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US says that it will review Moderna flu vaccine it previously declined | Health News

US says that it will review Moderna flu vaccine it previously declined | Health News

Published by Sam Flores

The pharmaceutical giant expressed optimism that its new flu shot would be available this year, after approval concerns. Listen to this article | 3 mins info By Reuters and The Associated Press Published On 18 Feb 202618 Feb 2026 Click here to share on social media share2 Share The federal agency tasked with regulating drugs in the United States has said it will review a flu vaccine application from the pharmaceutical giant Moderna, one week after it declined to do so in an unusual move. Moderna announced on Wednesday that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had accepted a revised application seeking full approval for a new flu shot to be offered to patients between the ages of 50 and 64 and expedited approval for those over 65. Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list “Pending FDA approval, we look forward to making our flu vaccine available later this year so that America’s seniors have access to a new option to protect themselves against flu,” CEO Stephane Bancel said in a statement. He also expressed thanks …

Vending Machine Run by Claude More of a Disaster Than Previously Known

Vending Machine Run by Claude More of a Disaster Than Previously Known

Published by José Betancourt

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Anthropic / Getty Images Maybe we don’t need the Turing test, because there’s a mighty obstacle that’s proving far more challenging to AI models’ supposedly burgeoning intelligence: running a vending machine without going comically off the rails. At Anthropic, researchers wanted a fun way to keep track of how its cutting edge Claude model was progressing. And what better staging ground for it to demonstrate its autonomy than the task of keeping one of these noisy, oversized, and constantly-malfunctioning behemoths stocked? That was the gist of Project Vend, which ran for about a month mid last year. In it, Claude was given a simple directive: “Your task is to generate profits from it by stocking it with popular products that you can buy from wholesalers. You go bankrupt if your money balance goes below $0.” Claude — or “Claudius,” as its vending persona was known, but we’ll stick to the former for the sake of clarity — had pretty much free reign to accomplish its goal. It was …

Central and South America collided much earlier than previously thought

Central and South America collided much earlier than previously thought

Published by Jenni Sidey

The ground beneath northern South America holds memories far older than any city or road. Locked inside ancient volcanic rocks is a record of when continents collided, mountains rose, and the shape of the Americas began to change. A new scientific study suggests that one of the most important tectonic events in this region happened earlier than scientists once believed. Research shows that the collision between Central America and South America was largely complete before about 10 million years ago. That timing challenges long-standing ideas about how and when the northern Andes were formed. The study was led by Victor Piedrahita and J. Li, working with an international team of geoscientists. Their work focuses on Colombia’s Northern Andes, where layers of volcanic rock act like a geological diary. By reading those layers in a new way, the researchers uncovered evidence that major crustal deformation had already slowed by the late Miocene. Geological framework of the northwestern Andes, including major tectonic plates, faults, and cordilleras. (CREDIT: Earth and Planetary Physics) Reading the Past Written in Rock …

Stacey Solomon shares glimpse into previously unseen luxurious feature at £1.2 million home

Stacey Solomon shares glimpse into previously unseen luxurious feature at £1.2 million home

Published by Daniella Wilson

Stacey Solomon and Joe Swash live in their £1.2 million Essex mansion, affectionately dubbed ‘Pickle Cottage’, with their five children, and frequently give their fans and followers a look inside the property on their social media pages. Whether it’s the many developments in the gardens, the children’s lavish playrooms, or her many seasonal overhauls, the former X Factor contestant has earned a reputation for being the queen of home renovation. In a brand new video shared to her Instagram stories, the Sort Your Life Out star shared a rare glimpse inside her incredibly luxurious bathroom, and inadvertently revealed a feature that we’ve not seen before. See the video above to take a look at Stacey Solomon’s previously unseen lavish feature in the bathroom at her £1.2 million Essex mansion… In the clip, the 36-year-old explained that she had decided to treat herself to a bath because Joe was doing the school run, and, in the process, showed off the fancy-looking jets in her bathroom. Fans also got a brief glimpse at the family’s immense garden, …

A New AI Math Startup Just Cracked 4 Previously Unsolved Problems

A New AI Math Startup Just Cracked 4 Previously Unsolved Problems

Published by skeptic

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance along curved surfaces. While working on one theorem, they ran into an unexpected roadblock: Their argument depended on a strange formula from number theory, but they were unable to solve or justify it. In the end, Chen and Gendron wrote a paper presenting their idea as a conjecture, rather than a theorem. Chen recently spent hours prompting ChatGPT in the hopes of getting the AI to come up with a solution to the still unsolved problem, but it wasn’t working. Then, during a reception at a math conference in Washington, DC, last month, Chen ran into Ken Ono, a well-known mathematician who had recently left his job at the University of Virginia to join Axiom, an artificial intelligence startup cofounded by one of his mentees, Carina Hong. Chen told Ono about the problem, and the following morning, Ono presented him with a proof, courtesy of his startup’s …

Extraterrestrial life may exist on many more worlds than previously thought

Extraterrestrial life may exist on many more worlds than previously thought

Published by Jenni Sidey

For many years, astronomers have been looking for extraterrestrial life. In doing so, astronomers have narrowed their search to a small “habitable zone” around stars. This habitable zone defines the region in which the temperature of a planet is likely to be warm enough, but not too warm, for liquid water to exist at the surface of the planet. By analyzing the data in a recent paper published in Astrophysical Journal, Professor Amri Wandel from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem argues that this long-held assumption may actually be too conservative. It may easily dismiss planets that once seemed inhospitable to liquid water as potentially habitable planets because they might still have liquid water on their surfaces. Wandel’s studies were focused mainly on planets orbiting two types of stellar names, M Dwarf Stars and K Dwarf Stars. These stars are both smaller and cooler than our Sun and make up the majority of stellar types in our galaxies. Extensions to the HZ (the orange stripe) as a function of distance between the planet and its host …

Humans returned to British Isles earlier than previously thought at the end of the last ice age

Humans returned to British Isles earlier than previously thought at the end of the last ice age

Published by skeptic

The return of humans to the British Isles after the end of the last ice sheet, which covered much of the northern hemisphere, happened around 15,200 years ago – nearly 500 years earlier than previous estimates. This movement of people coincided with a sharp rise in summer temperatures in southern Britain, research by our group shows. These environmental conditions allowed humans to migrate back up into Britain – then still connected to the European mainland. They were hunting herds of reindeer and horses, which were migrating northwards into ecosystems that supported their preferred food for grazing. After the end of the last ice age, the climate in north-west Europe shifted from cold to warm conditions on at least two occasions, with changes in temperature thought to have occurred over decades. Our latest research addresses the first of these transitions in the Late Upper Palaeolithic period (14,000 to 11,000 years ago). In areas such as north-west Europe, including where the British Isles are today, humans successively abandoned and then returned to areas at the abrupt transitions …

Chinese Fusion Reactor Achieves Plasma Density Previously Thought to Be Impossible

Chinese Fusion Reactor Achieves Plasma Density Previously Thought to Be Impossible

Published by José Betancourt

Huang Bohan / Xinhua via Getty Images Scientists at China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) program rang in the new year with a stunning accomplishment: empirical evidence that they used the device to achieve nuclear plasma densities once thought to be beyond human capabilities. On January 1, researchers at the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science at the Chinese Academy of Sciences published a wild new study in the journal Science Advances. In it, the team details the way they used EAST — which has memorably been dubbed China’s “artificial sun” — to achieve a plasma density far higher than previous limits. Nuclear fusion is the process by which two atomic nuclei combine to form a single, heavier nucleus, resulting in a huge release of energy. Because of its potential to produce limitless clean energy, scientists the world over have sought ways to use nuclear fusion as a viable power source. One difficulty, however, is that all atomic nuclei have a positive charge, meaning they’re naturally repulsed by each other — think two magnets with opposite …

Astronomers discover previously unseen kernel structure inside the Kuiper Belt

Astronomers discover previously unseen kernel structure inside the Kuiper Belt

Published by Jenni Sidey

Astronomers at Princeton University have uncovered evidence that the outer solar system is more structured than long believed. Led by astrophysics doctoral student Amir Siraj, the research points to a compact, previously unseen cluster of icy bodies inside the Kuiper Belt. The finding suggests that distant solar system orbits still hold clues about how the planets moved billions of years ago. The Kuiper Belt lies beyond Neptune and contains countless frozen remnants left over from planet formation. For years, astronomers thought they had identified its main features. One of the most prominent is the “kernel,” a tight grouping of objects on calm, low-tilt orbits about 44 astronomical units from the Sun. An astronomical unit, or AU, is the average distance between Earth and the Sun. The new study shows that this familiar picture may be incomplete. Using a data-mining technique borrowed from stellar astronomy, Siraj and his colleagues found signs of a second compact structure just inside the known kernel. They call it the “inner kernel,” a group of Kuiper Belt objects clustered around 43 …