After repurposing facial recognition and deepfake tech to study galaxies and the Higgs boson, physicists think they can help shape the responsible use of AI.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: How Quickly Can Atoms Slip, Ghostlike, Through Barriers?
A new experiment on how rapidly atoms can tunnel through a barricade revives a physics debate about how time passes on the quantum scale.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: The Equity-Diversity-Inclusion Industrial Complex Gets a Makeover
Companies and universities have long relied on seminars to reduce racism, despite lackluster results. Maybe institution leaders can salvage the format.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: These Bacteria Ate Their Way Through a Really Tricky Maze
Microbes are well known for working together in stressful environments. Scientists wanted to see how they would fare at a labyrinthine brain teaser.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: This Lab ‘Cooks’ With AI to Make New Materials
A Toronto lab recycles carbon dioxide into more useful chemicals, using materials it discovered with artificial intelligence and supercomputers.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Physicists Clear the Air With a Sweet Frickin’ Laser Beam
Fast laser pulses produce a shock wave in air that pushes water vapor aside. That clears channels in clouds for transmitting optical data from satellites.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: To Beat Covid-19, Scientists Try to ‘See’ the Invisible Enemy
Using beams of X-rays and electrons, researchers are creating a moving model of the coronavirus in order to discover its weaknesses.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: How to See the World’s Reflection From a Bag of Chips
Computer scientists reconstructed the image of a whole room using the reflection from a snack package. It’s useful for AR/VR research—and possibly spying.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Two Physicists Bet Over a Quantum Computing Moon Shot
Topological quantum computing has long been a beautiful dream. Two top scientists are now facing off over whether it will exist by 2030.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Katherine Johnson’s Math Will Steer NASA Back to the Moon
She mapped Apollo 11’s path to history. Now, her legacy lives on in the trajectories of future spaceflights—including the moon landing planned for 2024.