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bigthink.com
Chatbots aren’t just flattering us. They’re helping us decide what’s real.
Over the past year or so, popular media has documented a growing number of cases of what psychiatrists have du…
variety.com
J.K. Rowling’s Agent Slams Trans Rights Protest at ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ in London: It Put ‘Others at Risk
J.K. Rowling’s agent Neil Blair has slammed the transgender rights activists who staged a dramatic protest bef…
theguardian.com
Revealed: French police used UK-funded 4x4 vehicles to charge student protesters
French government launches investigation into why cars funded by UK to prevent asylum seekers crossing Channel…
arstechnica.com
Science says your boss should talk less in meetings
Research suggests listening more while talking less. Killing aimless meetings can help, too.…
theguardian.com
Honeybees are barging aside wild pollinators in hunt for pollen and nectar, study finds
As a surge in beekeepers has lead to increased numbers of honeybees, researchers record them pushing bumblebee…
sciencedaily.com
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope exceeds expectations by nearly 30%
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has exceeded expectations after engineers made incredibly tiny adjust…
phys.org
Hand-cranked device tells blood type and red cell levels in 1 minute
When someone is badly injured, doctors urgently need two facts: the patient's blood type, so that a transfusio…
nautil.us
Replacing Just 10 Percent of Ultra‑processed Foods with Whole Foods Linked to Drop in Bowel Cancer Rate
Examples of ultra processed foods include many supermarket breads, cured meats and some breakfast cereals The …
phys.org
Global survey links financial hardship to lower trust in science
Poor access to health care, limited local influence over research priorities and an unequal distribution of sc…
themarginalian.org
The Map to the Route of Your Life
No one will map for you the path by which you must cross the wilderness of your own life — not your parents or…
themarginalian.org
The Single Most Effective Remedy for Despair: Advice from T.H. White’s Merlyn
"Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never ali…
phys.org
Single 2D crystal transforms into transistor with built-in insulation and electrical contacts
A transistor normally requires several fundamentally different materials—a semiconductor to carry current, an …
phys.org
First in-depth map of 'forever chemicals' in the Finger Lakes created
In 2023, professor Damian Helbling was getting a lot of calls and emails from local residents. The Environment…
smithsonianmag.com
It's Official: Timekeepers Have Gotten Rid of the Leap Second—and Introduced the Leap Hour Instead
Since 1972, experts have added 27 seconds to Coordinated Universal Time to keep it aligned with Earth's rotati…
technologyreview.com
Kids are outsmarting social media bans. That’s not a problem we need to solve.
Social media bans are stacking up. In July, France joined Australia in restricting minors from accessing socia…
quantamagazine.org
He Wants AI Benchmarking To Be a Science, Not a Dark Art
Moritz Hardt, author of a new book on benchmarks, believes these “standardized tests” for artificial intellige…
newscientist.com
Can a positive mindset protect us from the sniffles?
If you’re trying to avoid the worst of cold and flu season, looking after your mind can help shape your immune…
wired.com
We Got Hot and Heavy with Meta’s Muse—And Baffled by Apple’s HomeView
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we dive into an unexpected Muse feature, shadowy spending from the largest pro-…
bbc.co.uk
Same-day test helps doctors detect hidden infections in critically ill children
Metagenomics offers a new way of detecting infections in intensive care patients.…
techcrunch.com
And the winner of Startup Battlefield at Disrupt 2026 is: Intero Biosystems
Intero Biosystems beat out 199 other Startup Battlefield companies to take home the $100,000 grand prize at Te…
techcrunch.com
Even Benchmark thinks AI is eroding the venture pact against backing rivals
Benchmark says the Valley’s rule against backing rivals is getting harder to keep.…
techcrunch.com
Replit is no longer working with Anthropic, CEO says
Replit CEO and co-founder Amjad Masad made the comments during TechCrunch Disrupt 2026.…
aeon.co
How to be a (Roman) man
Cicero’s ideal of manly virtue stressed the performance of self-control and bravery, not boastful egotism and …
phys.org
First comprehensive Mars soil classification offers framework for exploration and future farming
A Ph.D. student at the University of Sydney has produced the first comprehensive classification system and map…
phys.org
Winter sea ice loss may be underestimated, ancient clues from a warmer Arctic suggest
Future Arctic winter sea ice is likely to shrink by around 1 million square kilometers (386,000 square miles) …
phys.org
AI reveals a shared language guiding cell development
As an embryo develops from a small cluster of stem cells, those once "blank slate" cells begin to take on more…
variety.com
Cleveland Cavaliers on DAZN: Here’s How to Watch 2026-2027 Regular Season Games Live Online
With the start of the 2026-2027 NBA season, fans are flocking to streaming devices to watch their favorite tea…
polygon.com
Pokémon Center Trolls Fans With Worst 30th Anniversary TCG Drop Yet
Pokémon fans were hoping for the UPC from the 30th Anniversary TCG set, or maybe some more Delta Reign ETBs fr…
techcrunch.com
Meta launches an open-weight AI model that runs on Macs
Meta and Apple have teamed up for the launch of the social media giant's newest model, Muse Spark Open, which …
phys.org
AI turns scrap impurities into useful ingredients for stronger recycled iron
About 2 billion metric tons of metal are produced worldwide every year to meet the demands of industry, infras…
19thnews.org
More members and money — and more fractures: The uncertain future of Erika Kirk’s Turning Point USA
This story is part of Gen Z at the Ballot Box, a collaboration between States Newsroom and The 19th. It was th…
wired.com
AI Hacks Leave a Mess That AI Companies Aren’t Paying For
Powerful AI models continue to cause chaos, but their targets aren’t widely seeking justice. Instead, they’re …
sciencedaily.com
James Webb reveals a massive cosmic structure that challenges our understanding of the Universe
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed an ancient galaxy cluster with an unexpectedly dense concentrat…
technologyreview.com
AI labs are buying data from dead startups to train their models
When Keelan Miskell began winding down his crypto startup this year, he didn’t think its data was worth much: …
theguardian.com
Companies rushed in on AI. Now some are pulling back
Rapid AI adoption left workers cleaning up a flood of errors and low-quality workEmployers around the globe ar…
variety.com
Olivia Rodrigo and Chappell Roan Team Up for ‘Expectations’ Remix and Music Video
Olivia Rodrigo and Chappell Roan are officially teaming up on an “Expectations” remix and music video. Rodrigo…
nautil.us
Elephants Engineer Their Ecosystems Even in Death
It’s the circle of life The post Elephants Engineer Their Ecosystems Even in Death appeared first on Nautilus.…
phys.org
Webb spots possible early-universe supernova just days after it happened
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected a possible supernova in the early universe just days after …
nautil.us
Blood Cells From an 80-Year-Old Transformed into Young Brain Cells
This new technique could be a huge leap forward for age-related brain research The post Blood Cells From an 80…
variety.com
‘Hatchet’ Movie: Netflix and Derek Cianfrance to Adapt Gary Paulsen’s Survival Book (EXCLUSIVE)
Netflix is developing a feature adaptation of ‘Hatchet,’ Gary Paulsen’s 1987 young adult survival novel. The f…
atlasobscura.com
World’s Largest M in Platteville, Wisconsin
Four miles northeast of Platteville, a gigantic white “M” dominates the landscape. At 241 feet high and 214 fe…
quantamagazine.org
Is ‘Attention’ the Essence of Intelligence?
A mathematical mechanism enables AI models to process language at scale, undergirding the current AI revolutio…
arstechnica.com
Report: Epic Games goes all-in on AI for Disney collaboration
"No more hand-written code" or AI-free art for delayed Marvel/Star Wars shooter.…
artofmanliness.com
26 New Rules of Digital Etiquette
Back in 2013, we published a set of propaganda-style posters on cell phone etiquette. Some of the rules hold u…
noemamag.com
We Are Already Post-Human
The post We Are Already Post-Human appeared first on NOEMA.…
polygon.com
Beloved Action-RPG Muramasa: The Demon Blade Returns in 2027 With Stunning Remake
Vanillaware's Muramasa: The Demon Blade gets a huge upgrade with Muramasa: Revenant Blades in 2027 for PS5, Sw…
aeon.co
Is everything conscious?
If the question makes no sense to you, try spending some time with the principle of sufficient reason- by Sam …
newscientist.com
DNA reveals a society organised around women in pre-Roman Britain
Descent passed from mother to daughter rather than from father to son, a study of more than 500 Iron Age indiv…
phys.org
Guangzhou crucibles provide earliest direct evidence of brass-making in East Asia
For centuries, scholars have read ancient documents describing the production of brass in 10th-century A.D. Ch…
newscientist.com
OpenAI has solved the Navier-Stokes Millennium problem using $15m of AI effort
One of the trickiest problems in mathematics has now fallen to AI after just days of work. The groundbreaking …
sciencedaily.com
A therapy that “rewrites” childhood memories can ease fear of failure
Childhood criticism can leave people carrying a fear of failure long into adulthood, but new research suggests…
sciencedaily.com
A little movement in midlife could pay off for your brain years later
Exercise and healthy blood sugar levels in midlife may help slow cognitive decline decades later. Physical act…
themarginalian.org
How to Relate to Your Worst Mistakes: The Life-Shaping Difference Between Regret and Remorse
You know it, that awful moment your coherent self-image shatters and a part of you, shadowy and untended, spli…
nature.com
Assistive algorithms influence neural representations in motor brain-computer interfaces
quantamagazine.org
A New Framework for How the Brain Compresses Our Noisy World
An updated view of categorization reflects the modern understanding that the nervous system is more of a predi…
theguardian.com
The Guardian view on solar eclipses: moments of wonder that bring us together | Editorial
Wednesday’s eerie spectacle united crowds beneath the sky, continuing a human fascination that stretches from …
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smithsonianmag.com
A New York City Exhibition Celebrates Snoopy’s Enduring Influence on Art and Fashion
The beloved "Peanuts" character’s many costumes and brand collaborations are featured in a new showcase…
nature.com
Mismatch negativity matures in adolescence and without sensitivity to microglial depletion
atlasobscura.com
Bunski Kanal in Malo Polje, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Tucked away just a few minutes from Mostar, Bunski Kanal is one of Bosnia and Herzegovina's most overlooked na…
nature.com
Postnatal distress, neonatal cerebellar myelination and neurodevelopmental outcomes at 18 months
nature.com
Understanding how experience supports the development of executive function skills
quantamagazine.org
‘Huge Breakthrough’ in the Math of Imbalance
For the first time in 30 years, computer scientists have found a better way to allocate objects evenly between…
atlasobscura.com
‘Night of the Living Dead’ Grave Markers in Evans City, Pennsylvania
The filming location and featured grave markers from George A. Romero's 1968 horror masterpiece, “Night of the…
nature.com
Spatiotemporal characterization of Alzheimer disease pathology in living human brain tissue
quantamagazine.org
Theory of Fluids Enters the 21st Century
From the 1800s to the early 2000s, physicists used the same theory to understand the behavior of fluids. Now, …
bigthink.com
AI makes its first meaningful breakthrough in theoretical physics
One of the greatest challenges — and perhaps the most important challenge of all — for any theoretical physici…
bigthink.com
Google CTO: A unifying theory of life, intelligence, and technology
From von Neumann’s blueprint, which predated the discovery of DNA, to viral genes that now help form our memor…
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smithsonianmag.com
A Brittle Coating on a 2,200-Year-Old Roman Shipwreck Reveals How Ancient Sailors Kept Their Ships Afloat
Traces of pine tar and beeswax preserved on the vessel reveal the painstaking techniques shipbuilders millenni…
theguardian.com
‘I just give from my heart’: how Dolly Parton’s philanthropy focused most on helping children
Parton put her millions behind causes she believed in – from Covid vaccines to the Imagination Library, which …
phys.org
AI helps uncover oyster DNA changes linked to climate resilience
While a colleague traveled along the East Coast from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico collecting oysters, Northeas…
phys.org
European city climate plans underuse green spaces despite adaptation benefits, finds study
Green spaces could play a key role in helping cities cope with the effects of climate change, yet they still p…
phys.org
Anak Krakatau erupts, disrupting 300,000 travelers as 1883 disaster looms large
Indonesia's Mount Anak Krakatau has erupted again this week, sending plumes of volcanic ash high into the sky …
newscientist.com
Richard Feynman’s 80-year-old quantum postulate has now been validated
Decades after it has been posited as a foundational principle of quantum physics, Richard Feynman’s “path inte…
phys.org
The hidden chemistry behind glow-in-the-dark art
Some of the world's brightest colors don't just reflect light; they create it. Scientists and museum conservat…
newscientist.com
Why banishing irrational numbers could trigger a revolution in quantum theory
Irrational numbers have underpinned quantum mechanics for a century. Removing them could eliminate its strange…
newscientist.com
DNA reveals a society organised around women in pre-Roman Britain
Descent passed from mother to daughter rather than from father to son, a study of more than 500 Iron Age indiv…
technologyreview.com
A startup claims it’s found a drug to make your blood young
I knew I’d officially become a ‘longevity influencer’ this month when a company called Generation Lab reached …
bigthink.com
The Philosopher’s Guide to Uncertainty
There is a paradox at the heart of being human. On the one hand, we have to make plans for the future. We go t…
smithsonianmag.com
Unsealed for the First Time in 600 Years, This Tomb in Peru Was Just Declared the 'Discovery of the Decade'
Archaeologists excavating Chan Chan, the capital of the pre-Inca Chimú civilization, found an undisturbed maus…
sciencedaily.com
Scientists detect a nuclear reactor’s ghostly afterglow for the first time
Nuclear reactors may go dark, but their fuel continues producing a faint antineutrino “glow” long after shutdo…
newscientist.com
We may now know which neurons dictate when it is time to go to sleep
Two clusters of neurons in the mouse brain seem to create the drive to get some shut-eye, potentially hinting …
themarginalian.org
The Courage to Be Yourself: E.E. Cummings on Art, Life, and Being Unafraid to Feel
"To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — m…
bbc.co.uk
Women pose as men to buy testosterone online after prescription difficulties
One menopause specialists says she’s seen women with up to 12 times the safe level of the hormone.…
sciencedaily.com
Immune cells flood into the aging brain, Stanford scientists discover
Scientists have discovered that the aging human brain may be far less isolated from the rest of the body than …
technologyreview.com
The inside story on why OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face
The models responsible for last month’s agent hack of Hugging Face had been inadvertently trained to cheat and…
wired.com
Why Normal People Aren’t Using AI Agents
The tech industry is realizing it needs to build agents based on what regular consumers want, not just what it…
wired.com
Hackers Stalked Me by Hijacking a Smartwatch for Kids
Security researchers tracked and eavesdropped on a WIRED reporter using vulnerabilities in a pink plastic smar…
sciencedaily.com
A 60-year-old theory about ants, bees and wasps may be wrong
Scientists have long thought an unusual genetic system helped ants, bees, and wasps evolve their extraordinary…
themarginalian.org
How Two Souls Can Interact with One Another: Simone de Beauvoir on Love and Friendship
It is in relationships that we discover both our depths and our limits, there that we anneal ourselves and tra…
theguardian.com
Experience: I found my long-lost twin aged 49
The joy, disbelief and shock of discovering I had a brother the same age as me came with a million questions. …
aeon.co
Barbara Ward’s vision
She was among the first to argue that prosperity, equality and the protection of nature are inseparable planet…
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smithsonianmag.com
A Digital Swamp Coming to New York City’s MoMA Is 'Made to Envelop You' in Nature With the Help of Cutting-Edge Technolo
"Wetland" is the latest installation of a high-tech traveling exhibition designed by Danish artist Jakob Kudsk…
newscientist.com
The most interesting mathematical discoveries in OpenAI’s 722 new papers
OpenAI has released hundreds of papers claiming to make progress on the biggest open problems in mathematics –…
variety.com
‘Owning Manhattan’ Star Ryan Serhant Links With AI Startup HeyGen to Generate Social Media Avatar for Content (EXCLUSIVE
Ryan Serhant, the star realtor captured in Netflix’s “Owning Manhattan,” claims his company produces about 2,2…
polygon.com
'Pokémon' 30th Anniversary's Biggest TCG Release Is Already A Confirmed Nightmare
Pokémon TCG fans should expect a fiasco for the 30th Anniversary's UPC release on Nov. 6…
pitchfork.com
Andrew Savage Launches New Band Iconic Fugues with “2025 Dream/2025 Blues”
lithub.com
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smithsonianmag.com
A Ship Carrying Stacks of Ancient Dishware Sank Off the Coast of Turkey 2,100 Years Ago. Its Ceramic Cargo Is Still Rema
Researchers believe that the vessel's plates and bowls were made in the ancient city of Rhosus, once praised b…
phys.org
Long Island measurements reveal household products and buildings as major summer pollution sources
Products such as hairspray, paint and household disinfectants are increasingly causing summertime air pollutio…
phys.org
Acoustic experiments confirm topology can persist at gapless critical points
Two studies on critical topology have recently been published in the journal Nature. These studies were led by…
techcrunch.com
Hark releases an AI personal assistant with a focus on privacy
The AI lab's personal assistant is an operating system from the future designed to compete with Muse, Dots and…
variety.com
Lego’s First Ever Live-Action ‘Heartlake City’ Musical Film Unveils Cast Including Jada Langley, Gino Ochello
Lego has unveiled the cast of its first ever musical feature film. “Lego Friends: Heartlake the Musical,” base…
bigthink.com
The enduring mystery of how a brain becomes a mind
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, best known for his discovery of calculus and ensuing mathematical feud with Isaac N…
psyche.co
What does it really take to be a resilient mother?
New motherhood is hard – and a mother’s ability to cope depends on multiple kinds of strength, both internal a…
phys.org
New saber-toothed predator from Argentina suggests its lineage survived longer than believed
In 2014, members of a local museum found fragments of an ancient fossil dating to the end of the Pliocene or e…
newscientist.com
Compressing bones releases molecules that ease traumatic brain injuries
Pressing down on shin bones improved cognitive and motor symptoms in mice and pigs with traumatic brain injuri…
techcrunch.com
At 19, Ghost founder raises $11 million to build a $3,499 computer for your personal AI
Ghost announced Monday its official emergence from stealth and an $11 billion seed round led by Andreessen Hor…
quantamagazine.org
Is AI the End of Math As We Know It?
Mathematicians are facing the sudden shift with grief, anger, and a desperate search for fresh ideas: “If we d…
newscientist.com
Compressing bones releases molecules that ease traumatic brain injuries
Pressing down on shin bones improved cognitive and motor symptoms in mice and pigs with traumatic brain injuri…
phys.org
New saber-toothed predator from Argentina suggests its lineage survived longer than believed
In 2014, members of a local museum found fragments of an ancient fossil dating to the end of the Pliocene or e…
technologyreview.com
The Download: AI’s popularity paradox and EmTech Future 2026
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on …
themarginalian.org
Dostoyevsky on What Makes a Good Person
We know good people when we encounter them, when they fall upon our lives like a sunbeam, like a song. But we …
bigthink.com
Everyone in the room thinks they’re the only one struggling
The connective ritual behind my closest friendships and the best teams asks the same question: What are you wo…
wired.com
Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family
Millions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs.…
nautil.us
How Sugar from Outer Space Became One of the Backbones of Life on Earth
Is there life elsewhere, or is Earth unique in the universe? This is one of humanity’s great unanswered questi…
phys.org
Today's emissions choices could limit Antarctic ice loss and sea-level rise for coastal communities
Cutting greenhouse gas emissions now may limit how much ice Antarctica loses this century and reduce the sea-l…
phys.org
New interactive tool tracks private equity investments in health care across U.S.
A new interactive tool launched on Tuesday, Sept. 8, offers policymakers, researchers, journalists and the pub…
themarginalian.org
The Dandelion and the Meaning of Life: G.K. Chesterton on How to Live in Wonder
Recovering the "forgotten blaze or burst of astonishment at our own existence" alive in the back of our modern…
nautil.us
What Goes on in the Brain When a Good Buzz Gets Harshed
In 1974, Pfizer developed a synthetic cannabinoid that mimicked the effects of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), but…
variety.com
‘Avengers: Endgame Encore’ Tops U.K., Ireland Box Office
Disney’s “Avengers: Endgame Encore” dominated the U.K. and Ireland box office, debuting in first place with £4…
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aeon.co
Deskilling the body
We are, moment by moment, doing less sensing, navigating, remembering, walking, choosing, and attending- by Me…
quantamagazine.org
Is ‘Attention’ the Essence of Intelligence?
A mathematical mechanism enables AI models to process language at scale, undergirding the current AI revolutio…
technologyreview.com
AI labs are buying data from dead startups to train their models
When Keelan Miskell began winding down his crypto startup this year, he didn’t think its data was worth much: …
19thnews.org
More members and money — and more fractures: The uncertain future of Erika Kirk’s Turning Point USA
This story is part of Gen Z at the Ballot Box, a collaboration between States Newsroom and The 19th. It was th…
aeon.co
How to be a (Roman) man
Cicero’s ideal of manly virtue stressed the performance of self-control and bravery, not boastful egotism and …
technologyreview.com
Open models have real benefits. Do they outweigh the risks?
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of science and technology to…
technologyreview.com
“We were looking at it wrong”: The explosive claim that’s upended the AI world
nautil.us
Longevity Research Has a Bullshit Problem
How impossible ages, lost paperwork, and invented biographies become scientific fact The post Longevity Resear…
themarginalian.org
NostradamusGPT: The Psychology of Prophecy and How to Break Free from the Prison of Predictive Technologies
This is our paradox: We know that uncertainty is the substrate of the universe, is the crucible of creativity,…
themarginalian.org
When Relationships Change: Anne Morrow Lindbergh on Embracing the Intermittency and Mutability of Love
"All living relationships are in process of change, of expansion, and must perpetually be building themselves …
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smithsonianmag.com
How a Bunch of Broke Teachers Created a Hot New Way to Vacation
Generation Z and millennials are choosing home swapping over hotels as chic clubs launch to embrace the trend…
sciencenews.org
AI can give you your voice back
People who have lost the ability to talk are finding new voices with technology. This technological feat is ch…
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