By Max Garsten; Chapter Head ; Choate Rosemary Hall, CT When the James Webb Space Telescope began peering into the distant universe, astronomers expected to see the first faint galaxies and stars. But surprisingly, the astronomers also found tiny red dots that don't match any known celestial object. Researchers have been calling them little red dots (LRDs), or informally “rubies” (Nature, Ahart, 2025). These objects, seen with light from a universe less than two billion years

By Anvi Anand ’27, Oceana Li ’27, Kate Choi ’28, Diya Poluru ’29; Tech Column; The Lawrenceville School, NJ In March 2026, a dispute over the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in military environments arose between the San Francisco-based AI research company Anthropic and the U.S. government. Tensions between the company’s policies and military usage of their products were high, especially after the Venezuela incident, in which AI was utilized in an operation to capture Ve

By Diya Poluru; Tech Associate; The Lawrenceville School, NJ Picture this: a disc of yttrium barium copper oxide, a superconductor, discovered in liquid nitrogen boiling into gas at room temperature, hovering above a track of magnets. No strings attached, nothing holding the disc up except pure science. You wave your hand beneath it, above it, but it stays put. You even tilt it at an angle, and it remains there, suspended in the air. Give the disc a quick push with your fin