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- 01A famous nuclear weapon formula actually came from an earlier, simpler ideaSocial Science
- 02A 4-billion-parameter video AI that beats larger models? It's all in the frame.AI
- 03Infection Risk Hinges on 'Age of Infection', Not Just ContactBiology
- 04Meditation's 'aha moment' is a brain network ignition signalNeuroscience
- 05To Fix a Biased Shortcut, Let It Be Its Own MirrorSocial Science
In today's issue
Five stories per section
AI
2026-07-17- 01A 4-billion-parameter video AI that beats larger models? It's all in the frame.
- 02AI that writes its own training hints learns faster from scarce rewards
- 03Stop Your AI Search Agent From Going in Circles
- 04LongStraw: RL training on 2.1M tokens with just 8 GPUs
- 05Your Robot's Imagination Looks Fine, But Its Actions Are Tricked
Biology
2026-07-17- 01Infection Risk Hinges on 'Age of Infection', Not Just Contact
- 02New Map Reveals Some 'Aggressive' Breast Cancers Are Not So Aggressive
- 03Why Randomness Can Keep Diversity Alive in Evolution
Neuroscience
2026-07-17- 01Meditation's 'aha moment' is a brain network ignition signal
- 02A Network's First Moment of Silence Tells If Activity Will Restart
- 03To Really Understand a Ball, You Must Throw It
- 04Your posture reveals what you’re doing, but not how you move.
- 05Fall Detection Gets a Physics Lesson: Tiny AI Spots Stumbles in Real Time
Social Science
2026-07-17- 01A famous nuclear weapon formula actually came from an earlier, simpler idea
- 02To Fix a Biased Shortcut, Let It Be Its Own Mirror
- 03Why Nighttime Lights Make Economic Estimates All Converge to One
- 04In Colombia, 515 Students Swapped Building Sensors for Analyzing Data
- 05Why a Simple AI Report Beat Multi-Agent Debate (by 0.66 Rank Points)
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Read 5 cards
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Stamp the issue
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