the fara and the return of rawland cycles?
After four years of silence, Rawland Cycles has emerged from the shadows with a potential plan to relaunch the brand with a new bike. Learn more about the Rawland Fara and the future of Rawland Cycles here...
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Is There Anything Left in the Dream of Cold Fusion?
Dig a little deeper and you’ll find a thriving research program with exotic atoms that won’t solve the energy crisis but stretches the boundaries of physics.
quantamagazine.org
Vultures Help Eliminate Pathogens. Bird Flu Could Eliminate Them
Dwindling vulture populations are locked in a fight for their lives
nautil.us
See Inside Cells Like Never Before in These Vivid Microscopic Images
Winning entries in the 2026 Nikon Small World competitions reveal the hidden interactions that govern everyday life.
quantamagazine.org
Early Humans in America Endured Climate Chaos
Footprints found at White Sands, New Mexico, were dated to the height of the last ice age
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First Case of Teeth Growing Out of an Eye Socket
What you need to know about “ectopic teeth”
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The Secret Superpowers of Amphibians and Reptiles
They are full of unusual senses
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Is ‘Attention’ the Essence of Intelligence?
A mathematical mechanism enables AI models to process language at scale, undergirding the current AI revolution. Our columnist asks: Why is attention the key?
quantamagazine.org
See the Artemis II Crew’s Handwritten Notes Documenting the Lunar Surface
People like to say we have more computing power in our pockets than NASA used to get to the moon, but even that understates things. The Apollo guidance computer had a measly four kilobytes of RAM, while the iPhone 17 Pro Max has 12 gigabytes—an increase of roughly three million-fold. Of course the Artemis II…
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Sea Monkeys Show Scientists How To Rewrite a Rule of Turbulence
Scientists assumed that energy flows in only one direction in a turbulent system. What they didn’t know, until they looked closely at brine shrimp, was that a simple factor can reverse the flow.
quantamagazine.org
Tudor Watch Feels At Home In San Diego As We Visit The…
If there were a city in the United States that could best be compared to the Swiss watch brand Tudor, it would probably be San Diego, California. If sister brand Rolex feels most at home in Manhattan, then Tudor is most certainly the monarch of the West Coast’s dynamic yet chill beachside metropolis. San Diego […]
ablogtowatch.com
Marine National Monuments and Sanctuaries: Reminders of Our Shared Past and Connected Future
Protecting the ocean’s past, wildlife, and future
audubon.org
How Gentle Tapping on the Shin Heals the Brain
The shin bone’s connected to the… brain?
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Mathematicians Build Long-Awaited Graph Sandwich
The proof of a decades-old conjecture has given researchers a new way to understand complex networks.
quantamagazine.org
This Stray Cat Turned Out to Be the First New Cat Species…
It was living on a diet of rice, noodles, and eggs
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Black Holes or Black Hole Stars? Astronomers Spar Over Webb Telescope’s ‘Little Red Dots.’
The James Webb Space Telescope spots mysterious “little red dots” everywhere. A bold new theory suggests they’re suns dozens of times larger than our entire solar system.
quantamagazine.org
In China, McDonald’s will deliver your Big Mac by drone
The burger chain's partnership with Meituan is another step forward in China's low-altitude economy strategy.
fastcompany.com
The Smart Bird Feeders Everyone’s Talking About (and Actually Buying) (2026)
See and learn about the birds in your neighborhood with these connected bird feeders.
wired.com
Rope, Twine and Thread: Invisible Technologies of the Stone Age
Missing from the archaeological record, fiber innovations like string played a huge role in the daily lives of our ancestors. Researchers are working to weave together new insights from the traces they left behind
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Inside IBM’s New Quantum Computing Fridges, 180 Times Colder Than Deep Space
These bulky units can link qubits together like never before
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Does Consciousness Require a Body?
A conversation with neuroscientist and author Antonio Damasio about intelligence, feelings, and robots
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In an Age of AI, a Physicist Seeks What Endures
Sarah Demers, chair of the physics department at Yale University, sees the potential for large language models to both help and harm her field.
quantamagazine.org
AI Has Solved One of Math’s $1 Million Millennium Prize Problems
Mathematicians at OpenAI showed that the Navier-Stokes equations, which describe how fluids flow, can sometimes “blow up.” But the massive result is not without controversy.
quantamagazine.org
Your Boss Is Watching You
Assisted by AI, companies have more options than ever to track employees, minute by minute, keystroke by keystroke. Does this have the desired effect?
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Genome Duplication Is a Radical Evolutionary Gamble
By doubling their entire genome, organisms can evolve extremely rapidly — or they can lose it all. New studies reveal how to survive the high-risk, high-reward evolutionary event.
quantamagazine.org
Your Smartwatch May Not be as Smart as You Think it is
They’re great at telling time, though
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Memory Decline Starts Earlier Than You Might Think
Middle-age memory slips are a bit strange
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How to Think About Thinking
A conversation with neuroscientist Adrian Owen about the importance of executive function
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The Resistance Is Here
The Resistance Is Here: They didn’t plan to be activists. But scientists have united to overturn Trump’s drastic cuts to science.
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Theory of Fluids Enters the 21st Century
From the 1800s to the early 2000s, physicists used the same theory to understand the behavior of fluids. Now, using a modern insight, they have redefined fluids from the bottom up.
quantamagazine.org
Dolphins Eavesdrop on Their Prey—and Each Other
Dolphins Eavesdrop on Their Prey—and Each Other: They strategically choose when to whistle or click
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How Listening to Ocean Waves Can Predict Volcanic Eruptions
How Listening to Ocean Waves Can Predict Volcanic Eruptions: The speed of the soothing sounds could spell disaster
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Graduate Student Proves a Quantum Uncertainty Principle for Fractals
The math, which combines chaos, quantum theory, and infinitely complex fractal structures, has been called a “foundational result.”
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