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• AI is no longer just a simple writing aid, and 2026 could be the year when courts, universities, and the media are inundated with a flood of texts that can no longer be processed in time
• They drill through 1,716 feet of ice with water at 167 °F and lower a drill bit to recover sediments that could originate from ice-free periods in Antarctica
• Earth’s “green wave” is changing course, and scientists are already observing a global shift toward the northeast that could accelerate over the course of this century
• Japan takes a step that seemed impossible just a few years ago and launches the first commercial engine capable of generating electricity with 30% hydrogen
• No more dead batteries: Japanese scientists have developed a sensor that generates electricity from sweat
• China already has a giant drone with the payload capacity of a manned fighter jet, and what’s most unsettling is that the “Jetank” can launch entire swarms into the air
• The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz is scheduled to arrive in Panama between March 29 and April 2 with some 6,000 people on board for a military port call that has also raised concerns about noise, waste, and emissions
• Stephen Hawking, physicist: “I don’t think humanity will survive the next thousand years”
• The Earth could enter a phase with a weakly oxygenated or anoxic atmosphere, which would be a major red flag for our search for life on exoplanets
• The specimen they described in 1977 returns to the scene almost 50 years later and solves the mystery of the diet of the ocean’s strangest creature
• The strange Alpine drink that contained a whole viper, which was sold as a remedy for centuries and for which between 600 and 800 snakes were used each year in the 18th century