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The Navigation System That Works When GPS Goes Dark

Aug 7, 2026

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4 min read

The Navigation System That Works When GPS Goes Dark

GPS can be jammed with a cheap transmitter, and increasingly is. Quantum sensors are being tested as a backup that navigates using the Earth's magnetic and gravitational fingerprints, signals no satellite jammer can switch off.

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The $400,000 Cancer Therapy Scientists Want Your Body to Make Itself

Aug 6, 2026

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12 min read

The $400,000 Cancer Therapy Scientists Want Your Body to Make Itself

Plus this week's featured piece, Anti-Aging and the Billion-Dollar Race Behind It. One edition, two biotech frontiers.

AI for science

Jul 30, 2026

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6 min read

AI Is Searching for Physics' Holy Grail

Plus the fusion gold rush: how smart money reframed fusion from a climate bet into an AI-infrastructure bet. One edition, two energy frontiers.

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Robots Small Enough to Swim Your Bloodstream

Jul 29, 2026

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4 min read

Robots Small Enough to Swim Your Bloodstream

Forget humanoids. The most radical robots of 2026 are specks that travel through your body under magnetic control, some of them partly alive, carrying a drug straight to its target.

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Mirror Life: The Science We May Choose Not to Build

Jul 28, 2026

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4 min read

Mirror Life: The Science We May Choose Not to Build

All life on Earth is one-handed. A few labs are learning to build the mirror image, and the scientists closest to the work are asking the world to stop before a mirror cell can copy itself.