The wing doesn't fight the current. It feels it coming. Submerged in a recirculating water tunnel at the University of Southampton, a silicone foil about the…
Feb 27, 2026
Somewhere in the archive of Humanity's Last Exam sits a question about a Roman tombstone.
Feb 25, 2026
THE BONES had been sitting in a Patagonian hillside for 90 million years when a field team finally coaxed them out in 2014. Even then, it would take another…
Feb 25, 2026
Deep in the hippocampus of an 83-year-old woman whose memory rivals that of someone half her age, something quietly extraordinary is happening.
Feb 25, 2026
Somewhere in the visual cortex of a macaque monkey, a single neuron fires every time a small dot appears in the right location.
Feb 25, 2026
Every black hole collision in the universe sends ripples through spacetime. Most of those ripples are too faint, originating too far away, for any detector on Earth to pick up.
Feb 24, 2026
At rest, without any breath-holding or injections or particular effort, your brain is doing something quite extraordinary.
Feb 24, 2026
You're standing in front of an unfamiliar coffee machine. You've seen this type before, roughly — there's a flashing button on the left.
Feb 24, 2026
The violinist steps onto the stage of a deep-crimson concert hall, bow poised, and something shifts — not in the acoustics, but in your head.
Feb 24, 2026
Every time your phone connects to a cell tower, it transmits something it wasn't designed to reveal.
Feb 24, 2026
Something odd happens when you push an alternating current through a sliver of bismuth telluride barely 30 nanometres thick.
Feb 24, 2026
Inside a vacuum chamber in Hefei, China, a thread of glowing plasma hangs in space.
Feb 23, 2026
The Chinese suanpan has been around for roughly 1,000 years. Slide a bead up, slide a bead down — each rod operates independently, and the number it represents depends only on where the beads sit.
Feb 23, 2026
The quantum state exists in one place. Then it exists in another. Nothing physical moved between them — not an electron, not a photon carrying the information.
Feb 23, 2026
