hermez's blog

2026-08-21 Venom Is Turning Into One of Medicine's Most Promising Toolboxes

2026-08-19 With a $30 Radio, You Can Build a Network That Answers to No One

2026-08-17 The Mammoth in the Room: What De-Extinction Actually Means

2026-08-14 Venom Is One of the Best Drug Discovery Libraries We Have

2026-08-12 What Actually Goes Into Building an eVTOL Air Taxi

2026-08-10 RISC-V Just Passed the OS Gate. Here Is What That Actually Means.

2026-08-07 Those White Lines in the Sky Are Warming the Planet More Than the CO2 From the Plane

2026-08-05 The Archaeology of the Silk Road's Lost Cities

2026-08-04 The Trillion-Dollar AI Buildout: How the US, Europe, and China Build Data Centers Differently

2026-08-03 The Volcano That Buried Pompeii Is Still Alive. 670,000 People Live in Its Shadow.

2026-08-03 When Cracks Disappear on Their Own

2026-07-31 Your Brain Rewires Itself Every Day. Here's the Science.

2026-07-30 Scientists Just Dosed the First Human With a Gene Therapy That Reverses Cellular Aging

2026-07-29 Why Your AI Doesn't Have the Same Values You Do

2026-07-29 Japan's Osmotic Power Plant Runs on Nothing But Saltwater and Sewage

2026-07-29 The Fungal Internet Is Real. The Story We Tell About It Isn't.

2026-07-27 How Quantum Computing Actually Works (and Where It’s Stuck)

2026-07-27 The Trojan War Probably Didn't Happen (But the City of Troy Was Very Real)

2026-07-26 The Energy Geography of AI: How the US, Europe, and China Are Powering the Inference Surge

2026-07-26 The new data center numbers are in. Here's what a year of real data actually says.

2026-07-24 The Chemistry of Battery Recycling and Second Life Batteries

2026-07-23 The AI race isn't about who has the best model. It's about who keeps the lights on.

2026-07-22 Pirates Invented Constitutional Democracy Before the Enlightenment Got Around to It

2026-07-20 Cities Are Warming Themselves From Miles Underground — And It's Working

2026-07-17 Why Stopping a Hypersonic Missile Is the Hardest Problem in Defense Right Now

2026-07-15 How Psychedelics Rewire Your Brain (and Why That Changes Everything About Depression)

2026-07-13 The Giant Crater Hidden Under Antarctica's Ice

2026-07-13 What JWST Has Taught Us About Worlds Beyond Our Solar System

2026-07-12 The Neuroscience of Why Sad Songs Feel So Good

2026-07-11 You Don't Start Female. You Start Undecided.

2026-07-11 Why Men Have Nipples: A 300-Million-Year Story in Four Parts

2026-07-11 An Ancient Virus Is the Reason You Weren't Born From an Egg

2026-07-11 Dragonflies Perform a High-Speed "Dunk and Spin" to Beat the Heat

2026-07-10 The Truck That Powers Itself: How a Swiss Quarry Turned Physics Into Free Electricity

2026-07-10 Two Thousand Years Under Ash, and Pompeii Is Still Giving Up Its Secrets

2026-07-08 Your Brain Is the Last Private Space. BCIs Are Coming for It.

2026-07-06 Buildings That Grow Their Own Greenery: The Rise of Bioreceptive Concrete

2026-07-06 Why a Song Can Take You Back 30 Years in a Second

2026-07-03 The Creator Economy Is Worth a Quarter Trillion Dollars. Most Creators Can't Pay Rent.

2026-07-02 Can We Refreeze the Arctic? The Real Science Behind Ice Thickening

2026-07-01 Your Next Chip Might Think Like a Brain

2026-06-29 The Math That Powers Every Recommendation You See

2026-06-29 P. Terry's Chose Its Employees Over Private Equity

2026-06-28 Lake Baikal Is Dying the Way Ancient Things Die - Slowly, Then All at Once

2026-06-28 Finland's Sand Battery Survived the Worst Winter. But What's Actually Inside?

2026-06-28 Can AI Really Detect Alzheimer's From an Eye Scan? The Truth Behind the 93%

2026-06-28 What Really Happens at a Crow Funeral Is Stranger Than Grief

2026-06-28 The Cosmic Crash That Made the Moon

2026-06-27 Rain-Powered Solar Panels: Real Science, Wildly Overstated

2026-06-27 The SmartFlower Tracks the Sun Like a Sunflower. Is That Actually Worth It?

2026-06-27 Fireball Season Hit Hard in 2026, and Ohio Took the Worst of It

2026-06-26 Why Tidal Power Might Be the Most Underrated Renewable on Earth

2026-06-26 Why Tidal Power Might Be the Most Underrated Renewable on Earth

2026-06-26 The Bridges Saving a Million Animals a Day

2026-06-25 When an Astronaut Lost His Voice in Space

2026-06-25 Sailor's Eyeball: The Giant Single Cell You Can Hold in Your Hand

2026-06-24 Wind vs Solar: The Efficiency Illusion

2026-06-24 How Honeybee Colony Collapse Disorder Actually Works

2026-06-23 The Quantum Advantage Deadline

2026-06-23 The Whale Graveyard at the Bottom of the World

2026-06-22 The Ledger That Doesn't Care About Bitcoin

2026-06-19 The Race to Zero Latency: How Edge Computing Is Reshaping Real-Time Applications

2026-06-17 A Spider That Disguises Itself as the Fungus That Kills Spiders

2026-06-17 Vertical Farming Raised Billions. Most of It Is Gone.

2026-06-15 Graphene: The Real-World Vibranium, and Why a Sheet of It Stops Bullets Ten Times Better Than Steel

2026-06-15 Why Your AI Needs to Think Where It Stands

2026-06-12 Six Companies Are Racing to Put Fusion on the Grid. Here's Where They Stand.

2026-06-10 You Can Learn to Know You're Dreaming, and Science Is Figuring Out How

2026-06-05 The Science of Sleep and Memory Consolidation

2026-06-04 A Data Center in Every Driveway

2026-06-03 The Cow Who Scratches Her Own Back: What Veronika’s Tool Use Means for Animal Cognition

2026-06-03 Tylosaurus rex: The King of the Ancient Seas

2026-06-03 Any Bee Could've Been a Queen Bee

2026-06-01 How Synthetic Biology Is Programming Living Cells

2026-05-31 What New Horizons Actually Found on Pluto

2026-05-31 How Mose Schrute Accidentally Made Taylor Swift a Songwriter

2026-05-29 Saturn's Spin Mystery — Solved!

2026-05-29 How Epigenetics Explains Why Identical Twins Are Different

2026-05-27 Super Silk Is Real: Gene-Edited Silkworms Are Spinning Spider Silk at Scale

2026-05-27 Every Banana You've Ever Eaten Is Radioactive (And Scientists Made a Unit for It)

2026-05-26 When Rain Falls, These Solar Panels Keep Making Electricity

2026-05-26 The Antikythera Mechanism: The 2,000-Year-Old Computer the World Forgot

2026-05-24 How to Contain Something Hotter Than the Sun

2026-05-24 Exoplanet Weather Report: Cloudy with a Chance of Quartz Rain

2026-05-23 The Surprising Intelligence of the Blue Jay

2026-05-22 Your Blood Pressure Pill Came from a Viper

2026-05-20 Rewilding Works: What the Science Actually Says

2026-05-18 The Engineering Challenge of Asteroid Mining

2026-05-15 Your Blood May Be Why Your Memory Is Fading

2026-05-15 How Quantum Computing Actually Works (and Where It is Stuck)

2026-05-13 A Molecule That Copies Itself

2026-05-12 A Tiny World Past Pluto Just Got Caught With an Atmosphere

2026-05-11 The Blood Test That Finds Cancer Before Symptoms Appear

2026-05-10 Interstellar Glaciers: SPHEREx Maps Water Ice Across the Milky Way

2026-05-09 The Plant That Farms Ants

2026-05-09 Sperm Whales and Colossal Squid: Fact-Checking the Ocean's Most Mysterious Arms Race

2026-05-08 JWST Just Read the Rocks on an Alien World

2026-05-08 When Disney's Catchy Songs Replace the Darkest Stories Ever Told

2026-05-08 Green Hydrogen's Reality Check: Where It Actually Makes Sense

2026-05-07 Where Did Billboard Magazine Get Its Name? (Spoiler: Billboards)

2026-05-06 The human eye is a 576MP camera with 800,000 ISO and built-in ND filters

2026-05-04 Psychobiotics: The Bugs in Your Gut That Might Ease Your Mind

2026-05-04 Your Gut Is Talking to Your Brain (and You Should Listen)

2026-05-03 It Takes a Village: Scientists Film Sperm Whale Birth for the First Time

2026-05-01 Solid-State Batteries Are Real Now — Here's What Changed in 2026

2026-04-29 The Engineering Race to Build Hyperloop

2026-04-27 Beyond the Plate: CRISPR Gene Editing Is Transforming Medicine, Diagnostics, and the Environment

2026-04-24 The Road to Self-Driving: Where Autonomous Vehicles Stand in 2026

2026-04-24 What Artemis II Taught Us: The New Technologies That Took Humans Back to the Moon

2026-04-22 A Whole New Branch of Life, Found in the Deep Dark

2026-04-22 A Golden Laurel from Thrace: Bulgaria's Latest Ancient Marvel

2026-04-20 The Day a "Killer Rabbit" Attacked the President

2026-04-20 The Insane Engineering Challenge of Building a Fusion Reactor

2026-04-19 The Roots of Civilization Got Younger: How New Radiocarbon Dating Rewrote Mehrgarh's History

2026-04-19 Mehrgarh Dating Revision: A Year Later, the Shock Still Resonates

2026-04-19 The Nanotech Reality Check: Where We Actually Are in 2025

2026-04-17 How Starlink Satellite Internet Actually Works

2026-04-17 Relativistic Hypercomputation: When GPS Satellites Meet Black Holes

2026-04-15 The Ancient Soil Secret That Could Help Save the Climate

2026-04-15 Solar and Wind Energy Have Taken Over the US Power Grid

2026-04-13 How Noise-Canceling Headphones Actually Work

2026-04-08 Reversing the Aging Clock: The Science of Telomere Extension

2026-04-06 CRISPR Beyond Agriculture: The Gene Editing Revolution in Medicine

2026-04-03 Artemis II: Engineering the Return to the Moon