The AI industry is on the verge of becoming another boys’ club. We’re all going to lose out if it does

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A recent New York Times article released a list of people “behind the dawn of the modern artificial intelligence movement”—and not a single woman was named.…

Using smart materials to deploy a Dark Age explorer

Depiction of the different signals and the telescopes that would detect them. Credit: Palmar et al One of the most significant constraints on the size of objects placed into orbit…

What does ‘male menopause’ mean?

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Hormone changes are a natural part of aging, but the experience is different for men and women. Unlike the more dramatic plunge that occurs in women…

The late-night email to Tim Cook that set the Apple Watch saga in motion

Credit: CC0 Public Domain At about 1 a.m. California time in 2013, a scientist emailed Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook with an irresistible pitch. “I strongly believe that…

Images hidden in noise revealed by a quantum-inspired phase-imaging method

Noise-resistant phase imaging with intensity correlation. Credit: Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw Researchers at the University of Warsaw’s Faculty of Physics with colleagues from Stanford University and Oklahoma State…

Many photons are better than one for advancing quantum technologies

Realization and verification of photon correlations beyond the linear optics limit using photonic quantum circuits. Credit: KyotoU/Shigeki Takeuchi Quantum objects, such as electrons and photons, behave differently from other objects…

A logical magic state with fidelity beyond distillation threshold realized on superconducting quantum processor

Arbitrary logical state preparation protocol. Top panel: The surface code is divided into 5 regions, the central data qubit, regions I, II, III, and IV. The logical operators Z ̂_L…

Fine-Tuning Gold Nanoparticles in Tellurite Glass for Unique Photonics

Newswise — Silicate glass is a commonly used glass found in most households, in drinking glasses or windowpanes for example. The integration of gold nanoparticles (NPs) in silicate glass has…

Google rejected Play Store fee changes due to impact on revenue, Epic lawsuit shows

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Alphabet Inc.’s Google considered changing its app store pricing model to circumvent a regulatory crackdown, but abandoned a proposal to charge a set fee per app…

Milestone rating system improved residency knowledge ratings bias

Adoption of the Milestone ratings system in 2014 was associated with improvement in internal medicine (IM) residency knowledge ratings bias in Black or Latino residents, who are underrepresented in medicine…