Muon g-2 Wins the 2026 Breakthrough Prize: What the Final Number Says and Why the Anomaly Faded
The Muon g-2 teams won the 2026 Breakthrough Prize. Here is what the final 127 ppb measurement says, and why the old anomaly faded once…
Peter Kalafatis
A Short History of Artificial Intelligence: Turing to Transformers
From Turing’s 1950 paper through Dartmouth, two AI winters, AlexNet and the 2017 transformer, with the caveats historians raise.
Can DNA store computer data? How DNA data storage works
Researchers have stored books, movies and all of Wikipedia in synthetic DNA. Here is how it works and why it is not in data centers…
How CRISPR Works: Gene Editing Explained, and What It Has Done
CRISPR began as a bacterial immune system. This article explains the mechanism, the first approved therapy, a 2025 personalized treatment, and the risks.
What is mitochondrial DNA and why do you inherit it from your mother?
Mitochondrial DNA is a small genome inside your cells that comes almost entirely from your mother. Here is why, and what the exceptions and applications…
How the Internet Evolved From ARPANET to Today
A plain history of the internet, from the first ARPANET link in 1969 through TCP/IP, the Web, commercialisation and today’s user numbers.
How Large Language Models Like ChatGPT Actually Work
A plain-language tour of tokens, attention, pretraining and human feedback, plus what researchers still argue about.
How GPS Works: From Navy Experiment to the Blue Dot on Your Phone
GPS is a one-way broadcast: satellites send the time and your device works out where it is. Here is the mechanism, the history and the…
Who Owns the Moon? What the Law Says About Lunar and Asteroid Resources
No nation can claim the Moon under the Outer Space Treaty, yet US law lets companies own space resources they recover. Here is how the…
Intel Diamond Rapids, Crescent Island and Wildcat Lake: What Hot Chips 2026 Revealed About Intel’s Agentic AI Silicon
Intel brought three chips to Hot Chips 2026: a 256-core Xeon, an inference GPU that trades HBM for LPDDR5X, and a shipping edge chip. The…