Maxime Marquette
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The predictive brain rediscovers a 130-year-old hunch from Freud
There is something dizzying about watching twenty-first-century computational neuroscience catch up, almost word for word, with an intuition first formulated at the
South Korea Risks Running Out of Power for Its AI Chip Factories
According to a report published on July 1, 2026 by the Chosun Ilbo, Samsung and SK Hynix will need an additional 27.7
Tens of Thousands of Federal Workers Sacrificed Since January
Since the start of 2026, the cumulative tally of layoffs across the U.S. federal civil service under the Trump administration has reached
A Grand Jury Humiliates Trump's DOJ Again in the Letitia James Case
For the second time in a matter of months, a federal grand jury has refused to indict New York Attorney GeneralLetitia James,
30 Years in Prison for a Florida Man Who Exploited Children in the Philippines
On July 2, 2026, the United States Department of Justice announced the sentencing of Vincent Anthony Principe, a 55-year-old man from Arcadia,
Amazon speeds up drone deliveries and readies its Starlink rival
In early July 2026, Amazon is making announcements on two distinct but complementary technology fronts: expanding its Prime Air drone delivery program,
AI agents are blowing up the energy bill of data centers
A research team at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, known as KAIST, led by researcher Rhu Min-soo, published results
This blood test could detect Alzheimer's before symptoms start
A research team led by Dr. Carlos Cruchaga, of Washington University in St. Louis, has just published results in Nature Medicine on
Aging muscle stem cells reveal a hidden trade-off
Researchers at UCLA have uncovered a biological mechanism that explains why aging muscles heal more slowly after injury. The study, published on