Science & Technology — September 22, 2026
AI solves famed math problem. OpenAI’s model beat mathematicians to resolving the Navier-Stokes problem, one of math’s hardest, but researchers say the machine-generated proof offers little human insight.
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First new penguin species in a century. Genetic evidence revealed a previously unknown gentoo penguin species on the remote Kerguelen Islands and showed gentoos are actually four distinct species.
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El Niño ties intensity record. The strengthening weather pattern has tied for the most intense El Niño on record on a widely used metric, with effects already felt from Central America to Asia.
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Epigenetic editing silences hepatitis B. A new technique uses chemical tags to shut down viral DNA lurking in a host’s genome, effectively silencing hepatitis B in a milestone for epigenetic medicine.
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