Researchers at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in Livermore, California have reproduced a crucial fusion ignition experiment that saw more energy produced from a hydrogen fusion reaction than what was used to start the reaction in the first place. Although the research team is still crunching the numbers, they sayread more
A group of Representatives have called for House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to form a Select Committee to investigate the federal government’s response to the issue of unidentified anomalous phenomena, in light of the testimony delivered at the Oversight Committee’s hearing into UAP that put allegations of reverse engineering programs illegallyread more
Researchers at Purdue University have developed the whitest paint ever produced, capable of reflecting more than 98 percent of the light that strikes it, a quality that could reduce the need for air conditioning for buildings coated in the brilliant pigment. But perhaps even more ambitiously, another researcher calculates thatread more
One of the crowning events in the field of AI research—the defeat of the world’s top professional Go player by a machine learning program—has been undone by an amateur player using a deceptively simple strategy: a strategy deceptive to AI, that is, but one that would be obvious to virtuallyread more