AstronomyMay 3, 2024
How to Move the World’s Largest Camera from a California Lab to an Andes Mountaintop
A multimillion-dollar digital camera could revolutionize astronomy. But first it needs to climb a mountain halfway around the globe
Stories by Rahul Rao
Rahul Rao is a London-based freelance science writer covering physics, space, technology and their intersections with one another and everything else. He likes snakes, old genre fiction, trains and classic Doctor Who, in no particular order.
Quantum ComputingApril 22, 2024
Quantum Computers Can Now Run Powerful AI That Works like the Brain
The influential AI design that makes chatbots tick now runs on quantum computers
Artificial IntelligenceJuly 28, 2023
AI-Generated Data Can Poison Future AI Models
As AI-generated content fills the Internet, it’s corrupting the training data for models to come. What happens when AI eats itself?
Planetary ScienceOctober 12, 2022
DART’s Smashing Success Shows Humanity Can Divert Asteroids
NASA confirms that its DART spacecraft nudged the asteroid Dimorphos into a new orbit
Particle PhysicsJanuary 17, 2022
In a First, an ‘Atomic Fountain’ Has Measured the Curvature of Spacetime
The atom interferometry technique uses the effects of time dilation to reveal subtle changes in gravity’s strength