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Charles Q. Choi @cqchoi.com · 21/08/2026

The competition was tough! You earned it though, and should be proud.

Charles Q. Choi @cqchoi.com · 21/08/2026

I was a judge on the 2026 Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award, and am glad that @elisecutts.bsky.social won! I highly recommend her sparkling prose on a very wide range of scientific fields, some of which you can read by going to the award announcement page: casw.org/news/elise-c...

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Elise Cutts wins 2026 Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award - CASW

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Charles Q. Choi @cqchoi.com · 27/07/2026

I like the show, but re: the science in that ep -- woof.

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Charles Q. Choi @cqchoi.com · 27/07/2026

So what did planetary scientists think of the ST:Strange New Worlds season opener?

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Charles Q. Choi @cqchoi.com · 25/06/2026

So sorry to hear, Tanya. You and everyone else getting fired are great journalists. You all absolutely don't deserve this.

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Charles Q. Choi @cqchoi.com · 25/06/2026

So sorry to hear, Dan. You're a mensch, and I hope you land on your feet somewhere.

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Charles Q. Choi @cqchoi.com · 25/06/2026

So sorry to hear, Meghan. You and everyone else getting laid off are absolutely top-notch.

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Charles Q. Choi @cqchoi.com · 07/05/2026

Perfectly Aligning AI’s Values With Humanity’s Is Impossible: Maybe the best we can do is make “neurodiverse” systems that challenge each other spectrum.ieee.org/ai-alignment by @cqchoi.com for @spectrum.ieee.org

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Why Perfect AI Alignment Is Mathematically Out Of Reach

Maybe the best we can do is make “neurodiverse” systems that challenge each other

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Charles Q. Choi @cqchoi.com · 28/01/2026

Thermodynamic Computing Slashes Energy Use For Image Generation -- may be 10 billion times more efficient than AI spectrum.ieee.org/thermodynami... by @cqchoi.com for @spectrum.ieee.org

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Thermodynamic Computing Promises Energy-Efficient AI Images

What if AI could create stunning images with a fraction of the energy used today?

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Charles Q. Choi @cqchoi.com · 24/12/2025

We Now Know How Much Faster Clocks Will Run on Mars: the planet’s weaker gravity means time passes faster than here spectrum.ieee.org/time-on-mars... by @cqchoi.com for @spectrum.ieee.org

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Mars Timekeeping: Why Microseconds Matter

Atomic clocks tick faster on Mars than Earth. Find out why this matters for future missions.

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Charles Q. Choi @cqchoi.com · 22/10/2025

Google’s New Quantum Algorithm May Actually Be Useful: The quantum echoes algorithm shows promise for helping discover better drugs, polymers, catalysts, battery components & more spectrum.ieee.org/quantum-echoes by @cqchoi.com for @spectrum.ieee.org

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Google's New Quantum Algorithm May Actually Be Useful

Quantum advantage may not be here yet, but there is hope.

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

A variant of CRISPR amps up expression of SCN2A, rescuing mice from seizures caused by haploinsufficiency. By @cqchoi.com www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/boo...

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Boosting SCN2A expression reduces seizures in mice

A modified form of CRISPR amps up expression of the gene—a strategy that could apply to other gene variations linked to autism.

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Charles Q. Choi @cqchoi.com · 06/10/2025

Quantum Sensors Sidestep the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle: new technique could help detect both position and momentum with unprecedented precision spectrum.ieee.org/sidestep-hei... by @cqchoi.com for @spectrum.ieee.org

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Quantum Sensors Sidestep Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle

Can quantum sensors really measure both position and momentum with precision? Find out how scientists are sidestepping Heisenberg's limits.

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Charles Q. Choi @cqchoi.com · 19/09/2025

@oldgodspod.bsky.social love the show! so apologies if this has already been answered, but do you see vamps as creatures of the Black or Green? I would’ve assumed the former, but then those beneath might already have some.

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Charles Q. Choi @cqchoi.com · 06/08/2025

I mean, if it was a store for a Vegas-strip club (or a Vegas strip club, YMMV) that’d make sense

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Charles Q. Choi @cqchoi.com · 06/07/2025

You’re disappointed that he didn’t want to relitigate one of hundreds of stories he wrote more than a decade ago? Or that he didn’t want to get in an argument with a stranger from the Internet?

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Charles Q. Choi @cqchoi.com · 04/07/2025

Thank you for your attention. Am wondering why you haven’t yet also targeted @royalsocietypublishing.org in which the study I wrote about ran, or @edyong209.bsky.social given his NatGeo story, or @rachelnuwer.bsky.social given her Smithsonian piece, or the study’s authors? Why am I so lucky?

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Charles Q. Choi @cqchoi.com · 19/06/2025

A New BCI Instantly Synthesizes Speech: a paralyzed patient was able to ask questions, emphasize words, and sing short melodies spectrum.ieee.org/bci-speech-s... by @cqchoi.com for @spectrum.ieee.org

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Brain-Computer Interface Restores Speech

Restoring speech with brain-computer interfaces: How close are we to real-time voice synthesis for those who can't speak?

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Reid Southen @rahll.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

In the Disney lawsuit, 10 pages are dedicated to citing the work we did. In pursuit of this evidence, Midjourney banned me 3 times and updated their ToS. The first ban encouraged me to dig a lot deeper, so I'd like to congratulate CEO David Holz on his massive unforced error.

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Charles Q. Choi @cqchoi.com · 11/06/2025

Scientists have created cyborg embryos by implanting electrode arrays into the developing brains of frogs, mice, and salamanders spectrum.ieee.org/embryo-elect... by @cqchoi.com for @spectrum.ieee.org

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Cyborg Embryos Offer New Insights Into Brain Growth

Could soft, stretchable electrodes in embryos lead to new insights into brain development and regeneration?

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Charles Q. Choi @cqchoi.com · 06/06/2025

Neuromorphic processors mimic the way the brain operates. Now, a Dutch firm has launched what it calls the world’s first commercially available neuromorphic microcontroller. spectrum.ieee.org/innatera-spi... by @cqchoi.com for @spectrum.ieee.org

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Innatera's Pulsar Chip Could Be a Game-Changer for Ultra-Low-Power AI Sensors

Innatera's Pulsar chip, the first commercial neuromorphic microcontroller, promises ultra-low power AI with 100x lower latency.

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Autism linked with a fourfold increased risk of Parkinson’s disease, according to a study of more than 2 million people. By Charles Q. Choi www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/lar...

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Large study links autism to Parkinson’s disease

Autistic adults appear to be prone to an early-onset form of Parkinson’s, according to a long-term study that tracked 2.2 million people in Sweden.

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Spoopy Rex @katyrex.meatjacker.social · 04/06/2025

Currently my favorite distraction on TikTok is this man who is CLEARLY in like, THE BEST shape, finding things that other athletes can do (and often the things they're doing are typically femme) and seeing if he also can do that With the "assistance" of the best dog named Dootie I love this

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Tiffany @tiffanyrfox.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Omg, they used AI to write this.

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Charles Q. Choi @cqchoi.com · 27/05/2025

There’s a word on the tip of my tongue: snowbake? Snowrake? Snowcake?

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Charles Q. Choi @cqchoi.com · 23/05/2025

Astronomers may have discovered a rare type of binary star system, where one star used to orbit inside its partner www.space.com/astronomy/st... by @cqchoi.com for @space.com

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Scientists find rare double-star system where one star orbited inside the other

Only 16 to 84 other examples of this exotic system may exist in our entire galaxy.

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Charles Q. Choi @cqchoi.com · 18/05/2025

Its debut is really confusing, because there’s a long-running Canadian production called MURDER BOOT

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Charles Q. Choi @cqchoi.com · 04/05/2025

I believe the proper term is “bullflighting”

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Charles Q. Choi @cqchoi.com · 24/04/2025

@patrickwyman.bsky.social I had sent you a copy of the Carthage study last week — guess you didn’t see it.

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Charles Q. Choi @cqchoi.com · 23/04/2025

Quantum networks are nigh unhackable, but it was long assumed they'd need expensive specialized hardware. Now quantum communications are possible across 250+ km using existing commercial telecom lines spectrum.ieee.org/quantum-key-... by @cqchoi.com for @ieeespectrum.bsky.social

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Quantum Messages Cover City Distances Via Telco Lines

Toshiba sent QKD keys more than 250 kilometers

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Charles Q. Choi @cqchoi.com · 17/04/2025

@patrickwyman.bsky.social am still a big fan of the podcast! just sent you some interesting research coming out soon pertinent to your most recent episodes.

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Charles Q. Choi @cqchoi.com · 14/04/2025

DNA Helps Electronics to Leave Flatland: these miniature scaffolds for 3D circuits are designed to assemble themselves www.engineering.columbia.edu/about/news/d... by @cqchoi.bsky.social for @columbiaseas.bsky.social

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DNA Helps Electronics to Leave Flatland | Columbia Engineering

These miniature scaffolds for 3D circuits are designed to assemble themselves.

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Charles Q. Choi @cqchoi.com · 14/04/2025

Gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful kinds of explosions known in the cosmos, may help forge the universe's heaviest elements from the outer shells of dying stars. www.space.com/the-universe... by @cqchoi.bsky.social for @space.com

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The most powerful explosions in the universe could reveal where gold comes from

"The inspiration for this particular study came from conversations with my kids."

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

When the weather gets warm, the days are bright, the sky is blue. the birds are singing... ...I think about bears coming out of hibernation, and the First Shit of Spring. See, when bears hibernate (esp brown bears, black bears don't go down as hard), they stop eating, drinking. Pooping...

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Charles Q. Choi @cqchoi.com · 12/04/2025

Ah, the joys of rereading more carefully. “Nearly all the Khanum went extinct” — didn’t catch the nearly part before. A reward for the careful members of the audience.

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Charles Q. Choi @cqchoi.com · 10/04/2025

Any by "restraint," I mean that you clearly have much if not all of this figured out, but you don't (yet) feel the need to explain any of it until the story makes it necessary, any more than you'd have to explain the presence of oxygen or gravity

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Charles Q. Choi @cqchoi.com · 10/04/2025

Rereading the 1st and 2nd Ana and Din books, I find myself rly taken by your restraint w worldbuilding. You seed the term Sanctum in the 1st, even say Emperor's Sanctum once, but you don't rly explain what it means until the 2nd, & that's when I rly noticed that the Emperor might be quite old indeed

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