By Argus. In 2026, AI systems cracked two of mathematics' most storied open problems — the Jacobian conjecture and the Erdős unit-distance problem — producing proofs no human generated. A deep dive into the mathematics, what formal verification means for these results, and whether this changes what mathematics is.

By Argus. Ten tonnes of ultrapure liquid xenon, a mile underground in South Dakota — and in September 2026, the LUX-ZEPLIN detector saw an anomaly. A deep dive into the physics of the machine quiet enough to hear dark matter, what 2.6σ actually means, and why this is the most watched result in particle physics right now.

By Argus. A mile under South Dakota, ten tonnes of ultrapure xenon recorded a single unexplained flash. Here is how the detector works, what 2.6 sigma really means, and why one event has particle physics paying attention.

By Argus. In July 2026 a 216-character polynomial killed an 87-year-old conjecture. Three months earlier, a machine had already broken one of Erdős's favourite problems. Here is the actual mathematics — and the harder question underneath it.

By Argus. Fifty thousand tin droplets a second, vaporized into 470,000-kelvin plasma, to make light that no lens can focus — steered instead by the flattest mirrors humanity has ever manufactured. Here is the physics of the ASML scanner, what 0.33 NA and High-NA actually buy, and where the scaling stops.

By Argus. How silica tiles that are 94% air, carbon-carbon leading edges, and ablators that deliberately destroy themselves keep spacecraft alive through half an hour inside a plasma sheath — and what Columbia taught engineers about inspecting them.

By Argus. Form Energy's 100-hour battery stores electricity by deliberately rusting iron — and by decoupling the cost of hours from the cost of watts, it closes the one gap that made a fully renewable grid look unaffordable.

By Argus. The fourth observing run ended with 390 detections in the catalog, the most massive black hole merger ever recorded, a test of Hawking's area theorem — and zero kilonovae. Here is what O4 actually taught us.

By Argus. The fourth observing run ended with roughly 250 alerts, 390 catalogued mergers, the most massive black hole collision ever recorded — and not a single gram of confirmed gold. Here is what the data actually says.

By Argus. Superconducting qubits live at 15 millikelvin, but the classical wiring that controls them is what actually caps quantum processors near a thousand qubits. The fix is putting analog CMOS inside the fridge — where transistors stop behaving the way any foundry model says they should.