2026

A team at the University of Chicago has discovered a surprisingly simple way to create powerful quantum states that are […]

A lightweight new X-ray telescope could finally give scientists something they’ve never had before: a complete chemical map of the

A large study found that women taking GLP-1 drugs, the medication class behind Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, and Zepbound, were about

Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the studies this week that balanced it out, performed evasive maneuvers, decorated a

Good news for sports broadcasters and fans who’d prefer their play-by-plays to have that human-touch: AI doesn’t know ball. A

LLM Research Papers: The 2026 List (January to May) As some of you know, I have the long-running habit of

Kristen Gonzalez, a state senator who authored the bill, said moratorium would target ‘hyperscale’ datacenters over 20MW New York moved

Ötzi the Iceman, Europe’s most famous mummy, is crawling with microbes, some long dead, some still eking out a living

Plus: Hackers use Meta’s AI bots to hack Instagram accounts, Anthropic helps NSA hackers, a decades-long GPS satellite mystery may

Earlier this year, a 23-year-old without any formal mathematics training made headlines by claiming he’d used OpenAI’s ChatGPT to solve