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WHEN Joseph Conlon was an undergraduate in the early 2000s, he avoided popular science accounts of string theory because he wanted to engage with it on a technical level, without preconceptions. It was a few years after the “second string theory revolution”, when theoretical physicists felt they might be about …

The X-59 aircraft Lockheed Martin Corporation/Garry Tice An experimental aircraft commissioned by NASA will fly over major US cities at faster than the speed of sound. The purpose of the X-59 plane is to gather evidence that will determine if supersonic commercial aviation over land should be legalised. Aircraft create a …

The International Space Station, home to cutting-edge physics experiments NASA Physicists are close to performing the most accurate tests of Einstein’s ideas about gravity ever undertaken. Their first-of-its-kind experiment involves using two kinds of extremely cold atoms aboard the International Space Station (ISS). A key principle of Einstein’s theory, and …

Many people in the US will receive a message today as part of a test of an emergency system FEMA Almost everyone in the US with a mobile phone, radio or TV can expect to hear and see an alert message from the US government as part of a nationwide …

Superconductors can magnetically levitate Shutterstock/2016 Forance When researchers claimed recently that they had created a material that perfectly conducts electricity – a superconductor – and that it does so at room temperature and pressure, many people were understandably sceptical. Such a finding would be transformative to many areas of science …

An artist’s impression of muons, created by cosmic rays, showering Earth Hiroyuki K.M. Tanaka/University of Tokyo A navigation system based on high-energy particles created by cosmic rays has been successfully tested underground for the first time. The technology could one day be used to guide underground and underwater robots, and …

The Eagle quantum processor IBM IBM’s Eagle quantum computer completed a calculation that stumped the conventional supercomputer it was pitted against. Quantum computers have sparked excitement for a few decades, but researchers haven’t built one that universally outperforms all conventional computers. This is partly because all existing quantum computers are …

AI duped advertising experts BrXnd.ai AI-generated advertisements proved generally indistinguishable from human-made ads in a competition described as the first ad Turing test. The competition was inspired by the original Turing test, which challenges how well machines can mimic humans in conversation. In this case, a panel of 17 marketing …

There is an easy way to fool ChatGPT Ascannio/Shutterstock A clever use of capital letters could be an easy way to flummox artificial intelligences like ChatGPT, letting people distinguish them from humans in conversation. The idea is reminiscent of the Turing test, first proposed by computer scientist Alan Turing in …

Who are you talking to? IR Stone/Shutterstock People can only tell apart artificial intelligences from humans around 60 per cent of the time, according to a test taken by more than 1.5 million people. The results raise questions about whether the new generation of AIs should have to identify themselves …