Researchers are making significant strides in using artificial intelligence (AI) to predict the evolution of viruses, such as SARS-CoV-2 and influenza. AI tools can now predict which single mutations in a virus will be most successful and which variants will ‘win’ out in the short term. However, predicting combinations of mutations or variants that will…
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An international team of researchers has made a groundbreaking discovery in brain analysis, developing new techniques that consider interactions between three or more regions of the brain. This breakthrough could lead to a deeper understanding of human brain activity and potentially aid in the diagnosis and treatment of neurological disorders. The team’s approach combines topological…
Physicists at Penn State and Columbia University have made a groundbreaking discovery, spotting the “smoking gun” signature of semi-Dirac fermions, a type of quasiparticle predicted by theorists 16 years ago. These quasiparticles exhibit a unique property, behaving like they have mass only when moving in a certain direction. The team used a crystal of the…
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has successfully collected data during its closest approach to the Sun, marking a significant milestone in solar science. The spacecraft, which has been looping around the Sun since its launch six years ago, has provided valuable insights into the solar wind and the Sun’s outer atmosphere. The data collected during the…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has made a bold claim that his company’s AI chips are advancing faster than historical rates set by Moore’s Law. According to Huang, Nvidia’s latest data center superchip, the GB200 NVL72, is 30 to 40x faster at running AI inference workloads than Nvidia’s previous best-selling chips, the H100. This performance jump…
A team of astronomers has discovered that Sun-like stars produce “superflares” around once every 100 years, which is a significant increase from previous estimates of every 3000 to 6000 years. This finding could have important implications for forecasting space weather and understanding the potential impact on Earth’s upper atmosphere, electrical grids, and radio communications. The…
Researchers have launched a database of over 14,000 studies that were withdrawn from the preprint server arXiv since its launch in 1991. The database, called WithdrarXiv, aims to shed light on why these preprints were pulled and to spur the creation of automated tools that flag potential errors to researchers. The study found that the…
Physicists in the US have made a significant breakthrough in the development of nuclear clocks, a technology that could revolutionize timekeeping and open up new possibilities for scientific research. By using physical vapour deposition (PVD) to create layers of thorium fluoride, researchers have been able to reduce the amount of expensive and radioactive thorium-229 needed…
Scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery in understanding how the brain avoids ‘catastrophic forgetting’ – the distortion and overwriting of previously established memories when new ones are created. Research has shown that the brain processes new and old memories in separate phases of sleep, which might prevent mixing between the two. This finding, published in…
Researchers at the University of Strathclyde have made a groundbreaking discovery in recycling colloidal quantum dots used in supraparticle lasers. The team developed a simple and practical technique to recover 85% of the quantum dots, which can be reused to build new lasers with a photoluminescence quantum yield comparable to those made from new particles….
