From crafting complex code to revolutionizing the hiring process, generative artificial intelligence is reshaping industries faster than ever before — pushing the boundaries of creativity, productivity, and…
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Welcome to The Deep End, a new podcast about brain implants and depression
Brain implants for depression: It sounds like science fiction but it’s real. The Deep End, a new podcast from Science News, will give you a glimpse of what it’s like to live with electrodes in your brain. It might change how you…
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An African strontium map sheds light on the origins of enslaved people
A little-known element is shedding light on the transatlantic slave trade. Researchers have assembled a map of strontium, a naturally occurring element, across sub-Saharan Africa. These data can be compared with strontium levels…
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Quantum Milestones, 1927: Electrons Act Like Waves
• Physics 18, 23
Davisson and Germer showed that electrons scatter from a crystal the way x rays do, proving that particles of matter can act like waves.
Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent USA, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè…
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Antiprotons from Beyond the Solar System
• Physics 18, 19
The spectrum of cosmic-ray antiprotons has been measured for a full solar cycle, which may allow a better understanding of the sources and transport mechanisms of these high-energy particles.
NASA
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User-friendly system can help developers build more efficient simulations and AI models | MIT News
The neural network artificial intelligence models used in applications like medical image processing and speech recognition perform operations on hugely complex data structures that require an enormous amount of…
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Last Month Unexpectedly Finished as the Warmest January on Record
After burning for 24 days, the deadly Palisades Fire in the Los Angeles area finally was declared 100 percent contained on Jan. 31, 2025. Two days later, an analysis found last month to be the warmest January on record globally. Scientists…
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DARPA Grand Challenge: 20 Years Later
The 2004 DARPA Grand Challenge was a spectacular failure. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency had offered a US $1 million prize for the team that could design an autonomous ground vehicle capable of completing an off-road course…
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Next-Generation Spacecraft: How Caltech is Making Lightsails a Reality
Can lightsails be the future of deep space exploration? This is what a recent study published in Nature Photonics hopes to address as a team of researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech)…
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Worsening Climate “Whiplash” Helps Explain Why California’s Wildfires Were so Ferocious
At long last, the Eaton and Palisades wildfires in Los Angeles are almost fully contained.
It has been more than three weeks since the blazes erupted on Jan. 7, 2025, and now, as I’m writing this on Friday, Jan. 31, they are finally just a percent…
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