Today's headlines are all about pushing boundaries—from a 12-year-old building a working fusion device and an AI math breakthrough sparking controversy, to new cosmic discoveries, 5G beamed from space, and tech industry moves like Shopify's latest acquisition.
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The Fight Over OpenAI’s Math Breakthrough Is a New Kind of Scientific Arms Race
OpenAI's AI-assisted solution to the Navier-Stokes equations has sparked a dispute over credit, marking a new era of competition between human and machine-driven science.
There has, of course, been controversy ... a breakthrough first. But at the end of the day, it was humans bickering among one another, all operating within human limits. ... With the Navier-Stokes solution controversy, we’ve entered a strange new era of scientific competition: ...
This cosmic particle was never meant to reach Earth. Now, scientists think they finally know why it did | Scientific American
Scientists believe they have finally explained how an ultra-high-energy cosmic particle that theoretically should never have reached Earth managed to arrive.
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Biotech Fluidics upgrades its Degasi inline degasser range - Engineer Live
Biotech Fluidics has upgraded its Degasi inline degasser range, with all new Degasi NG models featuring an automated error control output that alerts host system software to malfunctions.
All Degasi NG models now include an automated error control output that contacts the host system software in the unlikely scenario that the degasser is not functioning correctly · Each model in the new Degasi NG family fills a dedicated function and delivers superior degassing efficiency for ...
Univity establishes first 5G NTN TDD mm-Wave connection from space - Engineer Live
Space-based connectivity operator Univity announced that its uniSpark in-orbit demonstration mission achieved the first 5G non-terrestrial network TDD millimeter-wave connection from space.
Space-based connectivity services operator Univity has announced the success of its first in-orbit technology demonstration mission, uniSpark
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Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated Antarctic expedition (1910–1913) reached the South Pole but died on the return journey.
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