Order doesn’t always form perfectly—and those imperfections can be surprisingly powerful. In materials like liquid crystals, tiny “defects” emerge when symmetry breaks, shaping everything from cosmic ...

Abstract: Lightweight and efficient neural network models for deep joint source-channel coding (JSCC) are crucial for semantic communications. In this paper, we propose a novel JSCC architecture, ...

Americans might not be as divided as they often believe, according to a wide-ranging group of scholars and thought leaders who crunched thousands of data points for a new “State of the States” report.

OpenAI announced it will acquire Ona, a startup that provides cloud environments for AI agents. Ona's technology will allow OpenAI's coding assistant, Codex, to take on longer-running tasks, OpenAI ...

This photograph shows a screen during the 18th edition of the "InCyber" Forum, an international cyber security event, at the Grand Palais in Lille, northern France on April 1, 2026. The forum, which ...

With $7.748 billion reported lost by Americans 60 and older in 2025, HCSK's Stolen Trust reads federal data and 1,910 news items together to show the scale, mechanics, and human cost of the crisis.