Tech: Eagle-eyed machine learning algorithm outdoes human experts — (Report)
Artificial intelligence is now so smart that silicon brains frequently outthink people.
Computers operate self-driving cars, pick friends' faces out of photos on Facebook,...
Tech: Parakeet pecking orders, basketball match-ups, and the tenure-track — (Report)
Sometimes, knowing who wins and who loses is more important than how the game is played.
In a paper published this week in Science...
Tech: World’s fastest human-made spinning object could help study quantum mechanics — (Report)
Researchers have created the fastest human-made rotor in the world, which they believe will help them study quantum mechanics.
At more than 60 billion...
Tech: Two faces offer limitless possibilities — (Report)
Named for the mythical god with two faces, Janus membranes -- double-sided membranes that serve as gatekeepers between two substances -- have emerged...
Tech: Relax, just break it — (Report)
The properties of a solid depend on the arrangement of its atoms, which form a periodic crystal structure. At the nanoscale, arrangements that...
Tech: Why won’t Parker Solar Probe melt? — (Report)
This summer, NASA's Parker Solar Probe will launch to travel closer to the Sun, deeper into the solar atmosphere, than any mission before...
Tech: In search of dark matter signal — (Report)
An international team of researchers succeeded in extending their result from a previous study and directly measured the cosmic-ray all-electron (electron + positron)...
Tech: Taking a multiband approach explains ‘electron-hole reverse drag’ and exciton formation — ...
Taking a multiband approach explains 'electron-hole reverse drag' and exciton formation.
Mystifying experimental results obtained independently by two research groups in the USA seemed...
Tech: New material draws heat away from hotspots much faster than current materials —...
Working to address "hotspots" in computer chips that degrade their performance, UCLA engineers have developed a new semiconductor material, defect-free boron arsenide, that...
Tech: Computer model predicts how fracturing metallic glass releases energy at the atomic level...
Metallic glasses -- alloys lacking the crystalline structure normally found in metals -- are an exciting research target for tantalizing applications, including artificial...
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Hey ISIS, You Suck: Local Muslims Post Anti-ISIS Billboard
A new billboard on Manchester Road in Missouri reads, "HEY ISIS, YOU SUCK!!! From: #ActualMuslims."
A group of Muslim-Americans have put up a blunt billboard...
