Mosquitoes bite people in almost every country across the globe. But are there any countries that don’t have this blood-sucking pest?
The answer is “yes,” there is one country without mosquitoes: Iceland. While its neighbors — including Norway,…
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What exactly does word2vec learn? – The Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Blog
What exactly does
word2veclearn, and how? Answering this question amounts to understanding representation learning in a minimal yet interesting language modeling task. Despite the fact thatword2vecis a well-known precursor to…Continue Reading
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Way to unlock polaritons’ ‘magic power’ discovered
Controlling polaritonic chemistry could lead to better solar cells – or even lightsabers
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NASA finds Titan’s alien lakes may be creating primitive cells
NASA research has shown that cell-like compartments called vesicles could form naturally in the lakes of Saturn’s moon Titan.
Titan is the only world apart from Earth that is known to have liquid on its surface. However, Titan’s lakes and seas…
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Cameras Caught What No Human Was Meant to See—A Deep Sea Creature Straight Out of a Nightmare
In the icy, lightless depths of the Pacific Ocean, a fish lurks that seems straight out of a science-fiction movie. The barreleye fish (Macropinna microstoma) is equipped with tubular green eyes encased inside a transparent, fluid-filled dome…
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US tests floating paddles that turn ocean waves into electricity
In the Port of Los Angeles, a pilot project by the company Eco Wave Power is using floating blue paddles to generate clean electricity from ocean waves.
The Energy Conversion Unit (ECU) is the core component of Eco Wave Power’s system….
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Dark matter could be turning giant planets into black holes
More than 5,000 planets have been discovered beyond our solar system, allowing scientists to explore planetary evolution and consider the possibility of extraterrestrial life. Now, a UC Riverside study published in Physical Review D suggests that…
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Shedding light on ultrafast heat transport in graphene
Researchers uncover ultrafast energy flow in graphene, revealing complex electron-phonon dynamics that challenge classical heat transfer models at the nanoscale.
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Instruments, thrusters and power that defy time and space
Voyager 2 is equipped with 11 scientific instruments to study planets, moons, and the interstellar environment. Its imaging system captured detailed photographs of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, while the infrared and ultraviolet…
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A carbon sponge that blocks radar, masks heat, and weighs almost nothing
A carbon sponge engineered with a disordered outer layer and graphitized core achieves exceptional radar and infrared stealth using only carbon. The structure enables high microwave absorption across the Ku-band and maintains low surface…
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