Research
Why Does Sex Exist? The Twofold Cost and the Case for Sex
Asexual females should outbreed sexual ones two to one, yet sex dominates complex life. This article weighs the evidence for the leading…
Can AI Be Conscious? Scoring Chatbots, Agents and Robots
Fourteen indicator properties from the science of consciousness, turned into a scored checklist and applied to a chatbot, a language agent and…
Grokking in Neural Networks: Why Generalization Arrives Late
Networks sometimes memorize their training data and only generalize thousands of steps later. This article weighs the competing explanations for grokking and…
The Social Reckoning vs. the Research: What the Evidence Says About Facebook and Social Media Harm
Sorkin's new film opens today. We check its four biggest claims about Facebook against internal documents, Science and Nature studies, and the…
How Phage Proteases Switch On CBASS Immunity in Bacteria
A Science paper reports that a phage's own protease cuts a bacterial sensor and starts CBASS immunity. What was found, what is…
Can Volcanic Crystals Check the Vesuvius Eruption Date?
A Science Advances study dates Vesuvius pumice by argon-argon and lands within error of the Vesuvius eruption date in Pliny's letter. Numbers…
IRAS 18293-0941: The Milky Way’s First Microblazar Candidate and the Case for a PeV Accelerator
Astronomers announced the Milky Way’s first microblazar candidate, a black hole jet aimed near Earth. Here is how it was found, what…
A Human Jumping Gene Turned Up Inside a Poxvirus
A Science paper reports BC200, a neuron-expressed jumping gene, copied into a human poxvirus. Here is the method, the numbers and what…
Why the Length of Day Drifts: A Gravitational Tug From Earth’s Inner Core
A Nature paper says a gravitational torque from the inner core drives multidecadal swings in the length of day. Here are the…
Automated Mathematical Discovery: Why Proof Search Explodes and What an AI Would Need
A 2026 arXiv essay models mathematics as a growing proof graph and argues that abstraction, not raw search, is what lets people…