Thursday, May 28, 2026

International gravitational wave observatories LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA released a new catalog of 161 gravitational wave detections from colliding black holes, bringing the total to 390 confirmed signals and marking a major milestone in gravitational astronomy.^[1]

BTS won Artist of the Year at the 52nd American Music Awards in Las Vegas, marking the K-pop group's second win in the category and their first major award since returning from military service hiatus with their album 'Arirang.'^[2]

French teenager Moïse Kouamé, 17, became the youngest man to win a Grand Slam singles match in 17 years after defeating former US Open champion Marin Cilic at the French Open, and the youngest French Open first-round winner since 1991.^[3]

A rare Blue Moon will rise on May 31, the second full moon of May 2026, which is also a 'micromoon' — the most distant and smallest full moon of the year at about 252,360 miles from Earth — appearing near the bright red star Antares.^[4]

Mathematicians have solved Talagrand's convexity conjecture, a decades-old problem about high-dimensional randomness that even the Abel Prize-winning mathematician who posed it believed would never be solved. The solution could impact data science, machine learning, and optimization.^[5]

Samsung Electronics and its unions passed a new wage and bonus agreement, narrowly averting a planned strike. The deal creates a special bonus pool worth 10.5 percent of the semiconductor division's operating profit and was approved by 73.7 percent of union members.^[6]

MIT scientists have finally mapped the three-dimensional atomic structure of relaxor ferroelectrics, high-tech materials that have powered medical ultrasounds and sonar systems for decades despite their inner workings remaining a mystery until now.^[7]

French scientists will launch an expedition on June 15 from Brittany to map more than 200,000 barrels of radioactive waste dumped in the northeast Atlantic over nearly five decades, assessing their condition and impact on marine ecosystems.^[8]

University of Virginia won the grand prize at NASA's 2026 Lunabotics Challenge, where student teams demonstrated autonomous lunar construction robots capable of excavating and shaping simulated lunar soil — technologies that could help build future Moon Base infrastructure.^[9]

Researchers at Hebrew University and Weizmann Institute discovered that magnetic field direction can influence how molecules of life behave at a fundamental level, potentially explaining how early Earth's magnetic environment may have helped shape the chemical pathways that led to life.^[10]