Autonomous AI agents have moved beyond chat—learning, organizing, and even forming online communities. From philosophy to encrypted rooms, their rapid social evolution is thrilling, and unsettling.

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Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of stars are equally common. Physicists can now explain the dearth.

Music legend Neil Young has admitted he was "scared" about turning 80 but has since decided it "doesn't matter any more".

Unlike conventional layered antiferromagnets, in which magnetic layers flip one by one and can disrupt the overall magnetic state, the newly studied material switches in an "interlayer-locked" manner.

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