UnitedHealth Group’s Optum health services business is working on its own turnaround that includes leaving some markets and ending contracts with medical care providers that aren’t aligned with the company, Optum chief executive Dr. Patrick…
Author: admin
-
Mountain snow forecasting tool aims to refine water availability predictions
A new tool developed by Washington State University researchers could someday provide daily or weekly forecasts of water availability in the mountains similar to a weather forecast that agencies could use for important water management decisions.
Continue Reading
-
Finnish birdwatchers' app data fuel world's most accurate model for predicting bird occurrence
New cutting-edge research, led by Academy Professor Otso Ovaskainen of the University of Jyväskylä and David Dunson at Duke University, combines citizen bird observations with artificial intelligence and the computing power of supercomputers at…
Continue Reading
-
Second Edition of Space Debris 2026 Conference Kicks Off with Participation from 75 Countries
The second edition of the Space Debris 2026 Conference officially commenced today. Organized by the Saudi Space Agency (SSA), the conference is witnessing broad international participation representing 75 countries from around the world,…
Continue Reading
-
A WB-57 pilot just made a heroic landing in Houston after its landing gear failed
One of NASA’s three large WB-57 aircraft made an emergency landing at Ellington Field on Tuesday morning in southeastern Houston.
Video captured by KHOU 11 television showed the aircraft…
Continue Reading
-
EU steps in to make sure Google gives rivals access to AI services and data
The European Union said Tuesday it’s stepping in to make sure Google gives rival AI companies and search engines access to Gemini AI services and data as required by the bloc’s flagship digital rulebook.
Continue Reading
-
New study finds heart attacks involve brain and immune system, not just heart
Arteries become clogged. Blood flow is restricted and oxygen is cut off. The result is a heart attack, the world’s leading cause of death.
Continue Reading
-
Foundation AI models trained on physics, not words, are driving scientific discovery
While popular AI models such as ChatGPT are trained on language or photographs, new models created by researchers from the Polymathic AI collaboration are trained using real scientific datasets. The models are already using knowledge from one…
Continue Reading
-
What to know about America's colossal winter storm
A deep freeze is gripping large swaths of the United States after a monster storm killed dozens of people from the Northeast to the Deep South, knocked out power to hundreds of thousands and sent air travel into chaos.
Continue Reading
-
Thomas Edison May Have Created a Miracle Material Before Physics Knew It Existed
A modern materials study suggests that Thomas Edison’s early light bulb experiments may have unknowingly produced graphene decades before the material was formally theorized or isolated. Thomas Edison never heard the word “graphene,” yet…
Continue Reading