The space of night is infinite,
The blackness and emptiness
Crossed only by thin bright fences
Of logic

— Kenneth Rexroth
"Theory of Numbers"

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Inside the start-up aiming for a giant leap in robot intelligence

Mon, 06/15/2026 - 10:50am
Physical Intelligence is drawing on the broad knowledge of large language models to help robots understand instructions and learn to carry out any task independently
Categories: Astronomy

Are useful and error-free quantum computers only two years away?

Mon, 06/15/2026 - 10:00am
Quantum computing firm QuEra says it plans to make a fault-tolerant quantum computer and offer it to users through the cloud in 2028, which will require a real leap in engineering
Categories: Astronomy

We may have finally solved cosmology's chicken-or-the-egg problem

Mon, 06/15/2026 - 5:00am
Galaxies and their supermassive black holes evolve together, but which came first is an ongoing question. Now we may finally have an answer, says columnist Leah Crane
Categories: Astronomy