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The Enhanced Games: Inside the 'Steroid Olympics' That Are About to Shake Sports Forever
The inaugural Enhanced Games kicks off in Las Vegas this week with performance-enhancing drugs explicitly permitted. Elite athletes are signing up. The health risks are real. Here's why traditional sports is fighting back so hard.
TechnologyWhy T. Rex Had Such Tiny Arms: Scientists Say Its Giant Head Became the Ultimate Hunting Tool
The mighty Tyrannosaurus rex could generate 35,000 to 57,000 Newtons of bite force, dwarfing any living land predator. But that devastating skull came at a cost. New research reveals why T. rex ended up with comically tiny arms.
TechnologyHealth Tracking Rings: The Wearable That's Quietly Replacing Your Smartwatch for Sleep and Recovery
Smart rings like Oura and Samsung Galaxy Ring are quietly replacing smartwatches for sleep and recovery tracking. Here's why the overnight data advantage is reshaping health monitoring.
TechnologyHealth Tracking Rings: The Wearable That's Quietly Replacing Your Smartwatch for Sleep and Recovery
Smart rings like Oura and Samsung Galaxy Ring are quietly replacing smartwatches for sleep and recovery tracking. Here's why the overnight data advantage is reshaping health monitoring.
TechnologyNeuromorphic Computing in 2026: How Brain-Inspired Chips Are Making AI Massively More Energy Efficient
Neuromorphic chips promise to slash AI energy use by orders of magnitude. Could 2026 be the year brain-inspired processors finally go mainstream?
TechnologyHow to Detect a Liar: The Science of Lie Detection in Everyday Life
The average person catches lies only 54% of the time. Here's what the science actually says about detecting deception, and why most of what we think we know is wrong.
TechnologyWhy Text-to-Audio AI Finally Sounds Natural: How the Technology Behind Voice Synthesis Changed in 2026
Voice AI used to feel robotic. Now it sounds genuinely human. Discover how sub-150ms latency and transformer networks finally crossed the 800ms barrier.
TechnologyWhy AI Search Is Making Young People Less Curious: What the Research Actually Shows
Research shows that AI Overviews and instant answers may be short-circuiting the inquiry process that develops curiosity as a cognitive skill in young people. Here is what the science says and what to do about it.
TechnologyCortisol Monitoring: The Wearable Stress Hormone Tech Taking Over 2026
Discover how your wristband could soon measure cortisol directly from sweat, ending the era of indirect stress proxies and giving you the hormone data your body actually produces.
TechnologyA Simple Blood Test May Soon Detect Depression by Measuring How Fast Your Immune Cells Age
A new blood test measures how quickly immune cells age—and it could change how depression is detected and treated.
TechnologyThe AI Scientist Is Real: What Sakana AI Peer-Reviewed Nature Paper Means for Future of Science
An AI system generated research papers for $15, passed peer review, and landed in Nature. Priya Nair explores what the Sakana AI breakthrough really means for the future of science.
TechnologyHow AI Found 118 New Planets Hiding in NASA's Telescope Data: The RAVEN Pipeline and the Exoplanet Revolution
University of Warwick astronomers used a machine learning pipeline called RAVEN to validate 118 exoplanets from 2.2 million NASA TESS stars, including 31 entirely new worlds. This is how AI is transforming the hunt for planets beyond our solar system.