The great silence: Just 4 in 10k galaxies may host intelligent aliens(space.com)

13 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 39 comments

SpaceX rocket launches Euclid space telescope to map the 'dark universe'(space.com)

159 points by gostsamo 3 years ago | 73 comments

James Webb Space Telescope finds 2 of the most distant galaxies ever seen(space.com)

84 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 33 comments

Starship launch debris landed 6 miles north, residents report broken windows(space.com)

24 points by belter 3 years ago | 11 comments

New exoplanet found orbiting twin suns(space.com)

129 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 80 comments

Simple streetlight hack could protect astronomy from urban light pollution(space.com)

76 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 118 comments

LLMs use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge(news.mit.edu)

336 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 121 comments

MIT News article on research showing LLMs often retrieve stored facts via simple linear functions, and a technique to probe what a model knows about subjects.

A New Experiment Meta-Strategy(chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

26 points by surprisetalk 1 month ago | 1 comments

A Substack post by an amateur physicist describing a new strategy for doing home experiments after reorganizing a messy lab to fit limited free evenings.

The Mathocalypse(scottaaronson.blog)

361 points by 6bitquant 19 days ago | 380 comments

Scott Aaronson blog post reacting to OpenAI releasing hundreds of AI-generated math results, including a claimed proof of Khot's Unique Games Conjecture.

GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics(openai.com)

545 points by davidbarker 8 months ago | 369 comments

OpenAI post announcing that GPT-5.2 derived a new result in theoretical physics; the captured page shows only a loading logo.

Research suggests Big Bang may have taken place inside a black hole(port.ac.uk)

705 points by zaik 1 year ago | 563 comments

University of Portsmouth blog post in which Professor Enrique Gaztanaga proposes a theory that the Big Bang may have occurred inside a black hole.

Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled(xenaproject.wordpress.com)

456 points by artninja1988 3 months ago | 225 comments

A Xena Project blog post about mathematicians being outpaced at finding counterexamples, from the blog on mathematicians learning the Lean theorem prover.