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Month: May 2021
Space Debris Has Hit And Damaged The International Space Station
The inevitable has occurred. A piece of space debris too small to be tracked has hit…
The best dark matter map to date raises questions about the universe | Engadget
Scientists have released the most precise map of dark matter to date, but it only serves…
A rogue killer drone ‘hunted down’ a human target without being instructed to, UN report says
The KARGU-2, a deadly attack drone, autonomously attacked a human during a conflict in Libya, according…
Study Shows Transformers Possess the Compositionality Power for Mathematical Reasoning | Synced
From a philosophical perspective, reductionism is the most natural concept in the world: a whole can…
Terrible news, everyone: AI is learning how to post cringe
Specifically, AI-generated rap cringe. Read more at The Verge…
Theoretical physicist Chiara Marletto: ‘The universal constructor could revolutionise civilisation’
The scientist on why studying elementary particles is only one way of explaining phenomena, how the…
Physicists Have Broken The Speed of Light With Pulses Inside Hot Plasma
Sailing through the smooth waters of vacuum, a photon of light moves at around 300 thousand…
An AI has disproved five mathematical conjectures with no human help
An artificial intelligence has disproved five mathematical conjectures, despite not being equipped with any information about…
What if The Heart of The Milky Way Isn’t Actually a Black Hole Like We Thought?
We sort-of take it for granted that there’s a supermassive black hole at the center of…
4 vulnerabilities under attack give hackers full control of Android devices
Google updates a 2-week-old security bulletin to say some vulnerabilities were 0-days. Read more at Ars…
Scientists Fired Tardigrades Out of a Gun to See if They Can Survive Space Impacts
We can now add “being fired out of a gun at high speeds” to the growing…
Like ‘A Part of Their Body’: People Adapt to an Extra Thumb in Fascinating Experiment
An experiment in which 36 people were fitted with a robotic third thumb has demonstrated the…
“Big Surprise!” – Heavy Metal Vapors Unexpectedly Found in Comets Throughout Our Solar System – and Beyond
A new study by a Belgian team using data from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large…
AI searched for single-atom-alloy catalysts, found 200 promising candidates
Skoltech researchers and their colleagues from China and Germany have presented a new search algorithm for…
This AI Makes Robert De Niro Perform Lines in Flawless German
When films are dubbed in another language, an actor’s facial movements may clash with his lines.…
Google showed off its next-generation AI by talking to Pluto and a paper airplane
The next version of Google could be a conversation with AI. Read more at The Verge…
Newly Discovered Quasicrystal – “Magnificent in Its Complexity” – Was Created by the First Nuclear Explosion at Trinity Site
Discovery of new material could someday aid in nuclear nonproliferation. A newly discovered quasicrystal that was…
How I hacked my PlayStation Classic into the console Sony wouldn’t give us
With Project Eris, you can transform Sony’s miniature flop into the console it should have been…
Emergency oxygen enemas could help us “breathe” through our intestines
Scientists have made the surprising discovery that some mammals can absorb oxygen through their intestines. The…