Ancient Greek Skepticism

Researchers sequenced the genome of Jonathan, an Aldabra giant tortoise estimated to be about 194, to investigate biological features linked to long life.

• Greek Sceptic Team
• October 8, 2026

AI can produce research, code and contract drafts quickly, but evidence suggests human review remains slow, scarce and essential.

• Greek Sceptic Team
• October 8, 2026

OpenAI released 722 manuscripts across 372 result families. Their claims still need independent review, and their value may depend on what mathematicians learn from them.

• Greek Sceptic Team
• October 7, 2026

NASA Earth Observatory asks readers to identify the location in its October satellite image and says it plans to post the answer about a week later.

• Greek Sceptic Team
• October 7, 2026

NASA’s Curiosity rover wrapped up CheMin work on a Basque Lakes sample and prepared SAM for further analysis during sols 5029–5035.

• Greek Sceptic Team
• October 6, 2026

Q Labs reports that Dust can pretrain transformer models using activation perturbations, but its results are research claims, not independent validation.

• Greek Sceptic Team
• October 6, 2026

Vals AI reports simulations of two Luttinger-compensated magnetic semiconductor candidates, including one newly designed compound and one known since 1999.

• Greek Sceptic Team
• October 6, 2026

Astral Codex Ten’s Open Thread 454 invites reader discussion and posts updates on meetups, Fatima documents, book reviews and AI safety.

• Greek Sceptic Team
• October 5, 2026

NASA engineer Richard Spolzino describes how documenting lunar data gaps is guiding instrument choices and helping partners target missing information.

• Greek Sceptic Team
• October 5, 2026

A Nature study and a Cell paper examine how aging-related changes in cell identity may connect to inflammation, scarring and disease.

• Greek Sceptic Team
• October 4, 2026