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August 21, 2026, 02:16 PM - 6 min read
AI can check whether a hunch about one sign or word holds up across an entire archive in minutes instead of years. It can spot repeated sequences a human eye would miss, and restore damaged or fragmentary inscriptions by predicting likely missing characters.
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August 20, 2026, 12:43 PM - 7 min read
Bacteriophages could potentially be used to treat bacterial infections, including those that are becoming harder to treat with antibiotics. But advances in biological design also create new challenges for biosecurity.
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August 19, 2026, 02:16 PM - 9 min read
Scientists have shown that existing measurements of dark energy are robust. Rather than debating whether cosmic acceleration exists, the astrophysical community can return to the exciting task of figuring out what dark energy actually is and how to best measure it.
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August 18, 2026, 02:19 PM - 8 min read
The evidence of your instructions to your AI agent needs to be verifiable by different systems at each step as the agent carries out a task. Otherwise, how do you prove that the agent did – or did not do – what you told it to?
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August 17, 2026, 11:59 AM - 9 min read
Lawsuits filed and settled in 2025-26 have alleged that interactions with language models such as ChatGPT led to teen suicidal behaviour and tragic losses, highlighting that commercial chatbots lack effective guardrails and crisis protocols.
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August 16, 2026, 02:12 PM - 6 min read
As AI-generated content becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish from human writing, detecting disinformation requires more than simply searching for telltale words. It requires understanding how conversations work, how they are manipulated, and when someone is trying to quietly steer them off course.
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August 14, 2026, 03:07 PM - 5 min read
Today’s computers use machine learning, a kind of artificial intelligence, to sound like a person. Engineers and scientists train an AI program by giving it many hours of recordings of real people talking.
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August 13, 2026, 01:38 PM - 6 min read
Altman is not the only one thinking about corporate robot leaders. Mark Zuckerberg has revealed he is training an AI agent to partly automate his job as the boss of Meta.
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August 12, 2026, 02:29 PM - 7 min read
Solar sails and light sails are stepping stones from the present to the future, and from exploring our own solar system to exploring distant stars. Perhaps exoplanet LHS 1140b will be visited by a light sail at some point in our future.
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August 11, 2026, 01:00 PM - 6 min read
Throughout the solar system, solar eclipses are possible and, from some planets, frequent. From Earth, the occasional alignment of size, distance and time allows for total solar eclipses that make the Moon look as if it was made to fit perfectly over the Sun.
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August 10, 2026, 01:38 PM - 6 min read
Move beyond the current generation of air traffic control technology by increasing the role of AI systems – including providing real-time decision support for atcos. And if AI agents are to be trusted, their recommendations must be presented in ways that controllers can quickly make sense of, and decide if they are appropriate.
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August 9, 2026, 02:20 PM - 5 min read
It’s impossible to completely remove all the space between atoms and molecules. To understand why, picture atoms and molecules as spherical balls. Packing balls into a box leaves empty gaps between them, and no amount of moving the balls around will get rid of those gaps.
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