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China Is Building a New Kind of Supercomputer Above Earth
2+ hour, 48+ min ago (221+ words) The US and China both want to be the first to launch a powerful AI data center beyond Earth, but the latter has seemingly jumped into the lead. AI infrastructure in space could offer Earth relief from the enormous amounts…...
Scientists Used a Diamond to Create a New Phase of Matter
1+ week, 1+ day ago (231+ words) The researchers are confident that this process can be applied to other material beyond diamonds as well. "The motivation for this research stems from how order and variation coexist across art and nature," Leo Moon, a Ph.D. student at University…...
Scientists Just Made Teleportation a Reality With This Groundbreaking Experiment. Are Humans Next?
1+ week, 1+ day ago (248+ words) Researchers managed to "beam" something across the lab. This could change your life forever. A research team from the University of Stuttgart in Germany recently made a breakthrough when they teleported quantum information between distant origins. The paper was published…...
Scientists Built a Working Brain—And Now the ‘Possibilities Are Endless,’ a Scientist Says
1+ week, 1+ day ago (804+ words) Even consciousness could reveal its secrets someday with this realistic simulation, researchers hope. It will not only provide an inner window on brain disorders, but may become sophisticated enough to mimic the human brain's full complexity. Inside the Fugaku supercomputer…...
Human and AI Thinking Are Converging—And It’s Completely Changing Your Perception
1+ week, 5+ day ago (380+ words) This brief "flash" feels like enlightenment, but it may be something else entirely. To solve a truly maddening problem, sometimes all you need is another person to bounce ideas back and forth with. After agonizing over details for hours, a…...
A Century-Old Calculation For Pi Might Help Explain the Secrets of the Universe
1+ week, 6+ day ago (319+ words) We wanted to see whether the starting point of his formulas fit naturally into some physics," Aninda Sinha, a co-author of the study from the Indian Institute of Science, said in a press statement. In other words, is there a…...
Scientists Confirm the Incredible Existence of Time Reflections
2+ week, 2+ day ago (371+ words) Basically, if you look in a time mirror, you'll see your back instead of your face. This term might conjure up images of a nuclear-powered DeLorean or a particular police box (that's bigger on the inside), but that's not quite…...
This Tortured State of Consciousness Feels Like Your Brain Is Broken—But It's a Survival Tactic, Scientists Say
3+ week, 5+ day ago (38+ words) In the end, trauma isn't proof that you're broken.Instead, it's our species' primordial intelligence, frozen in time. But because your brain no longer needs to fight to keep you alive, the task now is ......
Scientists Just Discovered the Secret Magnetic Behaviors of Light
3+ week, 6+ day ago (230+ words) This discovery goes against nearly two centuries of scientific assumptions. "The static magnetic field "twists" the light, and the light, in turn, reveals the magnetic properties of the material," Capua said in a press statement. "What we"ve found is…...
Scientists Are Gifting AI the Final Ingredient for Consciousness—And It Could Trigger the Singularity
3+ week, 6+ day ago (1003+ words) Researchers are trying to build tiny synthetic emotions into AI that they hope will be the scaffolding of machine consciousness. Everyone imagines the Singularity as a cold, "ber-rational superintelligence, something like HAL 9000, the red-eyed computer from 2001: A Space Odyssey. HAL…...