A built-in ‘off switch’ to stop persistent pain.

Examples are the best documentation. Without an example, I’m lost 99% of the time.

Inside the fight between doctors and insurance companies over ‘downcoding.’

Let It Begin — The Real Fights Are Finally Coming Into View.

Notes on the ‘Balance of Forces.’

Astronomers detect lowest mass dark object ever measured using gravitational lensing.

China expands rare earths restrictions, targets defense and chips users.

America is sucking in growth from the rest of the world.

UPS is ‘disposing of’ U.S.-bound packages over customs paperwork problems. Clownish.

We are different from all other humans in history.

China’s Stealth Sharp Sword Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles Deployed To Operational Airbase.

In-Party Love, Out-Party Hate, and Affective Polarization in Twelve Established Democracies.

California enacts law giving consumers ability to universally opt out of data sharing.

America Is Drowning In Scam Calls And Texts And Donald Trump Is Making It Worse.

The new right’s hollow aesthetic.

We’re about to find many more interstellar interlopers—here’s how to visit one.

Nato weighs armed response to Vladimir Putin’s hybrid war.

A Post-Literate Society is a Too-Literal Society. This is incredibly disturbing.

Microsoft’s Local Accounts Crackdown Is Yet Another Reason to Switch to Linux.

Political views, not sex and violence, now drive literary censorship.

Last season’s 2024–2025 mRNA COVID vaccines reduced people’s risk of emergency department visits by 29 percent, their risk of hospitalizations by 39 percent and their risk of death by 64 percent. Vaccines work, ya fuckin’ clowns.

Europe worries it’s already at war — and America hasn’t noticed. It is at war and has been since 2014.

Donald Trump’s fortress economy is starting to hurt America.

Study of 1m-year-old skull points to earlier origins of modern humans.

Quantum properties on a human scale.

Thales Anti-Drone Rockets Now Being Used In Ukraine.

What sound does a fish make? The answer is weirder than you may think.

A lot of powerful people just don’t realize how unpopular Trump is.

Walmart CEO issues ominous warning to US workers that AI will ‘change literally every job.’

Less Than 5% of People With Mortgages Are Under 30 in Nation’s Biggest Metros.

Who Gets Healthcare Subsidies Under the Affordable Care Act.

Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account. Evil.

Black holes might hold the key to a 60-year cosmic mystery.

Our Brains Evolved to Socialize—but Max Out at About 150 Friends.

Rural US town outraged as only hospital forced to shut: ‘I would have died without it.’

Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time.

Democrats Still Have No Idea What Went Wrong.

How Ukraine Turned the Tables on Russia. Russia assumed time was on its side, but a new Ukrainian strategy is yielding surprising results.

Foreclosures are surging as U.S. homeowners grapple with rising costs.

Celebrating 1 Trillion Web Pages Archived.

The Death Of Industrial Design And The Era Of Dull Electronics.

Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society and sports.

NASA equipment makes a surprise landing on West Texas farm.

Trump’s ‘Golden Age’ Of Tariffs Has Been Great — If You Like Higher Prices.

Trump is destroying America. Are his voters starting to realize that?

Million-dollar homes are the fastest-moving part of the housing market as wealth gap grows.

UCLA forecasts ‘stagflation-lite’ economy with higher inflation and unemployment. Followed by depression.

Why Insurers Are Taking Your Money to the Cayman Islands.

Phages with a broad host range are common across ecosystems.

Should We Let Public Transit Die?

Low-income Americans slash spending, a worrying sign for the economy.

As America fumbles, China races ahead.

Russia’s Hybrid War Against NATO Ramping Up: Danish Intelligence.

How tech lords and populists changed the rules of power.

How the Democrats Could Stage a Comeback, According to History. Not being vapid weak losers would be a good start.

NIRS fire destroys government’s cloud storage system, no backups available. If you’d hired me, that would not have happened.

When Private Practices Merge with Hospital Systems, Costs Go Up‌‌.

California’s dysfunction stems from getting the architecture of control backwards: decentralizing what should be unified while centralizing what should be flexible.

It’s not just you: Americans are still not hanging out.

The AI bubble is 17 times the size of the dot-com frenzy — and four times the subprime bubble, analyst says.

Amazon’s Ring Plans to Scan Everyone’s Face at the Door.

Lower Than Cowards. The surrender of America’s elites.

How different mushrooms learned the same psychedelic trick.

Tested: 2025 Volkswagen ID.Buzz Is the Bee’s Knees.

Anti-Aging Breakthrough: Stem Cells Reverse Signs of Aging in Monkeys.

Work is Not School: Surviving Institutional Stupidity.

A 3000-year-old copper smelting site could be key to understanding the origins of iron.

An Autocracy of Dunces.

On Jimmy Kimmel: It’s Time to Destroy the Censorship Machine and Repeal the Telecommunications Act of 1996.

Nearly 80% of Americans want Congress to extend ACA tax credits, poll finds.

A biological 0-day? Threat-screening tools may miss AI-designed proteins.

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS passed Mars last night.

US to give Ukraine intelligence on long-range energy targets in Russia.

How California families are already bracing for looming Medicaid cuts.

The Decade That Rewrote the Balance Sheet. How the 1930s turned accountants from the servants of bankers into guardians of the investor class.

Rogue planet has a record growth rate of 6.6 billion tons per second. Almost as much as your mom.

Please let the robots have this one.

The strangest letter of the alphabet. The rise and fall of yogh.

Researchers develop molecular qubits that communicate at telecom frequencies.

You don’t have to swallow frogs. Klein and Coates show that if you don’t know what your core beliefs are, you’re going to get played. “But pundits rarely shape politics.” LOLWUT?

The Government Has Been Shut Down for Months.

Inflammation now predicts heart disease more strongly than cholesterol.

How has mathematics gotten so abstract?

Microsoft moves to the uncanny valley with creepy Copilot avatars that stare at you and say your name.

Trump Is Shutting Down the War on Cancer. America’s cancer research system, which has helped save millions of lives, is under threat in one of its most productive moments. Fully fucking moronic beyond any words.

Is This the End of the Dictionary?

Getting Yelled at By Dumbasses. The defining experience of fascism.

Trump Has No Mandate to Destroy America.

Golden retriever boyfriends and ick lists: gen Z’s dating rules are making them ‘constantly disappointed.’

Funds Shifted To Develop New LC-130J “Ski Bird” Polar Airlifters.

A Memo To Corporate America: How To Stop Being Cartoon Villains.

Hiring only senior engineers is killing companies.

A blue jay and a green jay mated, researchers say. Their offspring is a scientific marvel.

FAA decides it trusts Boeing enough to certify the safety of its own planes again. I’m sure that will end well.

How the Brain Balances Excitation and Inhibition.

The “Lock-in Effect” and Mortgage Rates: Update on Unwinding a Phenomenon that Wrecked the Housing Market.

Chat Control Is Back on the Menu in the EU. It Still Must Be Stopped.

Correctness Isn’t Competence.

The death of the corporate job.

A world with two predatory superpowers. Nations must work out how to contend with Trump’s America and China.

The Russian spy ship stalking Europe’s subsea cables.

Boeing Has Started Working on a 737 MAX Replacement.

Patagonian Welsh.

The Long Strange Trip from Silica to Smartphone.

A General Principle of Neuronal Evolution Reveals a Human-Accelerated Neuron Type Potentially Underlying the High Prevalence of Autism in Humans.

Inside the Jaguar Land Rover hack: stalled smart factories, outsourced cybersecurity and supply chain woes.

Angry Tortoise Liquid-Fueled Hypersonic Missile In Development For USAF.

Ukraine Is Now The Strongest Ally Europe Can Rely On. Sad but alas true.

Europeans Privately Tell Russia They’re Ready to Down Jets. Time to start shooting.

Costa seeks to bypass Orbán’s veto on Ukraine’s EU membership bid.

How to hold Russia’s propagandists accountable.

Major bank issues warning that there’s a 93% chance of a recession in the US this year.

For Want of a Ferryman, a Two-Century U.S.-Canada Link Is Severed.

Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies.

The top 10% are responsible for nearly half of the consumer spending that’s keeping the economy afloat. There’s something disturbing about a tiny number of people having so much money that it effectively masks how poor everyone else is.

How much would mothers earn if they didn’t have children?

Isabella Stewart Gardner.

Why Microsoft Has Lower Borrowing Costs Than the U.S.

For 15% of California homeowners costs exceed half of income.

Spraying Roundup on Crops Is Fine. Really.

We need to be honest. Not all cultures are equal, and not all immigration is equal.

The AI bubble is the only thing keeping the US economy together, Deutsche Bank warns.

New Math Revives Geometry’s Oldest Problems.

Nouvelle intrusion d’un drone d’origine inconnue au Danemark ; l’Allemagne va désormais abattre tout drone en cas de survol de son territoire.

Why Today’s Humanoids Won’t Learn Dexterity.

Why a decades old architecture decision is impeding the power of AI computing.

‘Hidden costs’ of climate emergency are worsening California’s affordability crisis.

Could we make something good from social media? Most likely not.

Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juice.

France and Britain are in thrall to pensioners.

Illiteracy is a policy choice.

The current war on science, and who’s behind it.

Athlon 64: How AMD turned the tables on Intel.

Cosmic simulations that once needed supercomputers now run on a laptop.

Do we have to recover from anti-vaccine misinformation the hard way, with suffering and death? Turns out, yes.

Austria hails ‘brain gain’ in luring 25 academics away from US after cuts.

We Must Save Public Media to Change It.

Block busting only worked because the threats were backed by real violence.

The Legend of a Jet Age Jesse James.