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Jan 6, 2022

Evading the uncertainty principle in quantum physics

Posted by in categories: particle physics, quantum physics

The uncertainty principle, first introduced by Werner Heisenberg in the late 1920’s, is a fundamental concept of quantum mechanics. In the quantum world, particles like the electrons that power all electrical product can also behave like waves. As a result, particles cannot have a well-defined position and momentum simultaneously. For instance, measuring the momentum of a particle leads to a disturbance of position, and therefore the position cannot be precisely defined.

Jan 6, 2022

OpenAI Plays Hide and Seek…and Breaks The Game! 🤖

Posted by in categories: open access, robotics/AI

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Jan 6, 2022

Last Week in AI #149: AI enables brain interface for robot control, Deep Learning suffers from overinterpretation, and more!

Posted by in categories: information science, robotics/AI

AI algorithm interprets brain EEG signals to guide robot arms, deep learning’s overinterpretation problem and how ensembles can help.

Jan 6, 2022

Japan set to develop railguns to counter hypersonic missiles

Posted by in categories: existential risks, military

Defense Ministry expects to have a bolstered intercept system by late 2020s.


TOKYO — The Japanese Defense Ministry will develop a means to intercept hostile missiles using magnetically powered projectiles, sources told Nikkei Asia, as the nation scurries to respond to the hypersonic weapons being developed by China, North Korea and Russia.

Jan 6, 2022

China’s ‘Artificial Sun’ Just Broke a Major World Record For Plasma Fusion

Posted by in categories: nuclear energy, physics

Just seven months after it announced a milestone record for plasma fusion, the Chinese Academy of Sciences has absolutely smashed it.

Their ‘artificial Sun’ tokomak reactor is has maintained a roiling loop of plasma superheated to 120 million degrees Celsius (216 million degrees Fahrenheit) for a gobsmacking 1,056 seconds, the Institute of Plasma Physics reports.

This also beats the previous record for plasma confinement of 390 seconds, set by the Tore Supra tokamak in France in 2003.

Jan 6, 2022

New York State’s governor calls for 100% electric school buses by 2035

Posted by in categories: education, sustainability, transportation

But how electricity will be produced? So solar powered bus will be better option.


New York governor Kathy Hochul just proposed legislation to shift the whole state to 100% electric school buses by 2035.

Jan 6, 2022

Making quantum computers even more powerful

Posted by in categories: chemistry, computing, encryption, quantum physics

Three resonators operating at different frequencies read a 3×3 matrix of quantum dots. © 2022 EPFL

Biochemistry and cryptography.

Jan 6, 2022

Coming to a Mall Nearby? RoboCop Isn’t Just Fiction Anymore

Posted by in categories: finance, robotics/AI, security

Picture credit: Knightscope.

The following post was written and/or published as a collaboration between Benzinga’s in-house sponsored content team and a financial partner of Benzinga.

Robots patrolling around shopping malls, casinos and places of work actively looking for criminal activity might no longer be something straight out of a science fiction novel or movie. Knightscope, Inc., a Silicon Valley Based startup, is building and deploying fully autonomous security robots that deter, detect and report crime.

Jan 6, 2022

A Neural Network Solves, Grades & Generates University-Level Mathematics Problems

Posted by in categories: mathematics, robotics/AI

A research team from MIT, Columbia University, Harvard University and University of Waterloo proposes a neural network that can solve university-level mathematics problems via program synthesis.

Jan 6, 2022

China’s $1 trillion ‘artificial sun’ fusion reactor just got five times hotter than the sun

Posted by in categories: nuclear energy, physics

The Chinese experimental nuclear fusion reactor smashed the previous record, set by France’s Tore Supra tokamak in 2003, where plasma in a coiling loop remained at similar temperatures for 390 seconds. EAST had previously set another record in May 2021 by running for 101 seconds at an unprecedented 216 million F (120 million C). The core of the actual sun, by contrast, reaches temperatures of around 27 million F (15 million C).

Related: 5 sci-fi concepts that are possible (in theory)

“The recent operation lays a solid scientific and experimental foundation towards the running of a fusion reactor,” experiment leader Gong Xianzu, a researcher at the Institute of Plasma Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said in a statement.