17+ min ago (569+ words) A JetBlue altitude incident has forced regulators to order an urgent A320 software rollback. Global airlines are reportedly rushing to patch the software on their Airbus A320-family jets following a recently discovered glitch. This glitch affects the system that helps calculate the nose angle (angle of attack), a critical part of the flight-control system. This is potentially very serious, as the A320 series is the world's most common passenger jet, so a problem affects airlines globally. In fact, around 11,300 A320 family aircraft are in operation globally, with around 6,440 of the core A320 model in operation. The glitch was discovered after a recent incident (October 30) on a JetBlue flight in which the plane unexpectedly lost altitude, and passengers were injured. The flight was traveling from Canc'n, Mexico, to Newark when it unexpectedly dropped in altitude. The plane landed safely, but 10 passengers reportedly sustained injuries. Early…...

3+ hour, 52+ min ago (473+ words) ASU researchers identified two distinct hominid species who co-existed with different ways of walking. In a groundbreaking discovery in early human evolution, scientists revealed that, using the "Burtele Foot" and the "Lucy fossil," they identified two hominin species that coexisted at the same place and time. Back in 1974, scientists discovered 40 percent of a single hominin skeleton known as Lucy at the Hadar site in Ethiopia, which rose to prominence as the most complete early human ancestor ever found. Many years later, in 2009, another "enigmatic" hominin foot, Burtele, was discovered nearby at the Afar Rift." Though researchers understood that the two human remains did not belong to the same species, Burtele Foot remained unclassified until recently, when researchers unearthed more fossils that helped solve the mystery. Lucy had already been categorized as a separate hominin, A. afarensis. In 2015, a team at Arizona…...

4+ hour, 29+ min ago (240+ words) DeepSeek aims to lower barriers for researchers and developers eager to experiment with advanced AI. The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), held annually since 1959, is widely regarded as the world's most prestigious maths competition, testing participants with problems that demand deep insight, creativity, and rigorous reasoning, according to Harvard AI researcher Huang Yichen and UCLA computer science professor Yang Lin." Now, Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has made its Math-V2 model widely available, open-sourcing it on Hugging Face and GitHub under a permissive license that allows developers to adapt and repurpose the system." Math-V2 has demonstrated gold-medal-level performance at the IMO, a feat requiring not just correct answers but also transparent reasoning behind them " a standard only about 8 per cent of human participants achieve. They cautioned, however, that many of today's AI systems have been primarily optimized to perform well on standard…...

6+ hour, 11+ min ago (521+ words) The BrainBody-LLM algorithm mimics how the human brain and body communicate during movement. Imagine a robot that doesn't just follow commands but actually plans its actions, adjusts its movements on the go, and learns from feedback'much like a human would. This may sound like a far-fetched idea, but researchers at NYU Tandon School of Engineering have achieved this with their new algorithm, BrainBody-LLM." Until now, one of the main challenges in robotics has been creating systems that can flexibly perform complex tasks in unpredictable environments." Traditional robot programming or existing LLM-based planners often struggle because they may produce plans that aren't fully grounded in what the robot can actually do." BrainBody-LLM addresses this challenge by using large language models (LLMs)'the same kind of AI behind ChatGPT to plan and refine robot actions. This could make future machines smarter and…...

7+ hour, 3+ min ago (500+ words) Japan launches a spa pod that automatically cleans, monitors, and relaxes users in one session. Science Inc., a Japanese company, has now officially launched what it calls the "Mirai Human Washing Machine." First unveiled at the World Expo in Osaka earlier this year, Japanese consumers can now officially get their hands on one. The machine acts like a high-tech automatic spa pod that can wash an occupant head to toe in minutes. Users enter the pod and recline into its comfortable seat. Once inside,the podis closed, and the machine washes them using microbubbles. The machine can also rinse off the bubbles and dry the occupant, all while playing relaxing music. To this end, themachinenot only washes your body but also "washes the soul," according to company spokeswoman Sachiko Maekura. This pod can also monitor a user's vitals to enhance…...

9+ hour, 57+ min ago (343+ words) The telehandler runs on a 70 kWh battery with a methane-fueled engine as a range extender for long farm shifts. When pig, cow, or poultry manure is combined with silage residues such as corn husks, grass clippings, and even composted food scraps, the mix can be fed into a manure digester to produce biogas." This renewable, low-carbon fuel can be burned to generate heat and electricity or refined further to power machinery with impressive consistency and reliability. Large farming operations routinely generate biogas in massive volumes at costs far below those of conventional grid energy or fossil fuels." That means any equipment capable of running on biogas gains a major total cost of ownership (TCO) advantage, especially over long, high-duty cycles in demanding"agricultural"environments. Agricultural schedules can be unpredictable, and most of the year involves manageable 46 hour cycles but harvest…...

11+ hour, 23+ min ago (627+ words) Handlers in the demonstration push and kick the T-rex robot, which stays upright thanks to real-time balance control and rapid posture adjustments. China's LimX Dynamics has unveiled a striking demonstration of robotics and entertainment engineering, releasing new footage this week that shows a bipedal robot shifting into a full-scale Tyrannosaurus rex. The reveal has drawn significant attention from observers who are eager to see how modern robotics can merge with cultural tourism experiences. The new video highlights a two-legged machine built on the TRON1 platform. In the demonstration, the robot stands fully covered in a detailed T-rex skin. The covering has a large sculpted head, small arms, and a long moving tail that gives the appearance of a creature walking on two powerful legs." The focus of the clip is the smooth transition from a standard biped to a dinosaur figure…...

12+ hour, 42+ min ago (631+ words) The discovery of stable dusty bodies near the Milky Way's black hole is reshaping theories about how stars survive in extreme regions. Yet a new set of observations has turned this assumption upside down. Using one of the world's most advanced infrared instruments, scientists have found that several strange "dusty objects" near the black hole are not falling apart at all." Instead, they are calmly circling it on stable orbits, behaving more like hidden stars wrapped in thick dusty shells. "The fact that these objects move in such a stable manner so close to a black hole is fascinating," Florian Peissker, lead researcher and postdoc at the University of Cologne, said. This discovery rewrites what we thought was possible in one of the universe's most extreme environments and may reshape how physicists understand star survival and star formation near supermassive…...

15+ hour, 49+ min ago (337+ words) BAE Systems' Bradley Fighting Vehicles are expected to help the U.S. Army dominate the enemy on the battlefield. The U.S. Army is set to get modern fighting vehicles that provide enhanced survivability, mobility and lethality. BAE Systems" Bradley Fighting Vehicles are expected to help the U.S. Army dominate the enemy on the battlefield. The company has got a contract modification worth over $390 million to upgrade additional Bradley Fighting Vehicles for soldiers.The new vehicles will be delivered to the U.S. Army as the modern replacement for former variants, greatly improving lethality, survivability and safety. "Lethality, performance and next-generation capability is what the Bradley A4 brings to the fight," said Bill Sheehy, Ground Maneuver product line director for BAE Systems. "It"s critical that we continue upgrading Bradleys to the modern A4 configuration so that warfighters have the equipment they need to dominate. This award not only…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago (454+ words) Sitting atop its twin-hulled platform, the SBX-1 now appears like a colossal super weapon. Although it's not immediately obvious at first glance, the giant radar platform anchored in Pearl Harbor is the largest seagoing radar system ever built." Known as the Sea-Based X-band Radar, or SBX-1, the vessel is a massive, self-propelled former drilling platform that has been transformed into one of the most powerful ballistic missile tracking assets in the world. Its visits to Hawaii are far from unusual, with Pearl Harbor often serving as a staging point and maintenance hub during its lengthy duty cycles." While it routinely returns there for extended periods, SBX-1 is officially homeported much farther north, on Adak Island in Alaska, where it supports US missile defense operations across the Pacific. Even in a place where the SBX-1 is a familiar sight, the radar…...