If there's one throughline linking us to our ancestors at the birth of industrial society, it's the anxiety of automation. Back then it was the robber barons pushing the mechanized loom — and now it's kids in their 20s founding tech startups.Meet Mercor: the software that might decide whether you get that next job, or end up in the unemployment line. At least,...
Some quantum systems may have two arrows of time, one running forwards as usual and another moving backwards. This means that, at some extremely small scales, time may have the option of moving in both directions – a stunning feature that may have...
WASHINGTON — German launch vehicle company Isar Aerospace has completed tests of its first Spectrum rocket and is ready to launch, pending a license.The company announced Feb. 21 that it completed a static-fire test of the first stage of Spectrum a week earlier, firing its nine engines for 30 seconds. The company performed a similar test of the rocket’s upper stage in the...
SpaceX CEO and unelected White House advisor Elon Musk unexpectedly said today that he wants the International Space Station destroyed "as soon as possible."In a tweet today, the mercurial entrepreneur asserted that it's "time to begin preparations for deorbiting the space station," arguing that "it has served its purpose," with "very little incremental utility."Instead, Musk argued, the station should be destroyed within two years — but...
In the coming decades, we might figure out how to make an entirely new kind of life: a mirror cell, in which every molecule is the mirror image of those found in normal cells. Such reversed cells have probably never existed on our...
