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Which is heavier: a pound of feathers or a pound of gold? what 87 AI models think
We asked 87 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) the same question. The answer was Feathers; 35 got it right. See every answer and who dissented.
11 min · 2,629 words
Things to know if you get cancer (2026 Edition)
After being diagnosed with oral squamous cell carcinoma in May 2026, JJ Maxwell shares practical lessons for patients: push hard on scheduling, don't trust AI reassurance, insist on genetic testing, read the NCCN standard-of-care guidelines, get a fast second opinion at a top cancer center, and keep AI-summarized appointment notes.
3 min · 669 words
Hittite royal archive found in Turkey
The History Blog reports a large Hittite-period cuneiform archive excavated in Turkey, describing the tablets’ find context, what kinds of administrative and royal records they appear to contain, and why the discovery matters for Anatolian Bronze Age history.
2 min · 549 words
Will humans land on Mars before 2035? what 84 AI models think
We asked 84 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) the same question. 86% picked No. See every answer, who searched the web, and who dissented.
12 min · 2,813 words
Jesse Waites describes using AI to search millions of digitized historical records, inspired by Benjamin Breen's dodo find, and how the process surfaced a forgotten meteorite report, three lost rhinos and volcanic eruptions missing from the Smithsonian's Global Volcanism Program list, with sources cited.
16 min · 3,659 words
'Jonathan' Is the Oldest Land Animal on Earth. He Could Hold the Secrets to Defying Death
404 Media's Becky Ferreira covers a Science Advances study that sequenced the genome of Jonathan, a roughly 194-year-old Aldabra giant tortoise on Saint Helena, and what the findings suggest about the genetics of extreme longevity, including how researchers obtained a sample and how the work could inform human healthspan research.
3 min · 671 words
What is the biggest unsolved problem in science? what 84 AI models think
We put "What is the biggest unsolved problem in science?" to 84 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) at the same time. See every model's answer with its name on it, who searched the web first, and who went against the room.
19 min · 4,300 words
What's Earth's dominant species by mass?
Signore Galilei works through biomass estimates to find which single species weighs the most: humans outweigh ants, cattle top the animals ahead of humans and Antarctic krill, sugar cane leads crops, and boreal trees such as black spruce and Dahurian larch hold billions of tonnes, far more carbon than all animals combined.
4 min · 935 words
John D. Cook explains dawn-dusk sun-synchronous orbits: why satellites there stay in perpetual sunlight, and what that means for powering orbital compute servers.
1 min · 257 words
Celebrating 70 years of Fortran
Joe Wallwork marks seventy years since Fortran's 1957 debut: why the language still thrives in scientific computing, what the Fortran-lang community is building, and how modern Fortran fits high-performance and climate work.
2 min · 374 words
World Bank analysts show that near-universal MENA electricity and water access collapses once reliability is counted—effective access falls to about half—and outline policy, financing, and decentralized fixes.
3 min · 752 words