Science & Space

endeavor optical networks exits stealth with 10 75m and a plan to beam data center traffic by laser Most of the internet rides on thin glass fibers resting on the ocean floor, and hauling one to the surface for repairs is exactly as awkward as it sounds. Meanwhile hyperscalers keep spinning up data centers in every corner of the map, and the traffic between them has to travel somehow.

Endeavor Optical Networks exits stealth with $10.75M and a plan to beam data center traffic by laser

the hard problem wont go away christof koch on why brain maps cant exp Decades into charting the machinery of awareness, Christof Koch used his opening address at the 15th "Behind and Beyond the Brain" Symposium to highlight the one thing that machinery still fails to account for. Brain imaging can reveal precisely what unfolds when a person looks at the color red. What it cannot reveal is why seeing red feels like anything whatsoever.

The Hard Problem Won’t Go Away: Christof Koch on Why Brain Maps Can’t Explain Redness

ai measured 15000 museum bird skeletons and rewrote how we picture evolutions pace Roughly 45 seconds. That's how long a computer needs to measure the skeleton of a single dead songbird, and that one number carries more weight in this study than almost any other detail — it's what converted a century-old argument among researchers into a question you can finally answer with data.

AI Measured 15,000 Museum Bird Skeletons — And Rewrote How We Picture Evolution’s Pace

china just finished testing a 582 ton magnet and its iter numbers are Nobody assembles a 582-ton superconducting magnet for a science fair. China has now wrapped up testing on one, and the figure worth noting isn't the tonnage. It's that the device holds roughly triple the energy of the comparable magnets built for ITER, the international fusion effort that has served as the world's benchmark for decades.

China Just Finished Testing a 582-Ton Magnet — and Its ITER Numbers Are the Headline

what happens if you slice a photon in half three physicists say you ge Whip a mirror out of the path while a lone photon is midway through bouncing off it, and the result isn't half a photon heading one way with the other half going the opposite direction. What you get instead is a rainbow.

What Happens If You Slice a Photon in Half? Three Physicists Say You Get a Rainbow

webb telescope maps the gas pipeline feeding a supermassive black hole 145 million light years out Catching a black hole in the act of feeding is a rare privilege for astronomers. This time, they managed it.

Webb telescope maps the gas pipeline feeding a supermassive black hole 145 million light-years out

For the First Time Google Announces a Quantum Computer Has Surpassed Supercomputers

Google Reveals Quantum Computer Outperforms Supercomputers

China Builds 1 Million Times More Powerful Quantum Computer Than Google's

China Builds 1 Million Times More Powerful Quantum Computer Than Google’s