Category: science_technology
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Ahead of Halloween, Penn Researchers Explain What Science Tells Us About Fear
Penn Today marked Halloween by asking University of Pennsylvania researchers and clinicians about fear, from primal world beliefs and phobia treatment to child development and persuasive messaging.
HealthScience & TechnologyEducationMedical ScienceArtificial IntelligenceSocial Issues University of Pennsylvaniafear researchHalloweenBeckman ScholarsSchool of Social Policy & PracticeAnnenberg School for Communication
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Penn Launches Schlein Center for Cybersecurity to Tackle AI-Fueled Threats
The University of Pennsylvania's new Schlein Center for Cybersecurity, funded by trustee Ted Schlein, unites engineers, lawyers and policy experts to confront AI-driven cyber threats.
Science & TechnologyHealthBusinessEducationArtificial IntelligenceComputers and InternetMedical ScienceAgricultureEconomy Schlein Center for CybersecurityUniversity of PennsylvaniaMichael HicksTed SchleinPennovation WorksHowley ASPIRE Nurse Scholars Program
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Media Monitor: Breaking Defense Roundup Covers F-35 Framework Deal, Space Force Contracts and Drone Push
Breaking Defense reports a tentative decade-long F-35 production and sustainment framework, the Space Force's first six operational civil reserve contracts, and Army drone and cyber experimentation.
Science & TechnologyBusinessMilitaryAsiaEuropeMiddle EastArtificial Intelligence Breaking DefenseF-35Lockheed MartinSpace ForceCommercial Augmentation Space ReserveUkrainedronesBreaking Defence
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NOAA: Minor Geomagnetic Storm Periods Likely on October 31
NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center reports G1 minor geomagnetic storming on October 21 and warns that similar storm periods are likely on October 31.
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NVTC Cyber Summit to Explore 'Cyber at the Speed of AI' on Oct 28
Northern Virginia Technology Council's 2026 Cyber Summit & Cyber50 Awards will examine AI-driven risk with leaders from Google Cloud and federal agencies, alongside a fall slate of AI, space and data center events.
Science & TechnologyBusinessUSAComputers and InternetArtificial IntelligenceEmployment and LaborAstronomy and SpaceEnergy NVTCCyber SummitCyber50 AwardsData CentersSpace SecurityTech100 CelebrationNVTC Weekly EventsVirginiaReston
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Solar Activity Stays Low as Forecasters Flag Slight Chance of M-Class Flare
NOAA reports low solar activity with one numbered sunspot region and quiet geomagnetic conditions, while forecasters see a slight chance of an M-class flare on 26 October.
Science & TechnologyWeatherAstronomy and SpaceGeneral Weather NOAAsolar activitysunspotgeomagnetic fieldsolar flarespace weatherPenticton fluxSolar Flares
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Media Monitor: Texas Lawsuit Against OpenAI Could Serve as Template for AI Litigation, Newsletter Says
Luiza Jarovsky's newsletter says Texas' new lawsuit against OpenAI could become a template for other states and countries to litigate against AI companies and push them to prioritize safety.
Science & TechnologyLaw EnforcementPolitics and GovernmentArtificial IntelligenceLegalState Governments TexasOpenAIlawsuitAI safetyLuiza JarovskyAI regulation
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Media Monitor: CSIS Reports North Korea Missile Launches Have Doubled Under Trump's Second Term
CSIS says North Korea has held 34 missile launch events in Trump's second term, double the pace of his first, and cites a $600 billion global space economy.
Politics and GovernmentScience & TechnologyHealthBusinessMilitaryTradeAstronomy and SpaceMedical ScienceAsiaAfrica CSISNorth Koreamissile launchesDonald Trumpspace economylenacapavirU.S.-EU tradeCSIS External Relations
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Solar Activity Stays Very Low, Slight Chance of M-Class Flare Through 27 October
NOAA's joint USAF/NOAA report says solar activity was very low over the past 24 hours with one numbered sunspot region, while geomagnetic conditions were quiet and are forecast to become unsettled to active.
Science & TechnologyWeatherAstronomy and SpaceGeneral Weather NOAAspace weathersolar activitysunspotgeomagnetic fieldM-class flaresolar windSolar Flares
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Yale Architecture Students Build Rent-Free Home for New Haven Child Care Teachers
Yale student architects and a New Haven early childhood education center celebrated a new rent-free home for two of the center's teachers, offering both affordable housing and a hands-on lesson for students.
HealthScience & TechnologyEntertainmentEducationMedical ScienceClimate ChangeFilm and TVEnvironment Yale UniversityNew Havenaffordable housingarchitecture studentsearly childhood educationteacher housingUniversity
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Fairfax Supervisor Alcorn Says He Would Have Voted to End Flock Camera Contract
Hunter Mill District Supervisor Walter Alcorn says he would have voted to end Fairfax County's contract with Flock for license plate reader cameras, citing data security and surveillance concerns.
Politics and GovernmentLaw EnforcementScience & TechnologyState GovernmentsElectionEnvironmentTransportationArtificial Intelligence Walter AlcornFlocklicense plate readersFairfax County Board of SupervisorsHunter Mill Districtearly votingCharge Up Fairfax
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Media Monitor: TIME Health Examines Social Comparison, an Experimental Melanoma Vaccine and a Dentist's Halloween Display
TIME Health reports on a Harvard psychiatrist's essay about social comparison, a Meta settlement limiting likes for minors, a melanoma vaccine that cut recurrence by 42%, and a dentist's Halloween decor.
HealthScience & TechnologyMediaMedical ScienceComputers and InternetSocial Issues TIME Healthsocial comparisonAshwini NadkarniMetamelanoma vaccineHalloweenLilya Horowitz
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Alaska Roundup: $249M Port MacKenzie Rail Grant, $32.8M Grid Funds and $25M Nuclear Investment
Alaska's weekly roundup: a $249 million federal rail grant for Port MacKenzie, $32.8 million in grid resilience funds, an Abbott settlement payout and a $25 million nuclear energy bet.
Politics and GovernmentBusinessHealthScience & TechnologyState GovernmentsEconomyEnergyTransportationLegal AlaskaAIDEAPort MacKenzie Rail ExtensionAlaska Energy AuthorityAbbott Laboratories settlementRural Health Transformation ProgramNuCube EnergyOffice of the Alaska Governor
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Newsweek: About 53,000 Israelis Abroad Expected to Fly Home for October 27 Election
Trump says Elon Musk restored Ukraine's full Starlink access, and Google halted two Finland data center sites after clearing about 1,300 acres of forest before environmental assessments were complete.
Politics and GovernmentBusinessScience & TechnologyWorldIsraelFranceElectionGeneral PoliticsComputers and InternetEconomyEuropeMiddle EastUSAEnergy Israel electionAID CoalitionIsraelis abroad votingStarlinkUkraineElon MuskMeghan MarkleNewsweekmidterm electionsU.S. SenateU.S. House of RepresentativesTexasGoogledata centersBenjamin NetanyahuMarine Le Pen
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Social Security Administration Claims Best Performance in Agency History for FY 2026
SSA credits a digital-first strategy for double-digit gains in every service metric, including 800-number wait times down nearly 80 percent and a 23 percent smaller disability claims backlog.
Politics and GovernmentScience & TechnologyFederal GovernmentComputers and InternetEconomySocial Issues Social Security AdministrationFrank J. Bisignanodigital-first strategydisability claims backlogmy Social Security accountsTreasury Offset Programgovernment service performancegovernment services
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Solar Activity Stays Low, Slight Chance of M-Class Flare Through 26 October
NOAA reports low solar activity with two numbered sunspot regions and a slight chance of an M-class flare over the next three days, while geomagnetic conditions range from quiet to active.
Science & TechnologyEnvironmentAstronomy and SpaceGeneral Weather NOAAsolar activitysunspot regionsM-class flaregeomagnetic fieldsolar windspace weatherSolar Flares
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Iowa DNR Opens $300,000 Water Quality Monitoring Grant Program
Iowa DNR is offering a one-time $300,000 competitive grant to build real-time water quality monitoring networks in state watersheds. Applications are due November 25, 2026, at 4:30 PM CST.
Politics and GovernmentScience & TechnologyEnvironmentState GovernmentsFederal GovernmentAgriculture Iowa Department of Natural Resourceswater quality monitoringgrant programHouse File 2771watershedsIowaUSA
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Pentagon Names 2026 Secretary of War Maintenance Award Winners
The Department of War announced its 2026 maintenance award winners, including Army software and Navy aviation units, with the Phoenix Award to be revealed at a December banquet.
Politics and GovernmentMilitaryFederal GovernmentScience & TechnologyComputers and Internet Secretary of War Maintenance AwardsDepartment of WarGrace M. Hopper AwardRobert T. Mason AwardPhoenix AwardFleet Readiness Center SouthwestUSS Gerald R. FordU.S. Department of War
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Rocket Lab Prints New Neutron Forward Dome as Stage 2 Prepares to Ship
Rocket Lab says its Neutron team hit major milestones this week, printing a new Forward Dome and completing final checkouts on Stage 2 ahead of shipping to Launch Complex 3.
Science & TechnologyBusinessAstronomy and SpaceTransportation Rocket LabNeutronLaunch Complex 3Forward DomeStage 2reusable rocketspace launchNew Zealand
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Columbia and Max Planck Society Launch Joint Fusion Energy Science Center
Columbia University and the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics are launching a trans-Atlantic center on fusion plasma symmetry, starting in 2027 and co-directed by Carlos Paz-Soldan and Thomas Klinger.
Science & TechnologyHealthEducationEnergyMedical ScienceComputers and InternetArtificial IntelligenceClimate Change fusion energyColumbia UniversityMax Planck Institute for Plasma PhysicsCarlos Paz-SoldanThomas KlingerColumbia Engineeringplasma physicsnewsletter
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Cornell Chronicle reports avian flu in Greenland polar bears, insulin cell research and graphene switch findings
Signs of infection were detected in polar bear blood samples obtained from Inuit subsistence hunters, the Chronicle reported.
Science & TechnologyHealthEducationArtificial IntelligenceMedical ScienceAgricultureEnvironmentPolitics and GovernmentGeneral Politics Cornell Chroniclehigher educationavian influenzapolar bearsGrow-NY SummitCornell UniversityGreenlandinsulin-producing cellsgraphenefarm policy
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New Mexico judge orders Meta to pay $25 billion in Cambridge Analytica privacy case
Judge Francis Mathew cut a potential $219.5 billion penalty after jurors found nearly 44 million violations of state consumer-protection law.
BusinessScience & TechnologyLaw EnforcementLegalComputers and InternetArtificial IntelligenceSocial Issues MetaNew MexicoCambridge Analyticaconsumer protectionfineWIREDBackchannelWIRED BackchannelWarhoundPalmer LuckeyBen LammAndurilNew Mexico privacy rulingSpaceXAirbnbThe Rundown
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Media Monitor: Breaking Defense Reports AI Dominated TechNet Augusta Discussions
Breaking Defense reports artificial intelligence was a central theme at TechNet Augusta 2026, where Army officials and industry leaders weighed its implications for cyber defense, electronic warfare and command and control.
Science & TechnologyMilitaryComputers and InternetArtificial IntelligenceUSA TechNet AugustaBreaking DefenseU.S. Armycyber defenseelectronic warfarecommand and controlBreaking Defence
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Rice Experts Question Trump's Math on Venezuelan Oil Deal as Texas Early Voting Breaks Records
Rice University's Baker Institute economist Francisco Monaldi is quoted questioning claims about Venezuela's oil reserves, while Rice analysts weigh in on Texas politics, early voting and the Senate race.
Politics and GovernmentBusinessScience & TechnologySportEnergyElectionEducationHealthEnvironment Rice UniversityVenezuelan oilFrancisco MonaldiBaker Institute for Public PolicyTexas Senate raceearly votingelectronics recycling
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OpenAI Details How It Scaled Habitat Storage to Serve Over 1 Billion ChatGPT Users
OpenAI engineers explain how Habitat, its online storage platform, scaled Azure Cosmos DB to 500 petabytes and 20M QPS, cutting global read latency from 120ms to 10ms.
Science & TechnologyBusinessComputers and InternetArtificial IntelligenceEnvironment OpenAIAzure Cosmos DBHabitatcloud storageMicrosoft Azuredata infrastructureChatGPTOpen AI
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Spanberger Orders Statewide Plan to Counter AI-Related Cyberattacks
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger issues Executive Directive 6, ordering a Commonwealth-wide cybersecurity plan and a new Cyber Consortium to prevent and respond to AI-related cyberattacks.
Politics and GovernmentScience & TechnologyState GovernmentsArtificial IntelligenceComputers and InternetLaw Enforcement Abigail SpanbergerVirginiaExecutive Directive 6cybersecurityAnthropicCyber ConsortiumReston
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Experimental T-Cell Therapy Invika Halts Progression of Treatment-Resistant Tumors in Early Trial
NIH-led phase 1/2 trial finds invikafusp alfa, a precision T-cell therapy, halted disease progression in 59.3% of patients with immunotherapy-resistant solid tumors and shrank tumors in four.
HealthScience & TechnologyMedical ScienceLegalBusiness invikafusp alfaNational Institutes of HealthNational Cancer Instituteimmunotherapyclinical trialcolorectal cancerMarengo Therapeutics
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NRC to Host Second 'License to Launch' Workshop on New Reactor Licensing
The NRC will hold its second License to Launch workshop on Oct. 28, focused on moving from DOE authorization to NRC licensing, in person in Rockville, Maryland, or virtually via Microsoft Teams.
Politics and GovernmentScience & TechnologyEnergyFederal GovernmentLegalEnvironment Nuclear Regulatory CommissionLicense to Launch Workshopadvanced reactor licensingRockville, MarylandDepartment of EnergyADVANCE Actnuclear powerU.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
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Berlin Biology Teacher Christopher Wisniewski Named Connecticut's 2027 Teacher of the Year
Christopher Wisniewski, a Berlin High School biology teacher who built early-college courses and led a nationally honored student invention team, is Connecticut's 2027 Teacher of the Year.
Politics and GovernmentHealthScience & TechnologyEducationState GovernmentsMedical ScienceEnvironment Christopher WisniewskiConnecticut Teacher of the YearBerlin High SchoolNed LamontCharlene M. Russell-TuckerLemelson-MIT InvenTeamsConnecticut Governors Office
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Jazz Harp and Stradivari Instruments Take the Stage During Live! At the Library in November
The Library of Congress' Thursday evening Live! At the Library series in November features jazz harpist Edmar Castañeda, a GIS Day program and SistaStrings performing on Stradivari instruments.
EntertainmentMediaScience & TechnologyMusicFilm and TVEnvironmentEducation Library of CongressLive! At the LibraryEdmar CastañedaSistaStringsGIS DayStradivari instrumentsThe Declaration's PromiseU.S. Library of Congress