A team of researchers at the University of Minnesota has unveiled a powerful new alloy, Ni4W, that could radically reshape how electronic devices store and process information. This metal can switch magnetic states without using external…
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Phones, Data Centers, Laptops – One New Alloy Could Supercharge Them All
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These DNA Structures Could Rewrite the Rules of Light, Sound, and Matter
In a stunning leap forward, scientists have engineered DNA to act as a molecular architect, building intricate moiré superlattices with unprecedented control. By programming twist angles and geometric patterns directly into DNA strands,…
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Fighting forever chemicals and startup fatigue
Megan Tatum: From MIT Technology Review, I’m Megan Tatum. This is Business Lab, the show that helps business leaders make sense of new technologies coming out of the lab and into the marketplace.
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Human teens beat AI at an international math competition
For the first time ever, AI models achieved prestigious gold-level scores at…
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Today is a scientifically short day
Ample sunshine, ice cream, and afternoons at the beach might leave you wishing…
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The Download: How to melt rocks, and what you need to know about AI
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Why it’s so hard to make welfare AI fair
There are plenty of stories about AI that’s caused harm…
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This startup wants to use beams of energy to drill geothermal wells
This rock-melting drilling technology from the geothermal startup Quaise is certainly unconventional. The company hopes it’s the key to unlocking geothermal energy and making it feasible anywhere.
Geothermal power tends to work best in those…
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Five things you need to know about AI right now
3. AI is power hungry and getting hungrier.
You’ve probably heard that AI is power hungry. But a lot of that reputation comes from the amount of electricity it takes to train these giant models, though giant models only get trained every so…
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Inventor builds mechanical computer with thousands of Knex pieces
Today’s world runs on digital computers, but there was a time when people…
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The Download: how your data is being used to train AI, and why chatbots aren’t doctors
Millions of images of passports, credit cards, birth certificates, and other documents containing personally identifiable information are likely included in one of the biggest open-source AI training sets, new research has found.
Thousands of…
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