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A team of US-based researchers has developed an inexpensive and ultrathin metasurface that, when paired with a neural network ...

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Despite the visual similarities, however, sea ice and tea scum break up through different physical mechanisms. While ice is brittle, bending and snapping under the weight of crushing waves, the ...

Researchers at the University of Tokyo have published a paper in the journal Nature that describes a new laser technique that is capable of cooling a gas of positronium atoms to temperatures as low as ...

Fatima Gunning is a physicist at the Tyndall National Institute, a research flagship of University College Cork (UCC), Ireland, where she is also head of graduate studies, and education and public ...

That’s according to a study by physicists in China and the US, who say their finding points to a decline in overall ...

Problem-solving capabilities Genetically engineered bacteria can identify prime numbers and solve simple mathematical problems. (Courtesy: Nat Chem Biol 10.1038/s41589-024-01711-4) Cell-based ...

But if you want to understand a herd or a flock, you can learn a lot by reducing individual animals to mere particles – if ...