The question behind the cover feature is not merely about high‑resolution walls or blazing-fast games. It is about what happens when the world itself becomes a display and every square inch of your home or office could, in principle, glow with printer-like detail. The dream is not just more pixels but the right pixels, moved…
The Dawn of Hyper-Scale AI The relentless march of artificial intelligence, particularly the rise of massive language models (LLMs), demands infrastructure capable of handling workloads previously unimaginable. Training these behemoths requires a network not only capable of moving colossal amounts of data but also one that’s scalable, flexible, and – crucially – affordable. Existing network…
Imagine watching a video where a dog smoothly transforms into a cat, or a forest scene melts into a snowy landscape with seamless grace. What was once the domain of painstaking animation is now within reach, thanks to a new AI framework developed at Nanyang Technological University and ByteDance Inc., led by researchers Zuhao Yang,…
Forget messy chemical baths and painstaking micrometer-scale manipulations. Researchers at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), led by Cheol-Joo Kim, have developed a remarkably simple, all-dry method for transferring large-scale graphene films – a feat that could reshape the landscape of electronics and materials science. The Delicate Dance of Van der Waals Forces Graphene,…
Intro Code is a moving target. It evolves, breaks, and mends itself through the stubborn dance of tests and patches. The dream behind SWE-smith is simpler in spirit than it sounds: what if you could scale the data you feed to software engineering AIs by building environments that let them learn from actually failing code,…
The dream of a perfectly helpful AI assistant is closer than ever. These digital companions can already accomplish impressive tasks, from writing code to solving complex mathematical problems. But a new study from Salesforce AI Research and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign reveals a surprising blind spot in these advanced systems: they often fail to…
The James Webb Space Telescope has given astronomers a new kind of lens on time itself, letting us peer deeper into the infrared past than ever before. The CANUCS data release is a carefully stitched tapestry of JWST observations built around five gravitational lenses, designed to illuminate the faintest galaxies hiding behind colossal foreground clusters….
The study of groups acting on spaces isn’t just about abstract symbols dancing on a chalkboard. It’s about how a collection of elements can move, stretch, and rearrange geometric worlds in ways that reveal the group’s hidden personality. When those spaces are hyperbolic — spaces with negative curvature that bend and zoom in on the…
Disembodied AI has made dazzling leaps, but real-world robots still stumble on long, multi-step tasks. A robot might need to locate a tomato, heat it in a microwave, and then place it in a sink basin. Each subgoal depends on the previous one, and a misstep early on can derail the entire plan. That kind…
The fight against weeds is a stubborn one. They sneak into crops, steal light and nutrients, and force farmers to use herbicides or labor-intensive practices that wear down soils and budgets. Cover crops are a promising ally in this battle: they shade the ground, suppress weeds, and build soil health. But measuring how much biomass…
Intro Large language models have become the modern wild west of text: powerful, versatile, and increasingly hard to pin down. As their capabilities scale, so do the tricks people devise to coax them into saying or doing things their designers don’t intend. Among the cleverest strategies are obfuscation-based jailbreaks, where a malicious request is hidden…
The night sky doesn’t just glow in visible light; it hums in radios wavelengths that carry the hidden weather report of a star’s magnetic life. For cool, small stars and their dim kin, this magnetic weather matters. It may shape planets, sculpt distant atmospheres, and reveal how young a star really is by the size…
The dream of a scalable quantum computer is as much about energy as it is about qubits. Every improvement in qubit quality, error correction, or clever circuit design can be undone by the stubborn heat that leaks out of every wire, every control line, every amplifier pulsing at cryogenic temperatures. In a new vantage point,…
Space near the most extreme objects in the universe behaves like a carnival mirror: it twists light, stretches time, and turns simple paths into elaborate loops. Around massive, compact bodies, photons can get stuck in orbit, tracing circles that look almost musical in their precision. These light rings, or null circular geodesics, are more than…
Open quantum systems are the rule, not the exception in the real world. A quantum device rarely lives in isolation; it is constantly brushing against an environment—air, stray photons, vibrating lattices—until its fragile quantum states degrade. For decades, physicists have used continuous-time master equations to describe this bath-induced evolution, with the Lindblad equation as a…
Scattering amplitudes—the probabilities of how particles collide and scatter in high-energy physics—are usually described with a language that feels almost like a secret code. In string theory, that code comes in many dialects: open strings, closed strings, bosonic strings, superstrings, and their various cousins. A new study, led by Qu Cao and collaborators across Zhejiang…
The world is full of patterns that look orderly from a distance but hide a stubborn misalignment when you squint closer. Discrepancy theory, a branch of mathematics rooted in ideas of fair distribution, asks: how far do real configurations wander from the neat, expected patterns? In a recent theoretical tour de force, Diep Luong-Le, Tuan…
In a world where 5G densifies and the air around antennas hums with signals, there’s a quiet problem scientists are finally solving: how can we know tomorrow’s electromagnetic energy exposure with real, usable confidence? A new deep learning framework named EMForecaster aims to do just that. It doesn’t just predict numbers; it also tells you…
Invisible Engines Powering Smarter Roads In the race to build smarter, safer transportation systems, GPUs—graphics processing units—have become the unsung heroes. These chips, originally designed to render video game graphics, now crunch massive streams of data from roadside cameras, sensors, and autonomous vehicles. They enable real-time object detection, traffic monitoring, and even pedestrian safety alerts….
In the quiet, tricky world of quantum devices, randomness is a double-edged sword. A handful of tiny jitters can nudge a qubit toward decoherence, dissolving the delicate superpositions that give quantum computers their promise. Traditional theories have treated those random kicks as a sea of small, independent influences, stitched together by the central limit theorem….