What Is the Famous Photo of a Single Atom and How Was It Taken?
A photograph of a single atom is really a long-exposure image of light emitted by that atom while it is…
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Why the Milky Way Smells Like Raspberries and Rum
Space does not literally taste or smell like raspberries and rum to human noses, but astronomers have found a molecule…
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What Is Gardening in Cryptography and How Does It Work?
In cryptography, gardening is the practice of deliberately causing an opponent to send messages that contain a specific, known piece…
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What Is Boston Dynamics’ Atlas and How Does It Work?
Atlas is a 5 foot 9 inch, 200 pound AI powered humanoid robot built by Boston Dynamics to do physical…
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3I/ATLAS Observations: Interstellar Comets Become Routine
A dirty snowball from another star system is cruising past at nearly twice Earth-Sun distance, and about twenty different teams…
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AI Helps You Write Faster, But Teaches You Less
The cursor blinks. A chat box on the left, a draft on the right. Ideas flow, phrasing improves, citations appear…
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ChatGPT’s divide isn’t IQ, it’s how you use it
Two people open ChatGPT. One asks it to map Earth’s mass extinctions and correlate them with CO2 and temperature. The…
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Inside the ‘700 Indians’ AI myth and what broke
The joke wrote itself. “AI, Actually Indians.” Variations of that punchline ricocheted around the internet after a viral post claimed…
