Starship will test its payload deployment mechanism on its seventh test flight. SpaceX’s first second-generation Starship, known as Version 2 […]
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Why solving crosswords is like a phase transition
There’s also the more recent concept of “explosive percolation,” whereby connectivity emerges not in a slow, continuous process but quite […]
Archaeologists just mapped a Bronze Age megafortress in Georgia
pastoral nomads, please stop here This recently mapped Bronze Age fortress is just one among hundreds. This orthographic photo shows […]
It’s remarkably easy to inject new medical misinformation into LLMs
Changing just 0.001% of inputs to misinformation makes the AI less accurate. It’s pretty easy to see the problem here: […]
China is having standard flu season despite widespread HMPV fears
There’s a good chance you’ve seen headlines about HMPV recently, with some touting “what you need to know” about the […]
NASA defers decision on Mars Sample Return to the Trump administration
“We want to have the quickest, cheapest way to get these 30 samples back.” This photo montage shows sample tubes […]
As US marks first H5N1 bird flu death, WHO and CDC say risk remains low
The H5N1 bird flu situation in the US seems more fraught than ever this week as the virus continues to […]
Science paper piracy site Sci-Hub shares lots of retracted papers
Most scientific literature is published in for-profit journals that rely on subscriptions and paywalls to turn a profit. But that […]
Ants vs. humans: Solving the piano-mover puzzle
Skip to content teamwork makes the dream work “People stand out for individual cognitive abilities while ants excel in cooperation.” […]
Controversial fluoride analysis published after years of failed reviews
70 percent of studies included in the meta-analysis had a high risk of bias. Federal toxicology researchers on Monday finally […]
