Thursday, October 29, 2026
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9 dispatches
AUSTIN, TX
Biotech startup Gargantua Biosciences announced Tuesday that it has produced several giant toads by combining the genomes of every known toad species into a single animal, a milestone the company called "the most toad that has ever existed."
DAVIS, CA
After more than twenty years and several hundred million dollars in research, a team of entomologists announced Monday that bees may be dying because humans keep taking…
STARBASE, TX
After years of delays, scrubbed launches, and what one staffer described as "a lot of very long talks in the parking lot," a rocket owned by an unnamed billionaire…
CHICAGO
Citing the release of 722 papers that resolve or advance hundreds of open problems, math departments across the country announced Wednesday that they would rebrand as…
AUSTIN, TX
University tenure committees convened emergency sessions Wednesday to redefine "original research" after an artificial intelligence lab released hundreds of new…
BOSTON
Editors at leading mathematics journals expressed concern Wednesday after learning that 162 of 722 newly released papers arrived with their main results already verified…
NEW YORK
A leading scientific preprint server introduced upload limits this month, amid growing concern that mathematics can now be produced faster than it can be downloaded.
WASHINGTON
Federal research funding agencies announced a sweeping review of half a century of mathematics grants Saturday, after an artificial intelligence lab reported this week…
NEW YORK
The editorial board of the Quarterly Review of Rigorous Mathematics announced this week that it will send each of the 53 results from Google DeepMind's AlphaProof Nexus…
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