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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY As a California state senator, Scott Wiener authored legislation aimed at curbing the risks of advanced AI. Now, after winning a tight congressional race for former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s open San Francisco seat, he could play a key role in setting federal AI policy.  I spoke with Wiener on Friday, only a few hours after… […]

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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Opinion: The climate case for AI has not been made  —By Mary Nichols, distinguished counsel at the UCLA School of Law and the former chair of the California Air Resources Board, and Jeremy Tamanini, the founder… […]

In partnership withInfosys As companies look to accelerate innovation with artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and advanced modeling, the primary challenge is connecting new technologies to reliable data, scientific expertise, and the practical realities of bringing products to market. For specialty chemicals manufacturer Lubrizol, digital transformation is all about giving researchers the tools to test ideas faster, make better-informed decisions, and… […]

Learning Python becomes useful when you can apply it to real problems. You do not need to build a complex application to see the benefits of programming. Often, a short and simple script that handles a repetitive task is enough to save time and make your work more efficient. For beginners, the challenge is learning to identify these tasks. Many… […]

Scientists have demonstrated an extraordinary form of quantum matter that combines two properties that seem incompatible. Known as a supersolid, this unusual state has the orderly structure of a crystal while also displaying the frictionless flow associated with a special kind of liquid. Even more remarkably, researchers have now observed this behavior at room temperature, eliminating the need for the… […]

For the first time, a robot has successfully assembled part of a structure in space without astronauts, demonstrating a technology that could dramatically change how large spacecraft and scientific instruments are built. The robotic system was developed by researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) with funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). It is part of… […]

This week, as countries meet in Antalya, Turkey for the United Nations climate conference, one topic likely to dominate the conversation is artificial intelligence. The host has already called on countries to commit to ensuring that AI is designed, powered, and deployed in ways that support climate action. But so far, industries around the world aren’t doing nearly enough to… […]

NASA has revealed new details about its accelerated effort to return American astronauts to the Moon in 2028. The updated strategy includes testing two competing lunar landers, streamlining rocket preparations, and introducing a lighter spacesuit to help make the first moonwalks possible sooner. During an October 23 briefing, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman and other agency leaders outlined the next steps… […]

More than 100 years after Albert Einstein developed his theory of gravity, physicists have uncovered a surprising possibility hidden within his equations. Their work suggests that gravitational fields can undergo a process in which their underlying structures break and reconnect, allowing energy to flow from gravity into matter. The phenomenon, known as « gravitational reconnection, » bears an unexpected resemblance to a… […]

A nuclear explosion could potentially protect Earth from an incoming asteroid by releasing powerful X-rays that heat its surface and push it onto a safer trajectory. However, new research suggests that the success of such a mission could depend heavily on which side of the asteroid receives the blast. Unlike the smooth, round objects often used in computer simulations, real… […]

Scientists have achieved a new world record by producing extraordinarily intense X-ray flashes that last just 300 attoseconds, an almost unimaginably brief period of time. Using the European XFEL, a powerful X-ray research facility, the team concentrated the flashes into an area roughly 100,000 times smaller than the cross-section of a typical human hair. By squeezing so much X-ray energy… […]

Mars may not be as geologically inactive as it appears. New evidence from mysterious gas emissions near an enormous Martian volcano suggests that heat and volcanic processes could still be present deep beneath the planet’s surface. Researchers have identified unusual concentrations of hydrogen chloride gas above fractures in the Alba Mons volcanic region. The findings suggest that gases from the… […]

Quantum physics places fundamental limits on what scientists can know about the behavior of particles. Werner Heisenberg’s famous uncertainty principle states that certain properties, such as a particle’s position and momentum, cannot both be measured with unlimited precision. This restriction is not caused by flaws in scientific instruments. It is built into the laws of nature. But position and time… […]