It is one of the most important laws of nature that we know: The famous second law of thermodynamics says that the world gets more and more disordered, when random chance is at play. Or, to put it more precisely: That entropy must increase in…
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Stanford Study: Real-World Driving Extends EV Battery Life
The rhythms of real-world driving enable EV batteries to live far beyond the predictions of laboratory tests, according to a new study from Stanford University. Thereport, published in December inNature Energy, suggests that EV batteries could…
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Here’s how ancient Amazonians became master maize farmers
Water engineers in ancient South America turned seasonally flooded Amazonian savannas into hotbeds of year-round maize farming.
Casarabe people built an innovative, previously unrecognized network of drainage canals and water-storing…
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“Mr. Transistor’s” Most Challenging Career Moment
It says something about your career at a company that makes hundreds of trillions of transistors every day when your nickname is “Mr. Transistor.” That’s what colleagues sometimes call Tahir Ghani, a senior fellow and director of process…
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Physics – Localizing Light
• Physics 18, s10
Simulations demonstrate that light can be confined within a scattering medium in a way similar to electrons in a disordered metal.
A. Yamilov/Missouri S&T
Conduction…
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New training approach could help AI agents perform better in uncertain conditions | MIT News
A home robot trained to perform household tasks in a factory may fail to effectively scrub the sink or take out the trash when deployed in a user’s kitchen, since this new environment differs from its training space.
To…
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Harvard Researchers Solve the Puzzle of Mars’ Ancient Rivers and Lakes
Did Mars have lakes and rivers during a single period or over separate periods? This is what a recent study published in Nature Geoscience hopes to address as an international team of researchers investigated…
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Yes, you can blame climate change for the LA wildfires
A wicked convergence of blustery wind and prolonged drought has prompted devastation in Southern California, as wildfires in Los Angeles have killed at least 28 people and destroyed more than 16,000 structures. According to a new…
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1,900-Year-Old Papyrus Reveals Criminal Case from Roman Empire
Written in Greek, this papyrus is a memorandum for a judicial hearing before a Roman official in the province of Judea or Arabia in the reign of the Roman emperor Hadrian, after his visit to the region in 129/130 CE and before the outbreak of…
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Scientists Investigate How Titan Keeps Its Dense Atmosphere Intact
Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is the only moon in the solar system with a dense atmosphere which is comprised of thick hazes of 95 percent nitrogen (N2) and 5 percent methane (NH4) that require radar…
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