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OpenAI mistranslated mathematics into code for its Navier-Stokes proof(newscientist.com)

50 points by danielmorozoff 16 days ago | 5 comments

New Scientist article reporting that OpenAI's human-readable Navier-Stokes proof and its computer-formalized version do not match due to mistranslation into code.

Two parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brain(newscientist.com)

112 points by Jimmc414 1 month ago | 60 comments

Doctors are finally learning to manage antidepressant withdrawal(newscientist.com)

233 points by eutropheon 1 month ago | 275 comments

Hunter-gatherers introduced fish to a mountain lake 7000 years ago(newscientist.com)

133 points by stevenwoo 3 months ago | 100 comments

Sodium-ion "salt" batteries will revolutionize electric-vehicle and grid storage(newscientist.com)

19 points by ck2 3 months ago | 35 comments

Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first time(newscientist.com)

174 points by deadgopher 4 months ago | 149 comments

Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades(newscientist.com)

91 points by Anon84 5 months ago | 69 comments

A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it began(newscientist.com)

84 points by emot 5 months ago | 54 comments

Author of Red Mars calls 'bullshit' on emigrating to the planet(newscientist.com)

45 points by Brajeshwar 7 months ago | 33 comments

A pig's brain has been frozen with its cellular activity locked in place(newscientist.com)

98 points by Brajeshwar 7 months ago | 138 comments

Militaries are scrambling to create their own Starlink(newscientist.com)

81 points by mooreds 7 months ago | 115 comments

AIs can't stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations(newscientist.com)

150 points by ceejayoz 8 months ago | 185 comments

The Lighthouse: How extreme isolation transforms the body and mind (2020)(newscientist.com)

63 points by nixass 8 months ago | 19 comments

How teaching molecules to think is revealing what a 'mind' is(newscientist.com)

60 points by pella 8 months ago | 41 comments

Yawning has an unexpected influence on the fluid inside your brain(newscientist.com)

126 points by MDWolinski 8 months ago | 67 comments

Michel Siffre’s self-experiments in a cave with no light (2018)(newscientist.com)

42 points by Anon84 9 months ago | 5 comments

Man unexpectedly cured of HIV after stem cell transplant(newscientist.com)

128 points by doener 10 months ago | 25 comments

Mathematicians have found a hidden 'reset button' for undoing rotation(newscientist.com)

165 points by mikhael 1 year ago | 101 comments

Orcas are bringing humans gifts(newscientist.com)

141 points by wslh 1 year ago | 88 comments

Cannabis extract found to be effective for lower back pain(newscientist.com)

6 points by Brajeshwar 1 year ago | 1 comments

CPR in space could be made easier by chest compression machines(newscientist.com)

14 points by hhs 1 year ago | 5 comments

Trees on city streets cope with drought by drinking from leaky pipes(newscientist.com)

224 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 115 comments

Altermagnets: The first new type of magnet in nearly a century(newscientist.com)

388 points by Brajeshwar 1 year ago | 100 comments

New Scientist article on altermagnets, the first new type of magnet found in nearly a century, and how they could enable new kinds of computers.

New Horizons images enable first test of interstellar navigation(newscientist.com)

37 points by jnord 1 year ago | 3 comments

A maths proof that is only true in Japan(newscientist.com)

54 points by monksdream 1 year ago | 43 comments

AI focused on brain regions recreates what you're looking at (2024)(newscientist.com)

62 points by openquery 1 year ago | 32 comments

Bonobos use a kind of syntax once thought to be unique to humans(newscientist.com)

181 points by docmechanic 1 year ago | 112 comments

Have we underestimated the total number of people on Earth?(newscientist.com)

34 points by wahern 1 year ago | 39 comments

Male octopus injects female with venom during sex to avoid being eaten(newscientist.com)

74 points by delichon 1 year ago | 68 comments

Revealed: How the UK tech secretary uses ChatGPT for policy advice(newscientist.com)

26 points by adrianhon 1 year ago | 25 comments

Forces deep underground seem to be deforming Earth's inner core(newscientist.com)

47 points by walterbell 1 year ago | 19 comments

Doge eliminated the US government's tech experts – what has been lost?(newscientist.com)

38 points by 01-_- 1 year ago | 7 comments

AI can decode digital data stored in DNA in minutes instead of days(newscientist.com)

12 points by sizzle 1 year ago | 2 comments

The superconductivity of layered graphene(newscientist.com)

126 points by westurner 1 year ago | 30 comments

Laser technique measures distances with nanometre precision(newscientist.com)

25 points by westurner 1 year ago | 17 comments

Majority of people believe their devices spy on them to serve up ads(newscientist.com)

7 points by Brajeshwar 1 year ago | 0 comments

Bluesky is ushering in a pick-your-own algorithm era of social media(newscientist.com)

160 points by amichail 1 year ago | 149 comments

Preserved tracks suggest non-avian dinosaurs used their wings to run(newscientist.com)

6 points by nobody9999 2 years ago | 1 comments

The brain has its own microbiome(newscientist.com)

42 points by janandonly 2 years ago | 37 comments

We avoid effort even though it can improve our well-being(newscientist.com)

36 points by XzetaU8 2 years ago | 35 comments

Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second(newscientist.com)

87 points by squiffsquiff 2 years ago | 62 comments

Blast wakes ghosts of nuclear past (1995)(newscientist.com)

12 points by r721 2 years ago | 1 comments

Evidence points to Wuhan market as source of Covid-19 outbreak(newscientist.com)

18 points by Jimmc414 2 years ago | 3 comments

Cold war spy satellites and AI detect ancient underground aqueducts(newscientist.com)

88 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 13 comments

Cloud atlas of Mars reveals an atmosphere unlike our own(newscientist.com)

24 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 11 comments

Greenland landslide caused freak wave that shook Earth for nine days(newscientist.com)

70 points by DougN7 2 years ago | 11 comments

Another Extreme Low for Antarctic Sea Ice Signals a Permanent Shift(newscientist.com)

3 points by jandrewrogers 2 years ago | 0 comments

Astronomers puzzled by little red galaxies that seem impossibly dense(newscientist.com)

79 points by jandrewrogers 2 years ago | 52 comments

We now know how kestrels stay perfectly still while hovering(newscientist.com)

4 points by robwwilliams 2 years ago | 1 comments

Why many studies wrongly claim it's healthy to drink a little alcohol(newscientist.com)

56 points by Anon84 2 years ago | 82 comments

Mathematicians discover impossible problem in Super Mario games(newscientist.com)

7 points by RafelMri 2 years ago | 2 comments

Google creates self-replicating life from digital 'primordial soup'(newscientist.com)

30 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 18 comments

Physicists may now have a way to make element 120(newscientist.com)

177 points by _Microft 2 years ago | 173 comments

Mysterious export controls on quantum computers(newscientist.com)

12 points by draazon 2 years ago | 11 comments

Multiple nations enact mysterious export controls on quantum computers(newscientist.com)

12 points by birriel 2 years ago | 0 comments

Multiple nations enact mysterious export controls on quantum computers(newscientist.com)

3 points by mattsparkes 2 years ago | 0 comments

What everyone gets wrong about the 2015 Ashley Madison scandal(newscientist.com)

98 points by consumer451 2 years ago | 62 comments

Maths proof of Langlands conjecture is so complex almost no one can explain it(newscientist.com)

54 points by isaacfrond 2 years ago | 43 comments

500-year-old maths problem turns out to apply to coffee and clocks(newscientist.com)

109 points by gumby 2 years ago | 25 comments

The existence of a new kind of magnet has been confirmed(newscientist.com)

287 points by revicon 2 years ago | 85 comments

Analysis of Bach's information-dense music(newscientist.com)

75 points by gumby 2 years ago | 47 comments

Dance mat-style game helps stop older people falling(newscientist.com)

89 points by zeristor 2 years ago | 37 comments

iPod 'squeaks' betray software secrets (2005)(newscientist.com)

142 points by Emigre_ 2 years ago | 47 comments

AI comes up with battery design that uses 70 per cent less lithium(newscientist.com)

33 points by Hary06 2 years ago | 21 comments

First tunnel to a magma chamber could supercharge geothermal power(newscientist.com)

128 points by rmason 2 years ago | 75 comments

Much of North America may face electricity shortages starting in 2024(newscientist.com)

15 points by rustoo 2 years ago | 18 comments

A medieval map that made cartography into a science(newscientist.com)

44 points by bryanrasmussen 2 years ago | 8 comments

Changing the way you sit could add years to your life(newscientist.com)

4 points by tu7001 3 years ago | 0 comments

Sperm caught breaking Newton's third law of motion(newscientist.com)

6 points by thelastgallon 3 years ago | 0 comments

Mathematician warns US spies may be weakening next-gen encryption(newscientist.com)

268 points by stevefan1999 3 years ago | 150 comments

Djb warns NSA may be weakening next-gen encryption(newscientist.com)

12 points by damien 3 years ago | 1 comments

Insect-sized robots that can crawl, hop and turn(newscientist.com)

83 points by zdw 3 years ago | 21 comments

Waste plastic can be recycled into hydrogen fuel and graphene(newscientist.com)

73 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 42 comments

Bath-obsessed ancients (2016)(newscientist.com)

47 points by revolucien 3 years ago | 29 comments

India's Chandrayaan-3 launches to explore moons water rich South Pole(newscientist.com)

226 points by FlyingSnake 3 years ago | 81 comments

Mechanical backpack boosts the sensation of jumping in virtual reality(newscientist.com)

59 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 57 comments

Brain activity of dying people shows signs of near-death experiences(newscientist.com)

152 points by RafelMri 3 years ago | 173 comments