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8,000 pregnant women may die in just 90 days because of US aid cuts

Without information on and access to a range of contraceptive options, unintended pregnancies result. These have the potential to limit the freedoms...

The Download: dismantling US science leadership, and reproductive care cuts

The foundations of America’s prosperity are being dismantled Ever since World War II, the US has been the global leader in...

Creating Major system mnemonic images with Grok 3

The Major mnemonic system makes numbers easier to memorize by encoding them as words. Each digit corresponds to one or more consonant sounds,...

The Download: Microsoft’s quantum chip, and explaining rising energy demand

The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 DOGE has ‘god mode’...

Standing with Intellectual Giants

  Is it possible to come up with truly innovative ideas when you’re not part of the institutions where the expertise resides? According to one...

What’s driving electricity demand? It isn’t just AI and data centers.

If that sounds familiar, it may be because there’s been a constant stream of headlines about energy demand recently, largely because of...

A new Microsoft chip could lead to more stable quantum computers

Microsoft has been on a quest to synthesize this state, called a Majorana fermion, in the form of quasiparticles. The Majorana was...

Cayley tables and Latin squares

The multiplication table of a finite group forms a Latin square. You form the multiplication table of a finite group just as you would...

Your most important customer may be AI

For example, Meta’s Llama model may perceive your brand as exciting and reliable, whereas OpenAI’s ChatGPT may view it as exciting but...

The Buenos Aires constant

The Buenos Aires constant is 2.92005097731613… What’s so special about this number? Let’s see when we use it to initialize the following Python script. s...

Roundtables: Generative AI Search and the Changing Internet

Speakers: Mat Honan, editor in chief, and Niall Firth, executive editor. Generative AI search, one of MIT Technology Review's 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2025,...

A Four-Year Analysis – Communications of the ACM

The integration of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools into higher education has sparked considerable discussion. An analysis of survey responses from 843 science...

Nokia is putting the first cellular network on the moon

Point-to-point radio communications, which need a clear line of sight between transmitting and receiving antennas, have always been a backbone of both...

Adventures in the ancient DNA time machine

This narrative has made him a favorite on television programs like Nova and secured lavish funding from Danish corporations. His first autobiography...
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