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July 31, 2026, 12:07 PM - 7 min read
The coming legal fight, should it arise, will not be over whether the government can exert the level of control it already has. The fight will be about how governments can wield this control responsibly. The best case at this point is that this fight takes place in the open, with public input, through lawful legislative processes.
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July 16, 2026, 01:58 PM - 9 min read
Peering into the distant past, the telescope has been revealing incredible new details of the early universe, galaxies, potentially habitable exoplanets and even familiar objects in our solar system.
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July 14, 2026, 12:48 PM - 8 min read
The 1979 United Nations Moon Agreement states that no one can claim sovereignty over the Moon, and must use its resources responsibly – which sounds promising. Unfortunately, almost none of the countries involved with Artemis, including the US and UK, have signed it. Scientists live in hope that this doesn’t all turn into a big land grab.
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July 13, 2026, 01:20 PM - 6 min read
Recursive self-improvement is when AI builds its own successor without human input. Learn what it means, why Anthropic's co-founder says it is coming by 2028.
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July 12, 2026, 01:18 PM - 5 min read
Technology can recognise patterns. People provide empathy, trust and clinical judgement. The future of mental health care may likely depend on combining the strengths of both.
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July 10, 2026, 01:59 PM - 7 min read
Cloning is still tricky, and it continues to raise questions about safety, regulation and whether some applications should be pursued at all.
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July 9, 2026, 01:29 PM - 6 min read
Their appeal is easy to understand. They are always available, highly customisable and offer a steady sense of being heard, desired and understood — at a time when loneliness and social disconnection are on the rise.
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July 8, 2026, 09:49 PM - 3 min read
The breakthrough provides the first detailed genetic blueprint of the crop, creating an important resource for researchers working on crop improvement, molecular breeding and functional genomics.
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July 8, 2026, 01:30 PM - 6 min read
Surface drones can be dispersed and operated across wide areas. But in a maritime environment they need a floating platform to operate from. The same goes for aerial drones. Neither can replace a Type 83’s large, portable missile magazines, command facilities, or defence of a carrier fleet. The Common Combat Vessel will provide some hybrid capabilities.
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July 7, 2026, 01:07 PM - 5 min read
People close to the epicentre may get little warning or none at all, because the earthquake waves arrive before the alert can be processed and sent. This is sometimes called the blind zone. It is not a design flaw. It is a physical limit.
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July 6, 2026, 01:59 PM - 6 min read
In short, no. There is no way to artificially produce the massive densities. The densest everyday material is many millions of times less dense than what is needed to produce a tiny black hole.
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July 3, 2026, 04:48 PM - 7 min read
Most craters from the early Earth have vanished. At North Pole Dome, one survived. Its rocks preserve the trace of a space impact from 3.024 billion years ago – a rare page from the violent youth of our planet, with the date still written in the stone.
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