A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...
A Princeton team built a new tantalum-silicon qubit that survives for over a millisecond, far surpassing today’s best devices ...
Vinyl has always been able to convey more than just music. Artists, engineers, and pressing plants have long left little ...
So we decided to bring the concept into the 21st century: an e-mail time capsule. We built a tool for our website that allowed users to write themselves a message and choose whether they wanted to ...
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A Theory of Dumb

In a paper published last year, Shumailov called this “model collapse,” a process by which an AI system becomes, in his words ...
Poetry to explore writing from the woods Hidden in the wood: potash, charcoal, resin, tar. Treasures forgotten. If you don’t recognise it, ...
Researchers have created a device that generates mechanical power at night by harnessing the natural temperature difference between warm ground and the cold of outer space. Engineers at the, Davis, ha ...
Acoustic metamaterials use nanoscale resonators to manipulate wave propagation in ways not found in nature, enabling highly ...
The 18-second video, which has been viewed nearly 1 million times on TikTok since Phillips uploaded it in October, convinced some commenters that Donavon had failed the “bird test” or “bird theory,” a ...
To achieve the perfect apple pie most home bakers can't even dream of, here are some professional tips and tricks that ...
Discover how reading a quantum clock can surprisingly cost more energy than keeping it ticking, impacting timekeeping and ...
Scientists discover a rare genetic quirk that may extend the age of onset in people with Huntington’s disease by boosting ...