GLP-1 Drugs and Aging: Why the Medicare Bridge Might Be Risky
America is running an uncontrolled social experiment.
We have more than 1 in 10 adults using GLP-1 receptor agonists like Wegovy and Zepbound. These drugs...
Does summer actually make hair grow faster?
We are mid-July. The air is thick enough to chew. Sweat drips down spines. People burn. Yet, across the internet and dinner parties alike,...
Why New York State Halted The AI Data Center Boom
Governor Kathy Hochul slammed the brakes. On July 1, she issued a statewide moratorium. It covers new hyperscale data centers.
This is the first time...
How Spoonerisms Expose the Hidden Mechanics of Speech Errors
“You have hissed the mystery. In fact, you tasted the worm.”
Chaos. Or so it seems.
Attributed to Rev. William Archibald Spooner, an absent-minded Oxford cleric...
Hand-raising echidna puggles at the San Diego Zoo requires precision and patience
Most baby animals fall into one of two buckets. The precocial ones? They hit the ground running. The altricial ones? They need a lot...
Ancient Egyptian Princesses: Warriors Or Symbols?
The dagger looks ceremonial. Gold. Lapis lazuli. Beautiful. Found in the tomb of Princess Ita at Dahshur near Cairo. It’s about 4,000 years old,...
How Sandy and Luna Bald Eagle Chicks Leave Their Nest
The wait is over. Sandy and Luna are essentially out of the house. Well, not technically out yet, but they are on the verge....
China Lands First Long March 10B Stage via Net
China just changed the rules of spaceflight.
It wasn't a landing on legs. It wasn't a gentle descent onto a flat concrete pad.
It was a...
AI and smart sensors make school security proactive not just reactive
Schools aren’t just places for learning. They are sprawling campuses packed with thousands of people who need protecting. Administrators walk a tightrope. They must...
A Double Bypass Lets A Man Feel His Dog Again
Paralysis is supposed to be a full stop. Not always anymore.
Back in 2023 surgeons at the Feinstein Institutes in New York pulled off something...
Accidentally Finding the Ghost in Beta Pictoris
Ben Sutlieff didn't want another planet.
He was looking for atmosphere. Specifically, the murky gases surrounding Beta Pictoris b. It’s one of two known worlds...
We talk about the whole child. We forget the adult.
A woman walked into my office in 2010. Nervous. No early childhood experience. Just needed a paycheck. Most places would’ve turned her away. I...
A font designed to blind AI
Eric Lu didn't just design a font. He built a trap.
It works on optical illusions, specifically ones that catch human brains but leave generative...
Humans Get X-Rayed In Space For The First Time
See the bones.
Last year astronauts took diagnostic x-rays of their bodies while in orbit. We are seeing the results now.
On March 31 2025 a...
Two Minutes in the Dark
The scramble begins
August 12. The sky goes dark for 2 minutes and 18 seconds. At the very least. A swath of the planet—from Greenland...
KBO’s robot umpires caught human bias in the act
Humans suck at being fair. It turns out we just do. The Korea Baseball Organization knows this. That’s why they brought robots into the...
Claude Goes to Work for Teachers
Anthropic just launched Claude for Teachers.
It is free. It is aimed at US K-12 educators trying to keep their heads above water in an...
Sweet stuff in the dark
Scientists just found sugar in space. Not candy. The chemical kind. Specifically erythrulose. It’s in raspberries and kiwis on Earth but apparently hangs out...
Cosmology’s Recent Big Mistake
It looked good. Printed in Nature, no less. But Till Sawala read that headline two weeks ago and felt his stomach drop.
“I thought, ‘Okay,...
Vinyl, AI, and the Friction We Need
My kids asked me about records the other day.
Standing in a bookstore, one looked at the black discs like they were artifacts from a...
