Once you can accept the Universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.

— Albert Einstein

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Heat Dome’s Extreme Heat and Humidity Triggers Alerts across Eastern U.S.

Scientific American.com - Wed, 07/23/2025 - 12:45pm

High humidity and overnight low temperatures that are relatively hot will put tens of millions of people under heat alerts over the course of the coming week

Categories: Astronomy

Physicists Blast Gold to Astonishing Temperatures, Overturning 40 Years of Physics

Scientific American.com - Wed, 07/23/2025 - 11:00am

Physicists superheated gold to 14 times its melting point, disproving a long-standing prediction about the temperature limits of solids

Categories: Astronomy

Can a Chatbot be Conscious? Inside Anthropic’s Interpretability Research on Claude 4

Scientific American.com - Wed, 07/23/2025 - 11:00am

As large language models like Claude 4 express uncertainty about whether they are conscious, researchers race to decode their inner workings, raising profound questions about machine awareness, ethics and the risks of uncontrolled AI evolution

Categories: Astronomy