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Scientists Working on "Smart Dust" That Can Spy on a Room While Drifting Throught the Air

In his 1963 scifi story "The Invincible," the Polish writer Stanisław Lem imagined an artificial species of free-floating nanobots which roamed the atmosphere of a far-off planet. Like tiny bugs, the microscopic beings were powerless alone, but together they could form cooperative swarms to gather ...

12 hours ago

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Scientists Working on "Smart Dust" That Can Spy on a Room While Drifting Throught the Air

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Scientists Find Evidence of Flowing Water on Giant Asteroid

Today, the near-Earth asteroid known as Ryugu is bone dry. But new research suggests that the over half mile-long space rock may have once been flowing with liquid water — and crucially, at a period in the solar system's history that's far later than what was thought possible. The findings, published ...

1 day ago

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Scientists Find Evidence of Flowing Water on Giant Asteroid

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Scientists Say They Can't Explain the Signal They Just Detected From Beyond Our Galaxy

Gamma ray bursts are the most powerful explosions in the universe, unleashing as much energy as the Sun will in its 10 billion year lifespan in mere seconds. Typically, they're produced by stars dying in a spectacular supernova — a rapid collapse that completely obliterates the stellar object. But ...

1 day ago

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Scientists Say They Can't Explain the Signal They Just Detected From Beyond Our Galaxy

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OpenAI Realizes It Made a Terrible Mistake

OpenAI claims to have figured out what's driving "hallucinations," or AI models' strong tendency to make up answers that are factually incorrect. It's a major problem plaguing the entire industry, greatly undercutting the usefulness of the tech. Worse yet, experts have found that the problem is getting ...

13 hours ago

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OpenAI Realizes It Made a Terrible Mistake

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Heroic Gas Station Clerk Realizes Elderly Women Are Being Scammed at the Bitcoin ATM, Unplugs It to Save Them

One of the core appeals of cryptocurrency, other than providing a seemingly easy way of making an assload of money, especially if you're an influential person like, say, a sitting president or an airheaded influencer, is that it's decentralized, potentially anonymous, and largely unregulated. That also ...

1 day ago

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Heroic Gas Station Clerk Realizes Elderly Women Are Being Scammed at the Bitcoin ATM, Unplugs It to Save Them

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Fringe Movement Claims the Entirety of Modern Physics Is Wrong

It's one thing when a respected scientist has a novel idea of what dark matter or dark energy might be, or what could explain spooky quantum phenomena like entanglement and superpositions. But the wonders of the internet has brought an entire economy built on outrage and conspiracy theories, enabling ...

18 hours ago

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Fringe Movement Claims the Entirety of Modern Physics Is Wrong