The best 90s sci-fi movies

The 1990s was a time of firsts in the sci-fi genre – the beginnings of much-loved franchises, an exploration of new technologies, and a chance for directors to create new…

Combining next-token prediction and video diffusion in computer vision and robotics

Credit: Massachusetts Institute of Technology In the current AI zeitgeist, sequence models have skyrocketed in popularity for their ability to analyze data and predict what to do next. For instance,…

Harnessing diamond imperfections opens a new frontier in quantum sensor development

Researchers in the lab of UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering Prof. David Awschalom, including postdoctoral scholar Jonathan Marcks (right) and graduate student Benjamin S. Soloway, have devised a new…

People Empathize with Bullied AI Bots

Summary: People empathize with AI bots excluded from a virtual game, treating them like social beings in need of fairness. Participants favored giving the AI bot a fair chance in…

New benchmark helps solve the hardest quantum problems

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain From subatomic particles to complex molecules, quantum systems hold the key to understanding how the universe works. But there’s a catch: when you try to model…

Novel superconducting flux qubit can operate without being surrounded by a magnetic field

Quantum research breakthrough uses synthetic dimensions to efficiently process quantum information

COP16 confronts “huge” challenge of protecting 30% of world’s land and sea

Ahead of the UN biodiversity summit, countries are urged to come up with strong new plans and funding to meet global nature goals The global target to protect at least…

Is identity or diversity key to managing disease in crops? – Functional Ecologists

In this post, Seraina Cappelli – postdoctoral fellow at University of Minnesota – presents her work ‘The potential of undersown species identity vs. diversity to manage disease in crops’. She…

ARQUIN provides framework for simulating distributed quantum computing system

Dilution refrigerators keep superconducting qubits cold. Credit: Andrea Starr | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory One of the most difficult problems with quantum computing relates to increasing the size of the…