A quiet shift in the numbers behind the universe’s growth is pushing scientists toward a bold possibility. Two of the cosmos’ most elusive players, dark matter and neutrinos, may not be strangers after all. New research from the University of…
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How a poet uses AI to write and why her work is now at MoMA
February 23, 2026
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Poetry was humanity’s first language technology. AI is the next
Sasha Stiles turned GPT-2 experiments into a self-writing poem at a Museum of Modern Art installation—and a new way to think…
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Scientists Finally Reveal the Truth About This 28,000-Year-Old Child
A new radiocarbon reassessment has established that the so-called Lapedo child from central Portugal was buried approximately 28,000 years ago, several millennia after Neanderthals are widely thought to have disappeared from the fossil…
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The ‘Breaking Bad’ Effect From Cancer Is Real, Study Finds : ScienceAlert
A lot can change after a cancer diagnosis. The news may bring distress, anxiety, or depression, along with a cascade of recalculations from patients who suddenly see life in a different light.
A new study suggests it may also change…
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Lotus shoes: Tiny footwear for Chinese women whose feet were bound as children
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Name: Lotus shoes
What it is: Extremely small footwear
Where it is from: China
When it was made: Between 1000 and 1950
More than 1,000 years ago in dynastic China, many young girls had their toes tightly bound in gauze strips to create…
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Scientists identify new spinosaurid, Moderna flu shot back on track, universal inhaled vaccine shows promise
Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. You’re listening to our weekly science news roundup.
Let’s start off with a vaccine 180. In a sudden turn of events last…
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1 week until a breathtaking blood moon rises over the US during total lunar eclipse 2026
In just one week, a spectacular display of orbital mechanics will be visible to billions of people across the Americas, Asia, and Oceania, as Earth’s shadow sweeps across the lunar disk, triggering the onset of an awe-inspiring ‘blood moon’…
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NASA uses Mars Helicopter’s SoC for rover navigation upgrade • The Register
NASA has revealed it repurposed the processor the Perseverance rover used to communicate with the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, to help the rolling robot navigate the Red Planet autonomously “for potentially unlimited distances.”
The aerospace…
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This AI can improve your peer review — and make it more polite
A newly described artificial-intelligence coach provides feedback to make peer reviews more specific and useful.Credit: Mohd Izzuan Roslan/Alamy
An artificial-intelligence coach can help peer reviewers to provide more constructive and less toxic…
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AI tools can design genomes. Will they upend how life evolves?
On the Future of Species: Authoring Life by Means of Artificial Biological Intelligence Adrian Woolfson Bloomsbury (2026)
Biology is undergoing a transformation. After centuries of studying life as it evolves naturally, researchers are now using…
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