Indigenous Cultural Burning and Australia’s Worse Fires: What a Lake Core Shows
A 1,000-year lake record in Nature links the end of Indigenous cultural burning to denser eucalypt forest and hotter fires in southeastern Australia.
Peter Kalafatis
X Original Content Rewards: What Creators Now Get Paid For
X Original Content Rewards replaced the platform’s Creator Revenue Sharing program in September 2026: the old program stopped earning on September 7, and the new…
Extreme Debris Disks: What Webb Sees When Planetary Embryos Collide
Webb and Spitzer spectra of 21 extreme debris disks point to Moon-sized and Mars-sized collisions around young stars. The mechanism, numbers and limits.
Dyson CameraJet Review: Analyzing the $499.99 Toothbrush With a Camera and a Water Jet
Dyson CameraJet analysis: how the 28 fps camera, anti-gravity water jet and sonic brush work, what three years of ownership costs, and what is unproven.
What Is AGI, and How Close Are We? Definitions and Doubts
AGI has no agreed definition, which makes every timeline partly a vocabulary choice. Here are the claims, forecasts and doubts.
Inside a Nitrogenase Enzyme That Works at 92 Degrees Celsius
Crystal structures of a deep-sea archaeon’s nitrogenase enzyme, stable to 92 C, show the simplest known version of nature’s ammonia catalyst.
Who Owns AI-Generated Code and Text? Copyright, Contracts and Your Employer
Vendor terms, copyright law, your employment contract and third-party licences each answer ownership differently. A plain US guide, including the September 2026 Ninth Circuit GitHub…
GoPro Mission 1 Pro ILS: A 1-Inch Sensor Behind a Micro Four Thirds Mount, Explained
GoPro’s Mission 1 Pro ILS is a compact cinema camera with a 50MP 1-inch sensor and a Micro Four Thirds lens mount, the first time…
Windows 11 26H2 Hits Release Preview: How the Enablement Package Works and What IT Teams Should Test
Microsoft put Windows 11 26H2 into the Release Preview Channel on August 27 as a small enablement package. How the mechanism works, which features switch…
One Event, 2.6 Sigma: Reading the LZ Dark Matter Hint Without Hype
A ten-tonne xenon detector saw one event that its backgrounds struggle to explain. Here is what 2.6 sigma means, why the simplest WIMP fails, and…