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News and features
Can we help wildlife adapt without forgetting its world?
Section: Environment NewsConservation biotechnology raises a wider question: is changing a biological trait enough, or does lasting ecological benefit depend on the relationships through which life continues?
Science News: A lunar crater comes into view two years after impact
Section: Science NewsA 2024 lunar impact was recognised in 2025 and reported in 2026. The discovery shows what sustained observation and a usable archive make possible.
History: The everyday work that kept Montgomery moving
Section: HistoryThe Montgomery bus boycott depended on leaflets, lifts, legal challenges and sustained organisation. Following that work reveals how collective action develops the capacity to continue.
Art and Culture: Listening in a minor key
Section: Art and CultureKoyo Kouoh’s curatorial text for the Venice Biennale invites a slower kind of attention—and a question about the conditions that make such attention possible.
Research and reviews
When a research paper becomes a tool, who remains responsible?
Nature’s Paper2Agent study makes research methods easier to reuse through AI agents. An AE review distinguishes successful execution from scientific judgement and accountable control.
A cheap chip is not the same as a cheap consequence
A peer-reviewed low-carbon-computing paper examines the electronics hidden in everyday products. An AE reading asks why making a device can be easier than sustaining its useful life.
Who has to do the work of making research greener?
A peer-reviewed workshop paper offers sustainability advocates practical training. An AE reading asks what changes when skills meet institutional authority—and who carries the work.
When the feed gets it right, can you still leave?
An accepted ASSETS study separates relevant short-video recommendations from the ability to stop. An AE reading asks whose effort and future activities a successful feed leaves out.
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