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Tropical system could make landfall in the Carolinas  WSOC TV Tropical Storm Humberto Strengthening; ‘Future Imelda’ Potential US Threat  The Weather Channel Hurricane forecasters watch for rare, chaotic Fujiwhara effect  USA Today THE TROPICS: Tropical Storm Humberto picks up speed as tropical wave gets increasing development odds  Live 5 News Two tropical cyclones could collide into monster storm — triggering rare Fujiwhara Effect and …

The number of confirmed planets outside of our solar system—known as exoplanets—has risen to 6,000, NASA has said. There is huge variety across these distant worlds, the space agency says, with discoveries including rocky planets, lava worlds, and gas giants enveloping their stars. Plenty more discoveries are likely on the way. As a result of continued monitoring by NASA’s Exoplanet …

SAN FRANCISCO — No major-league catcher is better at framing pitches and coaxing borderline strike calls than Patrick Bailey. The Giants’ switch-hitting catcher leads his cohort by such a wide margin in framing metrics that he is all but assured his second consecutive National League Gold Glove Award. Bailey is so deft at presenting pitches to umpires and pulling them …

Astronomers have argued for centuries about how the oldest, tightest star swarms came to be. A new study uses precise computer models to show how this new type of star system might form. The findings point to a new class of objects that could be hiding near the Milky Way today. These star systems are called globular clusters …

Preine, J. et al. Hazardous explosive eruptions of a recharging multi-cyclic island arc caldera. Nat. Geosci. 17, 323–331 (2024). Article  ADS  CAS  Google Scholar  Karstens, J. et al. Cascading events during the 1650 tsunamigenic eruption of Kolumbo volcano. Nat. Commun. 14, 6606 (2023). Article  ADS  CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar  Rizzo, A. L. et al. Kolumbo submarine volcano (Greece): …

SpaceX just sent three space weather probes to the final frontier. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida today (Sept. 24) at 7:30 a.m. EDT (1130 GMT), carrying NASA’s IMAP mission and and two other spacecraft. Each probe has its own objectives, but all three will work toward the same larger goal: help scientists …

7:33pm: Major League Baseball’s Joint Competition Committee voted 9-2 to approve the ABS challenge system, Bob Nightengale of USA Today reports. All six owners, three of the four players, and the lone umpire on the committee voted in favor of the change. 12:52pm: As expected, the ABS challenge system has been approved, per an MLB announcement. 11:50am: Major League Baseball’s …

In brief Researchers unveiled Delphi-2M in Nature, an AI that forecasts risk for 1,000+ diseases up to 20 years out. The model outperformed single-disease tools, predicting co-morbidities and generating synthetic health trajectories from medical records. Trained on UK Biobank and validated on 1.9M Danish health records, Delphi-2M shows promise but faces bias, privacy, and deployment hurdles. Researchers have built an …

NEW YORK (AP) — Robot umpires are getting called up to the big leagues next season. Major League Baseball’s 11-man competition committee on Tuesday approved use of the Automated Ball/Strike System in the major leagues in 2026. Human plate umpires will still call balls and strikes, but teams can challenge two calls per game and get additional appeals in extra …

The robot umps are here. Major League Baseball’s competition committee on Tuesday afternoon approved the introduction of the automated ball-strike system, or ABS, for the 2026 regular season. Every team will begin next year’s games with two challenges of the home plate umpire’s strike zone, and a team will not lose one of its challenges when it gets the challenge …