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Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we talk about our experiences at AIRFest 32, including the destruction of our beloved 12" Punisher upscale. To keep the show and rocket projects coming, get ad-free early releases of all episodes, and to see exclusive behind-the-scenes content, join us on Patreon! Get Nigel the Rocket Cat Merch, Posters, and the ORIGINAL AP/CP Shirt at: https://aggmerch.com Support the show Support the podcast by joining our Patreon and get early/ad-free episode...

AI is making mass surveillance cheaper, faster, and far more powerful, but how far could it actually go? In this episode of Entropy Rising, we explore the future of surveillance technology and what it could mean for privacy. We discuss AI-powered cameras, facial recognition, surveillance capitalism, targeted advertising, predictive policing, AI judges, smart cars, and the growing amount of personal data collected by governments and corporations. We also look further into the future. What ha...

Almost every human who has ever lived has one thing in common: they were born and died on Earth. Except for three people.Hannah Fry and Michael Stevens uncover the extraordinary story of Soyuz 11, the Soviet cosmonauts who became the only humans ever to die in outer space, and what their deaths meant for the future of human spaceflight.But that raises a bigger question: what exactly is trapped on Earth, and what can escape? Is the water left inside discarded plastic bottles being locked away

A theoretical study by Rodrigo Berté proposes a surprising connection between nanophotonics and gravitational waves. Using the concept of bound states in the continuum (BICs), researchers explore whether gravitational energy could become localized within spacetime rather than propagating freely.If these states can be converted into quasi-BICs, they could open new possibilities for detecting subtle gravitational signals and probing the high-frequency behavior of gravity.This episode includes

New research in Physical Review Letters challenges assumptions about how dark photons interacted with the early universe.Computer simulations show that nonlinear effects may have stopped their energy conversion far earlier than expected, meaning the cosmos may not have been heated as previously thought. The result reopens a broad range of dark matter possibilities and could reshape future searches for these elusive particles.This episode includes AI-generated content.

Clue: It's NOT Relativity.Have you ever wondered how bodies like planets, stars, galaxies 'curve spacetime'? What it means, exactly, to say that spacetime is 'curved'? Or why objects follow those curved contours under the effect referred to as gravity ??None of these proposed cause-and-effect consequences are explained by General Relativity. We're simply told that they happen.Strap yourself in for a journey through space and time to pin down the very first clear and coherent explanation of the

Modern physics may need to move beyond the idea of point-like particles to reconcile quantum mechanics with general relativity.A new non-local approach replaces isolated points with extended topological structures, potentially avoiding the infinities that arise at extreme scales. By treating spacetime as an emergent phenomenon rooted in quantum entanglement, researchers are exploring a radically different picture of reality.This episode includes AI-generated content.

In this epiosode, Anna and Professor Halloway discuss various approaches to managing these alignment challenges, exploring technical solutions like reward modeling and interpretability, governance frameworks for deploying AI safely, and philosophical questions about how to encode human values into systems that may and seem to be on the verge of surpassing human-level intelligence in specific domains.AI Alignment is the critical endeavor to ensure that artificial intelligence systems pursue

Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have created a stable Bose-Einstein condensate in an ultrathin solid-state device. Using excitons, the quantum fluid can exist at much higher temperatures than traditional condensates and can be controlled with electric voltage or magnetic fields.The breakthrough could make exotic quantum phenomena easier to study while opening new possibilities for optoelectronics, quantum simulation, and future quantum technologies.This episode includes

What if a single strange word could save you a fortune? In this episode Michael opens up a Victorian telegram code book and explores how users compressed long messages into brief coded words to outwit the per word charge of thetelegraph system. Coded language turned everyday phrases about everyday events into something that looked like nonsense to outsiders, and why that secrecy was often a side effect of economy rather than espionage, and how operators learned to live inside this clipped

In this episode, Prof. Hung-yi Lee, Professor at National Taiwan University, interviews Dr. Jinyu Li, Partner Applied Science Manager at Microsoft. Their conversation traces the evolution of speech translation from traditional cascaded pipelines to today's end-to-end, large language model (LLM)-powered systems. Jinyu Li Dr. Jinyu Li is Partner Applied Science Manager at Microsoft, where he leads a science team advancing speech, translation, and language technologies. He is an IEEE Fello...

A fire scene looks like a puzzle, but it’s a puzzle where the pieces melt, burn, and get hauled away before anyone can measure them. On the 25th anniversary of 9/11, I sit down with Professor Vincent Brannigan to ask a questions - does a fire investigation truly use the scientific method, or are we doing something else and calling it science? Vincent brings a rare mix of experience as a fire protection engineer, a lawyer who has seen cases up close, and a historian of science who cares deepl...

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In this episode, Nantheera Anantrasirichai (Pui), Professor of Visual Computing at the University of Bristol, interviews Professor Alin Achim, Chair of Computational Imaging at the University of Bristol. Their conversation focuses on synthetic aperture radar (SAR), interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR), and the role of computational imaging, signal processing, and machine learning in earth observation. Alin Achim Professor Alin Achim is Chair of Computational Imaging at the Univers...

It wasn't the mullets or shoulder pads but how close the world came to nuclear annihilation. Join Shelly and Nathan Radke as they discuss what happened in 1983 and why you should have been scared. Very, very scared.