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Tech Xplore / Virginia's Smart Airspace network lands first flights

Virginia's Smart Airspace program reached new heights this summer when two advanced air mobility (AAM) aircraft flew newly developed routes throughout central and southwest Virginia. The flights, performed by manufacturers ...

4 hours ago
Phys.org / Short 'logic check' warnings may improve how people assess climate arguments

In the climate debate, people are exposed to a lot of different information and opinions. A short warning that an argument may contain a logical fallacy helps people evaluate information more critically.

10 hours ago
Phys.org / Tiny quantum nanostructures could make AI less of an energy hog

Engineers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have designed a new type of quantum nanostructure that could enable optical neural networks. This emerging technology has the potential to make artificial intelligence systems, ...

11 hours ago
Phys.org / Carbon nanotube foams reveal a new kind of mechanical memory

In their earliest years of development, computers used mechanical gears and levers to store information. Today, researchers are exploring whether a material itself can hold onto information, storing memory in how it bends ...

18 hours ago
Phys.org / It's OK if managers step in to help their sales staff—but not too much

Workers in sales might roll their eyes when they deal with a micromanaging boss. But many customers actually appreciate it if a store manager offers to help when they're mulling over a purchase, whether it's a dishwasher, ...

5 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Brain-mapping framework reveals shifts in information flow during pain and movie watching

In the brain, information travels among distributed networks, groups of interconnected regions that work together and contribute to specific behaviors, feelings or thoughts. To study how information travels through these ...

21 hours ago
Phys.org / RHIC data reveal intriguing dip in momentum fluctuations in high-density nuclear matter

Scientists using the STAR detector to study particle collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) have found an intriguing dip in their data in a relatively unexplored region of the nuclear phase diagram—a map ...

10 hours ago
Medical Xpress / AI assistant learns from radiology reports to spot problems in abdominal scans

An abdominal CT scan packs an extraordinary amount of information into a single image, layering dozens of organs and hundreds of possible conditions. It's widely considered one of the most complex scans in medicine to read, ...

16 hours ago
Phys.org / Research project identifies pathways to climate-resilient water and soil management

How can regions better adapt their water and soil resources to the impacts of climate change? After four years of research, the European collaborative project Blue Transition, led by the LIAG Institute for Applied Geophysics ...

3 hours ago
Phys.org / Earth's chorus waves show limited link to rapid electron loss from radiation belts

The Van Allen radiation belts are huge, doughnut-shaped regions of highly energetic charged particles trapped by Earth's magnetosphere. These charged particles play a major role in space weather, so studying them is important ...

12 hours ago
Phys.org / Largest dataset of its kind could clarify how massive stars shaped early galaxies

The more astronomers learn about the universe's earliest galaxies, the stranger they seem. Many of their surprising properties may be explained by differences between their massive stars and those in galaxies like our own ...

13 hours ago
Phys.org / Milky Way's first microblazar may produce fastest particles in the galaxy

An international team of astronomers from ASTRON, JIVE, the University of Amsterdam and other institutions has found the first so-called "microblazar" in the Milky Way. This stellar system is composed of a massive star and ...

15 hours ago