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Traders brought Central American cacao to Georgia 1,000 years ago
"We built this city on good cacao" does have a nice ring to it.
Give Your AI Agent a Scientist's Library. a Science MCP Server
Most "research agent" demos are searching abstracts and calling it literature review. The abstract tells you a Phase 3 melanoma immunotherapy trial…
Why Statistics Is the Backbone of Data Science
Statistics isn't a supporting subject in data science, it's the thing that makes the "science" part of data science actually mean something. Code Gi…
Repost note: Starlink 10-39 and the data trail after launch
Spaceflight Now covered Starlink 10-39 here . Reposting this because the interesting part is not only the launch image. Starlink 10-39 moved from a…
Meet the only known trebuchet casualty in history
"It highlights the brutality of medieval warfare," said paleopathologist Jo Buckberry.
Did poop enable the evolution of complex animals?
In a recent study, evolution gets even messier than usual.
Compression Is Understanding: Two July Papers That Prove AI Gets Smarter by Compressing Physics
Compression Is Understanding: Two July Papers That Prove AI Gets Smarter by Compressing Physics There's a thesis I keep coming back to: AI doesn't u…
Software Understanding in the Sciences is Really Uneven
My day job, such as it is, involves optimizing simulations and scientific tooling. Right now I'm working on an astrophysical simulation with a group…
This Atlantic hurricane season is looking like a dud, but there will be a price to pay
"The models are forecasting something outside the envelope of anything we have ever observed."
AI’s Effect on Earth’s Natural Resources
AI systems convert electricity, water, minerals, land, and human-built infrastructure into computation at a scale that is now large enough to matter…
How a Fair Online Dice Roller Works: Probability, Randomness, and Classroom Experiments
Rolling a die looks simple. You click a button, watch the die move, and receive a number from 1 to 6. Behind a reliable online dice roller, however,…
Germany's Energy Revolution: Wind and Solar Overtake Fossil Fuels for the First Time
Germany's Energy Revolution: Wind and Solar Overtake Fossil Fuels for the First Time In 2026, Germany crossed a historic threshold: for the first ti…
Ten Breakthrough Advances in Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (2026)
Ten Breakthroughs in Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (2026) The year 2026 has already witnessed a remarkable confluence of human intuit…
Delta – Language learning built on cognitive science, not gamification
Deep processing forms more organized schemas of knowledge in your brain, which results in deeper understanding and stronger memory. The knowledge sc…
How I model scientific claims before generating a diagram
A prompt I keep using when I test scientific image models is short: "Draw the MAPK pathway." That sentence leaves most of the important decisions un…
Importance of Hypothesis Testing in Data Science
A hypothesis is a clear, testable statement about a population or process. Hypothesis testing then uses sample data to decide whether there is enoug…
Building JONAM: Using Copernicus Earth Observation Data to Help Restore Lake Victoria's Fisheries
"What if satellite data could help protect the livelihoods of millions who depend on Africa's largest lake?" Our team JONAM had the privilege of par…
From Arcade Cabinets to AI: How the GPU Changed Computing Forever
Before graphics processing units (GPUs) became the powerhouse chips driving modern video games, scientific simulations, and artificial intelligence,…
A Meteorite Fell Into a New Jersey Bedroom. Inside Was the Chemistry of Life
On the afternoon of 16 July 2024, a fireball crossed the sky over the northeastern United States and ended its journey in the ceiling of a home in H…
Physicists Pulled Energy Out of a "Black Hole" on a Tabletop
Fifty years ago, Roger Penrose sketched an idea so audacious it sounded like a trick. Drop an object into the swirling region just outside a spinnin…
Brain Science: Friday, July 17
Brain Science Friday: What Neuroscience Actually Says About How You Should Be Studying Right Now Here's a fact that should change everything about h…
Where Code Meets Medicine, Chemistry, and Even Religion
GitHub: Where Code Meets Medicine, Chemistry, and Even Religion More Than Just Code When most people think of GitHub, they think of software develop…
An AI Science Workbench Needs a Reproducibility Graph, Not Just Chat History
Anthropic announced Claude Science on June 30, 2026. It describes a research workbench that can use scientific tools, create artifacts, run speciali…