Nuclear fusion game-changer: New method can cut reactor design time by decade Researchers at Brigham Young University have demonstrated a way to significantly reduce nuclear reactor development time, cutting the process by a decade or more. Currently, designing and licensing processes for modern nuclear reactors take around 20 years and cost approximately $1 billion. Additionally, … Read more
The cheapest Cybertruck available now is $100,000. Tesla quietly increased the price of its all-wheel drive Cybertruck to just under $100,000 and removed the option to pre-order the $61,000 rear-wheel version for 2025. This means the only options are the $99,990 all-wheel drive Cybertruck or the $119,990 Cyberbeast. The company has not canceled plans for … Read more
As soon as this week, NASA officials will make a crucial decision about the safety of human spaceflight in 21 years. Two astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, have been on a test flight that was originally supposed to last just over a week but has now gone on for nearly 10 weeks. The two … Read more
Antarctica’s polar vortex is on the verge of splitting into two for the first time in over 20 years due to a sudden increase in stratospheric temperatures. If this occurs, Antarctica will experience major warming, while Australia and South America can expect an unusually hot summer. The southern polar vortex is a swirl of winds … Read more
China Develops Robot That Can Shoot Like a Bullet at the Sight of Light Scientists have created a bionic launcher technology that can be used in various ways, including deep tissue sampling, as a soft bullet or smart-seeding in agriculture. The innovative light-driven launch system is inspired by squirting cucumbers and allows miniature robots to … Read more
Ancient Technology Revealed: Excavation Unveils 2,600-year-old Terracotta Pipeline Archaeologists at the Keeladi site in Tamil Nadu, India, have made a remarkable discovery – an ancient terracotta pipeline network that dates back to around 300 BC. This finding has shed new light on the technological sophistication and urban planning of the people who lived in the … Read more
Here is the rewritten text: Introduction to Taichi-2: A Revolutionary AI Chip Researchers at Beijing University have introduced Taichi-2, a groundbreaking artificial intelligence (AI) chip that sets new standards for energy efficiency and performance. Taichi-2 operates entirely on light, unlike traditional chips that rely on electronic signals. This innovation leads to significantly reduced energy consumption. … Read more
Futurists have long debated the arrival of the singularity, when human and artificial intelligence will merge. American computer scientist and futurist Ray Kurzweil has predicted that this event will occur around the middle of the 21st century, and his predictions are gaining more credence with the rise of AI. In his new book, The Singularity … Read more
Scientists hope to accelerate the development of human-level AI using a network of powerful supercomputers, with the first node coming online within weeks. The goal is to create a “multi-level cognitive computing network” that will host and train the architectures required for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). This includes advanced AI systems like deep neural networks, … Read more
World’s First Fusion Ignition Breakthrough: US Firm Wins Esteemed Award The General Atomics team has been recognized as the R&D Team of the Year for their 4Pi system, which contributed to the world’s first successful controlled fusion ignition. The National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the US achieved this milestone using … Read more