Universal Studios is bringing dragons to life—literally. At Epic Universe, a baby dragon from How to Train Your Dragon roams the park, powered by Boston Dynamics' Spot wrapped in a custom dragon skin.

Your brain has a built-in delete button • Microglia are neural janitors: These cells actively prune 50% of your synapses during adolescence, literally deleting connections deemed "inefficient" - your teenage brain isn't just dramatic, it's undergoing massive neural renovation

Under the dull gray light of a North Sea morning in 1960 a young programmer named Tony Hoare leaned over the railing of a slow-moving ship thinking about speed. Not the speed of the vessel but of algorithms. Sorting was a stubborn bottleneck. As datasets grew even the best

These animals break physics • Pistol shrimp create plasma: Their claw snaps so fast it creates bubbles that reach 8,000°F - hotter than the sun's surface - and generates light through sonoluminescence, making them the only animals that can literally create tiny stars underwater

AI just proved what no human had Sebastien Bubeck posed GPT 5 Pro an unsolved convex optimization problem. It solved it in 17 minutes, pushing the bound from 1/L to 1.5/L It wasn’t in any paper or online. It was created on the spot AI is past learning math It is creating it

Mitochondria are probably inbred (and that's a problem) • Mitochondrial DNA has zero recombination - it's been passed down unchanged from mother to daughter for thousands of generations, accumulating mutations like a corrupted file • The numbers: Each cell has 100-1000

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Distributed systems are losing the fight against physics • Speed of light tax: Data between New York and London takes 28ms minimum - no amount of optimization can break Einstein's speed limit • CAP theorem in action: You literally cannot have consistency, availability, AND

Starship Flight 10 today. Stream starting at 6:55 PM EST. Watch it here: x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Battery storage is having a geography problem • Lithium geography: 70% of lithium reserves are in the "Lithium Triangle" (Chile, Argentina, Bolivia) while 80% of processing happens in China - renewable energy depends on the same supply chain vulnerabilities as oil • The cobalt

Rocket Lab’s Underdog Problem 🚀 • Tiny vs. Titan — Electron is delivering science payloads while Falcon 9 is sending up Starlink constellations and astronauts. Hard to compare when one’s a pickup truck and the other’s a semi. • Neutron limbo — Announced as a Falcon 9

Solid-state batteries are about to make your phone anxiety extinct • Energy density revolution: Solid-state batteries pack 2-3x more energy in the same space as lithium-ion - imagine your phone lasting 3 days or your EV going 1,000 miles on a single charge • Safety

Report Confirms Two Stars Accidentally Created Black Hole While Just Trying To Cuddle: Each star was just 20 kilometers wide yet heavier than the Sun, spinning around each other hundreds of times per second at a third the speed of light.

Do migratory animals get jet lag? • Built-in chronotherapy: Migratory animals have multiple internal clocks that can shift independently - unlike humans with one master clock, birds can adjust their liver, muscle, and brain clocks separately for different time zones • The

Starship point to point could shrink the world overnight. Imagine boarding in New York and landing in Tokyo in less than an hour. If tickets went on sale tomorrow would you step on the first flight and how much would you be willing to pay for a seat?