First, gravitational waves proved Einstein correct. Now, they’ve confirmed Stephen Hawking was right about black holes.
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Stephen Hawking’s prediction about what happens when two black holes merge has finally been verified.
The dread that AI evokes seems a distraction from the more disquieting scrutiny of humanity’s own dark nature.
AI safety has taken a back seat in the competition for ever more powerful large language models.
Scientists are trying to figure out if time travel is even theoretically possible. If it is, it looks like it would take a whole lot more knowledge and resources than humans have now to do it.
Increased acceptance of the use of alternative and augmentative communication technologies in general society can enhance the quality of life for people with speech impairment.
The enigma at the centre of our 20-year collaboration was how the Big Bang could have created conditions so perfectly hospitable to life
In a new book, On The Origin of Time, Belgian physicist Thomas Hertog unravels Stephen Hawking’s last theory, which focuses upon one of the biggest questions of all.
Black holes can have a mass equivalent to that of millions of suns. Other, smaller, black holes can combine the mass of Mount Everest into the size of an atom.
Nothing is harder to find than you might think.
From more accurate climate modelling to the prospect of truly creative computers, the brain’s use of noise has a lot to teach us.
Theories exploring the possibility of time travel rely on the existence of types of matter and energy that we do not understand yet.
Who wouldn’t want to travel in time, glimpsing the dinosaurs or peeking at humans 2,000 years from now? Now physicists have designed a time machine that seems deceptively simple.
Despite his playful optimism, Hawking recognised that the undiscovered laws of physics may prevent time travel.
We may not live in an infinite ‘multiverse’ of parallel universes after all.
Stephen Hawking raised the public profile of grand science, and speculated about the future of artificial intelligence, as well as contacting aliens. Does science mix easily with science fiction?
Hawking wasn’t able to give his students a gentle introduction, but he did provide a lot of inspiration and support.
The famous cosmologist was closely identified with black holes due to his revolutionary theoretical work explaining some of their mysterious properties.
Hawking’s life embodied what it means to have access to the human right of communication through communication technology.
Despite his fears artificial intelligence might one day overtake humanity, Stephen Hawking knew from his own life how profoundly AI could improve humans’ daily lives.
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Professor of Astrophysics, University of Sydney
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Pro-vice-chancellor, Professor, University of Birmingham
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John Curtin Distinguished Professor (Radio Astronomy), Curtin University
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Professor of Law, Villanova University
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Marie Curie Fellow in Theoretical Physics, Queen Mary University of London
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Professor of Philosophy of Science, Durham University
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Post-doctoral research fellow, London Research Institute
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Research Associate in English, Queen Mary University of London
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PhD Student in Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow
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Senior Lecturer, Zoology, University of Aberdeen
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Senior Research Fellow and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow in the Particle Theory Group, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester
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Professor of Astrophysics and Royal Society University Research Fellow, University of Hertfordshire
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Executive Director of the Rural Institute for Inclusive Communities, and Associate Professor of Teaching and Learning, University of Montana
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Professor of Cognitive and Decision Sciences, UCL
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Professor of Speech Pathology, University of Technology Sydney