Media Articles
Philosophers have studied 'counterfactuals' for decades. Will they help us unlock the mysteries of AI?
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An article on explainable AI and the use of counterfactuals as a basis for giving explanations of how AI systems work.
We want and we fear emotions in our robots. Here's what science fiction can teach us about flashes of emotion from Bing.
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An article on emotional robots in science fiction and in the real world.
Are blackholes time machines? Yes, but there's a catch.
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An article on the use of wormholes as time-machines and how this can turn you into pasta.
Did physicists make a wormhole in the lab? Not quite, but a new experiment hints at the future of quantum simulations
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An article on the alleged implementation of a wormhole in a quantum computer.
A new book about 12 experiments that changed the world sidelines the role of beautiful theory in physics.
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A review of Suzy Sheey's book "The Matter of Everything"
In the new Disney Pixar movie Lightyear, time gets bendy. Is time travel real, or just science fiction?
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An article discussing Buzz Lightyear's troubles with time.
Curious kids: what would happen if someone moved at twice the speed of light?
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An article explaining to kids some aspects of relativity.
Time might not exist, according to physicists and philosophers - but that's okay.
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An article discussing the idea that time doesn't exist, and the role that this reasons why one might endorse such a view.
Pythagors' revenge: humans didn't invent mathematics, it's what the world is made of.
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An article explaining the idea behind Pythagoreanism: the claim that the world is, in some sense, made of mathematical objects.
Gun-toting robo-dogs look like a dystopian nightmare. That’s why they offer a powerful moral lesson
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An article on the moral implications of using dog-like robots for killing.
How Animals See Time
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An article on time perception in animals, and what that can teach us about the nature of time.
Curious Kids: Is Light a Wave or a Particle?
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An answer to a 15-year old Ishan from Dubai's question.
New warp drive research dashes faster than light dreams - but reveals stranger possibilities.
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A piece discussing some recent developments in warp drive technology.
New physics at the Large Hadron Collider? Scientists are excited, but it’s too soon to be sure.
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A news article on recent work at CERN involving particle decay not predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics.
Biden’s pivot to science is welcome — Trump only listened to experts when it suited him
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A piece on Trump's troubled relationship with science.
Curious Kids: could our entire reality be part of a simulation created by some other beings?
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An answer to a 9th grader's question about aliens and reality.
A new kind of physics? Stephen Wolfram has a radical plan to build the universe from dots and lines
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An outline of Stephen Wolfram's suggestion for a new physics.
Explainer: the fifth dimension
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An explanation of how higher time dimensions might be discovered by the Large Hadron Collider and what this might mean.