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Lost for eight decades, an unpublished manuscript by Erwin Schrödinger reveals the scientist’s previously unknown quantum musings.

Experiments show future forensic crime scene investigators could collect DNA evidence from thin air left behind by simulated home invaders.

Scientists have produced electrical phenomena in the lab that could offer clues to how mysterious ball lightning forms in nature.

Release: battledrones v14: Compass Rose, a four player map I added four player online mode to Battledrones - previous maps were limited to two. Here's the initial prompt I used: Add a new map for a four player battle - four way rotational symmetry, up to four AI players, works with the WebSocket non-audio based multiplayer mode so up to four human players can join (any spare slots use AI) Claude Opus 5.5 added a new map called "Compass Rose" and modified the WebSockets multiplayer network code to support up to four players for that map, joining via share links or QR codes. The new teams use ro

I’m far from early to the party, but I wanted to drop a note on using AI to develop code, and in particular managing the dirty work of audio plugins. Hint: Game changer. A couple of nights ago, I paid … Continue reading →

We conduct a historical and mathematical audit of the voluntarist-idealist lineage—tracing the trajectory from Arthur Schopenhauer's 1818 metaphysical voluntarism (The World as Will and Representation) to Bernardo Kastrup's contemporary rebranding, Analytic Idealism—under the strict criteria of the Triadic Coherence Invariant, R = P × I × Pr ≠ 0 (canonically isomorphic to R = Ψ × I × Π ≠ 0). We first expose the genealogical structure of the framework: how Schopenhauer projected finite, mammalian visceral urges onto Immanuel Kant's noumenal void to invent a "blind cosmic Will," and how Kastrup

Autonomous racing serves as a platform for testing embodied intelligence under extreme control conditions. It requires systems to operate at the limits of speed, actuation, and decision‐making. Inspired by human multimodality, which is the ability to integrate sensory inputs, learn adaptively, and transfer knowledge across domains for holistic situational awareness and optimal performance, we present Apex, an embodied intelligent agent that is implemented on an autonomous super‐formula racing vehicle on the Abu Dhabi Yas Marina F1 circuit. Apex integrates physics‐informed neural network‐enhanc

Neostatic Bioframe BF-07 is a feasible modular architecture for embodied AI with 8 integrated subsystems: vessel architecture, Neostatic Brain Jelly (NBJ) field computer, sensory ASP skin, somatic emotional engine, distributed energy harvesting, self-healing nanobot mesh with metabolism-as-filtering, locomotion, and feasibility roadmap. 2026 Audit Updates:- VT MADE Lab GaIn-PDMS printable self-healing composite membrane- Zwitterionic bimodal elastomer P(BA-SB) 272% strain / 95 MV/m breakdown / 1520 W/kg (Nature Communications 2026 DOI 10.1038/s41467-026-72611-5)- Tesla US Pat App US 2026/03102

With the advent of Industry 5.0, human-robot collaborative assembly has become a core production paradigm that combines human cognitive flexibility with robotic operational efficiency. Single-robot systems cannot meet the diverse requirements of complex assembly tasks. Therefore, collaboration between human operators and heterogeneous multi-robot teams is required for flexible and efficient manufacturing. However, current collaborative systems are limited by fragmented perception-reasoning-execution pipelines. Poor generalization of general-purpose models in industrial environments is also obs

Tactile perception systems based on flexible pressure sensors are indispensable for humanoid robots to perform dexterous manipulation, compliant interaction, and operation in visually challenging environments. Although strategies relying on surface or spatial microstructure engineering have improved sensor performance, the long-standing trade-off among sensitivity, sensing range, and linearity continues to hinder their practical deployment. Inspired by the gradient distribution of mechanoreceptors in human fingertip skin, we report a gradient-interlayer–based flexible iontronic pressure sensor

Artificial intelligence (AI), generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), large language models (LLMs), autonomous agents, robotics, and embodied intelligence are transforming the capabilities available to students, teachers, and educational institutions. These technologies can improve access to information, personalize instruction, automate routine tasks, and support educational creativity. However, they also introduce a broader class of risks that cannot be fully characterized by conventional cybersecurity, academic integrity, or educational technology frameworks. Students may obtain answers

Abstract Zero-shot visual navigation enables agents to generalize to unseen environments without task-specific training and is core to service robotics, warehouse logistics, and autonomous exploration. Existing approaches are observed to fail to achieve genuine zero-shot generalization: explicit-map methods rely on accurate reconstruction and are sensitive to sensor noise; supervised policies memorize training-scene patterns and degrade under illumination, furniture, and layout shifts; implicit representations offer continuous, differentiable encoding but remain confined to passive reconstruct

Climate change has erased two millennia of progress toward a new global ice age, potentially validating controversial claims from the 1970s.

As a former police K9 handler I explain how Warhound's genetics could improve working dog breeding, performance and animal welfare.

The United Nations has issued a warning about the potential misuse of neurotechnology, calling for limits on the rapidly advancing field.

An astronomical redating of Vincent van Gogh's painting The Starry Night confirmed the artist used real stellar data in his masterpiece.

Introducing Kimi K3.1 Pro Kimi K3.1 Pro landed on the Kimi API today - it's not yet open weights, but Moonshot promise "Full model weights will be released by Nov 4, 2026". They're also offering a "Highspeed" version that's 2-3x faster, at twice the price (except for input token cache hits, which are priced the same). The US dollar pricing is $2.00/million tokens for input and $10/million for output - the same as GPT-6.1 Sol and half the price of Claude Opus 5.5. Moonshot's own benchmarks show Kimi as approximately level with Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra - beating them on a few benchmarks, coming

Tool: Quick Study Prompt to Claude Opus 5.5 High : Build an artifact where you open a photo and it rapidly (in a few seconds) paints a version of that photo using a canvas element and simulated paintbrush See also my previous experiment getting Claude Fable to simulate a watercolor illustration with P5.js. Quick Study uses Sobel edge detection , with no external libraries beyond Google Fonts. Tags: tools

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Tribologists study friction: what happens when things rub together. It’s indispensable, from the wheel to the paths of stars - by Jennifer R Vail Read on Aeon

To achieve happiness, we need to understand what makes us happy and what brings us peace. One way to know if we are on the right path is “the happiness method” The post Evaluating Certification Standards for Mediums and Trance Channelers appeared first on IONS .

Visual artist and writer Klea McKenna, daughter of psychedelic pioneer Terence McKenna and ethnobotanist Kathleen Harrison, joins Hans Busstra to reflect on her unconventional childhood, her own relationship with psychedelics, and her work preserving her parents’ legacy through the Lux Natura Archive. Known for her camera-less photography, Klea brings an artist’s perspective to questions of nature, consciousness and the stories we tell about psychedelic experiences. Het bericht The legacy of Terence McKenna verscheen eerst op Essentia Foundation .