Black Holes or Black Hole Stars? Astronomers Spar Over Webb Telescope’s ‘Little Red Dots.’ | Quanta Magazine
The James Webb Space Telescope spots mysterious “little red dots” everywhere. A bold new theory suggests they’re suns dozens of times larger than our entire solar system.
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In China, McDonald's will deliver your Big Mac by drone
The burger chain's partnership with Meituan is another step forward in China's low-altitude economy strategy.
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I Turned My Backyard Into a Nature Documentary With a Flock of Smart Bird Feeders
See and learn about the birds in your neighborhood with these connected bird feeders.
wired.com
Rope, Twine and Thread: Invisible Technologies of the Stone Age - Nautilus
Missing from the archaeological record, fiber innovations like string played a huge role in the daily lives of our ancestors. Researchers are working to weave together new insights from the traces they left behind
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Inside IBM’s New Quantum Computing Fridges, 180 Times Colder Than Deep Space - Nautilus
These bulky units can link qubits together like never before
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Does Consciousness Require a Body? - Nautilus
A conversation with neuroscientist and author Antonio Damasio about intelligence, feelings, and robots
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In an Age of AI, a Physicist Seeks What Endures | Quanta Magazine
Sarah Demers, chair of the physics department at Yale University, sees the potential for large language models to both help and harm her field.
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AI Has Solved One of Math’s $1 Million Millennium Prize Problems | Quanta Magazine
Mathematicians at OpenAI showed that the Navier-Stokes equations, which describe how fluids flow, can sometimes “blow up.” But the massive result is not without controversy.
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Your Boss Is Watching You - Nautilus
Assisted by AI, companies have more options than ever to track employees, minute by minute, keystroke by keystroke. Does this have the desired effect?
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Genome Duplication Is a Radical Evolutionary Gamble | Quanta Magazine
By doubling their entire genome, organisms can evolve extremely rapidly — or they can lose it all. New studies reveal how to survive the high-risk, high-reward evolutionary event.
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Your Smartwatch May Not be as Smart as You Think it is - Nautilus
They’re great at telling time, though
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Memory Decline Starts Earlier Than You Might Think - Nautilus
Middle-age memory slips are a bit strange
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How to Think About Thinking - Nautilus
A conversation with neuroscientist Adrian Owen about the importance of executive function
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The Resistance Is Here
The Resistance Is Here: They didn’t plan to be activists. But scientists have united to overturn Trump’s drastic cuts to science.
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Theory of Fluids Enters the 21st Century | Quanta Magazine
From the 1800s to the early 2000s, physicists used the same theory to understand the behavior of fluids. Now, using a modern insight, they have redefined fluids from the bottom up.
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Dolphins Eavesdrop on Their Prey—and Each Other
Dolphins Eavesdrop on Their Prey—and Each Other: They strategically choose when to whistle or click
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How Listening to Ocean Waves Can Predict Volcanic Eruptions
How Listening to Ocean Waves Can Predict Volcanic Eruptions: The speed of the soothing sounds could spell disaster
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Graduate Student Proves the Fractal Uncertainty Principle | Quanta Magazine
The math, which combines chaos, quantum theory, and infinitely complex fractal structures, has been called a “foundational result.”
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