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NOAA released its winter forecast this week, saying a strong El Niño pattern will heavily influence precipitation and temperature trends across the U.S. The agency's outlook maps show wetter-than-average conditions expected across southern states while parts of the northern U.S. are likely to see below-normal precipitation.
Gallup's latest global survey finds that among adults worldwide who say they want to move permanently to another country, just 15% name the United States as their preferred destination, the lowest share in nearly two decades of polling. The figure peaked near 24% between 2007 and 2009 and has stayed at or below 18% since 2017. Canada remains the second most desired destination at 9%, a share that has held steady even as U.S. appeal declined.
Researchers built chains of spin-1 triangulene molecules on a superconducting Au(111)/Nb(110) surface and measured their behavior with scanning tunnelling spectroscopy. They found that chains with an odd number of units develop in-gap Yu-Shiba-Rusinov states tied to a collective spin-1 ground state, while even-length chains settle into a spin-0 state that stays decoupled from the superconductor.
Extend engineer Bo Lau created a website that recreates Elizabeth Holmes' 2016 desk setup, letting users browse a simulated iPhone and MacBook loaded with real emails, texts, slides and documents from the United States v. Holmes trial. The site also lets visitors operate a virtual version of the Theranos Edison blood-testing device.
Tropical Storm Isaias intensified into a hurricane in the Gulf as of Wednesday evening, prompting Alabama and Florida to declare states of emergency on Thursday. Several live tracking tools are now available online to follow the storm's projected path toward the Gulf Coast.
Policymakers and businesses are prioritizing the development of essential infrastructure, including water resources, to support the expanding AI-driven economy. Massive financial commitments are fueling sector growth and attracting state-level investments. Major corporate expansions are also being announced frequently as part of this push.
Scientists reported experimental evidence of 'critical topology'—topological features existing at the boundary between phases rather than within stable phases—using engineered phononic crystals. They characterized gapless topological states through entanglement spectrum and entanglement wavefunction analysis in both one- and two-dimensional systems, and directly imaged topological boundary modes within a gapless bulk continuum.
Recent data indicates an unusually high rate of positive influenza tests in regions like the UK and US West Coast, suggesting an early start to this year's flu season. The dominant strain is H1N1, with signs of a new mutation raising concerns among scientists. Experts caution that while the trend is notable, it does not yet predict the severity of the season.
U.S. District Judge Sara Hill ruled that a Tulsa County sheriff's deputy violated the Fourth Amendment by searching Flock Safety's license-plate database without a warrant, based solely on a vehicle having California plates. Because the search lacked justification, Hill ordered evidence from the resulting car search—including an alleged 91 pounds of methamphetamine—suppressed as 'fruit of the poisonous tree.' Hill also described Flock's camera network as a form of 'indiscriminate mass surveillance' that tracks all vehicles passing its cameras.
A webinar featuring Dr. Pavel Terekhov, a postdoctoral researcher at NIST, will explain how combining finite element simulation with multipole decomposition in COMSOL Multiphysics can predict and explain optical resonances in dielectric metasurfaces. The talk will cover a crystalline silicon metasurface built from quadrumer meta-atoms that shows enhanced absorption from two coexisting multipole mechanisms, as well as ongoing work on a gallium nitride metasurface using four interacting multipoles to control reflection, transmission, and quasi-bound-states-in-the-continuum behavior.
At the UN General Assembly in September, Panama's president José Raúl Mulino proposed a Universal Declaration of the Rights of Nature, which would recognize nature as a legal 'subject of rights' with intrinsic value. On 24 September, Panama, Tonga and Vanuatu launched the For Nature Coalition of States, joined by founding members Palau and Dominica, to build diplomatic support for the idea within the UN's Harmony with Nature process.
California has enacted a law banning child marriage outright, removing exceptions that previously allowed minors to marry with parental or judicial consent. The change makes California one of a small number of US states to fully prohibit marriage before age 18. Advocate Sara Tasneen, who says she was married at 15 to a man nearly twice her age, has campaigned for the ban since 2017.