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Brain delays could be a computational advantage, researchers say

Biological components are less reliable than electrical ones, and rather than instantaneously receive the incoming signals, the signals arrive with a variety of delays. This forces the brain to cope with said delays by having ...

Spin-wave reservoir chips can enhance edge computing

Reservoir computing (RC) has a few benefits over other artificial neural networks, including the reservoir that gives this technique its name. The reservoir functions mainly to nonlinearly transform input data more quickly ...

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New method enables real-time visualization of chick embryo development from egg to chick
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Enhancers study provides insight into how gene expression establishes and maintains naive-state pluripotent stem cells
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Cemetery study reveals how daily life changed from the Iron Age to the Roman period
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The flirting paradox: Why the attention your partner receives from others is liable to diminish your desire for them
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The Physics of Friendship

By comparing people to mobile particles randomly bouncing off each other, scientists have developed a new model for social networks. The model fits with empirical data to naturally reproduce the community structure, clustering ...

Identifying gems and minerals on Earth and on Mars

It'll be a snap to identify gemstones once Robert Downs finishes his library of spectral fingerprints for all the Earth's minerals. Downs is almost halfway there. So far, the associate professor of geosciences at The University ...

The Unusual Insulating Properties of a Superconductor

Since their discovery, high-temperature superconductors, a class of remarkable materials that conduct electricity with almost zero resistance, have perplexed scientists. Despite many, many studies, how these materials do ...

Purdue scientist defends his fusion work

A Purdue University scientist says he will cooperate with a university review of his work in which he claims to have achieved fusion. (see "Purdue investigates professor's tabletop nuclear fusion research")

Tick Tock: Who Needs an Atomic Clock?

“Last year the Nobel Prize recognized the significance of this field with John Hall and Theodor Hänsch,” says Chris Oates of studying optical atomic clocks. “There are a lot of new ideas coming out, and we hope that ...

The Strange Case of the Disappearing Quasiparticles

In the “standard model” of condensed matter physics, elementary energy carriers are called quasiparticles. Understanding when and how these energy carriers fail to perform their mission opens doors to new phenomena and ...

Nuclear safety violations cited at Argonne

The University of Chicago, which manages the Argonne National Laboratory for the federal government, has been charged with nuclear safety violations.