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Planetary Sciences 15 hours ago

Fast-tracking the search for habitable worlds

Modern astronomy would struggle without AI and machine learning (ML), which have become indispensable tools. They alone have the capability to manage and work with the vast amounts of data that modern telescopes generate. ...

Plasma Physics 15 hours ago

Heating for fusion: Why toast plasma when you can microwave it

Some believe the future of fusion in the U.S. lies in compact, spherical fusion vessels. A smaller tokamak, it is thought, could offer a more economical fusion option. The trick is squeezing everything into a small space. ...

Astronomy 15 hours ago

JWST unveils the structure of dust near a supermassive black hole

A team of international scientists led by researchers at Newcastle University, have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to reveal a hidden veil of dust in a galaxy 70 million light years away.

Optics & Photonics 16 hours ago

Scientists develop physical node reservoir computing based on light-emitting synapses

With the development of artificial intelligence technology, various artificial hardware neural networks such as recursive neural networks, convolutional neural networks, and spiking neural networks have been proposed to meet ...

Condensed Matter 16 hours ago

Researchers suggest a new method for determining atomic charges in materials

Researchers from Skoltech, Ural Federal University, and Mikheev Institute of Metal Physics, UB RAS, have furnished a fundamental theoretical description of important properties of chemical bonding in materials—namely, the ...

General Physics 20 hours ago

Nobel Prize-winning physicist Tsung-Dao Lee dies at age 97

Chinese-American physicist Tsung-Dao Lee, who in 1957 became the second-youngest scientist to receive a Nobel Prize, died Sunday at his home in San Francisco at age 97, according to a Chinese university and a research center.

Earth Sciences Aug 5, 2024

'Current' events: Scientists devise a new way to measure river flows

A team of scientists and engineers at NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has collaborated to see if a small piloted drone, equipped with a specialized payload, could help create detailed maps of how fast water is ...

Social Sciences Aug 5, 2024

Olympic arson attacks highlight growing danger of low-tech terrorism on public transit systems

As the Olympic torch was carried toward Paris for the 2024 Summer Games, flames of another kind were causing concern for the city's security chiefs. On the eve of the July 26 opening ceremony, a series of arson attacks disrupted ...

Optics & Photonics Aug 5, 2024

Researchers achieve super-Bloch oscillations in strong-driving regime

Full coherent control of wave transport and localization is a long-sought goal in wave physics research, which encompasses many different areas from solid-state to matter-wave physics and photonics. One among the most important ...

Environment Aug 5, 2024

Balancing fairness and welfare in the face of uncertainty: Investigating Miami's stormwater infrastructure improvement

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act was enacted in 2021 to inject $1.25 trillion into the country's aging infrastructure to help cities protect and prepare themselves from future occurrences of extreme weather effects ...

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