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The Orthodox priest and technology entrepreneur says society can keep using today’s AI while temporarily stopping the race to train ever more capable systems — a distinction increasingly echoed inside …
Quantum education is expanding rapidly, but a physics educator argues that universities should focus on what students learn from real hardware, not just qubit counts or headlines.
Researchers used AI trained on 30 years of wind and solar data to generate thousands of weather scenarios, including extremes, and identified the most reliable and cost-effective mix of renewables, …
Researchers in Amsterdam have developed a transfer method using kitchen cling film to place large-area two-dimensional materials onto patterned substrates with near-unity yield, a step toward next-generation electronic and optoelectronic …
OpenAI says an AI system produced a proof of finite-time singularity for the Navier-Stokes equations, but independent mathematical review is still required before the Millennium Prize problem can be considered …
An AI-assisted effort translated the existing proof of Fermat's Last Theorem into a massive machine-checkable Lean formalization, reportedly completed in 11 days.
WeatherNext Cyclones combines track, intensity and size prediction in 15-day ensembles and showed roughly a day or more of average lead-time advantage in tests on recent storms.
Modified Alteromonas bacteria accelerated olivine dissolution about 2.6-fold, showing how synthetic biology might enhance ocean alkalinity methods while exposing major scaling trade-offs.
A chlorinated organic cation helps stabilize tin-iodide 2D/3D perovskite structures, advancing efforts to make efficient lead-free perovskite photovoltaics more durable.
Researchers combined quantum communication with relativistic timing to verify a prover's location between stations two kilometres apart, achieving better than 75-metre accuracy.
A new atlas applies AlphaGenome predictions to every possible single-letter substitution across the human genome, creating a vast resource for prioritizing variants that may alter gene regulation.
A new study reveals that large language models which claim to be conscious also tend to endorse beliefs in vampires, karma, and ghosts, raising questions about how we interpret and …
The problem was not simply a wrong route. An artificial-intelligence plan failed to leave enough margin for delay, injury and navigation trouble on a 14,000-foot mountain.
Most uranium is now produced with in-situ recovery, and ownership structures around those mines can make geopolitical control look very different from national production tables.
Generative AI can reduce the cost of producing business books, but it cannot retroactively supply the experience those books often imply.
A new Physics World Weekly podcast episode offers guidance on building a "unicorn career" in science and technology, alongside a look at the humorous and unexpected failures of artificial intelligence.
Conservation professionals from 11 African countries gathered at a South African nature reserve to train with thermal drones, part of a growing technology revolution in wildlife protection across the continent.
A grassroots movement against large datacenter projects is drawing together Democrats, Republicans, and independents in rural communities, reflecting broader frustration with the influence of tech billionaires over local decisions.
Researchers have developed sub-centimeter robots with no moving parts that levitate and fly using sound waves, a breakthrough that could lead to new applications in medicine and engineering.
Researchers have developed a new type of artificial intelligence that uses a fresh approach to reasoning, claiming it costs up to 11 times less to run than a leading OpenAI …
