/ en-us Â鶹ÒùÔº internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Â鶹ÒùÔºics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. A new AI weather prediction system, Aardvark Weather, can deliver accurate forecasts tens of times faster and using thousands of times less computing power than current AI and physics-based forecasting systems, according to research published in Nature. /news/2025-03-fully-ai-driven-weather-accurate.html Earth Sciences Environment Thu, 20 Mar 2025 12:00:01 EDT news661681141 Two pioneers of artificial intelligence—John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton—won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for helping create the building blocks of machine learning that is revolutionizing the way we work and live but also creates new threats for humanity. /news/2024-10-nobel-prize-physics-awarded-discoveries.html General Â鶹ÒùÔºics Tue, 08 Oct 2024 05:54:36 EDT news647585663 Artificial intelligence is already disrupting industries from banking and finance to film and journalism, and scientists are investigating how AI might revolutionize their field—or even win a Nobel Prize. /news/2024-10-ai-day-nobel-prize.html Other Thu, 03 Oct 2024 04:22:42 EDT news647148149 For the first issue in its new weekly print edition, the London Standard has run an experiment in the form of an AI-generated review of the National Gallery's Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers exhibition, written in the style of late art critic Brian Sewell. /news/2024-10-london-standard-ai-generated-late.html Social Sciences Wed, 02 Oct 2024 13:20:01 EDT news647093489 Researchers are using a new AI tool to detect icebergs in the Southern Ocean. This is the first step in being able to track the complete life cycle of most icebergs across Antarctica from satellite data. The study, "Unsupervised machine learning detection of iceberg populations within sea ice from dual-polarisation SAR imagery," is published in the journal Remote Sensing of the Environment. /news/2023-11-ai-track-icebergs.html Earth Sciences Environment Fri, 24 Nov 2023 13:32:07 EST news620055123 Scientists have run the first proof of concept of their DNA 'time machine' to shed light on a century of environmental change in a freshwater lake—including warming temperatures and pollution, leading to the potentially irreversible loss of biodiversity. /news/2023-11-biodiversity-machine-insights-century-loss.html Ecology Molecular & Computational biology Tue, 07 Nov 2023 05:45:37 EST news618558330 It passed the bar exam, first with a mediocre score and then with a ranking among the top tier of newly minted lawyers. It scored better than 90% of SAT takers. It nearly aced the verbal section of the GRE—though it has room for improvement with AP Composition. /news/2023-03-tort-law-chatgpt-future-higher.html Education Wed, 22 Mar 2023 09:03:12 EDT news598694586 A small team of researchers at the University of Manchester has developed a technique for creating a molecular-based, finite-state machine. Their research was published in the journal Nature. /news/2022-10-molecular-based-finite-state-machine.html Biotechnology Molecular & Computational biology Thu, 27 Oct 2022 10:20:01 EDT news586084627 Water fleas, or Daphnia, could provide an important 'early warning system' for chemical pollution in our lakes and rivers. /news/2022-09-fleas-canaries-coal-key-chemical.html Ecology Wed, 28 Sep 2022 11:00:01 EDT news583567922 As the new Premier League football season gets underway, a few things are certain. There will be goals, drama and excitement, and unfortunately, players will be subjected to vile abuse on social media. /news/2022-08-premier-league-footballers-abused-twitter.html Social Sciences Fri, 12 Aug 2022 13:20:01 EDT news579528957 In the 2016 sci-fi movie "Arrival," a linguist and a theoretical physicist race against time to communicate with endangered extraterrestrial heptapods wishing to share their wisdom and technologies with the human race so it will survive and one day return the favor. /news/2022-07-converse-ocean-brainiest-eco-predators.html Plants & Animals Ecology Fri, 15 Jul 2022 11:14:43 EDT news577102478 Experts can make crucial decisions about future biodiversity management by using artificial intelligence to learn from past environmental change, according to research at the University of Birmingham. /news/2021-11-biodiversity-machine-artificial-intelligence.html Evolution Ecology Tue, 09 Nov 2021 11:00:01 EST news555661806 Scientists at the University of Southampton have discovered that extensive chains of volcanoes have been responsible for both emitting and then removing atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) over geological time. This stabilized temperatures at Earth's surface. /news/2021-08-volcanoes-safety-valve-earth-long-term.html Earth Sciences Mon, 23 Aug 2021 11:00:05 EDT news548921588 A single molecule contains a wealth of information. It includes not only the number of each kind of constituent atom, but also how they're arranged and how they attach to each other. And during chemical reactions, that information determines the outcome and becomes transformed. Molecules collide, break apart, reassemble, and rebuild in predictable ways. /news/2021-08-chemical-reactions.html Materials Science Tue, 03 Aug 2021 15:43:36 EDT news547224212 German divers who recently fished an Enigma encryption machine out of the Baltic Sea, used by the Nazis to send coded messages during World War II, handed their rare find over to a museum for restoration on Friday. /news/2020-12-divers-nazis-enigma-code-machine.html Archaeology Fri, 04 Dec 2020 12:50:04 EST news526308581 Scalable nanoparticle-based computing architectures have several limitations that can severely compromise the use of nanoparticles to manipulate and process information through molecular computing schemes. The von Neumann architecture (VNA) underlies the operations of multiple arbitrary molecular logic operations in a single chip without rewiring the device. In a new report, Sungi Kim and a team of scientists at the Seoul National University in South Korea developed the nanoparticle-based VNA (NVNA) on a lipid chip. The nanoparticles on the lipid chip functioned as the hardware—featuring memories, processors and output units. The team used DNA strands as the software to provide molecular instructions to program the logic circuits. The nanoparticle-based von Neuman architecture (NVNA) allowed a group of nanoparticles to form a feed-forward neural network known as a perceptron (a type of artificial neural network). The system can implement functionally complete Boolean logical operations to provide a programmable, resettable and scalable computing architecture and circuit board to form nanoparticle neural networks and make logical decisions. The work is now published on Science Advances. /news/2020-09-nanoparticle-based-architecture-nanoparticle-neural-networks.html Nanophysics Wed, 02 Sep 2020 10:20:01 EDT news518259993 Turing machines were first proposed by British mathematician Alan Turing in 1936, and are a theoretical mathematical model of what it means for a system to "be a computer." /news/2020-08-thermodynamics-quest-turing-machine.html General Â鶹ÒùÔºics Thu, 27 Aug 2020 04:05:30 EDT news517719925 Fifty potential planets have been confirmed by a new machine learning algorithm developed by University of Warwick scientists. /news/2020-08-planets-machine.html Space Exploration Tue, 25 Aug 2020 09:08:00 EDT news517565277 MIP* = RE is not a typo. It is a groundbreaking discovery and the catchy title of a recent paper in the field of quantum complexity theory. Complexity theory is a zoo of "complexity classes"—collections of computational problems—of which MIP* and RE are but two. /news/2020-08-major-quantum-breakthrough-physics-maths.html Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Mon, 17 Aug 2020 10:30:02 EDT news516877772 Mathematician David Strütt, a scientific collaborator at EPFL, worked for four months to develop Matheminecraft, a math video game in Minecraft, where the gamer has to find a Eulerian cycle in a graph. Minecraft is a sandbox video game released in 2011, where the gamer can build almost anything, from simple houses to complex calculators, using only cubes and fluids. These countless possibilities are what lured David Strütt into Minecraft's universe: "the game might be first intended for kids but I was studying for my Bachelor's degree in mathematics when I discovered it. I fell in love with the game when I realized there is all the necessary blocks to build a Turing machine inside the game. It was a long time ago, so I have since forgotten what a Turing machine is. But the gist of it is: anything is possible inside the game." /news/2020-04-matheminecraft-math-minecraft.html Mathematics Education Tue, 21 Apr 2020 08:32:17 EDT news506676728 Â鶹ÒùÔºicists can explore tailored physical systems to rapidly solve challenging computational tasks by developing spin simulators, combinatorial optimization and focusing light through scattering media. In a new report on Science Advances, C. Tradonsky and a group of researchers in the Departments of Â鶹ÒùÔºics in Israel and India addressed the phase retrieval problem by reconstructing an object from its scattered intensity distribution. The experimental process addressed an existing problem in disciplines ranging from X-ray imaging to astrophysics that lack techniques to reconstruct an object of interest, where scientists typically use indirect iterative algorithms that are inherently slow. /news/2019-10-rapid-laser-solver-phase-problem.html Optics & Photonics Fri, 25 Oct 2019 09:30:03 EDT news491210443 "I swear by Hypatia, by Lovelace, by Turing, by Fisher (and/or Bayes), and by all the statisticians and data scientists, making them my witnesses, that I will carry out, according to my ability and judgment, this oath and this indenture." /news/2019-08-hippocratic-oath-science-literacy.html Education Thu, 22 Aug 2019 09:20:01 EDT news485682019 The microcomputer revolution of the 1970s triggered a Wild West-like expansion of personal computers in the 1980s. Over the course of the decade, dozens of personal computing devices, from Atari to Xerox Alto, flooded into the market. CPUs and microprocessors advanced rapidly, with new generations coming out on a monthly basis. /news/2019-06-standard-machine.html Computer Sciences Machine learning & AI Tue, 25 Jun 2019 09:58:05 EDT news480675475 Billed as "one of the most exciting artists of our time", Ai-Da differs from generations of past masters in one inescapable way: she is a robot. /news/2019-06-british-art-dealer-unveils-robot.html Robotics Wed, 05 Jun 2019 15:16:56 EDT news478966608 For decades, physicists have wrestled with understanding the thermodynamic cost of manipulating information, what we would now call computing. How much energy does it take, for example, to erase a single bit from a computer? What about more complicated operations? These are pressing, practical questions, as artificial computers are energy hogs, claiming an estimated four percent of total energy consumed in the United States. /news/2019-04-the-cost-of-computation.html General Â鶹ÒùÔºics Mon, 08 Apr 2019 16:06:59 EDT news473958409 When you're lost, Siri can be your best friend. But if she can't retrieve the right address from your contacts, she can drive you crazy. /news/2019-01-ai-voice-re-engineer-human-conversations.html Other Tue, 15 Jan 2019 09:50:01 EST news466765969 Artificial neurons for deeply intelligent machines – this is the new artificial intelligence (AI) revolution, led by Geoffrey Hinton and his team since 2012. That year, Hinton, an expert in cognitive science at the University of Toronto and a researcher at Google Brain, demonstrated the striking effectiveness of a deep neural network (DNN) in an image-categorisation task. /news/2018-12-artificial-intelligence.html Machine learning & AI Tue, 11 Dec 2018 09:40:02 EST news463742676 As multiple research groups around the world race to build a scalable quantum computer, questions remain about how the achievement of quantum supremacy will be verified. /news/2018-10-theorists-path-quantum-classical.html Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Tue, 30 Oct 2018 07:39:12 EDT news460103918 We've all tried talking with devices, and in some cases they talk back. But, it's a far cry from having a conversation with a real person. Now, a research team from Kyoto University, Osaka University, and the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute, or ATR, has significantly upgraded the interaction system for conversational android ERICA, giving her even greater dialog skills. /news/2018-08-android-erica.html Robotics Computer Sciences Wed, 22 Aug 2018 09:05:52 EDT news454147547 Science has always relied on a combination of approaches to derive an answer or develop a theory. The seeds for Darwin's theory of natural selection grew under a Herculean aggregation of observation, data, and experiment. The more recent confirmation of gravitational waves by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) was a decades-long interplay of theory, experiment, and computation. /news/2018-08-high-tech-evolution-scientific.html Computer Sciences Thu, 02 Aug 2018 11:16:16 EDT news452427295