As artificial intelligence explodes in popularity, two of its pioneers have nabbed the 2024 Nobel Prize in physics.
The prize goes to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable…
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Startup Guru Steve Blank Says AI Changes Everything
Steve Blank came of age as an entrepreneur in Silicon Valley in the 1970s, when it was truly about the silicon, and by the 1990s he had founded or worked at four high-tech startups. He eventually drew on this experience to create a model of…
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The discovery of microRNA wins the 2024 physiology Nobel Prize
An unexpected discovery about what made a tiny worm refuse to grow up has now led to the 2024 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.
Victor Ambros, now at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School in Worcester, and Gary…
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A transatlantic flight may turn Saharan dust into a key ocean nutrient
As dust from the Sahara blows thousands of kilometers across the Atlantic Ocean, it becomes progressively more nutritious for marine microbes, a new study suggests.
Chemical reactions in the atmosphere chew on iron minerals in the…
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Microbiologists Find Living Microbes in 2-Billion-Year-Old Rock
Researchers from the University of Tokyo and elsewhere have found pockets of living microbes in mineral-filled veins within 2-billion-year-old rock from the Bushveld Igneous Complex, South Africa.
The 2-billion-year-old mafic rock from the…
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Higher-order interactions can remodel the landscape of complex systems
Networks, which include nodes and connections, can help researchers model dynamic systems like the spread of disease or how the brain processes information. Pairwise interactions between nodes can represent links between individuals — how two…
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The fruit fly revolutionized biology. Now it’s boosting science in Africa
When Amos Abolaji returned to Nigeria from a year abroad, he brought home a strange souvenir — two jars full of fruit flies.
The biochemist had been conducting postdoctoral research at the Federal University of Santa Maria in…
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Geoscientists Discover Mysterious Subduction Zone beneath Pacific Ocean
During the Mesozoic era, between 250 and 120 million years ago, an ancient seafloor sank deep into Earth in the East Pacific Rise, a tectonic plate boundary on the floor of the southeastern Pacific Ocean, says a team of geoscientists from the…
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Study suggests simple steps may improve team ethics
Instead of ending a group meeting asking if anyone has any questions, a professor at UT Arlington suggests asking participants if they can think of anything that can go wrong with the plan discussed.
“It helps get people thinking about who could…
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