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Phys.org / Science communication struggles to adapt as online platforms reshape information flow
Scientists are crucial voices in the public debate about wicked problems—societal-scale, high-stakes issues with no clear solutions, like pandemics and artificial intelligence. In the past, experts reached the masses through ...
Tech Xplore / Tool devised for detecting AI that scores high on accuracy, low on false accusations
Detecting writing via artificial intelligence is a tricky dance: Doing it right means being effective at identifying it while being careful not to falsely accuse a human of employing it. And few tools strike the right balance.
Phys.org / Tunable laser light: Ring design could be used in telecom, medicine and more
Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and Technical University of Vienna (TU Wien) have invented a new type of tunable semiconductor laser that combines the best attributes ...
Tech Xplore / Deep-learning system teaches soft, bio-inspired robots to move using only a single camera
Conventional robots, like those used in industry and hazardous environments, are easy to model and control, but are too rigid to operate in confined spaces and uneven terrain. Soft, bio-inspired robots are far better at adapting ...
Phys.org / Scientists provide clear observation of spin and density modes in a two-component fluid of light
Recent physics studies have found that light can sometimes flow in unexpected ways, behaving like a so-called "superfluid." Superfluids, such as ultracold atomic gases or helium-4 below specific temperatures, are phases of ...
Medical Xpress / Computational models explore how regions of the visual cortex jointly represent visual information
Understanding how the human brain represents the information picked up by the senses is a longstanding objective of neuroscience and psychology studies. Most past studies focusing on the visual cortex, the network of regions ...
Medical Xpress / Microglia replacement halts progression of rare genetic brain disease in mice and humans
Adult-onset leukoencephalopathy with axonal spheroids and pigmented glia (ALSP) is a progressive neurological disease with an average age of onset at 43 years and an average life expectancy of only three to five years after ...
Phys.org / Real-time simulation makes understanding nonlinear quantum dynamics much easier
Many systems obey simple, linear rules: If you pull twice as hard on a spring, it stretches twice as far. However, when we introduce very large forces or complicated interactions, that linear rule breaks down into a "nonlinear" ...
Phys.org / BLOBS on the move: Deep Earth structures may explain giant volcanic explosions
Colossal volcanic eruptions like the kind that may have obliterated the dinosaurs more than 65 million years ago are caused by mantle plumes that rise from shifting underground mountains deep within the Earth's mantle, new ...
Dialog / Genetic 'barcode' discovery cracks the code of centromeres, the genome's most mysterious regions
When people think of DNA, they usually think of genes, the parts that code for proteins and drive inherited traits. But there's a whole lot of DNA beyond genes that we are just starting to understand. One such mysterious ...
Phys.org / Non-invasive video analysis tracks arthropod heart rates and reveals species differences
In a world-first pilot study, researchers from the University of South Australia have used video footage of insects to extract their heart rates without touching or disturbing them.
Phys.org / Genomic study reveals deep roots of human survival and adaptation in Himalayas
A new genomic study reveals how human populations adapted, survived, and diversified in the Himalayas, one of the most extreme and challenging environments on Earth.
