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Physicists who disproved ‘5th force’ win $3 million ‘Breakthrough’ prize
They’ve used their carefully calibrated torsion balances to disprove a hypothetical force, feel the pull of…
Why is there a normal galaxy sitting at the edge of the Universe?
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World’s wildlife populations fell 68% since 1970: WWF | DW | 10.09.2020
The environment advocacy organization has warned of “staggering” decline in global wildlife populations. A study published…
The EmDrive Just Won’t Die
More than 20 years after its introduction, the EmDrive is still being tested in labs around…
Mathematicians Open a New Front on an Ancient Number Problem
The odd perfect number conjecture is one of the oldest unsolved problems in mathematics. It has…
Earth barreling toward ‘Hothouse’ state not seen in 50 million years, epic new climate record shows
Record goes back to the dinosaur extinction. Read more at livescience.com…
New Hubble Data Suggests There is an Ingredient Missing from Current Dark Matter Theories
Observations by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT)…
Microsoft’s updated DeepSpeed can train trillion-parameter AI models with fewer GPUs
The company claims the technique, dubbed 3d parallelism, adapts to the varying needs of workload requirements…
Physicist: The entire universe might be a neural network
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A robot wrote this entire article. Does that scare you, human? | GPT-3
My brain is not a “feeling brain” but it is capable of making rational, logical decisions.…
The Idea that a Scientific Theory can be ‘Falsified’ Is a Myth
It’s time we abandoned it Read more at Scientific American…
Mathematicians Report New Discovery About the Dodecahedron
Starting at a corner, could you walk around the surface of this Platonic solid without crossing…
Warrior skeletons reveal Bronze Age Europeans couldn’t drink milk
Ability to digest dairy as an adult evolved later—and much more quickly—than scientists thought Read more…
This tiny nuclear reactor just won safety approval
A nuclear power startup called NuScale has received safety approval for its tiny nuclear reactor. The…
Russian coronavirus vaccine results have been published – here’s what they reveal
Another day, another politicised vaccine. Read more at The Conversation…
I’m Sorry Dave, You Shouldn’t Write Verilog
We were always envious of Star Trek, for its computers. No programming needed. Just tell the…
How Gödel’s Proof Works
In 1931, the austrian logician pulled off arguably one of the most stunning intellectual achievements in…
Giant Gaping Void Emerges in Siberia, The Latest in a Dramatic Ongoing Phenomenon
A bubble of methane gas, swelling beneath Siberia’s melting permafrost for who knows how long, has…
Watch the first ever demo of a self-powered electronic paper interface
Scientists have developed a method of turning paper into keyboards that can convert notebooks into music…