A 'smart ruler' could help swarms of space telescopes image exoplanets

We've talked plenty of times here about the infeasibility of launching a mirror big enough to directly image exoplanets using ...
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Programmable metasurface generates dozens of holograms at once

Over the past few decades, engineers have developed various devices that can create holograms, three-dimensional (3D) or ...

Ultrafast scanning tunneling microscopy reaches the quantum mechanical space-time limit for the first time

Werner Heisenberg's famous uncertainty principle describes one of the most intriguing features of quantum physics: certain pairs of physical quantities describing a particle, such as position and ...

Anthropic's new "J-lens" reveals a silent workspace inside Claude that mirrors a leading theory of consciousness

Anthropic’s new Claude research reveals a hidden internal “global workspace” that resembles human conscious processing, ...

Google Pinpoint, UN’s AI mission, and Ford’s u-turn

The biggest AI developments, decoded. 8 July, 2026.