Innovation and Discovery

NASA will brief reporters Oct. 20 on two spacewalks planned to install the final ISS roll-out solar arrays and complete a power upgrade.

An IdeaNavigator AI product concept proposes local price bands and title suggestions for Marketplace sellers, with a 15-seller test to gauge demand.

Antarctic sea ice likely peaked on September 14 at 17.59 million square kilometers, the third-lowest annual maximum in the satellite record.

A September 2026 design project shows a projector-and-camera device for putting digital information into shared spaces, but says a consumer version is not ready.

NASA announced a metascience initiative and 10 Genesis Mission Fellowships alongside the White House’s Science: A Golden Age Summit.

OpenAI published 722 manuscripts from an unnamed model. Their claims are not independently verified, and the work’s mathematical value remains uncertain.

A proposed pilot would connect vacant small-town storefronts with business owners, linking listings to local development offices and grant programs.

Astral Codex Ten’s Open Thread 454 shares meet-up, translated-document and book-review resources, an AI-safety outreach notice and a publishing update.

A reanalysis of Hubble data found niobium signatures in a white dwarf system, pointing to a possible planet formed from material ejected by its star.

A proposed wholesale marketplace would let independent shops test products in five-unit assortments, then track which trials become standard orders.