Roman Alfimow
Editor-in-Chief
Solutions architect and cybersecurity specialist who also writes as a journalist and opinion writer. His pieces also appear in the Science section. He directs the Perspicora newsroom and writes on technology, security, and the public questions beside them: what a system is built to do, who it binds, and what can actually be known about it. His subjects run from physics and mathematics to neural networks, the architecture of biological systems, natural history, and law, with philosophy and ethics as the thread between them.
Stories
Who Really Creates? AI, Copyright, and the Illusion of Easy Answers
As artificial intelligence transforms the creation of books, images, music and inventions, the line between directing a creative process and performing the work becomes increasingly difficult to draw. But does using a more autonomous tool make someone any less of a creator?
The answer is not the skill: how AI is reshaping human thinking
Artificial intelligence can make us more productive without making us more capable: classroom and workplace experiments show why some AI systems strengthen independent thinking while others encourage dependence.
Immune gene variants act in specific cell types
A Nature paper published on 28 October 2026 reports that pattern in 5,438,679 immune cells from 1,925 adults.
Physical systems now set the pace of AI
The International Energy Agency's April 2026 review measured data-center electricity use at about 485 terawatt-hours in 2025, and that count includes ordinary internet services as well as artificial intelligence.
OpenAI posts Navier-Stokes and Yang-Mills claims
Clay's official statement C asks for some smooth starting velocity and some smooth force for which no smooth solution lasts forever, and statement D asks the same question inside a periodic box.