Silicon Photonic Chip Uses Light to Make AI Inference 100× More Energy Efficient
Light-driven computing tackles AI’s energy crisisArtificial intelligence is fueling a rapid expansion of compute demand ...
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Do Humans and Chimpanzees Really Share Nearly 99% of Their DNA? The Genomic Reality
the 99% claim and what it really meansIt's commonly repeated in textbooks and popular media that humans and chimpanzees ...
World First: Scientists Create a Time Crystal Visible to the Naked Eye
Visible Time Crystals: A New Quantum Material You Can SeeResearchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have reported...
9,200-Year-Old Finds in Uzbekistan Suggest Wider Roots for Early Farming
New evidence from Toda CaveArchaeological excavations in southern Uzbekistan have produced plant and tool evidence indic...
PET Waste Converted into BAETA: Upcycled Plastic Becomes a Scalable CO2 Capture Material
From Plastic Pollution to Carbon CaptureChemists at the University of Copenhagen have developed a chemical upcycling pro...
Molecular Dipoles, Not Pressure: New Research Rewrites Why Ice Is Slippery
For nearly two centuries, textbooks have explained ice’s slipperiness as a result of melting caused by pressure or frict...
Blood Vessels in a T. rex Rib Reveal New Clues About Dinosaur Biology
Dinosaur DNA remains beyond current reach, so paleontologists are turning to rarer traces of soft tissue preserved withi...
Wearable Smart Eye Sensor Detects Dangerous Fatigue in Real Time
Compact, noninvasive sensors bring proactive fatigue detection to daily lifeFatigue undermines safety, performance, and ...
Single Fecal Transplant Linked to Lower Long-Term Risk of Type 2 Diabetes and Heart Disease
The composition of the gut microbiome increasingly appears to shape metabolic health and obesity risk. New follow-up res...
Hollow‑Core Optical Fibers Promise Wider Bandwidth and Lower Loss for Global Telecoms
New fiber design that redirects light through airResearchers have engineered a new class of optical fiber that replaces ...
Red Onions Could Make Solar Sensors More Biodegradable: Nanocellulose UV Filters Beat PET
Biodegradable UV filters: a new approach to greener solar technologySolar photovoltaic devices are central to global dec...
Engineered E. coli Produce PDCA: A Strong, Biodegradable Alternative to PET
Breakthrough: Microbial production of a PET alternativeA team of bioengineers at Kobe University has reported a major ad...
Nickel Catalyst Could Unlock Mixed Plastic Recycling — Turning Single-Use Waste into Oils, Waxes and Fuels
A simple metal addresses a complex recycling problemA team of chemists at Northwestern University has developed an inexp...
Skin-like rubber turns body heat into electricity for continuous, battery-free wearables
Researchers led by Peking University have reported a stretchable, rubber-like thermoelectric material that converts the ...
Oxford Study Links Sleep Drive to Mitochondrial Electron Leaks in Brain Cells
Sleep as Cellular Maintenance: A New Physical TriggerOxford scientists have proposed a concrete, physical mechanism for ...
Researchers Identify miR-423-5p — A Blood Biomarker That Protects Kidney Microvessels
Breakthrough summaryA team at the Centre de recherche du CHUM (CRCHUM), affiliated with Université de Montréal, has iden...
How a Simple Chemical Spark May Have Linked RNA and Amino Acids at Life’s Dawn
A breakthrough laboratory study from University College London (UCL) reconstructs a plausible chemical step that could h...
Heat Styling and Hair Products Can Emit Nanoparticle Pollution Comparable to Busy Roadside Exposure
Hair Styling May Create Airborne Nanoparticles on Par With Traffic PollutionThe routine use of heated styling tools toge...
Chemists Recreate Key Step Toward Life: RNA and Amino Acids Linked by Thioesters in Water
Laboratory Recreation of a Primordial ReactionScientists have reproduced a critical chemical event that may have occurre...
Opaque AI Systems Threaten Human Dignity: Why Global Governance and Transparency Matter
AI’s rapid rise and a rights challengeArtificial intelligence technologies—particularly machine learning and deep neural...