Physics

Dylan argues that even if AI progress continues at apace and generates lots of revenue, the semiconductor industry will not be able to keep ...

Cracking your knuckle makes a vacuum inside your joint, and the pop is the fluid tearing open. Each knuckle sits in a sealed capsule of syn...

SITUATION DETECTED: Levent Alpöge at Anthropic (collaborating with Claude) has solved a classical open problem in complex geometry that has ...

The internet is roasting Netflix's $24 million Indian air war show for its CGI physics. The real 1999 operation it depicts was the highest a...

This insane result from Claude is the biggest in analytic number theory since bounded prime gaps in 2013. It boosted the proven fraction of...

SITUATION EXPLAINED: SpaceX is building a $100 billion spaceport in Louisiana. • It goes on roughly 130,000 acres of former Exxon property ...

Bugatti just released a $500,000 TV that folds itself into a sideboard in 45 seconds. The folding trick and the insane price both come from ...

SITUATION EXPLAINED: Levent Alpöge just did it again, and mathematicians are grieving. @__alpoge__: "Please welcome to the world a beautifu...

Twelve months ago the fastest humanoid robot on earth ran the 100m in 21.5 seconds. Yesterday in Beijing one ran it in 9.39, and Usain Bolt'...

The US government spent 21 years trying to weaken hurricanes. Project Stormfury flew Navy aircraft into eyewalls from 1962 to 1983, seeded t...

our models got gold on a bunch of olympiads. this one hits home! 🏅 Asian Physics Olympiad (APhO): Perfect score, theory exam 🏅 Internatio...

The International Olympiads in math (IMO), chem (IChO), physics (IPhO) and bio (IBO) for 2026 just ended. The 7 usual suspects were at the t...

Anthropic asked an unreleased research version of Claude to take a run at the Riemann hypothesis, it was unsuccessful, but the model did imp...

OpenAI @yong_zhengxin argues LLMs don't need to be Einstein: Feynman derived general relativity from deductive math using special relativity...

I recommend putting this prompt into your favorite smart LLM: Find and explain the recent Jacobian conjecture tweet. Teach with the clarity...

Adam Brown (@A_G_I_Joe) is back! General relativity is said to be the most beautiful idea the human mind has ever produced. Most of us wil...

OpenAI @yong_zhengxin pushes back on Yudkowsky's 2008 claim that a Bayesian superintelligence could derive general relativity from 3 frames ...

A parked airliner has no air conditioning of its own. Cooling comes from the engines, and with engines off, from a small jet turbine in the...

MIT physicist David Turturean predicts math is heading toward a Large Hadron Collider style future where humans just sift through what AI pr...

Extropic is the SpaceX of compute chips in terms of being delusionally optimistic. I remember since day one, many experts called thermodyn...