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This 14-Year-Old Is Using Origami to Imagine Emergency Shelters That Are Sturdy, Cost-Efficient and Easy to Deploy Miles Wu folded a variant of the Miura-ori pattern that can hold 10,000 times its own weight

This 14-Year-Old Is Using Origami to Imagine Emergency Shelters That Are Sturdy, Cost-Efficient and Easy to Deploy

Seedance: ByteDance to curb AI app after Disney legal threat Videos featuring Spider-Man and other characters which are Disney's intellectual property have gone viral since Seedance's update.

Seedance: ByteDance to curb AI app after Disney legal threat

Fusion startup Helion hits blistering temps as it races toward 2028 deadline Helion's Polaris device hit 150 million degrees C recently, a milestone that nudges the company toward its commercial power plant that will sell electricity to Microsoft.

Fusion startup Helion hits blistering temps as it races toward 2028 deadline

Tiny, 45 base long RNA can make copies of itself Self-copying RNAs may have been a key stop along the pathway to life.

Tiny, 45 base long RNA can make copies of itself

The AI Genetics Revolution Is Coming We’re worrying about the wrong arms race with China.

The AI Genetics Revolution Is Coming

As coal fades, Australia looks to realize dream of 100% renewable energy The country’s grid operator says shifting from coal to clean power is not only possible but inevitable. The work there could provide a road map for other…

As coal fades, Australia looks to realize dream of 100% renewable energy

Google Willow: The secrets of the world's most powerful quantum computer Faisal Islam gets rare access to Willow - Google's quantum computer.

Google Willow: The secrets of the world's most powerful quantum computer

Why AI Companies Are Racing to Build a Virtual Human Cell Virtual cells could make it faster and easier to discover new drugs.

Why AI Companies Are Racing to Build a Virtual Human Cell

Courts don’t know what to do about AI crimes AI-generated images and videos are stumping prosecutors in Latin America, even as courts embrace AI to tackle case backlogs.

Courts don’t know what to do about AI crimes

China's dual-tower solar-thermal plant launched in Gobi Desert China has switched on its first dual-tower solar-thermal power station, using concentrated heat to generate power even after sunset.

China's dual-tower solar-thermal plant launched in Gobi Desert

We could produce a lot of electricity on the land used for biofuels About enough to meet current global electricity demand.

We could produce a lot of electricity on the land used for biofuels

Google’s AI Cracks a New Cancer Code Google’s Gemma AI helped discover a drug combo that makes tumors immune-visible, marking a milestone for AI-driven biology.

Google’s AI Cracks a New Cancer Code

Kids in China Are Using Bots and Engagement Hacks to Look More Popular on Their Smartwatches In China, parents are buying smartwatches for children as young as 5, connecting them to a digital world that blends socializing with fierce competition.

Kids in China Are Using Bots and Engagement Hacks to Look More Popular on Their Smartwatches

Google’s AI helped me make bad Nintendo knockoffs Here we go.

Google’s AI helped me make bad Nintendo knockoffs

The Rise and Fall of Music Ringtones: A Statistical Analysis What happened to the music ringtone?

The Rise and Fall of Music Ringtones: A Statistical Analysis

Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods.

Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show

Why Does Every Thumb Keyboard Look Like That? Thumb keyboards built for home theaters represent one of computing’s more forgotten niches. But will devices like the Steam Machine bring along a revival?

Why Does Every Thumb Keyboard Look Like That?

Tesla profit tanked 46% in 2025 The company's sales fell for a second year in a row, as Tesla looks to AI and robotics, including a new $2 billion investment in CEO Elon Musk's company xAI.

Tesla profit tanked 46% in 2025

Science-centric streaming service Curiosity Stream is an AI-licensing firm now Curiosity Stream's owner has more content for AI companies than it does for subscribers.

Science-centric streaming service Curiosity Stream is an AI-licensing firm now

There is No Proto-Dragon: The Illusion of Fictional Taxonomy Ask not what a dragon does, but what a dragon is

There is No Proto-Dragon: The Illusion of Fictional Taxonomy

Injury to Buildings and Vegetables After Milton Friedman published a 1975 compilation of writings titled There’s No Such Thing as a Free Lunch, the phrase (lifted from Robert Heinlein’s sci-fi novel about a lunar penal colony) became something of a libertarian shibboleth.

Injury to Buildings and Vegetables

Archivio Grafica Italiana The first systematic digital archive dedicated to the Italian graphic design heritage. A growing overview aimed to spread and promote the culture of quality that distinguishes the Italian design tradition.

Archivio Grafica Italiana

Quitting When I started smoking I was sixteen, and my life was very complicated.

Quitting

Tangible Media: A Historical Collection of Information Storage Technology Humans have stored information in physical artifacts for over 30,000 years, using everything from notches in bones to ink on paper. But in the 10th century, the invention of a roller organ with interchangeable barrels introduced a radical innovation: the insertion of mechanism between information and its experience. For the first time a medium required a device to fully recover what it stored.

Tangible Media: A Historical Collection of Information Storage Technology

The Straw, the Siphon, and the Sieve This essay is adapted from the Frankly video released 01/16/2026 titled, “Technology and Wealth: The Straw, the Siphon, and the Sieve.”

The Straw, the Siphon, and the Sieve

If a Tree Falls The trial of the Sycamore Gap killers

If a Tree Falls

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What Are The Odds? Explore the probabilities of some of the rarest events in history.

What Are The Odds?