A 14-year-old Chinese boy gives a technological lesson with an ‘anti-desert’ system to water the Great Green Wall

Jia Mingxuan, a teen wonder, has developed a condensation irrigation system that directs water collected inside pipes to the ...
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Life Science Considerations on the USPTO’s New Guidelines for AI-Assisted Inventorship

On November 26, 2025, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued revised guidelines for determining inventorship of ...
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Ushering in a new era for writing education at UChicago

A new course in the College is allowing first-years to put that idea into practice as part of “Inquiry, Conversation, Argument,” or ICA. The course serves as the first change to the Core curriculum ...
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AI Drug Discovery Tests the Limits of Patent Law

AI speeds discovery, but unclear patent rights for AI-designed drugs threaten exclusivity, returns, and drug-development economics.

She Made the World’s Most Comfortable Thong. 20 Years Later, Commando’s Kerry O’Brien Is Disrupting Your Whole Closet

What started as one woman’s quest for comfortable underwear (without panty lines!) has grown into a global community of ...

The moment the earliest known human-made fire was uncovered

Researchers have discovered the earliest known instance of human-created fire, which took place in the east of England 400,000 years ago. The new discovery, in the village of Barnham, pushes the ...