Breaking loss symmetry in coupled resonant emitters to enhance thermal imaging contrast. Credit: Communications Engineering (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s44172-024-00316-y A team…
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Traveling to the moon is no easy feat. Our natural satellite orbits Earth at an average distance of 238,855 miles…
In the 1970s, in a grave in a Bronze Age cemetery in Shahr-i Sokhta, Iran, an incredible object was unearthed…
Obtaining the gradient of what’s known as the loss function is an essential step to establish the backpropagation algorithm developed…
As the final full moon of both 2024 and fall, the rise of the Cold Moon will provide a spectacular,…
A drunken forest in Alaska, where trees are tilting or collapsing to the ground due to permafrost meltGlobal Warming Images/Shutterstock…
by Michael Wheeler, David Dunstan, Lauren Arundell, Mats Hallgren and Paddy Dempsey, The Conversation Credit: Micah Eleazar from Pexels In…
When you think of electric fields, you likely think of electricity — the stuff that makes modern life possible by…
AI found a new way to entangle particles of lightluchschenF/Shutterstock Quantum entanglement just got easier, thanks to artificial intelligence. Researchers…
The Lynetteholmen artificial island is being built to save Copenhagen from rising water levels. In low-lying Copenhagen where rising sea…
A magnitude 7 earthquake hit off the coast of northern California on Thursday (Dec. 5).However, a tsunami warning that had…
Live rats played and tussled with the robot rodentShutterstock / Bilanol A robotic rat on wheels has learned how to…
Filippo Menczer, right, is the senior author on the study. Credit: Indiana University Although many tech companies and start-ups have…
The patient: A 56-year-old woman in MarylandThe symptoms: The woman was hospitalized after experiencing fever, cough and chest pain for…
A warty comb jelly (Mnemiopsis leidyi)Andrey Nekrasov / Alamy Stock Photo It may be the closest scientists have yet come…
Credit: Oday Hazeem from Pexels Saudi Arabia is investing in green innovation to transform its deserts, but accusations of greenwashing…
One night about 60 years ago, physicist Enrico Fermi looked up into the sky and asked, “Where is everybody?”He was…
The UK experienced a record-breaking heatwave in July 2022DAMIEN MEYER/AFP via Getty Images We should brace for worse-than-expected heatwaves in…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A teen in British Columbia recently became critically ill after becoming infected with H5N1. H5N1 is…
Poppy seeds are known to cause false positives on drug tests; in one case, a new mother’s baby was taken…
Someone’s kidneys could be a decade older, biologically, than their brainChristian Kitzmuller/Alamy Our organs appear to age at different rates,…
Credit: Edvin Richardson from Pexels Months after an alarmist review from NASA’s Office of the Inspector General, hundreds of construction…
There’s nothing worse than a great machine that runs out of battery too quickly, but that’s not going to be…
A robot inspired by Cheerios releasing alcohol fuel with a fluorescent dyeJackson K. Wilt et al. 2024 The same phenomena…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain It’s no secret: when we savor a delicious piece of fish or a platter of seafood,…
The equator is the imaginary line that horizontally encircles the middle of Earth, stretching approximately 24,900 miles (40,000 kilometers) long.…
Bird flu has been spreading in wild animals for years but it is now adapting to humansVuk Valcic//SOPA Images/LightRocket via…
Talks at the UN’s plastics conference in Busan are so far ‘going around in circles’, the WWF’s Eirik Lindebjerg told…
Black Friday week is in full swing and you can find plenty of great deals if you’re looking for your…
Plastic waste in IndonesiaPA Images / Alamy The world currently produces more than 50 million tonnes of “mismanaged” plastic waste…