Two years after the generative AI boom really began with the launch of ChatGPT, it no longer seems that exciting to have a phenomenally helpful AI assistant hanging around in your web browser or phone, just waiting for you to ask it questions….
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Seeding the Passion – Environment | Weizmann Wonder Wander
When PhD student Gal Raviv thought of creating a sanctuary garden at the Weizmann Institute of Science, what she had in mind was saving endangered plants. But after the October 7 attack on Israel, the recently established garden became for her a…
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Gauging Edge Instabilities in Future Fusion Reactors
• Physics 18, 33
Researchers are unraveling the influence of energetic particles on the stability of plasmas in fusion reactors.
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Simulations of edge-localized modes interacting with highly… Continue Reading
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Strong Hints of a Bose Metal
• Physics 18, s26
An enigmatic and anomalous metallic state turns out to be intrinsic rather than a consequence of crystalline defects.
A strong enough magnetic field destroys superconductivity even at absolute zero….
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A Physicist Turned Fraud Detective
Author(s): Rachel Berkowitz
Renate Pazourek develops software tools that Austrian government agencies use to audit tax returns and other financial documents.
[Physics 18, 7] Published Thu Feb 13, 2025
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Understanding Titan’s Interior and History Through Tidal Friction
What can a moon’s tidal friction teach us about its formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in Science Advances hopes to address as a team of researchers at the University of…
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A Rapidly Warming Earth May Breach the Paris Agreement Within the Decade
As global temperatures climb higher year after year, the Earth heads toward a new era marked by a prospective breach of the Paris Agreement. Signed in 2016, the international climate treaty set a limit to keep global surface temperatures from…
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Global warming and mass extinctions: What we can learn from plants from the last ice age
Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species — according to estimates, roughly 600 plant species have died out since 1750 — twice the number of animal species lost. But which species are hit hardest? And how does altered…
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Scientists develop novel self-healing electronic skin for health monitoring
Researchers have achieved a breakthrough in wearable health technology by developing a novel self-healing electronic skin (E-Skin) that repairs itself in seconds after damage. This could potentially transform the landscape of personal health…
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KM3NeT Telescope Detects Most Energetic Cosmic Neutrino Yet
Dubbed KM3-230213A, the newly-detected neutrino carried an astonishing energy of 220 peta-electronvolts (PeV), making it one of the most powerful elementary particles ever detected. Its energy was roughly a 100 million billion times the energy…
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