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Voyager’s Golden Record was designed as more than a playlist. Each 1977 spacecraft carries a 12-inch gold-plated copper disc, and the aluminium cover is part of the message: its engravings explain how to play the record, reconstruct its im…
Conceptual illustration; it does not depict a specific city or measured temperatures. Researchers estimate that summer heat contributed to 50,391 deaths across 854 European cities in June–August 2026. Their model attributes 32,619 of those…
Image: Game Boy Printer, 1998; Science Museum Group Collection (image © The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum). Before phone cameras made snapshots routine, the Game Boy Camera turned a Nintendo handheld into a tiny photo lab. The ca…
Your phone’s GPS fix depends on a correction for Einstein: clocks do not tick at the same rate everywhere. A GPS receiver estimates distance by comparing when a satellite sent a timestamp with when it arrived. Since the signal travels at t…
On October 29, 1969, UCLA computer science student Charley Kline tried to log in remotely to a computer at the Stanford Research Institute. The first two letters arrived: “L” and “O.” When Kline sent “G,” the system crashed. The team compl…
Update — October 24: The UK has published the wider AI-security package around its new AI Biosecurity Lab. The National AI Biosecurity Initiative totals £165 million: £100 million in government funding for the lab, plus £65 million for bio…
Editorial graphic based on Meta’s published specifications; not a product photo. Meta’s Muse Spark Open has received an independent score on Artificial Analysis’s Intelligence Index: 39 at the Xhigh reasoning setting. The current index lis…
I came across Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom because Elon Musk recommended it years ago when he was starting to talk a lot about the risks of AI. I knew roughly what the book was about, but I hadn't really looked into the actual argumen…
Scientists mapped a fruit fly’s entire brain (~166k neurons). The internet’s response: plug the connectome into games and trading bots. The peak viral clip — “the fly brain can play beat saber” — hit ~22M views and ~85k likes on X in two d…