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…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (427+ words) AI insiders are warning that the race toward self-improving systems is outrunning efforts to control them....

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…...

10+ mon, 1+ week ago   (897+ words) Millions are reading health advice written by bots masquerading as herbalists. At the top of Amazon’s “Herbal Remedies” bestseller list, The Natural Healing Handbook looked like a typical wellness guide. With leafy cover art and promises of “ancient wisdom” and…...

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…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago   (927+ words) Machine learning crushes the average person at word association, but true poets are safe — for now. If you’ve ever stared at a blinking cursor and felt the cold sweat of writer’s block, you might be tempted to ask a chatbot…...

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…...