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Condensed-matter physics and materials science have a silo problem. Although researchers in these fields have access to vast amounts of data – from experimental records of crystal structures and ...

Discover how to build a fully functional V8 engine model using syringes, wood, and basic hardware components. This engaging DIY project showcases each step, from modifying syringes to assembling the ...

Google's Project Genie may prove that world models matter more than LLMs for defense. The military that masters physics ...

For most of the past century, wormholes sat comfortably in the realm of science fiction, a mathematical curiosity that let ...

Google calls its current Project Genie model, Genie 3, an "experimental research prototype" (a funny name for something it's ...

Google's Genie generates infinite interactive worlds from text. The secret? AI models compress reality's rules into ...

Google has launched a new AI experiment called Project Genie, a tool that lets users build their own interactive virtual ...

While popular AI models such as ChatGPT are trained on language or photographs, new models created by researchers from the ...

Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

As the Dark Energy Survey (DES) releases its final results, we caught up with two physicists who've been involved in the ...

The neural network approach uses multiple or “deep” layers that learn to identify increasingly complex features in data. The ...