Nuclear Fusion

Nvidia’s founder and CEO Jensen Huang speaks during the annual Nvidia GPU Technology Conference JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images Humanoid robots have just begun stepping into Amazon warehouses and Mercedes-Benz automotive factories. Now, they are being recruited for an even more ambitious effort – the creation of artificial general intelligence …

Noland Arbaugh can play chess using his Neuralink implant Neuralink Neuralink, the brain-computer interface company founded by Elon Musk, has revealed the identity of its first patient, who says the firm’s implant has “changed his life”. However, it is not yet clear with Nueralink has done anything beyond replicating existing …

ARE there vastly many near-duplicates of you reading vastly many near-duplicates of this article in vastly many parallel universes? Is consciousness a fundamental property of all matter? Could reality be a computer simulation? Reader, I can hear your groans from here in California. We are inclined to reject ideas like …

This drone rolls most of the time but can fly over obstacles when needed Ruibin Zhang et al./Zhejiang University, Hangzhou An autonomous drone with wheels can roll along the ground, only flying when needed to clear obstacles, which helps its battery last seven times longer, according to its developers. Rolling …

AI tools such as DALL-E can generate sophisticated artworks based on text prompts Rokas Tenys/Shutterstock Using artificial intelligence to create artworks increases artists’ productivity and generates more positive reactions, according to a study involving submissions to a popular art-sharing website by more than 50,000 users. However, generative AI works are …

Corner kicks, like this one taken by Trent Alexander-Arnold for Liverpool, can lead to goal-scoring opportunities Robbie Jay Barratt/ AMA/Getty An artificial intelligence model can predict the outcome of corner kicks in football matches and help coaches design tactics that increase or decrease the probability of a player taking a …

The Nvidia GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip Nvidia Nvidia has unveiled a “superchip” for training artificial intelligence models, the most powerful it has ever produced. The US computing firm, which has recently rocketed in value to become the world’s third-largest company, has yet to reveal the cost of its new chips, …

Crowds at the San Fermín festival in Pamplona during the famous bull run Migel/Shutterstock People in a very dense crowd move in small circular “orbits”, like charged particles moving in a magnetic field. The unexpected discovery may help lead to improved mathematical descriptions of dense crowds, which could help us …

A miniature chair and table 3D printed from waste wood Thakur et al., Sci. Adv. 10, eadk3250 (2024) Recycled wood can be turned into an ink for 3D printing, which could offer a more sustainable way to manufacture furniture or even build houses. “Wood has been used for building and …

IN THE Antarctic, things happen at a glacial pace. Just ask Peter Gorham. For a month at a time, he and his colleagues would watch a giant balloon carrying a collection of antennas float high above the ice, scanning over a million square kilometres of the frozen landscape for evidence …