Mar 25th, 2026 - You can now listen to Fox News articles! A new variant of COVID-19 is spreading across the U.S., health officials say. At least 23 countries have reported the SARS-CoV-2 BA.3.2 variant as of Feb. 11, according to a study published last week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  The BA.3.2 variant, which the CDC has been tracking through its Traveler-Based Genomic Surveillance program, has about 70 to 75 changes in the gene sequence of its spike protein, which is a structure on the surface of the COVID-19 virus that helps it enter human cells. This strain has now been ... [Read More]

Mar 25th, 2026 - Help Net Security newsletters : Daily and weekly news, cybersecurity jobs, open source projects, breaking news – subscribe here! Large language models carry a persistent scaling problem. As context windows grow, the memory required to store key-value (KV) caches expands proportionally, consuming GPU memory and slowing inference. A team at Google Research has developed three compression algorithms: TurboQuant, PolarQuant, and Quantized Johnson-Lindenstrauss (QJL). All three are designed to compress those caches aggressively without degrading model output quality. The overhead problem in ... [Read More]

Mar 24th, 2026 - Reading time 3 minutes Countless scientists and at least a dozen high-concept sci-fi comedies over the past 30 years have speculated on the potentially degrading effect of making clones out of other clones, ad infinitum. The same year that researchers first cloned Dolly the sheep, the Michael Keaton comedy Multiplicity (1996) compared it to the visual static added when your office Xerox machine makes a copy of a copy of a copy. Now, biologists in Japan have determined what they believe might actually be a hard limit on just how many successful, viable clones can be made from generations of ... [Read More]

Mar 24th, 2026 - Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By TRISHA THOMAS ROME (AP) — The Colosseum has a bright new look following a restoration using the same travertine marble of ancient Rome to recreate parts of columns from 2,000 years ago. Thousands of Romans once flocked to this arena to watch gladiators battle each other and wild animals. The structure still captures the public's imagination; it is Italy's most popular tourist destination, with 9 million visitors in 2025 alone. The project focused on a semicircular piazza outside the arena, where Roman spectators crowded under two arcades ... [Read More]

Mar 24th, 2026 - GENEVA (AP) — Scientists in Geneva took some antiprotons out for a spin — a very delicate one — in a truck, in a never-tried-before test drive that has been deemed a success. If this so-called antimatter came into contact with actual matter, even for a fraction of an instant, it would have been annihilated in a quick flash of energy. So experts at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, over the course of four hours Tuesday, brought about 100 antiprotons on the road. The antiprotons were suspended in a vacuum inside a specially designed box and held ... [Read More]

Mar 24th, 2026 - As soon as April 1, four people will embark on a journey that will take them farther from the Earth than anyone has ever traveled before. When NASA's new moon rocket lifts off as soon as April 1, its immense core stage will mix 537,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen with 196,000 gallons of liquid oxygen and ignite the propellant in four, eight-foot-wide engines, producing some 1.7 million pounds of thrust. Shortly after these main engines fire, two solid rocket boosters, one on each side, will light their gunpowder-like propellant to add 3.3 million pounds of thrust each. This immense force will ... [Read More]

Mar 24th, 2026 - Imagine a world without internet, email, streaming services or social media. Imagine having to write letters or call everyone on a rotary dial phone to communicate. Imagine having to drive to a store to buy anything and everything. Unthinkable, right? You can thank fiber optics for all these conveniences and more. And while you're at it, wish the fiber a happy 60th birthday in 2026. As a materials scientist who has worked with fiber optics for over 30 years, I've seen how useful they are, and how scientists are working to improve them. What are fiber optics? Fiber optics are hair-thin ... [Read More]

Mar 23rd, 2026 - Welcome! Log into your account Recover your password A password will be e-mailed to you. Ball Python Behavior Explained: Body Language, Defense, and What to Expect Ball Python Behavior Explained: Body Language, Defense, and What to Expect Ball pythons don't make noise, they don't change facial expressions, and when they're calm they'll sit motionless in their hide for hours. Every piece of information they send you comes through their body — and once you know what to look for, it's surprisingly readable. This article covers the full behavioral range: normal day-to-day behavior, what ... [Read More]