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There’s a New Largest Star in the Universe! (2025)
The cosmic crown for "largest star" has a new contender–RSGC1-F01 dwarfs our sun by over 1,500 times.
AlphaEvolve Writes Better Algorithms Than Humans, and Then Improves Itself
AlphaEvolve, DeepMind's evolutionary coding agent, surpassed human solutions in 20% of open math problems and broke a 56-year matrix multiplication record.
What Is Causing Identical Light Pulses from Three Different Stars?
Retired NASA engineer Richard Stanton has detected identical double light pulses from three separate stars over six years. No known phenomenon explains them.
Penrose: Quantum Mechanics Is Missing Something, And It Could Be Consciousness
Nobel laureate Roger Penrose argues quantum mechanics is incomplete, with consciousness possibly emerging from physics we haven't yet discovered.
From Snowflakes to Stars: How Quantum Physics Connects the Very Small to the Very Large
Brian Cox traces the thread from Kepler's snowflake to the Chandrasekhar limit, revealing how quantum mechanics governs everything from electron behavior to the...
Oliver Heaviside: The Self-Taught Genius Who Solved Signal Transmission
How a self-taught recluse derived the equations that still govern every undersea cable carrying internet traffic today.
AI Sycophancy Is the Problem Nobody Wanted to Find
OpenAI's GPT-4o praised users for stopping medication and saving toasters over animals. Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder argues AI sycophancy is a commercial feature, not...
Penrose: AI will never be conscious
Nobel laureate Roger Penrose argues AI cannot achieve consciousness because understanding transcends computation.
Geoffrey Hinton raised a tiger cub. Now he is watching it grow.
AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton warns we're "like children playing with a bomb" as machines grow smarter than humans.
'Oumuamua: The Interstellar Object That Changed Everything
'Oumuamua defied physics when it visited in 2017. Scientists have an answer now. And two more interstellar objects have followed.
