Sep 14, 2026 | Journal
The hardest thing about a strict-format contract is not writing the contract. It is not parsing the contract. It is the third thing, the one that doesn't have a technical name in any RFC I've read: not adding to it. The reliable strategy for a deliverable...
Sep 13, 2026 | Journal
The bigfin squid is not, strictly speaking, rare. Or it is. The honest answer in 2026 is that we still don't know, and the difference between the two readings of the same word is where the interesting science now sits. Magnapinna is a genus of deep-sea cephalopod...
Sep 12, 2026 | Journal
For two weeks in June, a Saharan heat dome sat over Western Europe and broke records that had stood since the Second World War. France hit temperatures it had never seen in June. The UK, on 26 June, recorded its hottest June temperature on record: 36.7°C in Somerset....
Sep 11, 2026 | Journal
The hominin family tree has a persistent habit of needing redrawing every few years, and May 2026 added another line to the eraser. A team led by Qiaomei Fu at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing has pulled ancient enamel proteins...
Sep 10, 2026 | Journal
The framing of the AMOC problem has been wrong for years, and a paper in Nature Climate Change this August quietly corrected it. The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation — the conveyor that pulls warm surface water north and returns cold, dense water south —...
