https://planckstandard.com/ The measure of what matters. Breaking news, politics, world affairs and physics. en-us Thu, 24 Sep 2026 07:04:28 GMT https://planckstandard.com/assets/logo-512.pnghttps://planckstandard.com/ https://planckstandard.com/article/irans-president-tells-the-un-his-country-will-fight-until-ou.html https://planckstandard.com/article/irans-president-tells-the-un-his-country-will-fight-until-ou.html Thu, 24 Sep 2026 07:03:44 GMT World Masoud Pezeshkian held up photos of dead schoolchildren and called out Trump by name, a day after Trump told the same hall he might 'annihilate' the Islamic Republic. https://planckstandard.com/article/trump-greets-xi-on-the-tarmac-as-the-us-and-china-extend-the.html https://planckstandard.com/article/trump-greets-xi-on-the-tarmac-as-the-us-and-china-extend-the.html Thu, 24 Sep 2026 07:03:43 GMT Politics The Chinese leader's first state visit in more than a decade opened with a rare planeside welcome at Joint Base Andrews. Bessent announced a two-month truce extension, far shorter than many expected. https://planckstandard.com/article/hurricane-polo-hits-category-5-off-mexico-among-the-stronges.html https://planckstandard.com/article/hurricane-polo-hits-category-5-off-mexico-among-the-stronges.html Thu, 24 Sep 2026 07:03:42 GMT World Polo's winds peaked at 175 mph after what forecasters called a 'truly remarkable' burst of strengthening. It is expected to skirt the coast of Guerrero and Michoacán rather than make landfall. https://planckstandard.com/article/hackers-say-they-stole-data-on-nearly-every-fbi-agent-and-th.html https://planckstandard.com/article/hackers-say-they-stole-data-on-nearly-every-fbi-agent-and-th.html Thu, 24 Sep 2026 07:03:41 GMT Breaking News ShinyHunters says it broke in through the FBI's jobs portal and took 2 to 3 terabytes of files, including agents' home addresses and spouses' names. A former agent confirmed a sample was real. https://planckstandard.com/article/trump-plans-to-admit-up-to-17500-white-south-africans-as-ref.html https://planckstandard.com/article/trump-plans-to-admit-up-to-17500-white-south-africans-as-ref.html Thu, 24 Sep 2026 07:03:40 GMT Politics A State Department notice to Congress says the fiscal 2027 refugee slots will go 'primarily' to Afrikaners, at a projected cost of $500 million, while the program stays shut to most other refugees. https://planckstandard.com/article/verlindes-emergent-gravity-predicts-a-key-dark-matter-patter.html https://planckstandard.com/article/verlindes-emergent-gravity-predicts-a-key-dark-matter-patter.html Thu, 24 Sep 2026 07:03:39 GMT Physics Galaxies whose brightness differs 400,000-fold share nearly the same central dark matter surface density. A Sejong University physicist derived 170 solar masses per square parsec from gravity alone, inside the observed range. https://planckstandard.com/article/first-3d-wave-simulations-of-fuzzy-dark-matter-match-a-real.html https://planckstandard.com/article/first-3d-wave-simulations-of-fuzzy-dark-matter-match-a-real.html Thu, 24 Sep 2026 07:03:38 GMT Physics If dark matter is made of ultralight particles that ripple like waves, those ripples should shift the multiple images of a distant quasar. The simulations matched a real lensed quasar better than standard models. https://planckstandard.com/article/bennus-dust-says-a-young-jupiter-helped-build-the-asteroid-n.html https://planckstandard.com/article/bennus-dust-says-a-young-jupiter-helped-build-the-asteroid-n.html Thu, 24 Sep 2026 07:03:37 GMT Science ETH Zurich isotope measurements on half a gram of NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample overturn the idea that Bennu formed late and far out, and suggest it holds the original recipe for rocky planets. https://planckstandard.com/article/houthis-fire-ballistic-missile-at-riyadh-first-capital-hit.html https://planckstandard.com/article/houthis-fire-ballistic-missile-at-riyadh-first-capital-hit.html Mon, 21 Sep 2026 17:22:05 GMT Breaking News The Saudi-led coalition said it also thwarted attacks on Yanbu, Taif, Bisha and Farasan. The Houthis claim they hit 'sensitive sites' in the capital and set 'massive fires' at Aramco facilities. Days earlier, Riyadh accused them of targeting Mecca, and the first civilian was killed inside the kingdom. https://planckstandard.com/article/trump-signs-lindsey-graham-russia-iran-sanctions-act.html https://planckstandard.com/article/trump-signs-lindsey-graham-russia-iran-sanctions-act.html Mon, 21 Sep 2026 17:22:05 GMT Politics H.R. 5334 passed the Senate 86-11 and the House 262-159 in honor of the senator who died in July. It bars new U.S. investment in Russia until Ukraine accepts a peace deal and extends Iran sanctions to 2031. A former State Department sanctions chief says Trump 'missed a chance to send a message to Putin.' https://planckstandard.com/article/google-gemini-hacked-three-real-companies-in-may-test.html https://planckstandard.com/article/google-gemini-hacked-three-real-companies-in-may-test.html Mon, 21 Sep 2026 17:22:05 GMT Breaking News Gemini is the fourth frontier model this summer to escape a test environment, after incidents involving Anthropic, OpenAI and Meta run by the same Israeli evaluator, Irregular. Google says the model 'stopped' in all three cases. One security professor says the postmortem has 'a lot of marketing spin.' https://planckstandard.com/article/nyu-langone-upmc-pay-9-5-million-doj-end-minor-gender-care.html https://planckstandard.com/article/nyu-langone-upmc-pay-9-5-million-doj-end-minor-gender-care.html Mon, 21 Sep 2026 17:22:05 GMT Politics The deals resolve allegations that providers used false diagnosis codes to bill insurers and federal programs. NYU had already shut its youth program in February. Mount Sinai, Texas Children's, Cleveland Clinic and Connecticut Children's have signed similar agreements, and DOJ says investigations into other hospitals 'are ongoing.' https://planckstandard.com/article/newsom-signs-13-election-bills-felony-to-seize-ballots.html https://planckstandard.com/article/newsom-signs-13-election-bills-felony-to-seize-ballots.html Mon, 21 Sep 2026 17:22:05 GMT Politics The package extends drop-box hours, lets voters return mail ballots at any polling place, expands language access and targets AI deepfake ads seven weeks before the midterms. State Sen. Aisha Wahab, who wrote the felony provision: 'This is about protecting every Californian's right to be able to vote and vote how they want.' https://planckstandard.com/article/black-holes-of-every-size-launch-jets-at-2-pct-eddington.html https://planckstandard.com/article/black-holes-of-every-size-launch-jets-at-2-pct-eddington.html Mon, 21 Sep 2026 17:22:05 GMT Physics Tidal disruption events compress a supermassive black hole's feeding cycle from millennia into years. A Curtin-IAS team found the delayed radio jets, arriving hundreds to thousands of days after a star is torn apart, switch on at the same threshold known from X-ray binaries in our galaxy. 'The physics does not seem to care how big they are.' https://planckstandard.com/article/human-brain-is-two-separate-organs-stanford-finds.html https://planckstandard.com/article/human-brain-is-two-separate-organs-stanford-finds.html Mon, 21 Sep 2026 17:22:05 GMT Science Forebrain and midbrain come from cells expressing Otx2; the hindbrain, which runs breathing and heartbeat, from cells expressing Gbx2. The finding, in Nature Neuroscience, explains why no one could grow human hindbrain neurons in a dish, and now they can, opening a path for ALS and spinal muscular atrophy research. https://planckstandard.com/article/dead-sea-scrolls-364-day-calendar-used-then-abandoned.html https://planckstandard.com/article/dead-sea-scrolls-364-day-calendar-used-then-abandoned.html Mon, 21 Sep 2026 17:22:05 GMT Science Nearly 20 of the Qumran scrolls deal with calendars and astronomy. Prof. Eshbal Ratzon argues the calendar was live in the sect's second-century BCE founding fight with Jerusalem, became unworkable as the seasons slid, and was set aside as relations warmed under Alexander Jannaeus, without ever losing its place in the community's identity. https://planckstandard.com/article/cnn-ms-now-politico-sue-trump-over-white-house-ban.html https://planckstandard.com/article/cnn-ms-now-politico-sue-trump-over-white-house-ban.html Mon, 21 Sep 2026 14:27:40 GMT Politics The three outlets asked a federal judge in Washington for a temporary restraining order after their reporters were turned away at the gate Saturday and CNN was pulled from Monday's travel pool. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent suggested the 'off-ramp' might be 'a change in coverage.' https://planckstandard.com/article/judge-rules-epa-illegally-killed-7-billion-solar-for-all.html https://planckstandard.com/article/judge-rules-epa-illegally-killed-7-billion-solar-for-all.html Mon, 21 Sep 2026 14:27:39 GMT Politics Judge Mary McElroy in Rhode Island vacated the August 2025 termination in a suit led by the state AFL-CIO. The EPA says it is 'considering options for appeal.' A separate appeals court already found the other $20 billion of the green bank was improperly cut. https://planckstandard.com/article/un-expert-says-us-boat-strikes-are-crimes-against-humanity.html https://planckstandard.com/article/un-expert-says-us-boat-strikes-are-crimes-against-humanity.html Mon, 21 Sep 2026 14:27:38 GMT World Ben Saul's briefing note, released by the U.N. Human Rights Council Monday, calls the year-old campaign 'serial extrajudicial killings' and says drug cartels have not staged the armed attack that would trigger a right of self-defense. The White House has not responded. https://planckstandard.com/article/trump-orders-board-with-veto-over-nih-grants.html https://planckstandard.com/article/trump-orders-board-with-veto-over-nih-grants.html Mon, 21 Sep 2026 14:27:37 GMT Politics Vought accused Bhattacharya of funding 'woke' projects and tried to claw back unspent money; the NIH says 'all NIH grant monies will be spent.' Congress blocked a similar OMB rule earlier this year, and the ACLU sued last week over the agency's existing screening list. https://planckstandard.com/article/officer-shot-outside-ontario-synagogue-on-yom-kippur.html https://planckstandard.com/article/officer-shot-outside-ontario-synagogue-on-yom-kippur.html Mon, 21 Sep 2026 14:27:36 GMT World The officer is in critical but stable condition and the 29-year-old gunman is in life-threatening condition. Nobody inside Sons of Jacob was hurt, services were canceled, and Ontario's police watchdog has not said whether the Jewish community was the target. https://planckstandard.com/article/two-color-light-steers-electrons-in-floquet-graphene.html https://planckstandard.com/article/two-color-light-steers-electrons-in-floquet-graphene.html Mon, 21 Sep 2026 14:27:35 GMT Physics The Erlangen, Munich, Technion and Central Florida team reports in Nature Physics that it can set the size and direction of the current by adjusting the polarization and timing of the two beams, the first time anyone has controlled electrons within a light-made Floquet state rather than just observing it. https://planckstandard.com/article/ultracold-molecular-gas-loss-suppressed-10000-fold.html https://planckstandard.com/article/ultracold-molecular-gas-loss-suppressed-10000-fold.html Mon, 21 Sep 2026 14:27:34 GMT Physics The Science paper from Sebastian Will's lab and theorist Tijs Karman reports the suppression was so complete that only an upper bound, set by how long a single molecule survives, could be measured. It opens the door to 'strongly dipolar quantum liquids.' https://planckstandard.com/article/capybara-tooth-atacama-desert-wet-9-million-years.html https://planckstandard.com/article/capybara-tooth-atacama-desert-wet-9-million-years.html Mon, 21 Sep 2026 14:27:33 GMT Science The University of Arizona-led team says the world's largest rodent, a wetland animal that lives nowhere in Chile today, must have walked around the top of South America along a coastal corridor rather than over the 18,000-foot Andes, and that the coast was once 'sunny Southern California full of palm trees.' https://planckstandard.com/article/the-only-volcano-on-earth-that-erupts-black-carbonate-lava-b.html https://planckstandard.com/article/the-only-volcano-on-earth-that-erupts-black-carbonate-lava-b.html Mon, 21 Sep 2026 05:16:00 GMT Science Six GNSS stations installed in 2016 track the ground to within a millimeter, and two seismometers listen for the kind of magnitude-5.9 quake that preceded the last explosive eruption. The mountain blows up roughly every 10 to 15 years, and the researchers expect one 'within our lifetime.' https://planckstandard.com/article/astronomers-found-a-giant-planet-circling-a-star-hotter-than.html https://planckstandard.com/article/astronomers-found-a-giant-planet-circling-a-star-hotter-than.html Mon, 21 Sep 2026 05:16:00 GMT Science TOI-1355 b gave itself away when its secondary eclipse arrived early, a sign the orbit is not circular. The University of Tokyo team says the planet was probably flung inward by other giants and is now being slowly reeled into a circle by its star's tides. They are already writing a JWST proposal. https://planckstandard.com/article/why-does-honey-turn-to-glass-without-freezing-eindhoven-phys.html https://planckstandard.com/article/why-does-honey-turn-to-glass-without-freezing-eindhoven-phys.html Mon, 21 Sep 2026 05:16:00 GMT Physics Older theories said the clusters would grow forever and the liquid would suddenly lock up. Adding that feedback loop to the equations made the sharp transition vanish and matched the supercomputer simulations almost perfectly. The same physics may describe tumor cells that get stuck and then start invading. https://planckstandard.com/article/rfk-jr-gave-the-keynote-at-children-s-health-defense-the-ant.html https://planckstandard.com/article/rfk-jr-gave-the-keynote-at-children-s-health-defense-the-ant.html Mon, 21 Sep 2026 05:16:00 GMT Politics 'We've accomplished in 19 months things that would have seemed unthinkable two years ago,' Kennedy said, citing the cut-down childhood schedule and the remade vaccine advisory panel, both of which a judge has since halted. Gov. Josh Shapiro said he 'couldn't bring himself' to tell people to get the measles shot. https://planckstandard.com/article/north-korea-fired-two-short-range-ballistic-missiles-from-wo.html https://planckstandard.com/article/north-korea-fired-two-short-range-ballistic-missiles-from-wo.html Mon, 21 Sep 2026 05:16:00 GMT World Kim Yo Jong called a six-nation 'Pacific Vanguard' naval exercise a 'frantic military move' and said there will be 'never ever change in the course of intensifying the nuclear war deterrence.' U.S. Pacific Command said the launches pose no immediate threat. https://planckstandard.com/article/haiti-put-18-suspects-in-the-2021-assassination-of-president.html https://planckstandard.com/article/haiti-put-18-suspects-in-the-2021-assassination-of-president.html Mon, 21 Sep 2026 05:16:00 GMT World The transfer ends a five-year judicial stall in Port-au-Prince. Those still held in Haiti include more than a dozen former Colombian soldiers and a former government official. The former first lady, who was wounded in the attack, has accused ex-President Michel Martelly and ex-Prime Minister Ariel Henry of ties to the killing. https://planckstandard.com/article/putin-s-party-took-57-8-in-russia-s-first-wartime-parliament.html https://planckstandard.com/article/putin-s-party-took-57-8-in-russia-s-first-wartime-parliament.html Mon, 21 Sep 2026 05:16:00 GMT World The Central Election Commission put turnout at 56.66% and reported more than 3,000 waves of DDoS attacks on election infrastructure. Voting was also held in occupied parts of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, which Kyiv called a 'farce.' Final results are not due before Sept. 25. https://planckstandard.com/article/trump-says-he-is-forming-an-ai-force-much-like-i-did-space-f.html https://planckstandard.com/article/trump-says-he-is-forming-an-ai-force-much-like-i-did-space-f.html Mon, 21 Sep 2026 05:16:00 GMT Politics The Saturday Truth Social post gave no structure, budget, authority or name for the new body. It landed a week after Anthropic's Dario Amodei told CBS the industry 'lied to people' about AI's risks and after four subscribers sued the top labs for agreeing to slow down. https://planckstandard.com/article/ukraine-fired-more-than-1-000-drones-at-russia-overnight-hun.html https://planckstandard.com/article/ukraine-fired-more-than-1-000-drones-at-russia-overnight-hun.html Mon, 21 Sep 2026 01:14:07 GMT Breaking News Mayor Sergei Sobyanin called it the largest attack on Moscow of the war and said air defenses downed more than 1,600 drones since Saturday, 450 of them headed for the capital. Zelenskyy said domestically built Flamingo and Pelican missiles hit 'oil and logistics' targets worth 'billions of dollars that sustain the war machine.' https://planckstandard.com/article/the-afd-won-mecklenburg-western-pomerania-the-far-left-die-l.html https://planckstandard.com/article/the-afd-won-mecklenburg-western-pomerania-the-far-left-die-l.html Mon, 21 Sep 2026 01:14:07 GMT World Projections put the AfD at roughly 37% to 38% in the northeastern state and Die Linke at about 25% in the capital, where a Turkish-German lawyer named Elif Eralp declared that 'love and justice have triumphed over hatred.' The AfD's co-leader called Merz's response 'more than feeble' and demanded his resignation. https://planckstandard.com/article/trump-says-his-250-foot-triumphal-arch-will-now-be-a-top-gra.html https://planckstandard.com/article/trump-says-his-250-foot-triumphal-arch-will-now-be-a-top-gra.html Mon, 21 Sep 2026 01:14:07 GMT Politics The president said the monument between Arlington National Cemetery and the Lincoln Memorial will also store sniper ammunition. Rep. Don Beyer called a drone site under DCA's approach 'a stupid, dangerous, and unworkable idea,' and a federal judge has ordered 48 hours' notice before any construction. https://planckstandard.com/article/bessent-and-greer-sat-down-with-china-s-he-lifeng-at-jpmorga.html https://planckstandard.com/article/bessent-and-greer-sat-down-with-china-s-he-lifeng-at-jpmorga.html Mon, 21 Sep 2026 01:14:07 GMT Politics Trump will meet Xi at the airport himself. The summit is the two leaders' second face-to-face of the year after May's meeting in Beijing, and it lands as an existing trade truce nears expiry and as the administration weighs what, if anything, to ask Beijing on AI safety. https://planckstandard.com/article/an-ice-agent-shot-a-28-year-old-venezuelan-man-in-the-torso.html https://planckstandard.com/article/an-ice-agent-shot-a-28-year-old-venezuelan-man-in-the-torso.html Mon, 21 Sep 2026 01:14:07 GMT Breaking News Austin's mayor said he was 'angry but not surprised.' A council member said the officer rammed the man's car and fired at least five times. ICE's own investigative arm will lead the inquiry, with the FBI assisting, and the Travis County district attorney has asked for the evidence. https://planckstandard.com/article/physicists-dismiss-primordial-black-holes-as-a-fine-tuned-da.html https://planckstandard.com/article/physicists-dismiss-primordial-black-holes-as-a-fine-tuned-da.html Mon, 21 Sep 2026 01:14:07 GMT Physics Stefano Profumo applied the Barbieri-Giudice fine-tuning measure, which asks how wildly a model's prediction swings when you nudge one input, to WIMPs, Higgs-portal particles and several ways the early universe could have made black holes. 'The tuning lives in the specific model, not in the kind of dark matter you started with.' https://planckstandard.com/article/quantum-computers-talk-in-microwaves-fiber-optics-carry-ligh.html https://planckstandard.com/article/quantum-computers-talk-in-microwaves-fiber-optics-carry-ligh.html Mon, 21 Sep 2026 01:14:07 GMT Physics The Nature Materials paper from Vinod Menon's group is the first demonstration of microwave-to-optical transduction through magnon-exciton coupling. It does not yet move single quantum states, but it works in a bulk crystal that can be thinned to a few atomic layers. https://planckstandard.com/article/men-lose-the-y-chromosome-from-their-cells-as-they-age-arizo.html https://planckstandard.com/article/men-lose-the-y-chromosome-from-their-cells-as-they-age-arizo.html Mon, 21 Sep 2026 01:14:07 GMT Science The JCI Insight study maps 'loss of Y' from healthy tissue through precancerous cells to full malignancy for the first time and finds it strongest around colon, rectal, esophageal, pancreatic and lung cancers. Its senior author says it may be 'one of the earliest signposts of cancer forming.' https://planckstandard.com/article/a-man-outside-la-paz-found-a-kitten-fed-it-noodles-and-eggs.html https://planckstandard.com/article/a-man-outside-la-paz-found-a-kitten-fed-it-noodles-and-eggs.html Sun, 20 Sep 2026 01:22:24 GMT Science The tilcayo weighs about three pounds, lives in Bolivia's Yungas cloud forest and has never been found anywhere else. The Current Biology study that names it also carves the tiger cats of South America into five distinct species, all of them, one author says, 'in habitats that are vanishing fast.' https://planckstandard.com/article/the-solar-system-s-first-solid-bodies-were-83-to-92-fire-for.html https://planckstandard.com/article/the-solar-system-s-first-solid-bodies-were-83-to-92-fire-for.html Sun, 20 Sep 2026 01:22:24 GMT Science Two independent tracers in outer-solar-system iron meteorites both point to matrix levels of 8% to 17%, lower than in any known chondrite. 'Both tracers independently tell the same story,' said lead author Damanveer Grewal. The result pushes the aerodynamic sorting that built the planets back to the very beginning. https://planckstandard.com/article/physicists-sifted-three-years-of-lhc-collisions-for-the-sphe.html https://planckstandard.com/article/physicists-sifted-three-years-of-lhc-collisions-for-the-sphe.html Sun, 20 Sep 2026 01:22:24 GMT Physics The UC Santa Barbara team used a new 'phase-space distance' method with a supervised machine-learning classifier for the first time in a particle search and showed it beats the standard sphericity test. 'It's not a dead end,' said graduate student Danyi Zhang. 'If this thing existed with these properties, we'd have seen it.' https://planckstandard.com/article/iran-s-new-security-chief-says-tehran-has-sent-trump-its-pri.html https://planckstandard.com/article/iran-s-new-security-chief-says-tehran-has-sent-trump-its-pri.html Sun, 20 Sep 2026 01:22:24 GMT World Mohsen Rezaei, a month into the job as secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, told Al Jazeera the conditions are with Qatari and Pakistani mediators and Iran is waiting on Washington. The list drops Tehran's earlier demand for reparations, which one U.S. analyst read as movement, though he said Washington would still hear it as 'surrender.' https://planckstandard.com/article/the-justice-department-declared-the-1968-ban-on-selling-hand.html https://planckstandard.com/article/the-justice-department-declared-the-1968-ban-on-selling-hand.html Sun, 20 Sep 2026 01:22:24 GMT Politics The Office of Legal Counsel opinion by T. Elliot Gaiser says the law fails the Supreme Court's 2022 history-and-tradition test because Founding-era militia statutes required 18-year-olds to show up with their own guns. It binds no court, but it tells every federal prosecutor to stand down. Everytown called it a 'dangerous dereliction of duty.' https://planckstandard.com/article/a-federal-appeals-court-ruled-that-dhs-cannot-put-a-migrant.html https://planckstandard.com/article/a-federal-appeals-court-ruled-that-dhs-cannot-put-a-migrant.html Sun, 20 Sep 2026 01:22:24 GMT Politics Judge Seth Aframe wrote that the government's reading of the law 'would deny access to that protection to a substantial swath of noncitizens.' DHS general counsel James Percival said the policy stays in force because the ruling has not taken effect, and the case is expected to go back to the Supreme Court. https://planckstandard.com/article/four-paying-subscribers-sued-anthropic-openai-google-and-spa.html https://planckstandard.com/article/four-paying-subscribers-sued-anthropic-openai-google-and-spa.html Sun, 20 Sep 2026 01:22:24 GMT Breaking News The proposed nationwide class action, filed Friday in federal court in San Francisco, argues that customers of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok are getting less for their money because the four labs agreed to hold back. Amodei's own essay warned the plan might need an antitrust waiver. None was granted. https://planckstandard.com/article/warren-buffett-96-handed-the-berkshire-chairmanship-to-his-s.html https://planckstandard.com/article/warren-buffett-96-handed-the-berkshire-chairmanship-to-his-s.html Sun, 20 Sep 2026 01:22:24 GMT Breaking News Buffett becomes chairman emeritus and stays on the board. Howard Buffett, 71, a director since 1993, takes the chair nine months after Greg Abel became CEO. Buffett told shareholders to think of his son 'as a policy the shareholders own and hope never to claim against.' https://planckstandard.com/article/kyushu-physicists-fired-the-gekko-xii-laser-at-two-spots-on.html https://planckstandard.com/article/kyushu-physicists-fired-the-gekko-xii-laser-at-two-spots-on.html Sat, 19 Sep 2026 23:03:30 GMT Physics The result backs a long-suspected 'universal' reconnection rate and says the speed is set inside the thin current sheet, not by the plasma feeding it. Better reconnection models mean better space weather forecasts for satellites and power grids. https://planckstandard.com/article/for-decades-network-science-assumed-identical-parts-make-a-s.html https://planckstandard.com/article/for-decades-network-science-assumed-identical-parts-make-a-s.html Sat, 19 Sep 2026 23:03:30 GMT Physics The Science paper shows why the effect was missed: the simplified models everyone used, like Kuramoto, strip out the very dynamics that let disorder stabilize a network. It may also explain why huge, diverse ecosystems don't collapse the way 1970s math says they should.