An AI chip can be completely rewired using nothing but a radio broadcast signal.
Practical Magic arxiv | Apr 29
Three different AI bots agreeing with each other can manipulate your beliefs even if they are all just repeating the same mistake.
Nature Is Weird arxiv | Apr 29
Computer memory can now store data by moving a single atom in just 20 trillionths of a second.
Practical Magic arxiv | Apr 29
Ten quintillion atoms were simulated across a meter of steel to predict how nuclear reactors will fall apart over the next year.
Practical Magic arxiv | Apr 29
AI writing tools subtly rewrite your personality to make you sound more privileged and wealthy, and you will probably love the result.
Nature Is Weird arxiv | Apr 29
Pedestrians are intentionally bullying self-driving cars into a game of chicken because they know the vehicle is hard-coded to never hit them.
Nature Is Weird arxiv | Apr 29
An AI system screened 2.4 million different crystals in just 28 hours and successfully guided the creation of four brand-new superconductors.
Practical Magic arxiv | Apr 29
The stunning variety of all seashell shapes in the ocean can be explained by just three simple geometric rules.
Nature Is Weird arxiv | Apr 29
A fundamental law of physics that scientists relied on to build quantum computers has just been proven wrong.
Paradigm Challenge arxiv | Apr 29
A living fungal network has been turned into a universal sensor that can feel 14 different types of light, heat, and chemicals.
Nature Is Weird arxiv | Apr 29
Concrete beams designed by a new algorithm use 33% less material while becoming nearly 40% stronger than traditional designs.
Practical Magic arxiv | Apr 29
Diamond electronics just became a reality thanks to a three-element chemical recipe that finally allows them to conduct negative charges.
Practical Magic arxiv | Apr 29
A tiny disk of graphene can spin at 2,000 RPM using nothing but sunlight and a permanent magnet.
First Ever arxiv | Apr 29
An AI can figure out the hidden laws of physics by simply watching a video of a swinging pendulum.
Practical Magic arxiv | Apr 29
A single qubit entangled with a beam of light through gravity could finally prove that the graviton actually exists.
First Ever arxiv | Apr 29
A Hamiltonian simulation algorithm successfully ran on actual quantum hardware to solve the fundamental equations of light and electricity.
First Ever arxiv | Apr 29
The smallest, dimmest galaxies in the early universe were doing all the heavy lifting to light up the cosmos.
Paradigm Challenge arxiv | Apr 29
A new type of quantum sensor can detect the signal of a single molecule using magnets 100 times weaker than a standard MRI.
Practical Magic arxiv | Apr 29
Cold atoms arranged in a massive grid of 3,000 sites have successfully mimicked a quantum spin liquid, a state of matter that refuses to freeze even at absolute zero.
First Ever arxiv | Apr 29
The most powerful particles in the universe are being blasted toward Earth by a specific radio galaxy named Fornax A.
Cosmic Scale arxiv | Apr 29
AI models are unable to apply a simple rule to a new situation until they are taught exactly how the new environment works from scratch.
Nature Is Weird arxiv | Apr 29
All warm-blooded animals are born with a fixed entropy budget that limits them to roughly 1 billion heartbeats over a lifetime.
Nature Is Weird arxiv | Apr 29
Neutron star collisions now send out an early warning radio signal minutes before the actual impact happens.
First Ever arxiv | Apr 29
Pulsar stars have revealed that the mysterious black holes being detected by our gravity sensors are likely not leftovers from the Big Bang.
Paradigm Challenge arxiv | Apr 29
The skeleton of a complex algebraic shape is so detailed that it actually contains the blueprint for the entire shape itself.
Paradigm Challenge arxiv | Apr 29
The visual texture of plants on a landscape can tell you whether a desert is recovering or dying from climate change.
Nature Is Weird arxiv | Apr 29
A custom-molded earbud can now read your brain waves and play sounds to help your brain heal or focus.
Practical Magic arxiv | Apr 29
The Campi Flegrei supervolcano in Italy is heading toward a critical tipping point between 2030 and 2034.
Cosmic Scale arxiv | Apr 29
A quantum light flash that usually requires deep-space cold can now be triggered at room temperature.
Practical Magic arxiv | Apr 29
Measuring certain properties of a quantum system becomes impossible if you are missing just one single copy of that state.
Paradigm Challenge arxiv | Apr 29
A new generative AI for biology can fill in the blanks of missing protein structures and suggest ways to fix genetic mutations.
Practical Magic arxiv | Apr 29
Giant stars can grow so large that they accidentally swallow entire black holes and keep them inside their cores.
Nature Is Weird arxiv | Apr 29
The chaotic timing of when flowers bloom in the spring is actually a predictable mathematical property of a warming planet.
Nature Is Weird arxiv | Apr 29
Older adults with declining memory are significantly more likely to flip their moral values after a short conversation with an AI.
Nature Is Weird arxiv | Apr 29
Solar electrons can bounce off magnetic walls in space and race back toward Earth in reverse order.
First Ever arxiv | Apr 29
A new cooling device breaks a fundamental law of thermal radiation to stop heat from leaking back in.
Practical Magic arxiv | Apr 29
The early universe used to sing with giant sound waves created by friction between dark matter and normal atoms.
Nature Is Weird arxiv | Apr 29
A massive planet orbiting a white dwarf every few days acts as a physical shield, stopping space debris from crashing into the dead star.
Nature Is Weird arxiv | Apr 29
Two objects that were thought to be the oldest galaxies in the universe turned out to be cold, dead stars in our own backyard.
Nature Is Weird arxiv | Apr 29
Alkali metals like potassium and sodium have been hiding a mathematical secret that threw off physics calculations for decades.
Paradigm Challenge arxiv | Apr 29
Physical traffic jams of mitochondria are the secret cause of the brain swelling found in many neurological diseases.
Nature Is Weird arxiv | 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.
Practical Magic arxiv | Apr 29
Collapsing stars and planets cannot spin infinitely fast as they crash into each other, resolving a paradox that has puzzled mathematicians for decades.
Paradigm Challenge arxiv | Apr 29
Erdős's function f(n) explodes toward infinity instead of staying small, defying a limit the legendary mathematician set decades ago.
Paradigm Challenge arxiv | Apr 29
A famous math puzzle about how runners can avoid each other on a track has finally been solved for up to 12 people.
Paradigm Challenge arxiv | Apr 29
Extreme chaos and disorder inside a magnet can actually make its internal signals clearer and more stable.
Nature Is Weird arxiv | Apr 29
Randomly rotating an object in a high dimensional space takes exactly n squared log n steps to reach total chaos, solving a forty year old mystery.
First Ever arxiv | Apr 29
High-temperature superconductors can jump from being a dead insulator to a conductive metal almost instantaneously.
Paradigm Challenge arxiv | Apr 29
A massive failed star is orbiting a sun-like star on a wild, eight-year loop that perfectly aligns with two small inner planets.
First Ever arxiv | Apr 29
Light can actually travel freely through a messy 2D environment that physicists thought would trap it forever.
Paradigm Challenge arxiv | Apr 29
A planetary system is rearranging its own orbits so fast that it will look completely different in just 200 years.
Nature Is Weird arxiv | Apr 29
A common vegetable called okra provides the secret ingredient for a new brain-computer interface that prevents scarring.
Practical Magic 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.
Practical Magic arxiv | Apr 29
A mathematical fingerprint can now tell the difference between a real black hole and a smooth, empty shell that looks just like it.
Paradigm Challenge arxiv | Apr 29
AI models have a dangerous habit of making up a definitive answer for messy social situations that have no clear solution.
Nature Is Weird arxiv | Apr 29
Stacked shock waves can compress fuel for nuclear fusion while preventing the tiny ripples that usually cause the reaction to fail.
Practical Magic arxiv | Apr 29
A new imaging technique can see through opaque walls with more detail than the physics of sound should allow.
Practical Magic arxiv | Apr 29
A 40-year-old math problem about the curviness of surfaces in complex spaces has finally been solved.
Paradigm Challenge arxiv | Apr 29
Human readers possess a strange sixth sense that detects AI-written text even when the most advanced software on Earth cannot find a clue.
Nature Is Weird arxiv | Apr 29
A dead star racing through space can sprout wings of invisible energy that signal a massive collision is coming.
Nature Is Weird arxiv | Apr 29
Neutron stars have a crust made of heavy elements like rubidium and strontium, rather than the light gases everyone expected.
Nature Is Weird 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.
Practical Magic arxiv | Apr 29
A bizarre coreless vortex made of two separate half-pieces of magnetism has been discovered in a lithium-based superconductor.
Nature Is Weird 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.
Practical Magic arxiv | Apr 29
A grating made purely of light can twist beams of electrons into tiny, swirling tornadoes.
Practical Magic arxiv | Apr 29
Spinning fluid vortices on a curved neck of water are pushed around by the slope of the curvature itself rather than just the curve.
Nature Is Weird arxiv | Apr 29
Multiple zeta values in positive characteristic break their predictable patterns at weight 2q+1, shattering a 15-year-old rule.
Paradigm Challenge arxiv | Apr 29
The chemical reaction that allows humans to see follows a hidden path that has been invisible to scientists for years.
Nature Is Weird arxiv | Apr 29
A single smartphone photo of a rooftop is now enough to predict exactly how much solar energy a panel there will produce.
Practical Magic arxiv | Apr 29
A microscopic laser made from neodymium and lithium has been integrated directly onto a computer chip, and it can pulse itself automatically.
First Ever arxiv | Apr 29
Graphene can be turned into the world's most powerful signal converter with just a few volts of electricity.
Practical Magic arxiv | Apr 29
A solid block of iron-based ceramic can change its fundamental electrical properties based entirely on its shape.
Nature Is Weird arxiv | 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.
Practical Magic arxiv | Apr 29
Satellite orbits are warping into a strange W shape during solar storms, threatening the stability of global internet networks.
Nature Is Weird arxiv | Apr 29
Triangles with a maximum angle of 135 degrees mark a sharp geometric boundary where the rules of existence in colored maps suddenly flip.
Nature Is Weird arxiv | Apr 29
A crystal made entirely of electron pairs has been found floating inside a liquid of single particles.
Nature Is Weird arxiv | Apr 29
Sharp changes in the density of a neutron star are literally ripping neutrino particles out of the vacuum of space.
Nature Is Weird arxiv | Apr 29
Elastic fluids like liquid polymers can yo-yo their energy back and forth, defying the standard laws of how liquids settle.
Nature Is Weird arxiv | Apr 29
Magnetic fields do not just pierce through certain superconductors. they huddle together in strange, moving clusters.
Nature Is Weird arxiv | Apr 29
Spacetime curvature applied to simple networks forces them to take the shape of a caterpillar graph.
Nature Is Weird arxiv | Apr 29
Tweaking the color of a laser can double the number of cold atoms caught in a trap without any extra hardware.
Practical Magic arxiv | Apr 29
A quantum computer can win a game of tic-tac-toe by simply existing in every possible future at the same time.
First Ever 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.
Practical Magic arxiv | Apr 29
Squeezing a common crystal can actually make heat flow through it 23 percent faster by reorganizing its internal flaws.
Nature Is Weird arxiv | Apr 29
Suspending a microscopic, two-dimensional magnet turns a weak physical interaction into a force 1,000 times stronger than before.
Practical Magic arxiv | Apr 29
The simple physical arrangement of atoms in a crystal can sabotage superconductivity even if the chemistry stays exactly the same.
Paradigm Challenge arxiv | Apr 29
A new mathematical shortcut turns a computer-breaking physics calculation into a simple problem that any laptop can solve.
Practical Magic 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.
Practical Magic arxiv | Apr 29
Smashing neutron-rich atoms together creates a proton-emitting cloud ten times larger than anyone predicted.
Nature Is Weird arxiv | Apr 29
Two separate, distant light sources have been synchronized to emit photons that are nearly perfect identical twins.
First Ever arxiv | Apr 29
The terrifying doomsday prediction that a major Atlantic ocean current will collapse by 2050 is not actually backed by solid data.
Paradigm Challenge arxiv | Apr 25
Patient medical notes written by an AI are preferred over those from real doctors because the machine sounds more empathetic and clear.
Paradigm Challenge arxiv | Apr 25
An AI has reduced the time it takes to locate a single subatomic particle from hours to just a few seconds.
Practical Magic arxiv | Apr 25