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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 old, have...

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 Venezuela's leader,...

By Diya Poluru ’29; Tech Associate; The Lawrenceville School, NJ On Monday January 20, 2025, Amazon Web Services suffered a major outage. However, the outage did not just affect sites like Amazon, but actually took a multitude of applications and online tools offline, affecting people from all around the world. AWS is described by CNBC as the “leading provider of cloud infrastructure technology, accounting for about a third of the market”. When AWS crashed, the outage took down sites like...