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As the year draws to a close, we take a look at some of the biggest science stories of the year, and why they matter.

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Andrej Karpathy warns that AI’s rapid evolution is refactoring programming itself, pushing developers to adapt faster than ...

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has compared starting a tech company to starting a religion. But can we trust Big Tech to play God?

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Readers Edition. This is the (nearly) annual tradition of you, RPS readers, telling us where we went wrong in our annual ...

Shaheen Malik survived a 2009 Panipat acid attack, endured 25 surgeries, and saw the accused acquitted in 2025.

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