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Mar 30, 2026, 11:48 PM ETScience

Resistant Starch Series Part 1: How Feeding Your Gut Bacteria Sharpens Your Brain and Stabilizes Your Mood

Infographic showing the resistant starch gut-brain axis pathway from dietary pulses through microbiome fermentation to brain health

A 2024 Frontiers in Nutrition study shows resistant starch from pulses dramatically improves memory, learning, and emotional stability in aged mice via the gut-microbiome-brain axis. Here is the mechanism.

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Mar 30, 2026, 6:48 AM ETGuide

The Complete History of iTunes Gift Cards and the Transition to Apple Gift Cards (2003-2026)

Timeline infographic showing the evolution from iTunes Gift Cards to the unified Apple Gift Card from 2003 to 2026

From the first iTunes Music Store cards in 2003 to the unified Apple Gift Card in 2020 — a comprehensive guide covering region locking, old card validity, security, and what every customer needs to know in 2026.

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Mar 29, 2026, 7:25 AM ETFinance

US Treasury Auctions Expose a Brutal Crisis in Confidence — Why Rising Yields Should Terrify You

US Treasury auction analysis infographic showing brutal failure of demand with yield data and bid-to-cover metrics

The March 24-26 Treasury auctions saw persistent tails, a bid-to-cover of just 2.29 on the 5-year note, and the weakest 2-year demand since March 2025. Here is why this matters more than you think.

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Mar 29, 2026, 7:49 AM ETScience

CERN Just Turned Antimatter Into a Qubit — The First Coherent Control of an Antiproton Spin

CERN BASE collaboration antimatter qubit diagram showing Penning trap, coherent spin spectroscopy, and 16x precision boost

The CERN BASE collaboration achieved a 50-second spin coherence time on a single antiproton, creating the first antimatter qubit. Published in Nature, this 16x precision boost could reveal why the universe exists at all.

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Mar 28, 2026, 1:40 PM ETAI

Anthropic Accidentally Leaks Claude Mythos — Its Most Powerful AI Model With "Unprecedented" Cyber Capabilities

Anthropic Claude Mythos data leak infographic showing the broken vault concept and cybersecurity risk warnings

A misconfigured CMS exposed nearly 3,000 internal documents including draft announcements for Claude Mythos (Capybara), a model Anthropic calls a step change above Opus 4.6 with dramatically higher scores in coding, reasoning, and cybersecurity.

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Mar 28, 2026, 11:30 AM ETAI

ARC-AGI-3: Every Frontier AI Model Scores Below 1% While Humans Score 100%

ARC-AGI-3 benchmark leaderboard showing humans at 100% and all frontier AI models below 1%

The new ARC-AGI-3 benchmark drops AI into unfamiliar environments with zero instructions. Gemini 3.1 Pro scores 0.37%, GPT-5.4 scores 0.26%, Claude Opus 4.6 scores 0.25%, Grok-4.20 scores 0.00%. Humans score 100%.

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Mar 28, 2026, 8:18 AM ETScience

A Computer Just Found a Real Flaw in a Major Physics Paper — For the First Time

Researcher using Lean 4 formal verification to find error in 2006 Higgs physics paper, showing counterexample on screen

Using Lean 4 formal verification, Joseph Tooby-Smith (University of Bath) found that a 20-year-old theorem on Higgs stability is mathematically wrong. The first non-trivial error in physics found through formalization.

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Mar 28, 2026, 5:45 AM ETTech

Apple Poaches Google's Lilian Rincon to Lead AI Product Marketing — The Siri Overhaul Gets Real

Lilian Rincon, former Google VP, now Apple VP of AI Product Marketing

Apple hires Lilian Rincon, the Google VP who built Google Assistant "from zero to one," as VP of AI Product Marketing. She reports to Greg Joswiak and will lead Apple Intelligence and Siri strategy.

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Mar 27, 2026, 9:36 AM ETTech

WWDC 2026: Apple Is Building a Standalone Siri App Powered by a 1.2 Trillion Parameter Gemini Model

WWDC 2026 infographic showing standalone Siri chatbot app, 1.2 trillion parameter Gemini model, and iOS 27 overhaul

Bloomberg reports Apple is testing a standalone Siri chatbot app as part of iOS 27. Codenamed "Campos," it is powered by a custom Google Gemini model via a reported $1 billion annual deal.

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Mar 27, 2026, 6:30 AM ETScience

AI Just Disproved a 50-Year Erdős Conjecture — Three Problems Fell in Seven Days

Infographic showing Erdős Problem #397 disproved by GPT-5.2 Pro with infinite family of counterexamples, verified by Terence Tao in Lean 4

GPT-5.2 Pro disproved Erdős Problem #397 by finding an infinite family of counterexamples. Terence Tao verified the proof, formalized in Lean 4. Three Erdős problems solved in one week.

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Mar 27, 2026, 4:15 AM ETScience

AI Just Graduated From Writing Essays to Writing DNA — Meet Evo 2, the Foundation Model for All Life

Evo 2 foundation model infographic showing 1-million nucleotide context window, zero-shot pathogenicity prediction, and generative biology capabilities

The Arc Institute, Salk, and Stanford publish Evo 2 in Nature — a 7B parameter model with a 1-million nucleotide context window that can read, predict, and design DNA across all domains of life.

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Mar 26, 2026, 2:50 PM ETAI

Google TurboQuant Just Broke the AI Memory Wall — And Crashed the HBM Bubble

Google TurboQuant infographic showing 6x memory reduction, 8x speed boost, and market impact on semiconductor stocks

Google Research unveils TurboQuant, achieving 6x memory reduction and 8x speed boost for LLM inference. Memory stocks plunge as investors fear the end of the HBM boom.

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