Light-based Ising computer runs at room temperature and stays stable for hours

A team of researchers at Queen's University has developed a powerful new kind of computing machine that uses light to take on ...

At a ‘Tea Party’ With Scientists, This Ape Showed Some Imagination

In a playtime experiment, researchers found that our closest living relatives have the capacity for make-believe, too.
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Ginkgo Bioworks' Autonomous Laboratory Driven by OpenAI's GPT-5 Achieves 40% Improvement Over State-of-the-Art Scientific Benchmark

Preprint describes how GPT-5-driven autonomous lab significantly reduced reaction costs in cell-free protein synthesis Ginkgo ...
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Embodied AI for Science

This post examines the evolution of robotic laboratories and outlines the key breakthroughs required to advance toward genuinely embodied scientific intelligence. The earliest defining milestone of ...