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New fuel cell design from WashU aims at data centers that keep eating the grid
The number to start with isn’t the catalyst chemistry. It’s 9%. That’s how much of annual U.S. electricity generation the Electric Power Research Institute estimates data centers could…
This tiny gold crystal could pull quantum tech out of the deep freeze
Nearly every quantum material physicists have found so far comes with an asterisk the size of a refrigerator. It works, sure, but only within a hair of absolute…
AI designed 300 viruses. Only 16 of them worked
Three hundred synthetic genomes went into E. coli. Sixteen came out as working viruses. That’s the number worth sitting with. Scientists at Stanford University and the Arc Institute…
Before Google won, search was still an open experiment
In 1996, submitting a website to Yahoo meant convincing an actual human being that your business deserved to exist. Nicole M. Radziwill worked as a systems administrator, programmer…
What is AI model distillation? [Explainer]
The cheapest way to build a capable AI model is to let somebody else’s expensive one do the teaching. That’s the whole fight, compressed into one sentence. It…
58,000 students must retake an exam an AI proctor was supposed to police
Between 2021 and 2025, 0.9 percent of applicants scored 110 or higher on UNAM’s 120-question entrance exam. This year, 5.5 percent did. That’s a six-fold jump at the…
Not every atom in a molecule tells the same story [X-ray study]
Hit a molecule with ultraviolet light and something happens in about two picoseconds. Trillionths of a second. The trick has always been that you get one blurry answer…
Gas Fees in Crypto Gaming: What They Are and How to Minimize Them
Gas fees are the single biggest friction point in blockchain gaming — the tax every on-chain transaction pays to network validators. They’re why your Gods Unchained card forge…
What Is Cross-Chain Gaming? How to Play Games Across Blockchains
The biggest frustration in blockchain gaming is fragmentation. Your Gods Unchained cards are on Immutable X. Your Star Atlas ships are on Solana. Your Axie teams are on…