The National Ignition Facility in California has made a nuclear fusion breakthrough to produce more energy output (3.15 MJ) in a fusion experiment than the amount of energy put in (2.05 MJ).
Puter is a free cloud desktop computer that gives you access to a terminal, text editor, drawing software, & development environment, among other apps, all in the browser.
The recently released chatGPT general AI text model has been sending shockwaves around the internet. Jonas Degrave from Deep Mind wrote about how he used chatGPT to create a virtual machine, access the chatGPT website from the command line within the VM, and query chatGPT running in the VM, running in chatGPT.
Researchers at the University of Tokyo conducted experiments that show rats nodding their heads in sync with musical beats, marking the first innate time beat synchronisation has been observed in animals.
Physicists from the University of Arkansas have demonstrated a circuit that captures the thermal motion of graphene to provide limitless, clean, low voltage power.
University of Surrey student Eleanor Mackintosh designed a 3D printed robot fish that can be used to collect microplastics in waterways. The robot named Gillbert won The Natural Robotics contest.
Neoplants have developed a genetically modified houseplant that can scrub the air of volatile organic compounds (VOC), specifically formaldehyde (HCHO) and benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylene (BTEX), which are present indoors from paints, coatings, chemicals, cooking & smoking.
Todd Humphreys from the University of Texas has figured out how to unofficially piggyback on Starlink synchronisation sequences and repurpose them as a positioning system with 30 metre accuracy.
