Thursday, July 2, 2026
ArchiveWebb keeps finding galaxies and black holes that shouldn't exist in the early universe. The standard model of cosmology is sweating. Quanta surveys the competing theories trying to explain what's going wrong.
The Bullet Cluster was THE proof of dark matter for decades. Hossenfelder walks through why physicists are now saying it's not. Nearly 10K views/hr and climbing.
Leaked data from Amazon, Adobe, Atlassian, and Citi: companies are quietly capping employee AI use because the bills got insane. The gap between the hype cycle and the expense report.
The theory: cap student loans and colleges will have to cut prices. Starting today, the government is actually trying it. Planet Money traces a 40-year-old idea finally meeting reality.
215 people killed in 63 U.S. airstrikes on small boats in the Caribbean since September. Almost no oversight, minimal media coverage. The legal justification is paper-thin.