The Oceans Just Keep Getting Hotter

For the eighth year in a row, the world’s oceans absorbed a record-breaking amount of heat in 2025. It was equivalent to the ...

Traces of Leonardo da Vinci’s DNA May Have Been Discovered on a Red Chalk Drawing Called Holy Child

Researchers suggest that they have recovered sequences from ancient works and from letters that may belong to the Renaissance ...

What Is the '365 Buttons' TikTok Meme? Explaining the Viral Trend About Not Explaining Yourself

A viral TikTok exchange about a New Year’s resolution involving 365 buttons has confused the internet — and birthed an iconic ...
MIT Technology Review

LLMs contain a LOT of parameters. But what’s a parameter?

Think back to middle school algebra, like 2 a + b. Those letters are parameters: Assign them values and you get a result. In ...
Science Daily

These mesmerizing patterns are secretly solving hard problems

Tessellations aren’t just eye-catching patterns—they can be used to crack complex mathematical problems. By repeatedly ...
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CRISPR Cas12a3: A precise tool to halt viral protein production

Across all domains of life, immune defenses foil invading viruses by making it impossible for the viruses to replicate. Most known CRISPR systems target invading pathogens' DNA and chop it up to ...