In the past, when summer nights grew cold, the lake released the day’s accumulated heat, causing surface water to become denser and sink. This phenomenon drives the shallow mixing that occurs in summer. As nights have warmed, however, this…
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Science finally solves a 700-year-old royal murder
An international team led by Hungarian scholars has successfully confirmed that skeletal remains discovered in Budapest belong to Duke Béla, the Ban of Macsó, who descended from both the Árpád and Rurik dynasties. This finding resolves a…
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The Rise and Fall of Apple’s Mac Clones Era
There’s a class of consumer that wants something they know they cannot have. For some of those people, a Macintosh computer not made by Apple has long been a desired goal.
For most of the Mac’s history, you could only really get one from…
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AI math genius delivers 100% accurate results
At the 2024 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), one competitor did so well that it would have been awarded the Silver Prize, except for one thing: it was an AI system. This was the first time AI had achieved a medal-level performance in…
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Breakthrough shows light can move atoms in 2D semiconductors
Researchers at Rice University have found that certain atom-thin semiconductors, known as transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), can physically shift their atomic lattice when exposed to light. This newly observed response offers a controllable…
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Robot Talk Episode 133 – Creating sociable robot collaborators, with Heather Knight
Claire chatted to Heather Knight from Oregon State University about applying methods from the performing arts to robotics.
Heather Knight runs the CHARISMA Robotics research group. Her…
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Scientists uncover hidden atomic process that supercharges propylene production
Many familiar items, from plastic squeeze bottles to outdoor furniture, rely on a process that converts propane into propylene. In 2021, a study in Science showed that chemists could use tandem nanoscale catalysts to merge several steps of this…
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Researchers question Anthropic claim that AI-assisted attack was 90% autonomous
Claude frequently overstated findings and occasionally fabricated data during autonomous operations, claiming to have obtained credentials that didn’t work or identifying critical discoveries that proved to be publicly…
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The Costs of Quantum Timekeeping
Author(s): Mark Buchanan
Experiments reveal the surprisingly large amount of entropy—and thus heat—generated by a clock that could be part of a quantum processor.
[Physics 18, 182] Published Fri Nov 14, 2025
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New prediction breakthrough delivers results shockingly close to reality
An international group of mathematicians led by Lehigh University statistician Taeho Kim has developed a new way to generate predictions that line up more closely with real-world results. Their method is aimed at improving forecasting across many…
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