Causality optional? Testing the “indefinite causal order” superposition
Over a decade ago, when I was first starting to pretend I could write about quantum mechanics, I covered a truly bizarre experiment. One half of a pair of entangled…
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How new fishing tech can reduce bycatch of turtles and other creatures
Our oceans are full of sophisticated, perfect traps: Nets, hooks, fishing lines. Designed to capture animals destined for our dinner tables, they often catch other wildlife too. This accidental harvest…
I Am Artemis: Erik Richards
3 Min Read I Am Artemis: Erik Richards Erik Richards, mission manager for NASA’s Near Space Network, stands in front of the large antennas at the White Sands Test Facility…
Software engineers design algorithm to solve pizza topping arguments
Pepperoni or anchovies? Mushrooms or black olives? And what about the ever popular and polarizing pineapple? Pizza topping preferences are as varied as the people who order them. While that’s…
NASA Tech and Science Bound for Low Earth Orbit on Commercial Launch
6 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Official insignia of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA Technology and science demonstrations, supported by various NASA industry…
Brewers are turning Coca-Cola into a very boozy wine
Making alcohol is pretty straightforward stuff, and humans have enjoyed toying with the pastime for at least 8,000 years. Combine sugar, yeast, and a few other flavorful ingredients, let natural…
This wristband makes you a robot puppeteer
Robots are already better than humans at quite a few tasks. Try to outplay an AI-enabled system at chess or outlast a robot worker operating in rooms filled with radiation…
Delivery robots keep crashing into bus shelters
Food delivery robots are struggling to steer clear of Chicago’s bus stop shelters. Within just 48 hours, two autonomous couriers from different companies veered off course and collided with shelters…
Study: Sycophantic AI can undermine human judgment
We all need a little validation now and then from friends or family, but sometimes too much validation can backfire—and the same is true of AI chatbots. There have been…
Damaged church floor may have revealed the grave of the fourth musketeer
Recent repairs to a centuries-old tile floor at a church in the Netherlands may have revealed the skeleton of the French Musketeer d’Artagnan. Today, Charles de Batz de Castlemore, Count…