Most people know that robots no longer sound like tinny trash cans. They sound like Siri, Alexa, and Gemini. They sound like the voices in labyrinthine customer support phone trees. And even those robot voices are being made obsolete by new
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Better male birth control is on the horizon
In 1960, a new drug revolutionized society from the bedroom to the streets. The introduction of a hormonal contraceptive, the birth control pill, gave women reproductive autonomy and a more effective way to plan a family. Since then,…
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Sony Kills Recordable Blu-Rays, MiniDiscs, and MiniDVs
Physical media fans need not panic yet—you’ll still be able to buy new Blu-Ray movies for your collection. But for those who like to save copies of their own data onto the discs, the remaining options just became more limited: Sony
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Scientists ‘mimic real biological processes’ using synthetic neurons
Jan 30, 2025 (Nanowerk News) Artificially engineered biological processes, such as perception systems, remain an elusive target for organic electronics experts due to the reliance of… Continue Reading
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Physics – Oscillating Magnetoresistance
• Physics 18, s14
At low temperatures the resistance of a layered magnetic semiconductor shoots up and down in response to an increasing magnetic field.
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Cooling of Pacific Waters Tied to Winds from Global Warming
• Physics 18, 21
Researchers have identified why most climate models don’t match up with an observed cooling trend in the tropics.
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Changes in wind patterns—driven by global warming—can… Continue Reading
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On the trail of cosmic cataclysms
Based in Namibia, the H.E.S.S. telescope array monitors the showers of particles produced when the highest-energy cosmic rays ever observed in the Universe impact the Earth’s atmosphere.
The most violent and explosive…
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Scientists Find Amino Acids, Salts and Other Compounds in Samples from Asteroid Bennu
Asteroid Bennu is thought to be made of rubble fragments from a 4.5-billion-year-old parent body, containing materials that originated beyond Saturn, which was destroyed long ago in a collision with another object. In two new papers,…
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Researchers Find Evidence for Relatively Recent Seismic Activity on Lunar Far Side
New research from Smithsonian Institution and the University of Maryland shows that lunar fault structures may be recently and potentially currently active within regions of interest for upcoming lunar missions.
Small ridges on the Moon’s…
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Materials can ‘remember’ a sequence of events in an unexpected way
Many materials store information about what has happened to them in a sort of material memory, like wrinkles on a once crumpled piece of paper. Now, a team led by Penn State physicists has uncovered how, under specific conditions, some materials…
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