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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…

Inside a pupa you can rewind: deriving every frame from t alone (Canvas 2D)

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…

Solving the Schrödinger equation in the browser and matching tunneling to theory

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…

CO Dynamic Shielding: A Forgotten Spacecraft Design Tool?

CO₂ Dynamic Shielding: A Forgotten Spacecraft Design Tool? While investigating 3I/ATLAS, I stumbled onto an idea that may have applications far beyo…

Solving for X: Cracking the Code of Linear Equations in Data Science

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…

How Temperature and Humidity Control Affect Semiconductor Production

Introduction Semiconductor manufacturing requires an extremely stable production environment. Unlike traditional industries, semiconductor processes…

How to Become Spiritually Western as a Japanese Researcher: DEV and Academia.edu as Underground Academia, Horizon Europe as Orthodoxy

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…

A like is face-to-face. A follow is standing side by side. At least that's how it feels to me.

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…

The headline said "first hint of dark matter." Two paragraphs down, the article said the opposite.

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…

Research roundup: 6 cool science stories we almost missed

Also: Spooky action at the LHC, Ice Age psychoactive use, yeast for building homes on Mars, and more.

Calculus Is Fun When You Can Make a Robot Move: Understanding Differential Kinematics

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…

Everything is a Trust Decision

A machine checked proof of the exhaustive boundaries of trust. I'll let the text carry the rest. Comments

Announcing the first Guix-Science release

OpenAI Says It Cracked Navier-Stokes. It Took Roughly 10,000 AI Agents.

OpenAI has announced a proposed solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem , one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems. As a me…

Researchers use AI to ‘democratize’ 3D printing of crucial metal alloy

Research roundup: 7 cool science stories we almost missed

"Black hole stars," making cookies from plastic, tiny sound-powered drones, and more.

Why a machine must be allowed to be wrong

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…

Four Levels Down: I Published a Finding and Broke It Twice in Thirty-Six Hours

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…

How much does the volatility model move a GEX terminal's numbers? We swapped it and measured

Every published gamma-exposure construction — including the one Cboe's own research uses — prices gamma the same way: Black-Scholes, one implied vol…

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…

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…

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…