According to Bloomberg, the Democratic Party will win a majority in both the House of Representatives and the Senate following the US midterm elections.
Bloomberg projects Democrats are ahead of Republicans by a two-to-one margin in the US midterm elections to the House of Representatives; they need to gain four seats to control the chamber.
US President Donald Trump said in a CBS interview that he will veto Democratic legislative initiatives if Democrats win a majority in Congress in the midterm elections. He also did not rule out that the nickname "Mr. Veto" suits him.
A survey of mothers in 31 countries found that an average of 23% describe birth as traumatic and about 7% develop post-traumatic stress disorder, with rates ranging from 7% to 69%.
An analysis of 42 written accounts by survivors of the Las Vegas mass shooting found that under extreme stress memory does not switch off entirely but becomes selective, preserving not only the threat but also help given to others.
A study found that children who blink more often perform better at switching rules in a game, and their brains are more active in the right prefrontal area. But this is only a statistical association, not proof of cause.
Chinese scientists have developed the Pinal model, which generates proteins from natural-language descriptions. But test results were mixed.
Engineers at Stanford have created a fingernail-sized photonic chip that separates mixed light from several lasers into individual beams. This is the first experiment of its kind.
New modeling shows that when protecting Earth from an asteroid with a nuclear blast, not only the power but also which side is targeted matters. The difference in effect reaches 17 times.
Researchers at the University of Cincinnati found that generative AI will repeat obvious falsehoods if a user pushes back enough. Tests showed this tendency in Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and other models.
Researchers showed how publicly available AI tools use public posts to create convincing phishing emails. Built-in safety filters barely interfere.
A University of Kansas professor explains how to spot hidden biases in AI-generated texts and why this matters for everyone who works with information.
Engineers trained a 16-joint robotic hand to pass objects between its fingers. A separate software filter cut the number of drops but slightly reduced accuracy.
A University of Surrey study found that people attached to AI companions feel vulnerable when the bots "miss" or "depend" on them, and fear the company will change the bot's personality or shut the service down.
Researchers at McGill University have developed a biocomputer in which living bacteria act as processors, exploring many possible solutions in parallel with minimal memory and resources.
A genetically optimized control system described in the International Journal of Automation and Control substantially improved the movement accuracy of a three-link robot manipulator in computer tests.
South Korean researchers have created an AI-based system that automatically cross-checks construction documents and identifies discrepancies without requiring costly BIM modeling.
The Russian Foreign Ministry summoned Norway's charge d'affaires, Bjoern Svenungsen, and lodged a decisive protest over the arrest of the vessel Professor Molchanov at the request of Ukrainian companies.
Two people died when a Ukrainian drone struck a moving car, including a Zaporozhye NPP employee, the plant said, calling it targeted terrorism.
Astrophysicists from Sapienza University of Rome suggest that dense young star clusters in the early Universe could have been the birthplaces of the 'seeds' of supermassive black holes.
Russian forces struck a Nova Poshta logistics center in Berdichev and a dry cargo ship in the Black Sea south of Odesa, the Defense Ministry said.
The James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed a massive dusty galaxy that, contrary to expectations, is unlikely to become a compact elliptical giant.
In Petropavlivska Borshchahivka near Kyiv, protesters discovered an illegal prison holding Ukrainian service members; there were several attempted stormings of the building and interventions by Budanov* and Pivnenko.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said European countries are doing everything possible to shield Ukraine from scandals, including one linked to a torture site near Kyiv.
An international team led by researchers at Queen's University Belfast has found two asteroids and one candidate in Neptune's trailing cloud, which had eluded observation for decades.
US presidential envoy Stephen Witkoff said Russia and Ukraine will hold talks in the UAE with Washington mediating; US negotiators will first discuss guarantees for Ukraine in Brussels.
Researchers at the University of Florida created miniature inductors with a magnetic core of nickel and iron oxide nanoparticles: inductance more than doubled compared with devices without a core.
Interviews with 31 heterosexual men found that instead of joy they describe anxiety, self-monitoring and fear of causing harm. The study was published in the Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy.
A study found that people who dreamed about the 2024 election felt worse the next morning than those who did not. The effect appeared among Democrats and independents, but not Republicans.
A study by Serbian scientists showed that dark personality traits and flawed thinking habits are independently linked to antisocial behavior.