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Origami specialists created a "modular metamaterial" that can expand, assume new shapes, move and follow electromagnetic commands like a remotely controlled robot even though it lacks any motor or internal gears.

"Shallow safety alignment," a weakness in Large Language Models, allows users to bypass guardrails and elicit directions for malicious uses, like hacking government databases and stealing from charities…

Mapping the half-billion connections that allow mice to see

Scientists map the half-billion connections that allow mice to see | Functional connectomics spanning multiple areas of mouse visual cortex

New high-definition images released of the baby universe

Dincă Lab demonstates high-performance Sodium-ion cathode for new battery technology

Pierre Schaeffer looking back on his career in musique concrète (1987)

On Bullshit (2005)

AI for real-time fusion plasma behavior prediction and manipulation

Bird wings inspire new approach to flight safety

"Now What?" by John Hopfield (2018) [pdf]

Middle Tech: Software Work and the Culture of Good Enough

‘A history of contact’: Princeton geneticists are rewriting the narrative of Neanderthals and other ancient humans

Princeton engineers create new oyster-inspired cement 17X more crack-resistant

Diminuendo Lagrimoso: Tracing the decline of big opera voices (2023) [pdf]

Princeton astrophysicists re-imagine world map (2021)

ROG-O-MATIC: A Belligerent Expert System

Most clean power purchasing strategies do little to cut emissions

A flat map with the least error possible: The Gott-Goldberg-Vanderbei projection

Why We Practice Magic

Unix and Beyond: An Interview with Ken Thompson (1999)

Engineers Use AI To Wrangle Fusion Power For the Grid

Researchers discover an abrupt change in quantum behavior that defies current theories of superconductivity

Neural Spline Fields for Burst Image Fusion and Layer Separation

What It's Like to Be a Bee

Evaluating LLMs Is a Minefield

Is POPL Mathematics or Science?

Terry Tao's generals (2012)

Preventing software piracy with crypto-microprocessors (1980) [pdf]

Theory of interstellar trade (1978) [pdf]

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