1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (344+ words) Scientists blasted diamonds with lasers to get the best measurement of the mineral's melting point yet. The new, more accurate numbers could help improve fusion experiments and studies of giant planets. Scientists melted diamonds with a powerful laser to take…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (290+ words) Kenna Hughes-Castleberry is the Content Manager at Live Science. Formerly, she was the Content Manager at Space.com and before that the Science Communicator at JILA, a physics research institute. Kenna is also a book author, with her upcoming book…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (1062+ words) A new study shows that measures to stop AI's claims of consciousness have unintended consequences for non-human entities Removing safety guardrails that stop artificial intelligence (AI) from claiming that it's conscious also makes it more prone to express belief in…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago   (511+ words) Xpeng's engineers have designed a humanoid robot that they say is the first in the world that will walk itself off the production line. BERLIN — An eerily lifelike humanoid robot made by Chinese technology company Xpeng has now entered mass…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago   (953+ words) The silicon carbide transistor is designed to avoid low controllability and current leakage, which typically become problems at high temperatures. The transistor was able to operate normally at temperatures ranging from room temperature to 1112 F (600 C). Scientists in Japan have built…...

1+ week, 6+ hour ago   (805+ words) For decades, engineers have been working to create smaller and smaller transistors to fit ever-larger numbers of them onto computer chips, all in the name of greater processing power. Now, in the age of artificial intelligence (AI), that effort has…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (445+ words) A century-old trick for tuning musical instruments has been repurposed to power robots that fly, float and steer themselves using nothing but sound waves. If you blow across the top of an empty bottle you'll hear a clear, steady note....

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (648+ words) Scientists say that a new vector-based approach to cognition is dramatically cheaper than standard methods and signal the start of the "post-transformer" era of AI models. A new artificial intelligence (AI) model used a novel approach to AI cognition to…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (304+ words) The Meta settlement requires limited oversight of Instagram and Facebook for just five years. Making it permanent and industry-wide requires a law. Under the agreement, an independent auditor will have access to Meta's internal data and engineers, a mandate to…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (269+ words) Rigorously fact-checked science, expert commentary and an ad-free experience built for those who want to go beyond the headlines No ads on any Live Science articles. No pop-ups. Full access to everything. Trusted, in-depth, pro-science features that are available only…...