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Tech This $118 Chinese Gadget Says It Can Translate Your Pet's Thoughts. Scientists Are Calling It an "IQ Tax."

This $118 Chinese Gadget Says It Can Translate Your Pet's Thoughts. Scientists Are Calling It an "IQ Tax."

For as long as humans have shared homes with animals, we have stared at our pets and wondered what they

May 26 · 3 min read
Space Astronomers Found Two Stars Orbiting Each Other Every 8.5 Minutes. It Is Exactly as Violent as It Sounds.

Astronomers Found Two Stars Orbiting Each Other Every 8.5 Minutes. It Is Exactly as Violent as It Sounds.

Emma Chickles was sitting at the Magellan telescopes in Chile, staring at a single patch of sky, when the light

May 25 · 3 min read
Ideas Scientists Put a Brain Under Anesthesia and Played It a Podcast. It Understood Every Word.

Scientists Put a Brain Under Anesthesia and Played It a Podcast. It Understood Every Word.

Your brain might be the world's most dedicated podcast listener -- and it does not even need you

May 23 · 3 min read
Space A Star 250 Times the Size of Our Sun Just Exploded 13 Billion Years Ago, and JWST Might Have Caught It

A Star 250 Times the Size of Our Sun Just Exploded 13 Billion Years Ago, and JWST Might Have Caught It

Published in Science on May 21, 2026. This is the kind of headline that makes astronomers lose sleep. Somewhere in

May 23 · 3 min read
Technology OpenAI Just Disproved an 80-Year-Old Math Problem Humans Couldn’t Crack

OpenAI Just Disproved an 80-Year-Old Math Problem Humans Couldn’t Crack

In 1946, a Hungarian mathematician named Paul Erdos published a paper that asked a seemingly simple question: if you scatter

May 21 · 3 min read
Space A Bus-Size Asteroid Just Slipped Past Earth at a Quarter of the Moon's Distance, and We Barely Saw It Coming

A Bus-Size Asteroid Just Slipped Past Earth at a Quarter of the Moon's Distance, and We Barely Saw It Coming

If you enjoy the very specific genre of space news called "well that was close", this week delivered.

May 21 · 3 min read
Ideas Your Brain Might Still Be Listening While You're Knocked Out

Your Brain Might Still Be Listening While You're Knocked Out

If you have ever gone under anesthesia, here is a mildly unsettling thought: your brain might not have been as

May 20 · 3 min read
Science Scientists Just Found Giant Viruses Hiding Inside Seaweed, Waiting to Wake Up

Scientists Just Found Giant Viruses Hiding Inside Seaweed, Waiting to Wake Up

A new study found giant viruses can hide inside seaweed genomes for generations, then wake up in reproductive cells and spread again like a normal infection.

May 20 · 3 min read
Future Penn Just Built a Tiny Light-Matter Switch That Could Make Future AI Chips Way Less Hungry

Penn Just Built a Tiny Light-Matter Switch That Could Make Future AI Chips Way Less Hungry

Penn physicists created a light-matter particle that can do computing-style switching with absurdly tiny energy, hinting at a future where AI chips waste far less power as heat.

May 19 · 3 min read
Culture Britain Just Put 2,000-Year-Old Burned Chariots on Display, and Nobody Knows Why They Were Wrecked

Britain Just Put 2,000-Year-Old Burned Chariots on Display, and Nobody Knows Why They Were Wrecked

Picture this: you are digging through a North Yorkshire field and instead of finding a couple of rusty scraps, you

May 19 · 3 min read
Health A Single Shot Cleared Alzheimer's From a Mouse Brain in One Hour. It Was Not Even a Drug.

A Single Shot Cleared Alzheimer's From a Mouse Brain in One Hour. It Was Not Even a Drug.

Here is a sentence that should not make sense: scientists injected a mouse with microscopic particles, and within sixty minutes,

May 18 · 4 min read
Technology MIT Just Built a Robot From 12 Labubu Heads, and It Will Follow You Down the Hall

MIT Just Built a Robot From 12 Labubu Heads, and It Will Follow You Down the Hall

MIT has built a robot that looks less like the future of technology and more like something you would see

May 17 · 3 min read
Space JWST Just Found a Ghost Galaxy That Shouldn't Exist. It Might Be the Universe's First.

JWST Just Found a Ghost Galaxy That Shouldn't Exist. It Might Be the Universe's First.

A tiny, invisible galaxy magnified 100 times by a cosmic lens is the most chemically primitive ever found. It could

May 17 · 3 min read
Tech Google Just Caught Criminals Using AI to Build a Zero-Day Exploit for the First Time

Google Just Caught Criminals Using AI to Build a Zero-Day Exploit for the First Time

For the first time, hackers used AI to build a working zero-day exploit -- and Google stopped it just before

May 16 · 3 min read
Space Scientists Just Found a Brand-New Asteroid Dying Slowly Near the Sun

Scientists Just Found a Brand-New Asteroid Dying Slowly Near the Sun

Here is a very specific kind of cosmic drama that astronomers love: something in the sky is quietly falling apart,

May 16 · 4 min read
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