Agentic AI needs a science of interaction
The development of agentic artificial intelligence — systems capable of planning, using tools and acting autonomously in complex environments — is advancing faster than the theoret… more →
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Twistronics comes to free space with topological optical superstructures
A team proposes bringing the idea of twistronics, the strategy that revolutionized graphene physics by stacking layers at a twist angle, into free space. Instead of piling up materials, the work suggests superimposing structured light beams to generate optical moiré patterns capable of creating topological superstructures, or "supertopologies", within the beam itself.
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ISS Photographs City Lights Across the U.S. Midwest
The International Space Station captured a mosaic of city lights stretching from the U.S. Midwest to the Atlantic coast on the night of Oct.… more →
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Phonons resolved in a high-Tc superconductor at sub-unit-cell scale
A team has resolved lattice vibrations, or phonons, in the high-temperature superconductor Bi₂Sr₂CaCu₂O₈+δ with spatial resolution finer than a single crystallographic unit cell.… more →
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NASA Astronauts to Answer Questions from Florida Students
NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney will answer prerecorded STEM questions from aboard the International Space Station.… more →
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Coupling between structural evolution and glass transition in supercooled water
A study published in Nature investigates how the structural evolution of supercooled water couples to its glass transition, an open problem in the physics of liquids and condensed… more →
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