Articles by William Chan
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The Boys' V-One and Telepathy Plotlines Track Real Biotech and Neural-Privacy Crises Unfolding Now
Amazon's The Boys dropped its penultimate Season 5 episode on Prime Video on May 13, 2026 — the same week U.S. senators advanced a bill to study federal protections for neural data and a federal appeals court reopened the landmark CRISPR patent dispute between the Broad Institute and UC Berkeley.
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NASA's Real Titan Science Collides With Apple TV's 'For All Mankind' As Season 5 Races Toward Its Finale
A March 2026 study published in Science Advances by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory researchers Tuan Vu and Robert Hodyss has found that acrylonitrile does not self-assemble into the cell-like structures scientists had hoped for, dealing a blow to one of astrobiology's most provocative ideas just as Apple TV's For All Mankind.
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TenSura Season 4's "Greed" Villain Mirrors Real AI Misalignment Research — and the Stakes Are Not Fictional
On Friday, May 15, 2026, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 4 — the hit isekai anime streaming on Crunchyroll — released Episode 6, titled "The Demon Lords," in which a power-hungry antagonist driven by a single obsessive objective threatens to upend an entire political order.
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Dr. Stone's Final Season Uses Real Engineering History to Explain Its Most Unsettling Device Yet
One day after episode 31 of Dr. Stone: Science Future dropped on Crunchyroll millions of viewers in over 100 countries watched the Stone World's first-ever television broadcast, an in-show milestone that doubles as a compressed history of applied physics spanning nearly a century of real-world engineering.
