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Ice by Jacek Dukaj review – a dazzling journey to an alternate Siberia

The Guardian 25 Dec 2025
The 1908 Tunguska comet changes the direction of history and gives rise to a weird new reality in this acclaimed epic from the Polish author. The opening sentence of this remarkable novel announces that the reader is in for an intriguing experience.
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The evolution of expendability: Why some ants traded armor for numbers

Ars Technica 19 Dec 2025
The trade-off between quality and quantity is a fundamental economic dilemma. Now, a team of British, American, and Japanese researchers describes how it applies to biology, as well ... The cost of armor ... Comments .
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Scientists built an AI co-pilot for prosthetic bionic hands

Ars Technica 12 Dec 2025
Modern bionic hand prostheses nearly match their natural counterparts when it comes to dexterity, degrees of freedom, and capability. And many amputees who tried advanced bionic hands apparently didn’t like them ... Micro-management issues ... Comments .
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Frederick W. Jacek

Times Argus 05 Dec 2025
Frederick W. Jacek EAST MONTPELIER — Frederick William (Fred) Jacek, 88, of East Montpelier, VT passed away on Sunday, November 30, 202S at the Central Vermont Medical Center. Fred was born on September 25, 1937, in Ware, MA. to parents ....
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Welcome to “necroprinting”—3D printer nozzle made from mosquito’s proboscis

Ars Technica 04 Dec 2025
Necrobotics is a field of engineering that builds robots out of a mix of synthetic materials and animal body parts ... And it worked surprisingly well. Fangs and stings ... But they all had issues ... Read full article. Comments .
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Researchers find what makes AI chatbots politically persuasive

Ars Technica 04 Dec 2025
Roughly two years ago, Sam Altman tweeted that AI systems would be capable of superhuman persuasion well before achieving general intelligence—a prediction that raised concerns about the influence AI could have over democratic elections ... AI dystopias.
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Authentic Algarve: exploring Portugal beyond the beach

The Guardian 27 Nov 2025
A series of walking festivals and cultural programmes aim to lure visitors to the Algarve’s woodland interiors and pretty villages to help boost tourism year round ... Volunteers were being recruited to help with rewilding ... ....
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Artist Profile: Jacek Smolicki Listens to the World

The Harvard Crimson 20 Nov 2025
Jacek Smolicki, a Stockholm-based designer, researcher, and artist specializing in immersive environmental soundscapes, is Harvard’s 2026 Loeb/ArtLab fellow ... Smolicki characterizes his approach to listening as “transversal.” ... .
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DeepMind’s latest: An AI for handling mathematical proofs

Ars Technica 19 Nov 2025
Computers are extremely good with numbers, but they haven’t gotten many human mathematicians fired. Until recently, they could barely hold their own in high school-level math competitions ... And that’s kind of a big deal ... Comments .
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The evolution of rationality: How chimps process conflicting evidence

Ars Technica 16 Nov 2025
“You know—ask ourselves if we should really believe that based on the evidence we’ve got,” says Jan M. Engelmann, an evolutionary anthropologist at the University of California, Berkeley ... Food puzzles ... Read full article. Comments .
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Wyoming dinosaur mummies give us a new view of duck-billed species

Ars Technica 15 Nov 2025
Edmontosaurus annectens, a large herbivore duck-billed dinosaur that lived toward the end of the Cretaceous period, was discovered back in 1908 in east-central Wyoming by C.H. Sternberg, a fossil collector ... And we were in for at least a few surprises.
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Tiny chips hitch a ride on immune cells to sites of inflammation

Ars Technica 13 Nov 2025
Standard brain implants use electrodes that penetrate the gray matter to stimulate and record the activity of neurons. These typically need to be put in place via a surgical procedure ... Nanobot problems ... Read full article. Comments .
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Corals survived past climate changes by retreating to the deeps

Ars Technica 12 Nov 2025
Shedd Aquarium ... The problem is that we won’t live long enough to see them doing that again. Read full article. Comments .
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