Boiling is not just for heating up dinner. It's also for cooling things down. Turning liquid into gas removes energy from hot surfaces, and keeps everything from nuclear power plants to powerful computer chips from overheating. ...
General Physics
Jul 8, 2021
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As far as the eye can see, galaxies fill the images of the deep universe. What processes determined their shapes, colors and populations of stars? Astronomers think that primordial black holes were the engines of galaxies' ...
Astronomy
Dec 6, 2023
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A machine-learning algorithm that can predict the compositions of trend-defying new materials has been developed by RIKEN chemists1. It will be useful for finding materials for applications where there is a trade-off between ...
Materials Science
Aug 7, 2020
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In a review published in Engineering, scientists explore the burgeoning field of machine learning (ML) and its applications in chemistry. Titled "Machine Learning for Chemistry: Basics and Applications," this comprehensive ...
Analytical Chemistry
Sep 4, 2023
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A study in which machine-learning models were trained to assess over 1 million companies has shown that artificial intelligence (AI) can accurately determine whether a startup firm will fail or become successful. The outcome ...
Economics & Business
Sep 7, 2021
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A team of scientists from the SETI Institute, University of California Davis and the Alaska Whale Foundation, had a close encounter with a non-human (aquatic) intelligence. The Whale-SETI team has been studying humpback whale ...
Astrobiology
Dec 12, 2023
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Scientists made headlines last week for supposedly generating a wormhole. The research, reported in Nature, involves the use of a quantum computer to simulate a wormhole in a simplified model of physics.
Quantum Physics
Dec 12, 2022
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Scientists at the University of South Carolina and Columbia University have developed a faster way to design and make gas-filtering membranes that could cut greenhouse gas emissions and reduce pollution.
Materials Science
May 15, 2020
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What is the universe made of? This question has driven astronomers for hundreds of years.
Astronomy
Jan 13, 2024
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A quintillion calculations a second. That's one with 18 zeros after it. It's the speed at which an exascale supercomputer will process information. The Department of Energy (DOE) is preparing for the first exascale computer ...
Quantum Physics
Aug 3, 2020
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