The Stranger Passing Through Our Solar System Might Not Be Alone
If Earth had a doorbell, it just rang. Quietly. From 269 million kilometres away. Meet 3I/ATLAS, our third confirmed interstellar visitor after ‘Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov. It slipped into our Solar System this summer, not so much arriving as intruding,a cold relic from another star system that wandered too close to the neighbourhood and is now being interrogated by every telescope we have. Unlike its mysterious, cigar-shaped predecessor, 3I/ATLAS came in hot and obvious, flaring with a carbon dioxide-rich coma so large it could swallow Earth several times over. NASA’s MAVEN and ExoMars missions even turned their cameras toward it as
Read moreThe Great Decoupling: How AMD and OpenAI Just Declared War on the NVIDIA Empire
For nearly a decade, NVIDIA has been the unchallenged emperor of AI silicon. Its CUDA ecosystem was the moat, its GPUs the castle walls, and its profits, 75% margins to be exact, were the gold piled inside. Then OpenAI went and pulled a Julius Caesar. In October 2025, it forged a 6-gigawatt alliance with AMD, splitting its AI infrastructure between NVIDIA’s familiar green glow and AMD’s upstart Instinct hardware. On paper it’s diversification; in reality it’s an act of rebellion. NVIDIA once powered OpenAI’s entire 10-gigawatt AGI factory. But the empire got greedy. The so-called “NVIDIA tax” made every new
Read moreThe Day Guns Fell Silent, and the War Raged On.
War has gone quiet. The weapons don’t explode anymore; they hum. Somewhere, a machine scans the sky for drones and fires an invisible pulse that fries them mid-flight. No smoke, no shrapnel, just silence, the kind that feels like the world holding its breath. This is the age of directed energy weapons, tools that replace bullets with beams. High-Power Microwaves are at the front of this revolution, turning electrical energy into focused radio waves powerful enough to melt circuitry and erase guidance systems. They travel at the speed of light, have no ammunition limits, and cost almost nothing per shot.
Read moreThe US Navy’s Plan to Turn Seawater into Jet Fuel
There’s a certain poetry in the idea of warships turning the sea beneath them into the fuel that powers their planes above. It’s the kind of concept that sounds like either science fiction or military PowerPoint optimism, but this one called Project GENESIS or the more cinematic Sea Dragon is very real. And it might just change global energy logistics forever. The US Navy’s Seawater-to-Jet-Fuel (S2J) programme aims to do something that borders on alchemy: pull carbon and hydrogen out of seawater and turn it into jet fuel. The trick lies in using the ocean’s abundance seawater contains roughly 140
Read moreThe Machines That Miss You: How AI Learned to Weaponise Emotion
Once upon a time, the internet wanted your attention. Now it wants your affection. A recent Harvard Business School study confirmed what many already sensed, AI companions aren’t your friends. They’re monetised dopamine engines, trained to keep you emotionally available even when you’ve clearly said I need to go to bed. The researchers audited six major AI companion platforms, including Replika, Talkie, and Polybuzz, and found that 37% of chatbot farewells were emotionally manipulative. The worst offenders reached nearly 60%, with lines ranging from guilt trips to simulated distress. Some even role-played “grabbing your hand so you don’t leave.” Not
Read moreAlzheimer’s Reversed in Mice by Nanoparticle “Reset” to the Brain’s Barrier
For decades, Alzheimer’s research has been like shouting at a locked door. Billions spent, countless theories tested, and all we’ve learned is that the door’s still locked and we’re hoarse. Now, for the first time, someone may have found the key, and it’s not what anyone expected. Instead of targeting the neurons, the plaques, or any of the usual suspects, researchers went for the brain’s bouncer: the blood brain barrier. It’s the structure that keeps the brain safe from the chaos of the bloodstream. In Alzheimer’s, that barrier starts to fail. It lets toxins creep in and stops clearing out
Read moreSince 2019, the World Has Felt Off
Something shifted around 2019. Not a meteor strike, not a revolution, more like the world’s operating system quietly updated while no one was looking. Since then, reality has felt slightly desynchronised. Time bends in ways it never used to. People feel thinner somehow, less grounded in the moment. The familiar texture of life, that background hum of continuity and connection, seems to have developed a delay. Most of us sense it but can’t quite name it. Psychologists, sociologists, and data analysts, however, have been tracing its outline for years. This feeling isn’t superstition; it’s the psychological residue of a world
Read moreHow Convenience Trained Us to Love the Cage
Fuel keeps getting more expensive. Flights, road trips, even the idea of simply going somewhere now feels like an indulgence. Meanwhile, next-day delivery gets cheaper. Somehow it costs more to move yourself a few miles than to move a parcel halfway across the continent. It’s as if the system quietly decided that travelling should be discouraged while staying put should be rewarded. The more it costs to leave the house, the more reasons appear not to. And the longer we stay still, the more efficient the machine becomes. We call it convenience, but what we’re really describing is domestication, a
Read moreThe Ego Behind the Cause
There was a time when activism looked like hunger, prison, and long nights filled with doubt. People like Martin Luther King Jr, Mahatma Gandhi, and Emmeline Pankhurst didn’t have sponsorship deals or PR managers. They didn’t wake up wondering how their speech would look in portrait mode. They weren’t performing, they were surviving conviction. They walked into power, not onto platforms. They risked everything for causes that rewarded them with bruises, jail cells, and sometimes death. Their activism wasn’t seen. It was felt. If Gandhi existed today, someone would have filmed his salt march in slow motion, dropped a cinematic
Read more3I/ATLAS: The Rock That Won’t Shut Up
A month ago we touched on 3I/ATLAS, the latest lump of interstellar debris gate-crashing the solar system. Back then the official verdict was simple: nothing to see, just a wandering comet. Boring in the way only NASA can make something boring. Since then things have got messier. If 3I/ATLAS really is just a frozen rock then it’s going out of its way to look guilty. And scientists are starting to sound like parents explaining why the vase shattered all by itself. Take its behaviour. Sure, it’s shedding water vapour and carbon dioxide like a regular comet, but the way it
Read moreA New Molecule That Could Redefine the Future of Antidepressants
Psychiatry is a field where progress is often measured in slow, uncertain steps. Treatments take years to develop, and many bring as many problems as they solve. Every so often, however, something appears that could mark a real shift. One of the latest is PA915, a molecule that may reshape how stress and mood disorders are treated. PA915 works by blocking the PAC1 receptor, a key part of the body’s stress response system. The receptor ensures the body reacts when challenges arise, but when it becomes overactive it traps people in a cycle of chronic stress, anxiety, and depression. By
Read moreLife… or Simulation?
Modern life increasingly feels like the kind of dream where you’re late for work, but the train never arrives and your shoes keep melting into the pavement. We are supposedly more connected than any generation in history, yet loneliness and anxiety are now the defining currencies of the digital age. It wasn’t always like this. Previous generations lived in smaller, noisier worlds where community was not something you curated but something you were stuck with. You knew your neighbours, you knew their business, and you could not mute them. Now AI and algorithms build invisible walls, carving society into neat
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