Science & Discovery

NOAA put its Rapid Refresh Forecast System into operation Nov. 3, replacing older regional models with hourly forecasts and added smoke and dust tools.

• Curious Minds Team
• November 6, 2026

Astral Codex Ten’s November links post collects forecasts, essays and cultural notes, while warning that some links may be wrong or misleading.

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• November 5, 2026

A SLAC-led study in Science reports a direct measurement of chirality in manganese telluride, supporting altermagnetism as a distinct magnetic phase.

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• November 3, 2026

A Nature Energy study links regular battery-storage checks to synchronized power use and brief grid-frequency dips observed in Europe and elsewhere.

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• November 2, 2026

Oxford energy professor Jan Rosenow says electrifying transport and heating could halve global energy demand, though the estimate is not independently detailed.

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• November 1, 2026

A Northwestern-led team confined one positron for a month, creating a platform to measure its magnetic moment and test matter–antimatter symmetry.

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• October 25, 2026

An ACX book-review contest finalist examines Clark Elliott’s memoir of severe concussion, a decade of impairment and disputed paths to recovery.

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• October 24, 2026

A paper by David Harvey and Joris van der Hoeven proposes multiplying large integers in O(n log n) bit operations, improving on an earlier bound.

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• October 22, 2026

Astral Codex Ten examines why skull drilling appeared across prehistoric societies, how patients survived and why its use became less common.

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• October 22, 2026

Astral Codex Ten’s Open Thread 456 shares meetup updates, an AI grantmaking survey, a new AI prediction market and a community-notes project.

• Curious Minds Team
• October 20, 2026