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Guaranteeing Safety in Autonomous Aircraft Landings Boeing’s AI Chief Technologist on Improving Alignment and Obstacle Detection Boeing’s AI chief technologist,…

The Flat Solar System: A Tale of Gravity and Fake Forces The Elevator Analogy Imagine you’re in a stationary elevator.…

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A Novel Form of Magnetism Discovered in Engineered Material Researchers have uncovered a new type of magnetism in a specially…

“Where did all this come from? How did it all get started?” These are the questions that “The answer: “. “About 100 years ago, Einstein gave us a clue to that, which was that there were these objects called gravitational waves, which are essentially waves that are given off by objects because of their gravity,”

For geeks, there are several great holidays on the calendar. There is of course “, which is huge (on the order of 1023) and hugely important in physics. There’s ” that seem to have nothing to do with circles. But one of the weirdest things about pi is that it’s an irrational number. That means

The original version of “In the dark dimension’s universe, one of those extra dimensions is significantly larger than the others. Instead of being 100 million trillion times smaller than the diameter of a proton, it measures about 1 micron across—minute by everyday standards, but enormous compared to the others. Massive particles that carry the gravitational

Wouldn’t it be cool if you never had to charge your cell phone? I’m sure that’s what a lot of people were thinking recently, when a company called BetaVolt said it had developed a coin-sized “nuclear battery” that would last for 50 years. Is it for real? Yes it is. Will you be able to

The original version of “. He had played as a kid and had recently read Garry Kasparov’s Deep Thinking, a memoir of the grandmaster’s 1997 matches against IBM’s chess-playing computer, Deep Blue. He watched ” on Netflix. Despite his renewed interest, Zahavy wasn’t looking for ways to improve his game. “I’m not a great player,”

The original version of ““It was really exciting,” said “, a doctoral student at the University of California, San Diego. Researchers worked to optimize LLL-style algorithms to accommodate bigger inputs, often achieving good performance. Still, some tasks have remained stubbornly out of reach. The new paper, authored by Ryan and his adviser, Nadia Heninger, combines