One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling discovery about the relationship between time and memory in computing.
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling ...
What does it mean to be to space-time? The seemingly simple question gets to the essence of twentieth-century physics and has driven a hundred-year debate between philosophy and science. In Einstein’s ...
Penn Engineers have developed a novel design for solar-powered data centers that will orbit Earth and could realistically ...
An illustration of NASA's Cassini spacecraft flying through a plume above the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech As maintaining leadership in space is a primary goal, ...
Building such facilities off Earth could have a lot of benefits. Early projects are underway. Last week, the Florida-based company Lonestar Data Holdings launched a shoebox-size device carrying data ...