Japan’s NTT wants to replace electrical wiring with light pulses inside computers. Its first light-based …
October 2026
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Penrose’s quantum consciousness: what anaesthesia reveals
by Lisa Larsen87 viewsPenrose and Hameroff think consciousness starts in tiny tubes inside neurons. A rat study with …
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Federico Faggin led the design of the first microprocessor. Today he says no computer will …
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Northwestern’s GlassTENG frames use paper-thin sensors that turn blinks, chewing and pulse into their own …
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Webb caught a star explosion in the young universe only days after it went off, …
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Boiling coolant inside chips: a safer way to tame AI heat
by JWCarlin72 viewsPeking University engineers etched channels into a chip and let an insulating liquid boil inside, …
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Donghua University spun whole circuits inside soft, washable threads that light up, process signals and …
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The hearing-aid battery could learn to recharge: an iron-nickel-carbon catalyst kept a zinc-air cell cycling …
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Can AI be conscious? Scientists test machines against brain theories, and a new LMU study …
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First nuclear clocks: thorium atoms now keep time by themselves
by JWCarlin9 viewsTeams in Vienna and Beijing built working nuclear clocks that tick with the nucleus of …