Google’s Sycamore quantum computerPeter Kneffel/dpa/Alamy In 2019, Google claimed that its Sycamore quantum computer could perform calculations that would take even the world’s most powerful classical supercomputer 10,000 years to complete – but now it seems that a non-quantum computer...
Tonje Bøe Birkeland as Tuva Tengel on a camel in Mongolia.Tonje Bøe Birkeland The imagined female scientists, explorers and adventurers seen in Tonje Bøe Birkeland’s photographs are echoes from a footnote in women’s history. In her ongoing series, The Characters,...
Air conditioner units on a roof of industrial buildingMarkus Thoenen/Alamy As the Paris Olympics and Paralympics approach, there are warnings the games could be the hottest on record, beating the current holder of that dubious title – Tokyo 2020 –...
Explore books dealing with multiverses and alternate worldsGremlin/Getty Images Since I became science fiction columnist for New Scientist, I have had to think a lot about what qualifies as sci-fi. Very often, a book could actually be classified as fantasy,...
I have been dreading the premiere of A Quiet Place: Day One, the just-released prequel to the movie franchise featuring blind but keen-hearing predatory aliens who invade Earth. As a psychologist, I know that terrifying images from films and television...
One big challenge in life is dividing things fairly. From sharing a tasty snack to allocating resources between nations, having a strategy to divvy things up equitably will make everyone a little happier. But it gets complicated when the thing...
Nest: still abandoned Brace yourselves. That abandoned bird’s nest is still seated in the mouth of the large, ancient, carved stone human face hanging high on a wall in the northernmost corner of the outdoor garden known as “Michelangelo’s Cloister”...
Top row: original images. Second row: images reconstructed by AI based on brain recordings from a macaque. Bottom row: images reconstructed by the AI system without an attention mechanismThirza Dado et al. Artificial intelligence systems can now create remarkably accurate...
Trimeresurus cyanolabris is new to scienceNick Poyarkov A multicoloured venomous snake found in dry tropical forests in central Vietnam has been recognised as a new species. Trimeresurus cyanolabris has a bright grass-green body, yellow eyes, a brick-red tail and blue...
A quantum phenomenon that muddles the rules of cause and effect could make quantum computers better at performing certain operations Source link...
