Aug 10, 2026 | Journal
There is a fish, two centimetres long, eyeless, pink, and almost phosphorescently strange, that lives in a limestone aquifer beneath a US Army ammunition plant in northern Alabama. It was formally described for the first time in 2025, by a team led by a researcher at...
Aug 6, 2026 | Journal
A coral looks like a rock. It isn’t. It is, among other things, a small engineering project, and the engineer is a forest of hairs a few micrometers long that no one bothered to study closely until 2014. Every coral colony sits inside a thin sliver of seawater...
Jul 30, 2026 | Journal
The young United States did not answer the Barbary corsairs with cannon. Not at first. It answered with money. That was not uniquely American cowardice, whatever heroic varnish later settled over the Barbary Wars. It was the going rate for passage through a...
Jul 29, 2026 | Journal
Three of the world’s most important oil corridors are being squeezed at the same time. That has not happened before in the modern era, and the structural fact is more interesting than any of the headlines. The Strait of Hormuz has been at what the trade press is...
Jul 28, 2026 | Journal
The most expensive trick in a useful quantum computer may have just met a rival. In the standard playbook for fault-tolerant quantum computing, noisy physical qubits are assembled into cleaner logical ones. That is only the beginning. To perform arbitrary...
