Saturn Has Just Fabricated a Decagon and No One Yet Knows Why

We knew about the immense hexagon at Saturn's north pole. Its south pole has now revealed a ten-sided structure that appears to have emerged before our eyes. This is not a geometric curiosity: it is a rare natural experiment in how a chaotic atmosphere can spontaneously organize itself.

Science6 min read

Does an Infinity of Versions of Ourselves Really Exist?

Did another version of you make the opposite choice, live a different life, or follow another future? Between many worlds, the multiverse, extra dimensions, and spacetime, physics allows dizzying ideas — but not exactly the ones science fiction has taught us.

Science11 min read

I Put Five AIs Through a Reasoning Benchmark: ChatGPT Scored 99/100, and the Errors Are More Interesting Than the Ranking

I asked GPT-6 Astra to design an original benchmark blending logic, probabilities, causality, software concurrency, optimization, and self-verification. ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, Kimi, and Grok then took it without access to the answer key. The result isn't just a ranking: it's a fairly brutal X-ray of how these models reason, prove… and sometimes persist in their own errors.

Computing13 min read

The Secret War to Copy the Best AI

Hundreds of millions of queries, thousands of fake accounts, and models trained on their competitors' responses: distillation has become an industrial and geopolitical issue. But between legitimate learning, capability extraction, and outright theft, the line is far less clear than it appears.

Computing12 min read

The sky we see no longer exists.

Looking at the sky is like receiving images from the past, delayed by time. Eight minutes for the Sun, 2.5 million years for Andromeda, and almost the entire history of the universe for the cosmic background: how far back can we actually see?

Science10 min read

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