New Laser Network Could Make Space-to-Earth Contact 1,000X Faster

A new 'laser-powered' project being launched in the state of Western Australia could revolutionize global communications.

AI poses no existential threat to humanity, new study finds

Increasing model size does not lead LLMs to gain emergent reasoning abilities, meaning they will not develop hazardous abilities and therefore do not pose an existential threat. 

Fusion Closer to Reality as Scientists Smash Density Limit by Factor of 10

Nuclear fusion promises a virtually limitless, sustainable energy source via processes similar to those powering the Sun, provided some rather tricky and fundamental physics problems can be figured out first.

Robots face the future

Researchers have found a way to bind engineered skin tissue to the complex forms of humanoid robots. This brings with it potential benefits to robotic platforms such as increased mobility, self-healing abilities, etc.

Trillionth of a Second Shutter Speed Allows "Camera" To See Through Atomic Disorder

Speeding up a camera shutter a million million times enables researchers to understand how materials move heat around and is a major step in advancing sustainable energy applications.

Time Crystals Could be the Circuit Boards of Future Quantum Computers

Researchers say that time crystals could one day become a core component in the construction of quantum computers.

AI Designs Radical Magnet Free of Rare-Earth Metals in Just 3 Months

We urgently need to move away from fossil fuels, but electric vehicles and other green technology can put their own pressures on the environment. That pressure could be eased with a new magnet design that was built with AI.

Researchers demonstrate the first chip-based 3D printer

Researchers have demonstrated the first chip-based 3D printer, a tiny device that emits reconfigurable beams of visible light into a well of resin that rapidly cures into a solid shape. 

Scientists Connect 16 Mini Brains to Create a "Living Computer"

A startup in Switzerland has built a unique computer processor made from 16 tiny brains made from human tissue, basically a living computer.

Google Unveils AI-Generated Search Results in New Era For Online Queries

Google on Tuesday said it would introduce AI-generated answers to online queries, in one of the biggest changes to its world leading search engine in 25 years.

Artificial Intelligence can learn to lie and cheat

Artificial intelligence can learn to lie and cheat, and this is a serious risk that requires regulatory and legislative measures to ensure that it remains a useful technology, rather than becoming a threat to human knowledge.

New 6G Wireless Tech Is 500 Times Faster Than Average 5G Smartphones

A technology demo carried out in Japan has shown a prototype wireless device reaching 100 Gbps data transfer speeds, which is 10 times faster than 5G at its peak, and 500 times faster than an average 5G smartphone.

Major First: Quantum Information Produced, Stored, And Retrieved

The potential of quantum computing is immense, but the distances over which entangled particles can reliably carry information remains a massive hurdle.

Quantum Computing Heats Up: Scientists Achieve Qubit Function Above 1K

For decades, the pursuit of quantum computing has struggled with the need for extremely low temperatures, mere fractions of a degree above absolute zero.

Korean "Artificial Sun" Reactor Sets Record at 100 Million Degrees

South Korean researchers have maintained plasma temperatures of 100 million degrees Celsius for 48 seconds inside a tokamak fusion reactor.