https://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Understanding how cells within and around a tumor interact provides key information about a cancer's architecture, a patient's immune response to the disease and even how susceptible the cancer may be to various types of treatment. But deducing these cellular "neighborhoods" using traditional techniques is time-consuming and expensive. https://phys.org/news/2026-07-inferring-multicellular-interactions-tumors-standard.html Cell & Microbiology Tue, 07 Jul 2026 11:40:01 EDT news702638952 Individuals with high intellectual ability frequently occupy leadership roles across business, science, and politics. To date, it has not been definitively established whether a high intelligence quotient correlates with specific political orientations. However, recent research reveals a significant gender-specific distinction: Intellectually gifted men tend to be less conservative than men of average intellectual ability. The study, authored by Maximilian Krolo and Jörn Sparfeldt, is published in the journal Intelligence. https://phys.org/news/2026-04-gifted-men-conservatism-average-intelligence.html Social Sciences Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:00:02 EDT news695557382 We are not alone—and American authorities are covering up the evidence, a former US intelligence officer told a congressional committee on Wednesday. https://phys.org/news/2023-07-ex-intel-officer-info-alien-craft.html Other Wed, 26 Jul 2023 16:12:07 EDT news609606719 A new study from Bayes Business School (formerly Cass), the University of Missouri and the University of Arizona has uncovered the word properties that make slogans effective, as the researchers found that the attributes that make a slogan easier to process lead to it being more likable but less memorable, and vice versa. https://phys.org/news/2023-06-reveals-words-brand-slogans.html Economics & Business Tue, 27 Jun 2023 16:52:46 EDT news607103560 A group of psychologists, two from Northwestern University and the third from the University of Oregon, has found via online testing that IQ scores in the U.S. may be dropping for the first time in nearly a century. In their paper published in the journal Intelligence, Elizabeth Dworak, William Revelle and David Condon describe analyzing the results of online IQ tests taken by volunteers over the years 2006 to 2018. https://phys.org/news/2023-03-online-iq-scores-century.html Social Sciences Fri, 10 Mar 2023 12:00:01 EST news597668333 Emiliano Bruner, a paleoneurologist at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), has led a study published in the journal Intelligence on how attention evolved in the human genus, which analyzes the paleontological and archaeological evidence that might shed light on the attentional capacity of extinct hominins. https://phys.org/news/2022-06-neanderthal-meditate.html Archaeology Thu, 30 Jun 2022 10:37:02 EDT news575804219 The cost of sequencing has gone down tremendously. But still it is not used in daily practice. One of the reasons for this is that the processing of the raw data into useful insights takes a long time (several days for whole genome sequencing) and requires a lot of expensive resources (such as servers that need to be rented in a data center). https://phys.org/news/2021-12-software-optimizations-variant-faster-genome.html Biotechnology Fri, 03 Dec 2021 07:33:15 EST news557739189 Spintronic devices, a class of architectures that can store or transfer information by leveraging the intrinsic spin of electrons, have been found to be highly promising, both in terms of speed and efficiency. So far, however, the development of these devices has been hindered by the poor compatibility between semiconducting materials and ferromagnetic sources of spin, which underpin their operation. https://phys.org/news/2021-11-ferroelectric-spin-to-charge-conversion-germanium-telluride.html Condensed Matter Thu, 04 Nov 2021 10:00:01 EDT news555238460 On June 25, 2021, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a much-anticipated report on UFOs to Congress. The military has rebranded unidentified flying objects as unidentified aerial phenomena—UAPs—in part to avoid the stigma that has been attached to claims of aliens visiting the Earth since the Roswell incident in 1947. The report presents no convincing evidence that alien spacecraft have been spotted, but some of the data defy easy interpretation. https://phys.org/news/2021-06-pentagon-ufo-transparency-desire-science.html Other Wed, 30 Jun 2021 09:40:01 EDT news544264638 Researchers and engineers from QuTech in the Netherlands and from Intel Corp., jointly designed and tested a chip to control qubits that can operate at extremely low temperatures, and opens the door to solving the "wiring bottleneck," an important step toward a scalable quantum computer. Their results are published in the scientific journal Nature. https://phys.org/news/2021-05-quantum-cold-chips-qubits.html Quantum Physics Mon, 17 May 2021 09:46:37 EDT news540463592 In the world of exotic high-tech tools—they can be as big as school buses and cost millions of dollars—one that sits in a lab at Intel's Ronler Acres campus in Oregon is truly unique. https://phys.org/news/2021-03-intel-cryoprober-quantum-tool.html Quantum Physics Tue, 16 Mar 2021 09:49:52 EDT news535106987 Today, on Earth Day 2020, Accenture, Intel and the Sulubaaï Environmental Foundation announced Project: CORaiL, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered solution to monitor, characterize and analyze coral reef resiliency. Project: CORaiL was deployed in May 2019 to the reef surrounding Pangatalan Island in the Philippines and has collected about 40,000 images, which have been used by researchers to gauge reef health in real time. https://phys.org/news/2020-04-artificial-intelligence-coral-reefs.html Environment Wed, 22 Apr 2020 08:50:24 EDT news506764219 the British Antarctic Survey, the world's largest Emperor penguin colony has suffered unprecedented breeding issues for the past three years, is uniquely vulnerable to ongoing and projected climate change, and could virtually disappear by the year 2100. In order to study penguin populations, researchers first need to accurately count them. A new crowd counting solution from Intel AI Builder member and data science company Gramener could enable researchers to use computer vision to count penguin populations faster and more accurately. https://phys.org/news/2020-01-antarctic-penguins-ai.html Plants & Animals Tue, 21 Jan 2020 08:10:05 EST news498816603 As we all watch automakers and autonomous tech companies team up in various alliances, it's natural to wonder about their significance and what the future will bring. Are we realizing that autonomous driving technology and its acceptance by society could take longer than expected? Is the cost of investing in such technology proving more than any single organization can sustain? Are these alliances driven by a need for regulation that will be accepted by governments and the public or for developing standards on which manufacturers can agree? https://phys.org/news/2019-07-road-driverless-mobility.html Automotive Wed, 10 Jul 2019 07:49:42 EDT news481963772 Intel vet Aicha Evans will lead self-driving car startup Zoox from next month, becoming a rare high-profile black chief executive in a Silicon Valley. https://phys.org/news/2019-01-intel-vet-wheel-self-driving-car.html Business Wed, 16 Jan 2019 03:05:45 EST news466830335 Technology and environmental sustainability leaders must work together on collaborative solutions to unlock the power of emerging technology to address the challenges of environmental sustainability, including those related to climate change and responsible water management. https://phys.org/news/2018-12-emerging-technology-environmental.html Computer Sciences Fri, 14 Dec 2018 08:51:15 EST news463999867 In almost every dorm room, library, coffee shop, office and airport around the world, you will find someone with their head buried in a laptop. https://phys.org/news/2018-12-laptops.html Consumer & Gadgets Fri, 14 Dec 2018 07:20:01 EST news463990539 An ESA-led team subjected Intel's new Myriad 2 artificial intelligence chip to one of the most energetic radiation beams available on Earth. This test of its suitability to fly in space took place at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. The AI chip is related in turn to an ESA-fostered family of integrated circuits. https://phys.org/news/2018-12-esa-team-blasts-intel-ai.html General Physics Tue, 04 Dec 2018 10:09:45 EST news463140578 Researchers from Intel Corp. and the University of California, Berkeley, are looking beyond current transistor technology and preparing the way for a new type of memory and logic circuit that could someday be in every computer on the planet. https://phys.org/news/2018-12-quantum-materials-devices-semiconductor-era.html Quantum Physics Mon, 03 Dec 2018 12:56:51 EST news463064204 Qualcomm escalated a legal war with Apple, accusing the iPhone maker of stealing secrets and sharing them with mobile chip rival Intel, according to court documents. https://phys.org/news/2018-09-qualcomm-alleges-apple-gave-swiped.html Business Tue, 25 Sep 2018 14:56:59 EDT news457106212 A Big Data Center collaboration between computational scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's (Berkeley Lab) National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) and engineers at Intel and Cray has yielded another first in the quest to apply deep learning to data-intensive science: CosmoFlow, the first large-scale science application to use the TensorFlow framework on a CPU-based high performance computing platform with synchronous training. It is also the first to process three-dimensional (3-D) spatial data volumes at this scale, giving scientists an entirely new platform for gaining a deeper understanding of the universe. https://phys.org/news/2018-09-berkeley-lab-intel-cray-harness.html Hardware Wed, 05 Sep 2018 14:19:18 EDT news455375942 Fast disappearing from data centers are power-hungry spinning hard disk drives that hum, buzz, run warm (or even hot), require fans and expensive cooling systems, and can crash unexpectedly. https://phys.org/news/2018-08-world-densest-totally-silent-solid.html Hardware Thu, 09 Aug 2018 09:42:35 EDT news453026166 High content screening of cellular phenotypes is a fundamental tool supporting early drug discovery. The term "high content" signifies the rich set of thousands of predefined features (such as size, shape, texture) that are extracted from images using classical image-processing techniques. High content screening allows analysis of microscopic images to study the effects of thousands of genetic or chemical treatments on different cell cultures. https://phys.org/news/2018-05-deep-neural-network-image-analysis.html Computer Sciences Thu, 24 May 2018 07:50:09 EDT news446367001 The potential impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has never been greater—but we'll only be successful if AI can deliver smarter and more intuitive answers. https://phys.org/news/2018-05-probabilistic-artificial-intelligence.html Computer Sciences Fri, 11 May 2018 07:22:21 EDT news445242131 The head of Tesla's Autopilot project is leaving the carmarker, amid a US government probe into a fatal accident involving a vehicle using the semi-autonomous driving system. https://phys.org/news/2018-04-tesla-autopilot-intel.html Business Thu, 26 Apr 2018 15:39:45 EDT news443975977 The top US intelligence official issued a warning on Tuesday about the dangers of climate change in testimony that was seemingly at odds with the skepticism of President Donald Trump and other members of his administration. https://phys.org/news/2018-02-intel-chief-issues-climate.html Environment Tue, 13 Feb 2018 14:02:41 EST news437752954 The next phase in data collection is right under your feet. https://phys.org/news/2018-01-intel-underfoot-floor-sensors-retail.html Hi Tech & Innovation Mon, 15 Jan 2018 10:03:47 EST news435233022 A new security flaw has been found in Intel hardware which could enable hackers to access corporate laptops remotely, Finnish cybersecurity specialist F-Secure said on Friday. https://phys.org/news/2018-01-finnish-firm-intel-flaw.html Security Fri, 12 Jan 2018 04:44:11 EST news434954645 Today at the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Intel announced two major milestones in its efforts to research and develop future computing technologies including quantum and neuromorphic computing, which have the potential to help industries, research institutions and society solve problems that currently overwhelm today's classical computers. https://phys.org/news/2018-01-intel-advances-quantum-neuromorphic.html Hardware Wed, 10 Jan 2018 07:10:01 EST news434789052 Society's fear of driverless cars is somewhat baffling to me. Given that car crashes attributable to human error cause more than 1 million vehicle deaths every year1, it's those human-driven cars people should be afraid of. Yet all of us today get behind the wheel and simply trust that the cars coming toward them in the opposite lane will stay where they're supposed to. From my point of view, unless those are self-driving cars, we should all be terrified. https://phys.org/news/2017-10-opinion-passengers-lot-self-driving-cars.html Hi Tech & Innovation Thu, 19 Oct 2017 07:00:01 EDT news427614932