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How Viruses Are Teaching Scientists to Kill Drug-Resistant Superbugs

Something is going wrong with one of modern medicine’s greatest achievements. Antibiotics, the drugs that turned once-fatal infections into minor inconveniences, are losing their power. And they’re losing it fast. In the United States alone, antibiotic-resistant bacteria now kill someone every 15 minutes. Across the globe, antimicrobial resistance claims an estimated 700,000 lives each year.…
Astronomers Captured a Star’s Final Moment and It Was Not What Anyone Expected

For decades, the death of a star has been imagined as something almost symmetrical, a brilliant, spherical burst radiating outward evenly into the void. It is the kind of image often shown in textbooks and documentaries, balanced, predictable, and strangely orderly for such a violent event. But in April 2024, something quietly extraordinary happened. Astronomers…
Operation Epic Fury: How Laser Weapons, Space Satellites, and Hacked Cameras Changed the Iran War

Somewhere off the coast of Iran, mounted on the deck of a US Navy destroyer, a weapon that most people had only seen in test footage was being used in a live conflict for the first time. Footage released by US Central Command on social media showed it clearly enough for military analysts to identify…
He Bought google.com for $12; Google Paid Him Big to Get It Back

Imagine realizing you accidentally bought the most powerful website on the internet for less than the price of a movie ticket. While major tech companies spend billions securing their digital borders, sometimes a tiny administrative oversight can leave the front door completely unlocked. In 2015, one late-night browsing session proved that even the most advanced…
Two Teenagers From Texas Just Did What the EPA Has Not

Microplastics are everywhere. At the summit of Mount Everest. In the deepest trenches of the ocean. In human blood, breast milk, and the dust settling on your kitchen counter right now. By some estimates, each person inhales and ingests roughly a credit card’s worth of plastic every single week. Particles that small pass through conventional…
Mississippi Town Struggles With Noise From Elon Musks AI Power Project

In Southaven, Mississippi, the soundtrack of daily life has changed. What was once a quiet suburban stretch just south of Memphis is now punctuated by a constant industrial roar that some residents compare to a jet engine idling outside their bedroom windows. For families living near Elon Musk’s xAI power facility, sleep has become elusive…




