11+ mon, 2+ day ago   (976+ words) In packed arenas and viral livestreams, a new breed of esports athletes battles not with controllers but with spreadsheets. At first, it sounds like satire. Twelve contestants jog through a glowing “hype tunnel” in Las Vegas, cheered on by fans…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (684+ words) Home → Features → Natural Sciences → Mathematics Mathematics often feels like a collection of isolated islands. Each one operates with its own rules, and building bridges between them is notoriously difficult. Today, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters honored the ultimate…...

8+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1261+ words) Home → Features → Pieces The list below is a mix of the pieces we loved most and the ones you couldn’t stop reading. Spinal cord injuries have traditionally belonged to the bleak category of “irreversible” and permanent facts of life. Once…...

10+ mon, 6+ day ago   (657+ words) AI can now turn brain scans into text. It’s not mind reading but it’s pretty close. In a dark MRI scanner outside Tokyo, a volunteer watches a video of someone hurling themselves off a waterfall. Nearby, a computer digests the…...

8+ mon, 6+ day ago   (1784+ words) Home → Features → Pieces Biology has always been an unruly science. Cells divide when they want to. Genes switch on and off like temperamental lights. Experiments typically yield averages, not clear-cut figures. To a physicist, it can sometimes feel less like…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (916+ words) A scanning mistake and a translation error created scientific nonsense that AI models learned to repeat. In 2023 and 2024, as AI text generators started to become mainstream, a curious trend emerged: the word “delve” began appearing in a suspicious number of…...