Mordechai Rorvig
AI-Generated Art Scene Explodes as Hackers Create Groundbreaking New Tools
New AI tools CLIP+VQ-GAN can create impressive works of art based on just a few words of input.
NASA Is Quietly Funding a Hunt for Alien Megastructures
Detecting 'technosignatures' such as hypothetical Dyson spheres in space could lead us to extraterrestrial life, and now NASA is funding the search.
This Brain-Scanning Quantum Device Is a 'Game Changer,' Researchers Say
“The difference between having a sensor only a millimeter away... from the conventional superconducting sensors that are centimetres away, is gigantic."
We Should Look for Star-Sized Supercomputers to Find Aliens, This Researcher Says
Computers powered by entire stars, built by alien civilizations, might be a tell-tale sign of extraterrestrial intelligence, says Anders Sandberg of Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute.
Scientists Successfully Entangled Quantum 'Memories'. What?
In the latest advance towards a quantum internet, scientists entangled "memories" located in separate labs.
Scientists Create Self-Replicating Chemicals to Help Explain the Origins of Life
An enduring question about how we got here is how a vat of primordial chemicals might have turned into life. Now, scientists are attempting to pull it off themselves.
Machines Are Inventing New Math We've Never Seen
Pushing the boundaries of math requires great minds to pose fascinating problems. What if a machine could do it? Now, scientists created one that can.
OK, WTF Are ‘Virtual Particles’ and Do They Actually Exist?
Invisible and mysterious 'virtual particles' are everywhere, mediating all of reality that we interact with every day... or are they?
How to Read the Coronavirus Graphs
"Flatten the curve" works for linear graphs. But we're increasingly seeing exponential growth plotted on logarithmic graphs.
Mathematicians Are Studying Planet-Sized Quantum Computers With God-Like Powers
New research has exploded the space of problems that quantum computers can efficiently verify, simultaneously knocking down milestone problems in quantum physics and math.
The CIA’s Infamous, Unsolved Cryptographic Puzzle Gets a ‘Final Clue’
"Even once it’s cracked, it’s gonna be a riddle, something that’s still controversial and hard to figure out," the creator of the Kryptos puzzle sculpture says.
This Computer Is Made Entirely Out of Chemicals
It is the first ever example of a "chemical Turing machine," a vat of liquid chemicals that can compute.