John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton share the 2024 Nobel prize in physicsChristine Olsson/TT/Shutterstock The 2024 Nobel prize in physics has been awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for their work on artificial neural networks and the fundamental algorithms that...
Gears about 10 micrometres wide made from etched silicon, viewed with an electron microscopeGan Wang / Myfab Chalmers Minuscule gears that are thinner than a human hair and powered by light could be used to study human cells or power...
October 8, 20243 min readNobel Prize in Physics Awarded for Breakthroughs in Machine LearningThe 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics was given to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for development of techniques that laid the foundation for revolutionary advances in artificial...
Some quantum systems may resist an effect of entropy called thermalisationGiroscience / Science Photo Library The fundamental laws of physics insist that no patterns can permanently survive nature’s steady course towards disorder – or can they? A new proof offers...
Dairy cows in CaliforniaMarmaduke St. John / Alamy Stock Photo The US has ramped up influenza surveillance amid an ongoing outbreak of the bird flu virus H5N1 in dairy cattle. Public health officials hope more robust monitoring will help catch...
October 7, 20243 min readStill Reeling from Hurricane Helene, Florida Braces for Second Major StormParts of Florida still recovering from Hurricane Helene will face their second major storm in just two weeksBy Meghan BartelsResidents of Pinellas County, Florida, fill sandbags...
Most physicists operate under the assumption that there is a world out there that is entirely independent of us, an objective reality in which more-or-less well-defined things behave according to immutable physical laws. Yet over the past century, ever since...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dHYY_uIX_w Shimmering sea creatures called comb jellies have an astonishing ability: if injured, two can merge into one, without showing the kind of tissue rejection reaction seen in other animals. What’s more, the two animals’ nervous systems integrate together and...
Few people get to celebrate their 100th birthdayCometary/Getty Images/iStockphoto Will you live to 100? For the average person, the answer is probably no, as growth in life expectancy is slowing across wealthier countries, despite advances in healthcare and living conditions....
October 7, 20243 min readCannibalized Captain of Doomed Arctic Expedition Identified by DNA AnalysisScientists reveal the identity of a cannibalized captain from the doomed Northwest Passage expedition of 1845 to 1848By Soumya Sagar & LiveScienceHMS Erebus and HMS Terror, the...
