As early as 2024, scientists from the US and China discovered that the Earth’s core had slowed down and even stopped moving in relation to the Earth’s crust. But until now, the…
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A chunk of Mars just sold for a record-breaking $5.3 million at auction
Yesterday, auction house Sotheby’s just auctioned off the largest known Martian meteorite. The stone NWA 16788 sold for $5.3 million, more than expected and the highest price ever for a meteorite. The…
Microsoft used AI to invent a safer coolant — and dunked a PC in it
Microsoft says it used its own agentic reasoning AI model to help develop and synthesize a new immersion fluid for PC cooling—and then confirmed that it worked by dunking a PC motherboard…
This safe nuclear battery could last decades on a single charge
Researchers are always developing better battery technologies, hoping to find ones that last a long time and never need to be recharged—and this month, we have yet another exciting breakthrough. South Korean…
Google’s AI race: A two-year run of crisis and chaos, recapped
Although Google was the first to develop the transformer architecture that underpins modern large language models, it was OpenAI who raised the bar and ushered in a new era with ChatGPT. Google…
This nightmarish $35K computer is powered by a lab-grown human brain
An Australian company called Cortical Labs has developed a computer powered by lab-grown human brain cells, Gizmodo reports. The computer, known as CL1, is described as the world’s first “code deployable biological…
Microsoft’s new Majorana 1 chip is a quantum computing breakthrough
After 17 years of research, Microsoft has finally developed the Majorana 1 chip, its first quantum computing processor based on a brand-new material and architecture, reports The Verge. At the heart of…
Nostalgia? Pfft. These 7 retro PCs are still doing serious work today
There are things in this world that you simply wouldn’t expect, like an aircraft carrier with Windows XP, a nuclear weapon control system on floppy discs, or a Commodore 64 as a…
Google unveils ‘Willow’ quantum chip that smashes all modern records
Google just showed off Willow to the world, its mind-blowing quantum chip that absolutely destroyed an intensive benchmark. What would normally take today’s fastest supercomputers about 10 septillion years to complete —…
Scientists create diamond battery that can last thousands of years
According to a University of Bristol press release, a team of scientists and engineers have made a significant breakthrough, successfully creating the world’s first carbon-14 diamond battery. Based on the same radioactive…