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What is life? A provocative new book sets out to redefine it

Melanie Challenger's Alive aims to describe the living world very differently – by insisting on agency and purpose everywhere. Michael Marshall explores

2026-08-05 · 17:00 UTC
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Science

Dive into an in-depth history of the realities of space exploration

2026-08-05 · 17:00

Out of This World by Peter Bond lays out the successes and failures of space exploration.

Science

At what point does my family tree stop doubling and start decreasing?

2026-08-05 · 17:00

Readers debate how the introduction of bicycles and trains will have led to less closely related prospective partners…

Science

How does my energy use differ if I walk, jog or run for 1 kilometre?

2026-08-05 · 17:00

A reader weighs in on this one – and finds it will depend on how far you’re travelling

Science

This week’s new questions

2026-08-05 · 17:00

Humans can see water but not air. So can fish see air?

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Tom Gauld visits the entomology department

2026-08-05 · 17:00

Tom Gauld's weekly cartoon

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Twisteddoodles: ‘Will you take the red pill or the blue pill?’

2026-08-05 · 17:00

This week's cartoon from Twisteddoodles

Science

We must adapt to climate change while also tackling the root cause

2026-08-05 · 17:00

The devastating wildfires in Europe demand urgent measures to make landscapes more resilient, but without action to…

Science

The mathematics of balloon animals

2026-08-05 · 17:00

Feedback is delighted to be pointed towards an old but still vital piece of research that presents “a general…

Science

Why don’t dogs look up when a low-flying plane passes overhead? part 2

2026-08-05 · 17:00

Readers continue to give their examples of dogs who do notice passing aircraft – but also put forward some ideas as to…

Tech

I'm Scared a Stranger Will Call My Novel AI, So I Built GitHub for Words

2026-08-05 · 16:58

A fiction writer concerned about AI plagiarism accusations built VellumProof, a word-based version tracking system…

Tech

Your model already knows the answer: how benchmark answers leak into LLMs

2026-08-05 · 16:56

Large language models frequently achieve high benchmark scores not through genuine reasoning but by having encountered…

Tech

PSA: Apple’s Private Relay can leak your real IP address

2026-08-05 · 16:52

A bug in how Apple implements its Private Relay feature, which in theory masks users’ IP addresses from the sites they…

Crypto

Crypto-backed Michigan House incumbent loses primary despite $2M PAC support

2026-08-05 · 16:51

A Midwest Democratic primary that raised accusations of payback from the cryptocurrency industry ended with the…

Tech

Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects

2026-08-05 · 16:50

Celld is an open-source daemon that enables self-hosted deployment of Cloudflare Workers and Durable Objects on your own…

Tech

Launch HN: HyperProbe (YC S26) – Agents that do read-only debugging in prod

2026-08-05 · 16:47

HyperProbe is an AI agent backed by Y Combinator that automates incident debugging in production by placing read-only…

Tech

Why I'm leaving OpenAI to build telepathy

2026-08-05 · 16:45

A former OpenAI researcher has joined Conduit as a Founding Researcher to develop thought-to-text technology that…

Sports

Buttler breaks T20 runs record in Super Giants win

2026-08-05 · 16:42

Jos Buttler stars as Manchester Super Giants beat Welsh Fire by nine wickets in The Hundred

Crypto

Shiba Inu Burns Heat Up 41%, Whales Scoop The Dip

2026-08-05 · 16:41

Shiba Inu’s dedicated community burn machine just kicked back into top gear in early August.

Science

Two dogs lack the protein that causes allergies thanks to gene editing

2026-08-05 · 16:39

A company has created dogs that do not have the main protein that provokes allergies, and hopes to get approval to start…

Crypto

Cardano Volume Up 380% As Speculators Go Beast Mode

2026-08-05 · 16:38

Cardano bulls greeted the short-sellers with a multi-million dollar short squeeze right ahead of the 22% rally.

Tech

D-Wave on rails: Company tests entanglement on its dual-rail qubits

2026-08-05 · 16:37

Company noted for building quantum annealers now also making gate-based hardware.

Tech

Stop sending me your errors

2026-08-05 · 16:35

When email systems cannot generate a plain text version of an email, they often mistakenly send "Plain text version not…

Crypto

Western Union brings stablecoin remittances to Visa network with Stablecard

2026-08-05 · 16:30

The remittance giant is rolling out Stablecard across 37 markets, targeting cross-border payments and consumers seeking…