A 3,200-year-old Egyptian inscription found near an ancient military road may indicate the location of a long-lost city, archaeologists have announced. Found at the site of Tell Abu Seifi (also spelled Seify), the inscription mentions Ramesses II, who reigned from about 1279 to 1213 B.C. It says that A view of more of the inscriptions,…
People who are the exact same chronological age can undergo very different molecular changes as they grow older, a new study finds. “Molecular aging is dynamic and unique to each person,” said study co-author The study pulled data from the TwinsUK cohort, which in total includes over 15,000 identical and fraternal twins from across the…
Large patches of open water were visible just 37 miles (60 kilometers) from the North Pole on Aug. 29, a NASA satellite image shows. Although this doesn’t necessarily mean that Arctic ice is worse off this year than the past few years, the image reveals how severely climate change is affecting the region, experts say….
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Ask any organization whether they invest in coaching, and you’ll almost certainly get a yes. It’s a stated priority, a line item in leadership development budgets, a topic in management training. And yet, when researchers go to measure how managers perform across a range of their responsibilities, coaching keeps…
Episode Description: Arielle and Karissa are reunited after a few weeks apart, covering a wide range of solutions this episode: a new telescope that survived two White House cancellation attempts, the decade-long trial that settles the statin-and-dementia debate once and for all, and a biodegradable balloon that took three years and hundreds of failed experiments…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM A decade-long clinical trial of nearly 10,000 adults aged 70 and over has found that daily statins reduce the risk of a first major cardiac event by 30 percent, with no significant increase in serious side effects. The study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine and…
The Robot Report Podcast · How FPGAs become the gatekeepers of Physical AI Security Eric Sivertson, VP at Lattice. In Episode 260 of The Robot Report Podcast, the topics are FPGAs (field-programmable gate arrays), physical AI, and building safe and secure robots. Our guest is Eric Sivertson, vice president of the security business at Lattice…
The robotics industry is rapidly changing and growing. Each year, we see new robotics startups launch into the scene with exciting technology. At The Robot Report, we want to help our readers keep up with this ever-changing landscape. So, we’re bringing back the Robotics Startup Radar. Today, we’re opening submissions for our 2026 list. We’re looking…
Steel pipelines used for oil and gas transportation remain the backbone of energy infrastructure. Hence, there is heavy focus on their integrity and resistance to degradation in corrosive conditions. Sour corrosion, a dangerous form of pipeline steel degradation when exposed to H2S, typically found in crude oil and natural gas, causes continuous hydrogen uptake into…
Lyte said its vision systems create a direct path from physical capture to simulation, training, and real-time inference. | Source: Lyte Lyte AI Inc. this week said it has raised $165 million in Series C funding. The round valued the physical AI company at $1.6 billion post-money. Founded in 2021, Lyte designs processors, multimodal sensors,…
