Latest Tech News

Stay updated with the latest in technology, AI, cybersecurity, and more

Filtered by: photons Clear Filter

AI Is Designing Bizarre New Physics Experiments That Actually Work

wired.com Anil Ananthaswamy 2025-11-10 06:00:00

“LIGO is this huge thing that thousands of people have been thinking about deeply for 40 years,” said Aephraim Steinberg, an expert on quantum optics at the University of Toronto. “They’ve thought of everything they could have, and anything new [the AI] comes up with is a demonstration that it’s something thousands of people failed to do.” Although AI has not yet led to new discoveries in physics, it’s becoming a powerful tool across the field. Along with helping researchers to design experimen

Topics: ai entangled new photons quantum
Read More
Shop Amazon

Misunderstood “photophoresis” effect could loft metal sheets to exosphere

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-15 05:28:50

Most people would recognize the device in the image above, although they probably wouldn't know it by its formal name: the Crookes radiometer. As its name implies, placing the radiometer in light produces a measurable change: the blades start spinning. Unfortunately, many people misunderstand the physics of its operation (which we'll return to shortly). The actual forces that drive the blades to spin, called photophoresis, can act on a variety of structures as long as they're placed in a suffic

Topics: atmosphere blades dark photons photophoresis
Read More
Shop Amazon

Scientists shine a laser through a human head

news.ycombinator.com Velvet Wu 2025-12-07 09:07:18

For the most part, anyone who wants to see what’s going on inside someone else’s brain has to make a tradeoff when it comes to which tools to use. The electroencephalograph (EEG) is cheap and portable, but can’t read much past the outer layers of the brain, while the alternative, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), is expensive and the size of a room, but can go deeper. Now, a research group in Glasgow has come up with a mechanism that could one day provide the depth of fMRI using equi

Topics: brain head light photons radford
Read More
Shop Amazon

Scientists Shine a Laser Through a Human Head

news.ycombinator.com Velvet Wu 2025-12-07 15:07:18

For the most part, anyone who wants to see what’s going on inside someone else’s brain has to make a tradeoff when it comes to which tools to use. The electroencephalograph (EEG) is cheap and portable, but can’t read much past the outer layers of the brain, while the alternative, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), is expensive and the size of a room, but can go deeper. Now, a research group in Glasgow has come up with a mechanism that could one day provide the depth of fMRI using equi

Topics: brain head light photons radford
Read More
Shop Amazon

AI comes up with bizarre physics experiments, but they work

news.ycombinator.com Anil Ananthaswamy 2026-01-01 16:28:49

If the AI’s insights had been available when LIGO was being built, “we would have had something like 10 or 15% better LIGO sensitivity all along,” he said. In a world of sub-proton precision, 10 to 15% is enormous. “LIGO is this huge thing that thousands of people have been thinking about deeply for 40 years,” said Aephraim Steinberg, an expert on quantum optics at the University of Toronto. “They’ve thought of everything they could have, and anything new [the AI] comes up with is a demonstrati

Topics: ai design photons quantum state
Read More
Shop Amazon
Trending Topics
Hot Now
ai 3586 apple 2977 new 2364 google 1994 content 1714
Popular
like 1480 company 1409 pro 1305 iphone 1130 app 1115 zdnet 1097 said 1044 data 1038 does 899 reviews 885
Emerging
editorial 864 amazon 854 game 801 samsung 766 phone 757 pixel 754 android 732 just 712 available 680 users 676
About GoKawiil

GoKawiil is a project by nerdhub.co that curates technology news from trusted sources. We built this site to provide a cleaner, more mobile-friendly experience without intrusive ads or heavy JavaScript.

Privacy

Your privacy matters. GoKawiil doesn't use Google Analytics or Facebook Pixel. The only tracking occurs through affiliate links to Amazon.

Advertising

Interested in advertising? Contact us at [email protected]