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Open Questions: A Series on What Science and Law Have Not Settled
A new x9m8 series on unsettled questions in AI, consciousness, evolution, biotech and law, each with the evidence, the rival answers and…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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LZ Dark Matter Experiment Reports One Intriguing Event at 2.6 Sigma: What a Single Xenon Interaction Can and Cannot Tell Us
The LUX-ZEPLIN experiment recorded a single interaction in 220 live days that could have come from a WIMP. Here is how the…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Philips Hue Starter Kit Review: Bridge Pro and 4 Color Bulbs
The Philips Hue starter kit with Bridge Pro and four color bulbs is a reliable, expandable system, but costs far more than…
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In Vivo CAR-T Explained: Making CAR T Cells Inside the Body, and What the 2026 Data Really Show
One infusion, no factory: how in vivo CAR-T turns a patient’s own T cells into cancer fighters, and what small 2026 trials…
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