Across
- 2. Mathematical space where quantum states are represented.
- 3. Ancient arguments about motion seeming impossible.
- 5. Technique that separates molecules using an electric field.
- 7. Ancient supercontinent predating Pangaea.
- 9. Organisms that rapidly spread outside their native range.
- 11. Enormous canyon system on Mars.
- 15. Species that thrives in human environments.
- 18. Input designed to mislead an AI system.
- 20. Hard crustlike soil found on Mars and arid regions on Earth.
- 22. Average amount used per person.
- 23. Framework describing all known fundamental particles.
- 25. Genetic technique that increases a trait’s inheritance rate.
- 27. Test proposed to evaluate machine intelligence.
- 29. Construction material made with reduced carbon emissions.
- 30. Organelles that generate cellular energy.
- 32. Signaling proteins used by immune cells.
- 38. Mathematical measure of how space bends.
- 44. Supportive network outside cells.
- 48. Protective separation between blood and brain tissue.
- 50. View that quantum outcomes branch into separate universes.
- 51. The brain’s ability to change and reorganize.
- 52. Cost imposed on society by an activity.
- 53. Contact point where immune cells communicate directly.
- 54. Gradual sinking of land.
- 55. When light knocks electrons out of a material.
- 56. Field with a value at each point but no direction.
Down
- 1. Tests that evaluate AI’s understanding of context.
- 4. Process that converts CO₂ and hydrogen into methane and water.
- 6. Broad term containing multiple meanings or ideas.
- 8. Loss of quantum superposition due to environmental interaction.
- 10. Measure of rocket engine efficiency
- 12. Massive outpouring of basalt from the mantle.
- 13. When efficiency increases overall resource use.
- 14. Theory where spacetime is made of discrete quantum units.
- 16. Settings that control how a machine-learning model trains.
- 17. Ancient Greek city associated with early scientific thinking.
- 19. Idea that the universe’s properties must allow observers to exist.
- 21. U.S. legislation supporting clean energy initiatives.
- 24. Training approach based on rewards and penalties.
- 26. AI approach that relies on rules and logic.
- 28. Organisms that gain energy from chemicals, not sunlight.
- 31. Neuron branches that receive signals.
- 33. The constant that sets the scale of quantum effects.
- 34. Rise of atmospheric oxygen over 2 billion years ago.
- 35. Heat and humidity threshold unsafe for humans.
- 36. Human-guided speeding up of evolutionary change.
- 37. Geological timescales spanning millions of years.
- 39. Hypothesized period when Earth was largely ice-covered.
- 40. Graph-like structure used to represent quantum geometry.
- 41. Cosmological model with chaotic early-universe behavior.
- 42. Largest mass extinction in Earth’s history.
- 43. Methods that clarify how AI models make decisions.
- 45. Feedback loop leading to global ice expansion.
- 46. Antarctic glacier at high risk of collapse.
- 47. Growing plants with roots suspended in air.
- 49. Tough polymer that strengthens plant cell walls.