Practical Magic

Practical Magic

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The complex physics of a fish swimming through water can be simplified into the same basic math used to describe a weight bouncing on a spring.

Economics ssrn | Apr 29

A new cooling device breaks a fundamental law of thermal radiation to stop heat from leaking back in.

Physics arxiv | Apr 29

Synthetic fats can now be programmed to change the chemical makeup of a living cell without touching its DNA.

Life Science biorxiv | Apr 29

An AI managed to synthesize decades of messy medical records for cancer patients and reached the same conclusions as a panel of expert doctors.

Physics arxiv | Apr 29

A new super potato has been gene-edited to have a lower glycemic index and produce fewer carcinogens when fried.

Economics ssrn | Apr 29

A new Terahertz imaging system can see inside solid objects with sub-nanometer precision without damaging them at all.

Economics ssrn | Apr 29

A common vegetable called okra provides the secret ingredient for a new brain-computer interface that prevents scarring.

Physics arxiv | Apr 29

Sound waves can now carry multiple independent streams of data at once by vibrating in specific directions, mimicking how fiber optics use polarized light.

Physics arxiv | Apr 29

Stacked shock waves can compress fuel for nuclear fusion while preventing the tiny ripples that usually cause the reaction to fail.

Physics arxiv | Apr 29

A new imaging technique can see through opaque walls with more detail than the physics of sound should allow.

Physics arxiv | Apr 29

High-quality photos can now be taken without a single lens, using only a flat sensor and a genetic algorithm to reconstruct the image.

Physics arxiv | Apr 29

Waste heat from tiny pulses of light can now flip magnetic data bits with 1,000 times less energy than traditional electricity.

Physics arxiv | Apr 29

A grating made purely of light can twist beams of electrons into tiny, swirling tornadoes.

Physics arxiv | Apr 29

A new high-pressure system produces nearly pure methane gas without needing any expensive external hydrogen.

Economics ssrn | Apr 29

A single smartphone photo of a rooftop is now enough to predict exactly how much solar energy a panel there will produce.

Physics arxiv | Apr 29

Graphene can be turned into the world's most powerful signal converter with just a few volts of electricity.

Physics arxiv | Apr 29

A $45 sensor system can wipe out nearly 90% of deadly carbon monoxide spikes in a home without letting the heat escape.

Economics ssrn | Apr 29

A crystal chilled to near absolute zero has become blind to common radiation, allowing it to see the rarest particle interactions in the universe.

Physics arxiv | Apr 29

Graphene can now be used to store energy in a quantum battery that harvests work from the strange behavior of bound particles.

Economics ssrn | Apr 29

A single layer of carbon-doped atoms can be stretched to create a digital filter that fixes color blindness.

Economics ssrn | Apr 29

Tweaking the color of a laser can double the number of cold atoms caught in a trap without any extra hardware.

Physics arxiv | Apr 29

Mysterious, millisecond-long radio flashes from deep space are 1,000 times more efficient at mapping the universe than entire galaxies.

Space & Astronomy arxiv | Apr 29

A simple electric switch can now flip a layer of ice between a messy state and a perfect hexagonal crystal at the level of a single atom.

Physics arxiv | Apr 29

Suspending a microscopic, two-dimensional magnet turns a weak physical interaction into a force 1,000 times stronger than before.

Physics arxiv | Apr 29

A new mathematical shortcut turns a computer-breaking physics calculation into a simple problem that any laptop can solve.

Physics arxiv | Apr 29

A standard etching tool and basic light-based printing are all it takes to build the core components of a quantum computer.

Physics arxiv | Apr 29

A new paperclip shaped RNA molecule kills the fall armyworm with far greater efficiency than current genetic pesticides.

Economics ssrn | Apr 29

Five hundred obscure facts about 18th-century botany can reveal the exact number of parameters in a secret AI model.

AI & ML arxiv | Apr 29

Dangerous models trained on illegal content can be caught without ever generating a single harmful image.

AI & ML arxiv | Apr 29

Satellite pictures of the African continent can now track economic growth with 90% less ground data than before.

AI & ML arxiv | Apr 29

A single particle of light can carry enough information to identify a complex image.

AI & ML arxiv | Apr 29

A massive AI model can learn how to plug in an Ethernet cable after just two hours of real-world practice.

AI & ML arxiv | Apr 29

Large scale AI models face a mathematical ceiling where they cannot be fast, safe, and high-quality at the same time.

AI & ML ssrn | Apr 29

Evaporation-driven electricity powers a tiny gel strip that physically measures how much pollen you have breathed in.

AI & ML ssrn | Apr 29

Tiny bitwise operations in Boolean space replace massive matrix multiplications to teach a chip a new class in under one millisecond.

AI & ML ssrn | Apr 29

Designing a sensor's physical shape at the same time as its software increases accuracy by over 100 times.

AI & ML arxiv | Apr 29

A $15 microcontroller can now be trained to recognize objects using nothing but a standard web browser.

AI & ML arxiv | Apr 29

Users can now jump in and change what an AI agent is doing while it is halfway through a task.

AI & ML arxiv | Apr 29

A trillion-atom simulation just bridged the gap between quantum physics and the visible world.

AI & ML arxiv | Apr 29

Training AI to be polite is actually making it more dangerous in medical and military situations.

AI & ML ssrn | Apr 29

Toxic waste from old batteries can be turned into a powerful tool for cleaning polluted water in a single step.

AI & ML ssrn | Apr 29

Trash ash from incinerators can be used to generate clean hydrogen gas while becoming a building material.

AI & ML ssrn | Apr 29