Researchers make air-stable, ultrathin superconductors, for more scalable quantum devices

Researchers make air-stable, ultrathin superconductors, for more scalable quantum devices

Mountain Lions Make Roads Safer

Turning molecules into reliable electronic devices

Researchers Convert Carbon Dioxide into Recyclable Plastic

Greg Abbott Once Called Texas the 'Epicenter' of AI. Now He's Freezing Data Center Construction.

Trump Backs Down From Yet Another Empty Threat to Iran

What connects Ottessa Moshfegh, a fired professor in Florida, and a prudish college president? A creeping puritanism

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The Canary in the AI Coal Mine

As a weekly anti-HIV pill nears the market, vaccine research faces new hurdles

More Testosterone Won’t Make a Better Soldier or a Tougher Man—Aggression and Strength Drive T Levels, Not the Other Way Around

OpenAI Agent Breaks Free and Hacks Hugging Face

New York Becomes the First State To Ban New Data Centers

Trump Plans to Impose New Illegal Tariffs on Canada

How smallpox reached the Americas: first genomic evidence points to Europeans

How Art Invented Humanity

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Some More Or Less Tentative Thoughts on Substack

Ancient DNA confirms historical accounts of how smallpox got to the Americas

Contagious fish cancer overruns New England lake