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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017 was awarded jointly to Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson "for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution"
Pink noise synced to brain waves deepens sleep and boosts memory in older adults
Researchers at MIT have invented a 3-D printing process for cellulose, the world’s most abundant polymer.
We employ deep multi-agent reinforcement learning to model the emergence of cooperation. The new notion of sequential social dilemmas allows us to model how rational agents interact, and arrive at more or less cooperative behaviours depending on the nature of the environment and the agents’ cognitive capacity. The…
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A group of Hopkins students have a special gift just in time for Christmas for a 2-year-old with a rare genetic disorder
After a major metamaterials breakthrough, David Smith learned how to turn promising research into real-world applications.
Roger Highfield explores the beauty of mathematics at a recent event at the Science Museum
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Today Planet successfully launched 88 Dove satellites to orbit — the largest satellite constellation ever to reach orbit.
After a major metamaterials breakthrough, David Smith learned how to turn promising research into real-world applications.
Study finds that ancient Egyptians were most closely related to ancient populations from the Near East.
Explorers planning to settle on Mars might be able to turn the planet’s red soil into bricks without needing to use an oven or additional ingredients. Instead, they would just need to apply pressure to compact the soil—the equivalent of a blow from a hammer. These are the findings of a study published in Nature…
We read, with no small concern, a recent CNN article by John D. Sutter, columnist. He notes several statistics that should not be ignored, such as, “three-quarters of all species could disapp…
Ranking the cities and states and release the most toxins into the environment.
Discovery Could Remove Hurdle to Producing Hydrogen from Water
Posted by George Dahl, Research Scientist, Google Brain TeamRecently there have been many exciting applications of machine learning (ML) to chemist...
Scientists have discovered a group of materials which could pave the way for a new generation of high-efficiency lighting, solving a quandary which has inhibited the performance of display technology for decades. The development of energy saving concepts in display and lighting applications is a major focus of…
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PULLMAN, Wash. – Washington State University physicists have created a fluid with negative mass, which is exactly what it sounds like. Push it, and unlike every physical object in the world we know, it doesn’t accelerate in the direction it was pushed. It accelerates backwards.
After a major metamaterials breakthrough, David Smith learned how to turn promising research into real-world applications.
MIT physicists have developed a faster way to make Bose-Einstein condensates, to speed up investigations into magnetism and superconductivity.
