Quilter's AI just designed an 843‑part Linux computer that booted on the first try. Hardware will never be the same.

Quilter's AI designed a working 843-component Linux computer in 38 hours—a task that typically takes engineers 11 weeks. Here ...

Chaotic 3D currents form multiple microplastic 'attractors' beneath the ocean surface, study finds

The ocean is saturated with microplastics. While we know the location of the great garbage patches, where plastic particles ...

AI helps solve decades-old maze in frustrated magnet physics

By partnering with artificial intelligence (AI), a researcher at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National ...

Lab-grown neural circuits reveal thalamus's key role in cortex development

A Japanese research team has successfully reproduced the human neural circuit in vitro using multi-region miniature organs ...
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In the Loop with Sasha-Ann Simons

We’re unpacking the headlines and making the news make sense. Get connected with local experts, your neighbors and the stories shaping Chicago. December 11, 2025 • A CDC panel recently reversed a ...
Semiconductor Engineering

HW Security: Inner Product Masking With Fault Detection Via ISE (KU Leuven, NUS, Rambus)

A new technical paper titled “Extending and Accelerating Inner Product Masking with Fault Detection via Instruction Set ...
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The Pulse

Go on an adventure into unexpected corners of the health and science world each week with award-winning host Maiken Scott. The Pulse takes you behind the doors of operating rooms, into the lab with ...
The New York Times

Artificial Intelligence

An us-versus-them mentality has emerged between Meta’s top artificial intelligence team and longtime lieutenants to Mark Zuckerberg. By Eli Tan My students’ easy access to chatbots forced me to make ...