting other stores, otherwise we likely would have seen a restock take place today, as we initially predicted. We now know that Walmart and Target will be taking online orders, and that Best Buy and Nintendo are holding in-store events on November 5. GameStop is also letting customers pre-order in-store via their website. Despite the news, we’ll still be tracking every retailer with our restock tracker, which provides up-to-the-second information whether something is in stock. If the Zelda Switch 2 does appear – which it might – our followers will still be one of the first to know. Up next: PS5 Pro restock: it’s available again, but you’re paying more than you should Subscribe Adam Vjestica is The Shortcut’s Senior Editor. Formerly TechRadar’s Gaming Hardware Editor, Adam has also worked at Nintendo of Europe as a Content Marketing Editor, where he helped launch the Nintendo Switch. He also runs a retro gaming YouTube channel called Game on, boy! Follow him on X @ItsMrProducts.
Juventus reiterate faith in Luciano Spalletti but squad in retreat
Serie A side Juventus fell to a rather dull 2-0 defeat to Genoa on Wednesday and this is naturally going to pile the pressure further onto Luciano Spalletti. Today, there have been doubts about the It...
University of Indianapolis offers free vaccinations to help keep Central Indiana healthy
The University of Indianapolis is proud to partner with the Indiana Immunization Coalition and the Central Indiana Area Health Care Education Center to offer a free vaccination clinic at the Schwitzer Student Center on Tuesday, Nov. 3 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The clinic is open to all members of the public and will
Purdue Basic Medical Sciences faculty member honored with Showalter Early Career Award
Purdue University has named a dozen faculty members as recipients of the 2026 Showalter Early Career Awards, including Pradip Bajgain, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Basic Medical Sciences. The 12 early career faculty members received the research support for their innovative projects
Proclamation designates November 3, 2026 as Indiana One Health Day
As a result of an effort spearheaded by the National Association of Federal Veterinarians, at least a dozen states, including Indiana, are recognizing November 3 as One Health Day. Governor Mike Braun issued a proclamation to that effect for Indiana, contributing to a growing national movement to a
There’s one week left to preorder the Ocarina of Time remake for $10 off
It launches next Thursday.
FSU Discovery Days: Arts-Humanities-Health Symposium fosters interdisciplinary collaboration
Florida State University artists, scientists and therapists united at the Arts-Humanities-Health Symposium during Discovery Days to explore how the arts
Dragons Broadcaster Tom Nichols Inducted into Ohio Sports Hall of Fame
The Official Site of Minor League Baseball web site includes features, news, rosters, statistics, schedules, teams, live game radio broadcasts, and video clips.
Everything Apple Announced at Its 'Pro and Tell' Event: Touch-Screen MacBook Pro, M6 Macs, More
We've got all the details on Apple's week of MacBook, iMac, and iPad mini product announcements, including a MacBook Pro with an OLED touch screen.
The Duskbloods delayed to 2027
FromSoftware has delayed player-versus-player-versus-environment-based multiplayer action game The Duskbloods from its previously planned 2026 release window to 2027.
Exploring the Cat's Head Nebula
This visualization explores imagery from NASA’s Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes of the Cat’s Head Nebula, a relatively small, dusty filament containing forming stars located within the massive Carina Nebula. Each telescope and wavelength of light offers unique ...
Somehow, The Legend Of Zelda Switch 2 Walmart Fumbled Pre-Order Saga Has Gotten Messier
It sounds like the retailer is holding sales back until next week
Multiwavelength Flight into the Cat's Head Nebula
This tour simultaneously glides through imagery from NASA’s Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes of the Cat’s Head Nebula. The dust filament broadly remains the same in shape across the different wavelengths of light, but each view contains different details. Hubble...
UC San Diego Health Expert Available: Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month
Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest forms of cancer and is often diagnosed at an advanced stage because symptoms can be subtle and easily mistaken for other conditions. During Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month, Andrew Lowy, MD, chief of the Division of Surgical Oncology at UC San Diego Health and a nationally recognized pancreatic cancer expert, is available for interviews about the latest challenges and advances in pancreatic cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment. Lowy is available
Arsenal still wants two Real Madrid superstars
Arsenal continues to scout the world’s best talent, and they are eyeing several players from Real Madrid, just as they did during the summer. In the last transfer window, the Gunners wanted to sign ...
Clio Entertainment Awards to Honor Jamie Lee Curtis at 2026 Ceremony
Comedian Cat Cohen will host the Nov. 19 ceremony, which celebrates groundbreaking promotional work in the entertainment industry.
3 Behavioral Health Deals Defining 2026
This is an exclusive BHB+ article. 2026 hasn’t been a standout year for behavioral health deal volume, but it has produced some of the most interesting
3 Behavioral Health Deals Defining 2026
This is an exclusive BHB+ article. 2026 hasn’t been a standout year for behavioral health deal volume, but it has produced some of the most interesting
Japan's science minister visits Kyoto Fusioneering to back fusion energy industrialization push
Japan's science and technology minister paid his first visit to a fusion energy development site on October 22, 2026 — less than two months after taking office.
BRE Committee Tours Gateway Studios
Chesterfield rehearsal facility has hosted top tier entertainment On Oct. 21, members of the Business Retention & Expansion (BRE) Committee toured Gateway Studios & Production Services (GSPS), a rehearsal facility…
Business builder Joe Haddad to headline Ashland University ethics lecture
Joe Haddad, a business leader whose career blends entrepreneurship, leadership development and faith-based service, will discuss the role of Christian ethics in building thriving organizations during Ashland University's Gordon E. Heffern Lecture on Christian Ethics in Business on Nov. 16.
Grand Theft Auto VI: Original Score launches December 11
Rockstar Games will release the Grand Theft Auto VI: Original Score by French electronic duo Justice on December 11 across all major music streaming services, as well as on double CD and triple vin…
Henrico Business Watch: Business license filings Oct. 22–28, 2026
Henrico County reported the following business license filings with start dates during the week. The filings are listed alphabetically by business or trade name, followed by a registered address and business industry classification. Autonomy Salon and Wellness, 5714 Brook Road, Henrico – Hairdressing services. CK Workshop LLC, 5613 Burberry Court, Glen
HYDRINITY Accelerated Skin Science Announces Expansion into Spain Through Strategic Partnership with UniSthetic
HYDRINITY Accelerated Skin Science, the fastest-growing professional skincare brand in the U.S., announces its expansion into Spain through a strategic partnership with UniSthetic, a leading provider in the country's professional aesthetics and skincare industry. This partnership marks another significant milestone in HYDRINITY's continued global growth, introducing its portfolio of clinically backed, advanced regenerative skincare solutions to one of Europe's most established medical aesthetics
Legislators introduce US Swine Health Improvement Plan Act
The program follows the model of the National Poultry Improvement Plan, which has protected the poultry industry for more than 90 years from diseases.
PE Weekly: M&A Roundup Oct. 23-29
Platform Investments Stone-Goff Acquires Quandary Consultants. Private equity firm Stone-Goff Partner
Lynn Barr: A story made at UC Berkeley
Putting Americans in control of their own health data is Lynn Barr’s newest mission, and it fits a pattern: She spots a problem and goes straight at it.
American Express Connects Cash Back to High Yield Savings Accounts and Business Checking Accounts
NEW YORK, October 29, 2026--Today, American Express introduced a new way for eligible U.S. Consumer and Business Cash Back Card Members to redeem rewards for a deposit into eligible American Express bank accounts, creating a more integrated experience across their Card and banking products and giving customers more options in how to redeem the rewards they earn.
American College of Education Launches a Doctor of Business Administration for Under $22,000
The fully online DBA from ACE started its first cohort in October, with a second to follow in November.INDIANAPOLIS, IN / ACCESS Newswire / October 29, 2026 / (ACE) recently expanded its academic offerings by launching an online Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) degree program.
ASUS ROG Swift OLED PG32UCWM Review
The ASUS ROG Swift OLED PG32UCWM is a high-end 4k, 32-inch OLED gaming monitor. Sitting alongside the smaller ASUS ROG Swift OLED PG27UCWM, it's an updated model...
Graduate student took data science to the hardwood
Men’s basketball data analyst Boris Crnjak ’24 will soon earn his second Carolina degree.
Alaska governor orders investigation into ‘Dan Sullivan’ ballot controversy
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy ordered an investigation into claims Democrats recruited a namesake candidate in a key Senate race. (
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.
How a Hermon small business gained a global market share
The small company piggybacks on global sales and distribution networks of billion-dollar instrument manufacturers to get its product into the global market. “I use the analogy of suckerfish on whales,” the CEO said.
South Health District Urges Residents to Know Their Numbers and Diabetes Risks
VALDOSTA — South Health District encourages residents to know their numbers and reduce diabetes risks during National Diabetes Month.
Elementary School Near 11 Data Centers Raises Health Concerns
An elementary school in Loudoun County, Virginia is nearly surrounded by 11 data centers and community members are concerned about the pollution that be might produced and what their kids might be breathing. NBC’s Stephanie Gosk reports for TODAY.
Alaska's governor orders a probe into Peltola's Senate campaign over spoiler candidate controversy
Republican Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy has ordered an investigation into Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mary Peltola's campaign.
Fresher for longer: The science extending the shelf life of food
Extending food’s shelf life is one of the biggest challenges researchers face as they think about how to maximize what is grown in the United States. In this video, meet the University of Georgia researchers studying how fruits and vegetables grown in Georgia and the region can stay fresher, safer, and tastier from farm to
The Israel debate reshaping Jewish American politics
“There are plenty of people who believe, as I do, that Israel has a right to protect itself,” says David to Lauren, both pictured below, over the dinner table. Subscribe “How does starving children protect Israel?” she replies. “I don’t think Israel is intentionally starving children.” “It’s a little bit absurd to be sitting here talking about all of these very specific things,” Lauren says, “as opposed to looking at the totality of him as a candidate, and the 90% of things that you agree with him on.” This is a snapshot from a conversation between a Jewish father and daughter in Michigan ahead of the crucial Senate race. Lauren supports the Democratic candidate, Abdul El-Sayed. Her father is undecided. That is mainly because of El-Sayed’s stance on Israel, one that mirrors a growing wing of the party that has become critical of the US-Israel relationship following the war in Gaza. You’re reading FourSight, a newsletter from Channel 4 News’ expert journalists explaining the complexities of the biggest global stories Could that alienate Jewish American voters who have a strong connection to Israel - and the majority of whom have voted Democratic? A shifting stance on Israel “An ally that takes your money to push you into wars you shouldn’t be fighting is not an ally,” El-Sayed recently told ABC News, referring to the Iran war and how some Americans believe that Israel pushed President Trump into the conflict. Foreign policy has become an economic issue that’s hitting Americans’ pockets, with the soaring cost of petrol and diesel. El-Sayed, pictured below, has opposed military aid for Israel and accused the nation of genocide in Gaza. That led to the pro-Israel lobby group, AIPAC, funding his opponent, Hayley Stevens, to the tune of $30m during the Democratic primary here. “I frequently criticise AIPAC because I think the way that they are pouring dollars into defeating Abdul and others around the country… is really corrosive to American democracy,” Brad Lander says at a canvassing event in Detroit. Lander, a Jewish Democratic congressional candidate in New York, is an ally of Mayor Zohran Mamdani and has come to campaign for El-Sayed. “Democrats and Americans don’t want to keep paying for Netanyahu’s wars,” he says. “They want a reset in the US relationship with Israel.” The 2026 election has clearly been a bruising one for AIPAC; the Wall Street Journal reported that, in an unpublished letter, the group described the cycle as one of the “most challenging environments in recent memory”. Share And significantly, after the midterms, the group will stop direct contributions to candidates through one of its political action committees. Voters’ concerns We followed a group of Jewish canvassers around one suburb in Detroit. They think that among the 130,000 Jewish voters in Michigan, between 20 and 30,000 are undecided. In a swing state where El-Sayed beat his primary rival by just 13,000, that could prove pivotal. We meet one voter, Jen Friedman, pictured below, who has a “Democrats for Rogers” sign, referring to the Republican candidate. The issue of Israel is very important to her because “having a safe haven is crucial”, she tells me. “What I see is one candidate, Mike Rogers, who is associating himself with people who are very proudly American,” says Jen. “Abdul, on the other hand, is associating with people who say they are anti-American.” Friedman raises two issues. Firstly, Hasan Piker, a left-wing streamer who has campaigned alongside El-Sayed and has been criticised for his comments on the US and Israel. [ ](https://channel4news.substack.com/p/who-is-hasan-piker-the-socialist) [ Why Hasan Piker thinks the US needs a socialist Trump ](https://channel4news.substack.com/p/who-is-hasan-piker-the-socialist) Anushka Asthana · Aug 19 [ Read full story ](https://channel4news.substack.com/p/who-is-hasan-piker-the-socialist) The other concern regards an attack on a Michigan synagogue back in March. The FBI said the man was inspired by Hezbollah and had lost relatives in an Israeli airstrike on Lebanon. El-Sayed condemned the antisemitic attack, but also said “hurt people hurt people”. That upset many here, with El-Sayed apologising numerous times for his choice of language. Jews for Abdul As we follow the canvassers, there are still plenty of lawn signs supporting El-Sayed. Elissa Driker, pictured below, runs out of her house wearing a “Jews for Abdul” t-shirt. “I feel like the values that Abdul has align with how I live my Judaism,” she tells me. She says “Abdul is not Hasan Piker, so I don’t conflate them”. I ask why Piker keeps coming up. “It gets weaponised. I don’t know if you watched the debate the other night, but talk about… weaponising fear and weaponising anxiety and all that Islamophobic dog-whistling that was coming towards Abdul.” I also talk to Elissa about how Americans more broadly appear to be questioning the US-Israel relationship and whether American Jews were ready to do that too. “A lot of American Jews are. My experience is absolutely the tide is turning.” For the first time, Gallup found this year that Americans now sympathise more with the Palestinians than the Israelis. In another poll of Jewish American voters, 65% said they were pro-Israel but also critical of Israeli government policies, 52% support cutting or eliminating aid to Israel. Father and daughter Back at the dinner table, I bring up those polls with David Fink. Why does he think Americans sympathise less with Israelis? [ ](https://channel4news.substack.com/p/how-support-for-israel-in-us-is-declining) [ How support for Israel in US is declining ](https://channel4news.substack.com/p/how-support-for-israel-in-us-is-declining) Kiran Moodley · May 4 [ Read full story ](https://channel4news.substack.com/p/how-support-for-israel-in-us-is-declining) “Because the news media and the extremes of both parties are so willing to tell what I think is a false narrative.” Lauren chimes in: “Do you really think the actions of Israel have nothing to do with the shift in the sympathies?” “I think that’s very relevant,” he replies. “I just don’t think that people really have a full understanding.” Lauren again: “It sounds like you’re saying that the shift is due to how the atrocities are being described, as opposed to what the actual atrocities are.” “There have been some things that shouldn’t have happened,” David says. “I think the polling is being driven by politicians who are taking advantage of this issue.” Lauren then asks, “I’m curious what your response would be if my children were killed in an Israeli airstrike and someone said there have been some things that shouldn’t have happened?” A long pause from her father. “Any reference to my grandchildren has a very deep emotional impact on me. Well done,” he says. “I have an empathy for any civilian in war and I don’t mean to belittle those losses. The loss of any one life is a horrible thing. But it doesn’t make it a war crime and it doesn’t make it genocide.” Lauren and David cannot agree but tell me how proud they are of one another for sticking to their convictions and for agreeing to let me sit in on their conversation. I cannot thank them enough for their time, and hope their honesty informs and educates many people during such a fraught election. Abdul El-Sayed: The candidate testing the US - Israel relationship Thanks for reading our latest FourSight newsletter. Subscribe to receive free weekly newsletters from Channel 4 News. Subscribe Share Channel 4 News Leave a comment
Blazers Duo Lillard and Morant is a Good Fit
Portland’s backcourt experiment shines as the undefeated Blazers topple the Lakers. Discover how elite depth and a high-scoring supporting cast are fueling a perfect 3-0 start.
These students solve research problems with their hands - College of Arts and Sciences
Scholars in the UNC computer science department’s Experimental Engineering Lab learn skills applicable across disciplines.
Tandy Warnow honored at American Academy of Arts and Sciences celebration
Tandy Warnow, CS professor and associate director at the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science, was celebrated for her recent induction into the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences on October 14 at a ceremony on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus. Warnow was elected for her excellence and continued accomplishments in the fields of discrete mathematics, probability theory, computer science and data.
UNC graduate student took data science to the hardwood
As an undergraduate student at North Carolina, Boris Crnjak homed in on statistics and data science...
UMD faculty recognized among the world’s leading scientists and scholars
UMass Dartmouth faculty have been named to the 2026 Top 2% Scientists and Highly Ranked Scholars lists, including several ranked in the top ten of their subspecialties
NASA discovers Jupiter’s invisible shield is more complex than Earth’s
NASA’s Juno spacecraft has discovered that Jupiter uses a surprisingly complex system of powerful plasma waves and multiple shock regions to defend against the solar wind. The findings reveal major differences between Jupiter and Earth and could help scientists understand the enormous shock waves produced by exploding stars.
Six popular sugar substitutes linked to faster brain aging
A study of nearly 13,000 adults found that people consuming the most artificial sweeteners experienced a 62% faster decline in memory and thinking skills, equivalent to approximately 1.6 additional years of brain aging. Six popular sweeteners were linked to faster cognitive decline, raising concerns about the long-term brain health effects of common sugar substitutes, although causation was not established.
Risky business: Petrochemicals industry faces overcapacity, disappointing growth
The global petrochemicals industry has entered an extended period of financial underperformance driven by too much supply and not enough demand.
High-level Roundtable: Safeguarding Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights during Global Health Architecture Reform
How can sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) be safeguarded during global health architecture reform? At a high-level roundtable hosted by the Government of Spain and the Government of South Africa, in its capacity as Chair of the Global Leaders Network (GLN), with support from PMNCH and WHEN, participants called for sustainable domestic financing, rights-based health systems and meaningful civil society engagement.
Summit Prepares Health Care Leaders for Cybersecurity Threats
The U.P. Healthcare Cybersecurity Summit, held on NMU's campus Oct. 28, brought cyber security leaders from around the state together for a day of networking and professional development.
A striking Mars cloud may be born from surprising physics
Everyday Earth clouds get their start with a bit of salt or dust. Not so the Red Planet's Arsia Mons Elongated Cloud, computer models suggest.
College of Science Alumni Spotlight: Dr. Ted Swann
Swann builds a practice and a laboratory around time, trust and health.
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.
ENTREFest announces Cedar Rapids as host city for 2027 event
ENTREFest will bring entrepreneurs, startup founders and small business owners from across Iowa and the Midwest to Cedar Rapids June 9-11, 2027, with programming at multiple locations throughout the NewBo District and Kingston Yard. Produced by NewBoCo, the conference will feature multiple pitch competitions, keynote presentations, hands-on workshops and sessions covering artificial intelligence, marketing, venture…
3 Ways ProgenyHealth Can Transform Maternity and Infant Health, Claims Management
Pregnancy and NICU admissions are among the most complex areas in healthcare. A new report from ProgenyHealth highlights how the company can work with Medicaid and commercial health plans to uncover insights and hidden risks critical to improving maternal and infant care and reducing costs.
Penn State vs. Purdue: Game Preview
The Nittany Lions are still seeking their first conference win as they welcome Purdue on Halloween. Penn State (3-4, 0-4) vs. Purdue (3-4, 2-2) Kickoff: 4:15 p.m., Beaver Stadium, State College, PA The Betting Line: Penn State -7.5 (Fanduel) TV: BTN, 4:15 p.m., Chris Vosters (play-by-play), Anthony Herron (analyst), Dannie Rogers (sideline) Weather: Matt Campbell: PENN STATE RECORD: 3-4, […]
Ria Health Brings 24/7 Peer Support to Virtual Alcohol Treatment Through Partnership with CHESS Health
Patients in all 50 states now have round-the-clock access to peers, community and crisis support through the Connections app, extending care far beyond the scheduled visitSan Francisco, CA, Oct. 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cravings, stress and isolation don’t keep office hours. Ria Health, the nationwide telehealth provider of alcohol use disorder treatment, is making sure its patients never face those moments alone. Through a new partnership with CHESS Health, every Ria Health patient now has
Business Brief: Columbus Realtors recognized at state convention
Two Columbus Realtors were recognized during the Mississippi Realtors Annual Convention and Expo this month.
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.
Trump defends war in Iran, tariffs during Texas campaign swing
Despite polls showing most Texans disapprove of the president's handling of the economy and the war in Iran, Trump can’t stop talking about both.
Just Got an iPhone Duo? Try These Features First
Apple's iPhone Duo launched on Friday, October 23 in markets around the world. Keep reading if you're the lucky owner of Apple's first foldable iPhone. Whether you're upgrading from an older iPhone or completely new to Apple, this guide will help you get the most out of your new device.
Less than 42 minutes of bright daylight linked to higher dementia risk
Getting more daylight could be linked to a surprisingly powerful benefit for brain health. In a study of more than 87,000 adults, researchers found that higher daytime light exposure was associated with a 16% lower risk of dementia, with longer exposure to bright light linked to even greater reductions. Remarkably, getting less than 42 minutes of bright daylight daily was a stronger predictor of dementia than six established risk factors.
Iraqi court hands down prison terms to 2 politicians and an oil official in graft case
BAGHDAD (AP) — An Iraqi court sentenced two prominent politicians and the head of a state-run enterprise responsible for distributing oil products to prison sentences in a corruption case, officials announced Thursday.
Alaska's governor orders investigation after NYT report on alleged Dem-linked Senate election scheme
Following a New York Times report on an alleged Democrat-linked scheme involving the state's U.S. Senate contest, Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy, a Republican, ordered an investigation.
Support Hubs Help New Researchers Break Through Bottlenecks at Big Science Facilities
A formative evaluation of a Horizon Europe project finds that dedicated support hubs significantly raise the odds that new researchers clear technical feasibility checks at European research infrastructures, while a downstream gap between laboratory validation and industrial
Only about half of social science findings held up when retested, major replication project finds
Psychology’s replication problems drew wide attention after 2015. A new study in Nature suggests the challenge is not unique to psychology: across economics, education, business, sociology, and political science, success rates were similar.
‘She could have gotten away with’ murder: The dangerous science behind the Queen of Crime
New explorations reveal the early education and adventures of bestselling author Agatha Christie, who did more than dip her toe in the world of science.
Political homelessness: How the Michigan Senate race divided the Jewish community
The high-stakes race caused a rift among Jewish voters unhappy with Abdul El-Sayed
Television Q&A: Why do dogs get barking mad at 'The Traitors'?
You have questions. I have some answers. Q: My wife and I started watching “The Traitors” but had to stop after two episodes. There is a whistle during the show
Television Q&A: Why do dogs get barking mad at 'The Traitors'?
You have questions. I have some answers. Q: My wife and I started watching “The Traitors” but had to stop after two episodes. There is a whistle during the show
How Ireland became Hollywood's latest hub for global filming
Ireland, with its storytelling tradition, infrastructure, experienced crews, lower labor costs and competitive tax incentives, has become a major filming destination for American films, TV series and even game shows as movie and TV productions leave Los Angeles to film elsewhere.
Pens Points: Mammoth Sighting
It was a much needed four day break for a battered Pittsburgh Penguins team, but now the schedule resumes and it wastes no time throwing the team right back into the fight with another matchup against the Utah Mammoth, the same team that just beat up on the Penguins 11 days ago to close out […]
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
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