In one of the most extreme environments on Earth—the Large Hadron Collider—normal electronics fail almost instantly. But engineers at Columbia University have created custom microchips that not only survive the collider’s intense radiation…
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Columbia Engineers Develop Radiation-Hardened Chips for the Large Hadron Collider
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Harvard Just Collapsed a Quantum Computer Onto a Chip
Harvard engineers have built a chip-thin metasurface that replaces entire quantum optical setups. New research reveals that metasurfaces can act as powerful building blocks for quantum optical networks This breakthrough could replace bulky…
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Fake Videos Just Got Scarier. Luckily, This AI Can Spot Them All
Deepfakes are no longer just about swapped faces—they now include fully fabricated scenes, voices, and settings. To fight back, UC Riverside researchers and Google have teamed up to create UNITE, a cutting-edge AI system that can detect…
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Space Force schedules the next mission for its secret robot plane
The US Space Force will bid the summer farewell by once again launching its…
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How Audi tweaked its turbo geometry
Audi’s A5 sedan and Q5 SUV families—including the zippier S5 and SQ5…
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The AI Hype Index: The White House’s war on “woke AI”
Separating AI reality from hyped-up fiction isn’t always easy. That’s why we’ve created the AI Hype Index—a simple, at-a-glance summary of everything you need to know about the state of the industry.
The Trump administration recently…
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An EPA rule change threatens to gut US climate regulations
The proposed rule will go up for public comment, and the agency will then take that feedback and come up with a final version. It’ll almost certainly get hit with legal challenges and will likely wind up in front of the Supreme Court.
One note…
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The brightest explosion ever seen is still baffling astronomers
On October 9, 2022, astronomers detected a big bang. But while not as big as…
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Engineers Weigh Up Returning to Ancient Roman Concrete Recipes : ScienceAlert
The ancient Romans might have taught us a thing or two about manufacturing sustainable concrete that lasts for thousands of years.
A new study has rigorously analyzed the raw materials and energy demands of their ancient recipe, revealing some…
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The Download: A 30-year old baby, and OpenAI’s push into colleges
MIT Technology Review Narrated: Are we ready to hand AI agents the keys?
In recent months, a new class of agents has arrived on the scene: ones built using large language models. Any action that can be captured by text—from playing a video…
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