NASA’s path to the moon is taking a detour. The Artemis III mission, scheduled for 2027, will no longer land on the moon as originally planned, NASA administrator Jared Isaacman announced February 27 in a news conference. Instead, the agency aims to attempt two lunar landings in 2028. “Everyone agrees this is the only way…
In building LLM applications, enterprises often have to create very long system prompts to adjust the model’s behavior for their applications. These prompts contain company knowledge, preferences, and application-specific instructions. At enterprise scale, these contexts can push inference latency past acceptable thresholds and drive per-query costs up significantly. On-Policy Context Distillation (OPCD), a new training…
Baseball should be on a high. Spring training has begun and a record-breaking winter makes the games especially welcome – baseball means the good weather is coming soon. Injuries marred the NBA playoffs and the Super Bowl was a dud, but no sport settled its championship last year better than baseball, as the Los Angeles…
Fifteen-year-old Blake Cameron James is making a big name for himself as a rising star in #younghollywood as he brings Will Hanlon to life in the HBO limited series, It: Welcome to Derry. In It: Welcome to Derry, the Alabama-native is the beloved science-minded student whose family has a larger connection to the folklore of…
Our national security correspondent David E. Sanger maps Iran’s options for retaliation if the United States or Israel strikes. By David E. Sanger, Coleman Lowndes, Abdi Latif Dahir, Samuel Granados, Stephanie Swart, Lazaro Gamio and Ray Whitehouse February 27, 2026
February 27, 2026 1 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Eerie brainlike nebula captured in stunning new JWST images Nebula PMR 1 looks uncannily similar to an electrified brain inside a semitransparent skull By Claire Cameron edited by Clara Moskowitz NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI (image); Joseph DePasquale/STScI (image processing) The death of a star never looked so…
Like many child stars, Miley Cyrus got her start on Disney Channel. She was known to fans not as Miley Cyrus, but as Miley Stewart, the California teen living a double life as pop star Hannah Montana in the series of the same name. Her dad, singer Billy Ray Cyrus, played her on-screen dad and…
The Pentagon’s contract dispute with Anthropic is part of a wider clash about the use of artificial intelligence for national security and who decides on any safeguards.
The 2026 NFL scouting combine has seen a handful of players dazzle fans and talent evaluators with their athleticism, starting with an explosive group of defensive linemen and linebackers on Thursday afternoon. Years from now, we’ll know this group for featuring some of the best players in this draft class. But the players they’ll be…
The unrest underlines the intensity of domestic discontent, even as Tehran’s government grapples with the threat of U.S. strikes. Here’s what to know.
