Miles Wu folded a variant of the Miura-ori pattern that can hold 10,000 times its own weight

Videos featuring Spider-Man and other characters which are Disney's intellectual property have gone viral since Seedance's update.

Helion's Polaris device hit 150 million degrees C recently, a milestone that nudges the company toward its commercial power plant that will sell electricity to Microsoft.

Self-copying RNAs may have been a key stop along the pathway to life.

We’re worrying about the wrong arms race with China.

The country’s grid operator says shifting from coal to clean power is not only possible but inevitable. The work there could provide a road map for other…

Faisal Islam gets rare access to Willow - Google's quantum computer.

Virtual cells could make it faster and easier to discover new drugs.

AI-generated images and videos are stumping prosecutors in Latin America, even as courts embrace AI to tackle case backlogs.

China has switched on its first dual-tower solar-thermal power station, using concentrated heat to generate power even after sunset.

About enough to meet current global electricity demand.

Google’s Gemma AI helped discover a drug combo that makes tumors immune-visible, marking a milestone for AI-driven biology.

In China, parents are buying smartwatches for children as young as 5, connecting them to a digital world that blends socializing with fierce competition.

Here we go.

What happened to the music ringtone?

Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods.

Thumb keyboards built for home theaters represent one of computing’s more forgotten niches. But will devices like the Steam Machine bring along a revival?

The company's sales fell for a second year in a row, as Tesla looks to AI and robotics, including a new $2 billion investment in CEO Elon Musk's company xAI.

Curiosity Stream's owner has more content for AI companies than it does for subscribers.

Ask not what a dragon does, but what a dragon is

After Milton Friedman published a 1975 compilation of writings titled There’s No Such Thing as a Free Lunch, the phrase (lifted from Robert Heinlein’s sci-fi novel about a lunar penal colony) became something of a libertarian shibboleth.

The first systematic digital archive dedicated to the Italian graphic design heritage. A growing overview aimed to spread and promote the culture of quality that distinguishes the Italian design tradition.

When I started smoking I was sixteen, and my life was very complicated.

Humans have stored information in physical artifacts for over 30,000 years, using everything from notches in bones to ink on paper. But in the 10th century, the invention of a roller organ with interchangeable barrels introduced a radical innovation: the insertion of mechanism between information and its experience. For the first time a medium required a device to fully recover what it stored.

This essay is adapted from the Frankly video released 01/16/2026 titled, “Technology and Wealth: The Straw, the Siphon, and the Sieve.”

The trial of the Sycamore Gap killers

This essay is an effort to sketch out how technological progress over the next 10 years may transpire, suggesting how the future may occur as Artificial Intelligence (AI) evolves at an accelerating rate and grand challenges in medicine, energy, and industry are systematically solved. It is an effort to provide a high-level vision of how advances in the “Industrial Intelligence Stack” may solve the great human challenges of our time and how society may benefit as a result.

Explore the probabilities of some of the rarest events in history.

AI companies have bought out Western Digital's storage capacity for 2026. It's only February.

This is a prototype tool. It was designed to get a sense of the differences in energy consumption between different products. It's often difficult to understand whether activities matter a lot or very little for our overall energy consumption.

> _**Industrial**_ > > _adj. (sense 3a)_ > > Of or relating to productive work, trade, or manufacture, esp.

Next-generation telescopes are mapping this outer frontier.

Antarctica's most detailed map exposes its vulnerable future.

It makes me feel like a proud parent to see them take flight

A history of blue 🦋

Flyers, posters, zines: they've always been important to the DIY music scene, but now that everything’s enshittified, print is the best line of communication in our post-search age.

Last week, Boris Cherny, the creator and head of Anthropic’s popular Claude Code programming agent, posted ​a thread on X​ about how he personally used ... Read more

Before Asimov, there was Rokeya.

They have big brains, long childhoods and sociable, curious minds. So why haven’t birds developed complex culture?

In the 19th century, the linear idea of time became dominant, forever changing how those in the West experience the world

Clean drinking water is a modern miracle. But it has become expensive, and it doesn’t need to be.

Starting with a few words on the new app icons.

The vast field of over 5,800 electric and hybrid vehicles gleamed on the cargo deck of the BYD Changzhou, an Chinese container vessel unloading Wednesday at a river port in eastern Argentina.

What happens when literacy and the literate society collapses?

As federal research funding shrinks, scientists are looking to other sources of support. Can they learn to sell their work without selling out?

Climate crisis forecast to wipe out thousands of glaciers a year globally, threatening water supplies and cultural heritage

16,000 drones followed a precise RTK-guided path for real-time accuracy.