It's no secret that Californians pay more than the rest of the country for many goods and services—gas, housing, food, you name it. That's part of the high cost of living in the state.
Economics & Business
Jul 25, 2024
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Artificial intelligence has taken the world by storm lately. It also requires loads of band-end computing capability to do the near-miraculous things that it does. So far, that "compute," as it's known in the tech industry, ...
Space Exploration
Jun 24, 2024
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While 2023 is noted for breaking global temperature records (State of the Global Climate 2023), the year also brought an unexpected twist with extreme cold events in Antarctica. A new study published in Advances in Atmospheric ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 14, 2024
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From creating images, generating text, and enabling self-driving cars, the potential uses of artificial intelligence (AI) are vast and transformative. However, all this capability comes at a very high energy cost. For instance, ...
Bio & Medicine
Mar 11, 2024
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Researchers have developed a new way to control and manipulate optical signals by embedding a liquid crystal layer into waveguides created with direct laser writing. The new devices enable electro-optical control of polarization, ...
Optics & Photonics
Mar 4, 2024
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Sea ice levels in Antarctica have registered historic lows for three consecutive years, portending grave consequences for life on Earth as we know it.
Environment
Mar 2, 2024
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The field of photonic integrated circuits focuses on the miniaturization of photonic elements and their integration in photonic chips—circuits that carry out a range of calculations using photons, rather than electrons ...
Optics & Photonics
Jan 31, 2024
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Recent advancements in AI and more specifically large language models such as ChatGPT have put a strain on data centers. AI models require huge amounts of data to train, and in order to move data between the processing units ...
Optics & Photonics
Dec 7, 2023
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Water is often the go-to resource for heat transfer, being used in large-scale cooling operations like data centers that power the internet and nuclear power plants that power cities. Discovering dynamic phenomena to make ...
Analytical Chemistry
Dec 4, 2023
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Publications on sugar cane have increased exponentially since 2006 worldwide, and Brazil has had more articles published on the topic than any other country in the period, according to a review in BioEnergy Research.
Biotechnology
Nov 27, 2023
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