Claude may have found a new CRISPR-like gene editing system
AI disclosure: this article was produced with AI assistance and reviewed for accuracy. Anthropic reports that Claude searched a massive DNA sequence…
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AI disclosure: this article was produced with AI assistance and reviewed for accuracy. Anthropic reports that Claude searched a massive DNA sequence…
A caterpillar becomes a pupa and then an adult. Inside the pupa, much of the larval body breaks down and the adult body is rebuilt. I made a page th…
A particle hits a wall it should not be able to climb, and still gets through with some probability. That is quantum tunneling. I made a page that s…
CO₂ Dynamic Shielding: A Forgotten Spacecraft Design Tool? While investigating 3I/ATLAS, I stumbled onto an idea that may have applications far beyo…
Alright, team! In our last post, we kicked off our dive into linear algebra for data science by looking at how we represent data using matrices and…
Introduction Semiconductor manufacturing requires an extremely stable production environment. Unlike traditional industries, semiconductor processes…
TL;DR On 30 July 2026, Japan officially became an associated country to Horizon Europe, the EU's €93.5B research programme. This is the orthodoxy: i…
Fair warning: I'm not a physicist, sociologist or scientist of any kind. I found a couple of studies, they've been sitting in my head for a week, an…
To date, this Atlantic tropics year has been exceptionally quiet.
Educational Guide & History Calculus is widely regarded as one of humanity's greatest intellectual achievements. Developed to model continuous c…
The headline said "first hint of dark matter." Two paragraphs down, the article said the opposite. That's not a gotcha. It's the most reliable tell…
Also: Spooky action at the LHC, Ice Age psychoactive use, yeast for building homes on Mars, and more.
let's start with two fundamental ways of describing a robot: Joint space Task space Joint Space When a robot's current configuration is represented…
But there may be a price to pay for a quiet Atlantic hurricane season.
A machine checked proof of the exhaustive boundaries of trust. I'll let the text carry the rest. Comments
OpenAI has announced a proposed solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem , one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems. As a me…
"Black hole stars," making cookies from plastic, tiny sound-powered drones, and more.
Why a machine must be allowed to be wrong I built meta-science for the All Things Agentic Hackathon, and I wrote this piece for the purposes of ente…
Yesterday I published a piece called Choice Leaks . I wrote down 100 digits by hand, trying to be random, then measured them against 2,000 sequences…
Every published gamma-exposure construction — including the one Cboe's own research uses — prices gamma the same way: Black-Scholes, one implied vol…
"We built this city on good cacao" does have a nice ring to it.
Most "research agent" demos are searching abstracts and calling it literature review. The abstract tells you a Phase 3 melanoma immunotherapy trial…
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…
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…
"It highlights the brutality of medieval warfare," said paleopathologist Jo Buckberry.
In a recent study, evolution gets even messier than usual.
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…